This is Katrin's story of the week long avalanche training she did with Kaya
Our
avalanche course was really hard, I can tell you. From saturday to
wednesday it was snowing nearly all the time, 1 meter new snow in 5 days! so we
had more then 3,5 meter snow!!!
On the first day (saturday) we met at 9 o'clock at the
gondola and went up without the dogs to dig all the holes for the training
week. 8 holes for hiding during the training and 5 igloos for the dogs. So they
had a "home" for the whole week where they had to wait until we were
working with the others. We got warm thermo-coats for them and they had mats to
lie on, so they didn't get cold.
From sunday to tuesday and on thursday and friday we have
been training with the dogs. Wednesday was free for the dogs The lessons
have been easy for our clever dogs, they had much fun every day.
The hardest for them was to learn to go behind us when we
went up with the ski. We taught them a command called "track" (in
German "Spur") to go between 1 and 2 meters behind is. First time on
a leash, then without. It was difficult for them, because they like to run
through the snow and play with the other dogs.
There have been 17 teams with 18 dogs. All mixed up from
Malinois, German Sheepdogs, Boxer, Labrador Retriever, Labradoodle and of course
our one and only Goldie and the Hovawart!! Our trainers are totally satisfied with Kaya, at the end of the week, we had a little test, where she had to search for 2 people in the snow and she was great!!!
Kaya went on an avalanche training all last week with Katrin and Karin with her Morris!! It looked like they had massive snow and gorgeous weather and a lot of fun outside of some serious looking training!!!
Pictures of Katrin, Karin, Kaya & Morris for a day of training in the snow before they have their avalanche training next week and Kaya at rest with her buddies!!
I received a picture of Fitch and an email that all is well and that the whole family is enjoying him very much!! It looks like Fitch, Kilt and Kjeld look very much alike, at least in the pictures!!!
I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and succesful 2012 !!! I couldn't decide which card I liked best, so put them both on.:)))) Hope te receive some new pictures from all the puppies!!! Greetings Boukje
This is the breeding anouncement of Eli and Odin for next year!! The breeding should take place at the end of April. Odin is a search and Rescue Champ and also a great huntting dog who competes at the hightest level in Sweden, the elite class!! For more info of this litter please contact me at: whispering.oaks@telenet.be There will be a separate blog!
Yesterday was a busy "PUPPY" day. I got new picures of Kjeld and Phil finally got his camera, so now we will be able to see what Roux looks like in Philadelphia and then I skyped with Katrin last night and I saw Kaya through the webcam. So lots of fun.
Katrin and Kaya had a retriever training last weekend with english trainer Sally Sanford. Enclosed is a collage of some action pictures. It looks like she is really enjoying herself!!!
The lessons
have been easy for our clever dogs, they had much fun every day.
