Beagles Lenni and Ressu

Great news

2012-01-10T23:15:00.000+02:00

I had excellent news from the osteopath visit today. She did not found any marks of the spinal disc herniation anymore and we can start training without jumps soon. But she did found out that I have my hip in wrong position and it needed correction. It is corrected and mom got some advice's how to help me understand my whole body. I am little bit scared because there was some talking about binding me with elastic bandage. Funniest part was that she should start a new hobby with me: Dancing.

Mom has a lot of fun with Lenni as she has trained with him. Last time their coach told that they would still be on good level at competitions if they would compete and had fluent tracks. But because we have zero level doping rules and Lenni has heart medication it is not allowed to compete anymore. Even doctor told that Lenni is excellent condition and there is no need yet to limit exercising. So they are continuing day-by-day base. So the old man has his time with agility with love of the sport.

The winter with snow has arrived at last and it is fun to go out side. There is more light now.

Mom says that we have to thank Cinnamon about the award. She says that there has to be more time to past it forward. She is starting at new job tomorrow and once again she told that OUR blog have to be background a while that she gets the weekdays scheduled (what ever that means)

Slobbers Ressu

Mom and mom's old habits

2011-11-24T10:11:00.001+02:00

Beacuse Ressu is still a convalescent I have had the pleasure to train with mom. And oh dear, she is worst than ever in the track! She is so used to go with Ressu that her handling is ridiculous. First she waits, waits and waits. Then she realize that she is on track with me and starts running like bunny rabbit or at least it feels like that because she forgets to guide me and I get lost.

The worst:
* she keeps running to obstacles as fast she can,
* stops because she can't move further before I catch her
* and because guiding me needs moving she solves the problem by racing her hand.

Guess what? THERE IS NO OBSTACLES IN THE ROOF.

Ressu is feeling much better. Doctor cave us permission to go of-leash walks and mom is going to reserve a osteopath visit for him before starting agility again.

Aroo!

2011-10-27T15:56:00.000+03:00

Been a while. Mom has last finished her Final Years Project and she has soon a BEng in Product development. BTW she is already a BEng in telecommunications. Now when she has time to do everything Ressu is sick. He has spinal disc herniation and we are hoping that there is no need to make any operations. It is very boring that mom won't let me play with him. Ressu is just sitting on cage.

Only good side in this thing is that mom is taking me more with her when she is practising agility. But once again, time to go. Hopefully this time the next time in here is soon.

Ressu's agility competion

2011-05-30T10:12:00.000+03:00

We did our best agility competion result yeasterday (at this moment). Overtimed cleanrun. Mom says that I have an old diesel engine that warms up slowly. Just wondering what that does mean.

First track:

Mom keeps saying that this one I started better than the second one. She was proud that I took the 2-on-2-off contact in dogrun, but the long-jump. She is nagging me that I am lazy in competitions because I often just run over the parts and it is not allowed to do so. Boring rules if I say, the parts don't usually even fall. Before the weavers were a very nice smell and mom got nervous about it. I needed to calm her down by yawning and more sniffing. But she did not understand it. She just said that if she can't keep the contact to me on the track and we start to repeat a one obstacle it is better to go out of the ring than ruin my weak motivation.

Second track:

This one was our "clean run" with over time. Mom says that if I would keep my nose up from the ground, she could move more so I would not have need to sniff because I would know what to do next. But when my nose is in ground she needs to wait me so she could be sure that I am listening. I am listening but she just doesn’t trust me. Silly mom! Mom says that in this track you can see that weavers what I do very well on our backyard are still uncertain in competitions. She says that we should compete more that she can be more relaxed and I would be more comfortable being in competitions where you get the treats after we have got out of the ring. (I think this is also a stupid rule, No treats after every obstacle is not fair)

Now mom is trying to find out how she could turn me on before track. Just don’t understand what she is talking about. Yesterday she left me with nice lady and stand little bit away from me. I was post to watch her and want to be with her, but there was so much more interesting things like the lady’s shoes. Then she tried to push me, it was very relaxing I liked it. (Once again she would like me to start playing with her). I don’t like toys so those are out of question. And with treats I’m on when I see the treat when it is in pocket I don’t care. So treats need to be in the pocket in the start so I don’t care.

She keeps being happy about yesterday because it was first result that we have ever made that is not DQ.

A little brag!

2011-05-27T09:00:00.000+03:00

Need to be a proud daddy. My daughter who is also Ressu's half-sister was BIS (Best in show, and for non-show people that means she won the whole competion)in Helsinki international show. It is very rear to have beagle as champion but this is second time for her. And in a other show she was group 2, what is also big achievement. Luckily she enjoys showing unlike her father.

