Great day at Lohkva trainingcentre

We had wonderful training session with Keida Tirmaste at Lohkva.

Eyes poped out and breathless... just open the leash, I want to run

Erk and his sister Emma "waiting"

Erk A0 course in Viljandi

Erk's first competition! Tunnels

Viljandi, September 7th.

Erk goes orienteering!

I have taken Erk to several orienteering events with me. He already recognizes check points and knows not to bother other runners.What a good dog! :)

Foto Tarmo Haudi galeriist www.tarmohaud.ee

Helen

Juha Ruokonen's training, really excellent :)

On Sunday I went to my first-ever agility training by a Finnish coach. Erk has done the previous ones with Marko. It took place on the open air field, with artificial (football) grass. We had never done agility on that surface and it proved to be more slippery for the dog. We practiced "back cross" (tagantlõige), which was quite logical and easy, then we tried to make the dog jump diagonally over the obstacle and the goal was that the dog continued the same direction. However, as we have only done it the way that the dog makes a back turn on the obstacle, so it was relatively hard. Erk didn't care at all, that Juha had his toy and was directing him to jump correctly. Erk stubbornly made a back turn and concentrated on me.
But the final exercise was the "waltz", or whatever it was called. I think we got it correctly right from the beginning and Juha said several times, that I was doing it REALLY EXCELLENT :D

It's on this video at 1:10

Helen

Visiting Turku, Finland

We visited Marko in Turku. The trip went rather well, Erk endured the long hours of being in cage allright.
Unfortunately no photos.

Helen

Bridge over troubled water

Erk has sometimes issues with heights. But with patience and with help from best friend, no problems with crossing a high bridge.

Helen