Lulu & Minnie

 In november we had first snow and the dogs were super happy about it! But then the show melted and one day Lulu came back inside like this!! Actually, she is a cutie as long as she can be on the couch :) Minnie sleeping :D On 24th November Minnie had her birthday! She got 2 years old! She got cake and both doggos enjoyed some ice cream :) With her precious birthday gift:

Another weekend, another competition. Still in Vastse-Kuuste, this time the judge was Keida Raamat. I found her courses nice and tricky.  This time jumping courses first. First course was more or less okay. There was a tricky place where we fell :) The course turned, but the handler was blocked by the wall, so the dog really could not see well. But straight ahead was tunnel, that was a no go. I did not call Minnie enough in time and she went for the tunnel. DSQ. Second course, again tunnel trap. That Minnie went for - I did not turn my shoulder nor I called. So obviously she went for it. DSQ.  At least I was happy that I understood my mistakes. Thirdly, an agility course. I think it was also the easiest course for me. Everything worked okay. Except the start where I sent her to right and she took the left. But we only lost time with that. Result clean run and first place . Unfortunately no video.  Fourth course. I never even though that this DSQ was possible for us on t...

We competed first time in Grade 2 .  The competition was held in our "home turf", in Vastse-Kuuste. Judge Anastassia Tamm. 1st agility course: I arrived when they already started with the course walk! The course was nice. When running everything worked well. Result clean run and 1st place .  2nd agility course: I had dilemma in my handling around the dog walk. I was not very sure of the flipping command. Because the plan was to go for a bling after the tunnel (after the dog walk and jump), then I stopped running after the dog walk - that made Minnie to turn toward me and she took the wrong jump. DSQ .   1st jumping course: There was a tricky place where three jumps (one of them a wall) all together. I was making a handling mistake, not calling Minnie and kept my hand out, that lead her o to straight to tunnel and not to the jump. DSQ . Rest of the course was nice! 2nd jumping course: Although I forgot my handling in couple of times. It went well and we got first ...

 October was resting month for the dogs, because I was travelling 2 weeks.  So no competitions or training while this time. Minnie was 1 weeks at friends place where she got spoiled!  Some photos from the travel:

September started with Magdalena Ziolkowska 2-day seminar, I was really happy with that. Then rest of the month was filled with competitions https://nisukas.blogspot.com/2025/09/agility-competition-060925.html https://nisukas.blogspot.com/2025/09/international-poodle-agility.html https://nisukas.blogspot.com/2025/09/agility-competition-270925.html Lulu in everyone favorite place: Minnie at the last outside training of this year: But also we discovered that Minnie got very excited about boiled zucchini :) This year agility world championships were held in September! My weekend was tulililled! And most importantly! Lulu had birthday! We celebrated her 5 year!!! Every Wednesday we go to orientation with Pärli and the doggos can also participate!

 2 weeks after the long agility weekend in Sweden we participated in "our home turf" in Vastse-Kuuste. Judge Marko Visse. It was our 6th official competition (we also had 2 unofficial competition at grade 0 and then the last competition, IPAC, was actually unofficial one).  This time the goal was to get clean run in agility to get to the next grade.  This time it started with agility courses. First course, dog walk was not pretty, no fault. We got a refusal from slalom entry - I called Minnie in the fear that she will go for a jump, and she came to me soo nicely! And did not see slalom. Nevertheless, we got 1st place.  Second agility run. I did not managed to blind cross after the first tunnel - plan B - rear cross and then send it to the slalom...risk that I didnt want to take. But my perfect girl got the entry! And the course ended with perfect dog-walk! So this was our second clean run - that means we are good to go to grade 2!  Then jumping course, everythi...

 Already before Minnie was competing, I registered her to the International Poodle Agility Championships (IPAC), because this year it was in Sweden that is quite close to us. Minnie started to compete in agility courses only 2 months prior to IPAC (3 competitions), the first 2 competitions were quite unsuccessful (all agility runs were DSQ and the contacts were raw (dont want to say bad)), so all august we did not compete but I was focused on the contacts. The week before IPAC competition in Viljandi was the main test. And boy! I was very happy to get a clean run with beautiful contacts on agility course there. So I had hope for IPAC. Anyway, I still went with a lots of doubts there, the goal was to get a clean run (may from jumping course?)! I was also very nervous about the team event - I was lucky enough that Minnie was invited to a team - all the three other team members were already level 3 runners. For the individual finals there  was 4 tickets for the Level 1 competitor...