Mom has registered Ressu in agility competion on sunday. She is so regreting it because Ressu seems to forgotten weavers during this couple of weeks brake in training. But as usual she is going with attitude "if it is not fun, it is not worth it" (Means: if Ressu is not in mood she will end the track on midle) I just can´t understand that Ressu don´t love agility as I do.

Mom's friend has a embroidery machine and they have made a embroidery of me jumping on obsticle. Mom is going to do a shoulder bag that has this picture on it. She promised to but picture of it when it is ready.

Aroo... everyone.

Still alive

2011-04-08T08:59:00.000+03:00

Our boring secretary just has been too lazy to write what is going on. She keeps explaining that she has no motivation to sit and write for us because she has so much school work to do at computer.
So what has happened during these 6 months?
Lenni is 10 years old:

Ressu is 4 years old:

We have been training agility with private coach. Lenni has competed in unofficial competitions. And Ressu have been in couple official one.
Ressu is getting forward, but mom has difficulties because:
if the guidance is not fluent “the nose hits the ground”.
if there is mistake “the node hits the ground”
Also mom has stupid habit in handling where she bends over nose level and it makes the handling awful.
Lenni’s boots are huge to fill in, but mom is not expecting Ressu to be like it.
“Can you imagine? Mom is too busy to update our blog and now she is dreaming about third beagle. Not until I have graduated and a job. Yep, who is going to believe that? More like: “wait that she gets dad to agree with her”.” -Lenni

Healthy agility?

2010-09-25T17:19:00.000+03:00

Just guess what mom is using as treat?

Pst... Thank you wery much about awards, mom has been busy because kids had flue, computer problems and school. She tryes to collet those soon as possible.

No competions after all

2010-09-02T22:24:00.000+03:00

So there was post to be two starts, but mom got flue and had to cancel our participation. It has been very boring couple of weeks in our household. We are used to get out often to back yard when someone is home. So I don't understand why mom was grumby when we woked her up middle of day to get out. First one to get feaver was mom and then the human kids so there has been a lot of tissues to steal and eat. That is also something that mom don't like. One positive thing is that she could not yell to us from the bed becouse she had no voice... Just hoping that we could soon get back to normal life.

Competing again and training

2010-08-19T19:27:00.000+03:00

It's been a while from my last post. Mom and I have competed couple of times in unofficial competions and two official competions. Also we have been on agility class allmost every monday and then we had a lady called Jänesniemi training.

Mom keeps saying that I have a BIG sniffing problem on our own training. The training place is on lawn and mom says that I am not interested enough for agility that it would win the sniffing. But sniffing is beagles job?

For some reason when we are training or competing in sand. First of everything that happened while these postings I was competing in un official competions. Here is the videos from the competitions. Mom was proud how I did manage those tracks.

We went the track 2 times so here is the another track. She keeps flatering me all the way.

Then we had the Jänesniemi's coaching. She told mom that she speeks too much to me on track. And I need to have target on my training. Biggest problem is to outsmart me on training. Can you imagine she told mom that she has to lear to keep one step ahead off me. So unfare to give that kind off advice. Also she told that it is great to have people who have intress to train dogs that aren's so motivated to just to do something when asked (like bc's, sorry have say that)

But if she thinks to outsmart a beagle she has lot to do. For example dad made a yard cage for us in gottage. Lenni escaped from it when mom turned her back at him. She fixed the cage 6 times and everytime we found a way how to escape so she gave up. They (mom and dad) have a plan how to fix the cage but I won't be so suprised that we find out how to esceape from it.

My official competion at Tampere, first track:

Second track I did not have motivation at all to do anything so mom stopped the track middle of way. Next weekend we are having too more official competions. Lets see how that goes. Mom keeps thinking something like boosting my jumps, don't know what that means but I think I'll tell it when I know what that means.

Strainge in all is that Lenni is protesting that he can't do the track. On Tampere mom needed to drag him away the track because he wanted so much to compete. So it is sad that he has the medication and is off the competing.

Big agility breed happening in Finland

2010-07-05T22:29:00.000+03:00

Here is some videos about our weekend. First is Lennis Finnish Agility Open competion where all three classes (1-3) are competing on same track but with different timelimit. Lenni was 9th.

This one is Ressu's beagle teams tracks. It came last on competion.

This one is Lenni's team. It was 31st.

And finaly Ressus second official track:

Ressu beagles first competion

2010-07-03T00:06:00.000+03:00

Mom is suffering really bad competing nerves and today was my first competion. She did almost everything that she should have not done with me on track. First she did not trust me, second she kept showing me obstacles too much instead of running and taking me with her. Here is ther proof:

Still alive

2010-06-16T22:20:00.000+03:00

Hah, our secretary has been too busy to write our blog. Boring mom! She got job for summer and the drive to work one way takes an hour. So when we have those human kids in the house you know what that means... We have to wait to get attention.

Mom has registered Ressu to first competions and there is under month time to teach him some obstacles proberly. She keeps getting too nerveous if she has too long brake on competing so she is starting little bit too early compete with Ressu just to keep her competing nerves working. I am getting chance to compete at same weekend. There is some unofficial competions and mon registered me in those.

Just waiting for the time that she could help us to visit all of our friends blogs.

Have great summer!

Lenni & Ressu

Btw... mom got pictures from Vekku. Vekku has 6th birthday today and he is lookin gorgeous. She is so happy that Vekku got home where he is living life that he deserves. Still it did get her little bit sad. Missing him...

Mom and her camera

2010-05-09T23:47:00.000+03:00

Could you please just disapear with that thing? I am trying to sleep here.

Who do you think will win this competion about moms old socks?

Forgetful mom! I had birthday 7th April

2010-04-19T12:18:00.001+03:00

First of all she was on holiday trip whit all the humans in our family at Gran Canaria, Maspalomas. (Yes, they did not take us with them) We were at her mom and dad. My birthday was during that trip and she forgot it. She remembers Lenni's birthday and Vekku´s (who doesn't even live with us anymore). But mine,no she just can't remember when it is. So now she is promising that I get something when she has time to go shopping. She keeps telling that she has school projects and exams etc. Hmh...

Ressu, 3 years old

Learning agility (Guide: How to trick your handler!)

2010-03-23T21:14:00.000+02:00

Tip 1

Do not stay sitting on start line. Handler will start reinforcing your staying on the start and you get lot of treats.

Tip 2
Pretend that obstacle is too spooky to do. This starts also reinforcing and you get lot of treats. Pst... you get caught if you do the obstacle by yourself while handlers is getting treats from pocket.

Tip 3
Do contact obstacles by jumping middle of the obstacle. Instead of one treat you get two treats.

Tip 4
Jump down from the seesaw before the middle Instead of two treat you have three.

Tip 5
Go around obstacles. Once again they start to reinforcing and you get more treats.

My problem is that moms coach spotted these and I really have to do something before those treats. Lenni was also as tourist in my coaching and our coach told that you can see how he loves the sport. And it is bity that he can't compete in official competions anymore. But there is lot of unofficials where to go. :) She also thinks that I have great potential after they have tackled my brains and hapid to trick people. They speak that I have to find the motivation to do more than one obstacle at time. Hmh... where the FUN is if you have to do lot before the treat?

Happy Birthday Lenni! (9 years)

2010-03-10T16:21:00.001+02:00

One year has passed again in my life... and enjoying my retirement days with full heart.

No more snow please!

2010-02-22T16:31:00.005+02:00

*sight* It just starts to be too much snow around here. And cold. No long walking trips because there just is too cold out side (little bit over -20 celsius what is -4 Fahrenheit) Often there is a cold wind that makes the weather even more icy.

Just look our back yard:

We have made paths to our yard so it is easier to move around. But if you get out of the path, your up to your neck in a snow and moving is possible only by hopping like kangoo...

"MOM! LET ME IN!"

*hmph* These days kids just aren't like old days...

Mom keeps saying that when the temperature gets warmer we are going to have running trips on snow blankets. That is good muscle exercise.

Lennis retirement from competions and shows

2010-02-16T16:21:00.004+02:00

Back from the VET. The coughing did not stop. In VET they toke a x-ray from me and results was starting hypofunktion in heart. This means my competing and show career is over. We have antidoping rules in here and that meens "no medication allowed" to competing dogs.

Mom is sad and reliefed at same time. She loved to compete with me. This does not change my life anything else but I have to take medicine every day. I hope it tastes good.
*sight* Will I miss competing like mom?

***Additiont to the text********
Diagnosis: dilatatio cordis
This was not caused by the kennel cough, but made the symptoms worse. It is in early stage so it is the reason why we don´t have any restrictions at this moment.

Catching up once again

2010-02-06T20:53:00.002+02:00

Those who are our friends in facebook know that I have been sick for three weeks. "Souvenier" from Ahvenanmaa competion trip I got kennel cough. Many of our friends got it too but I had the worst symptoms. Coughing slime and breathing broblems. Mom cancelled my training group place because I begining to be "a old man" and here has been very gold (mostly about -20 celcius). She thinks that I need a long recovery time.

This is the reason last years National Championship competions seems to be my last on personal level.

Ressu was sick too but cought only one night and didn't need antibiot like me.

Mom is trying to tell us that we have to be resting because there is risk to get pneumonia, "burden cough" or heart problems if we are exercising to early. But is so boring not to do anything. She don't even clicker train us because she says that we get too over ecited.

~Lenni~

A weekend in Eckerö, Åland

2010-01-13T18:12:00.004+02:00

Mom and I had younster free weekend in Åland ( a big island between Finland and Sweden what belongs in Finland).

This ment that we had three hours driving and boat trip that lasted five hours to get there. We had four agility competions there.

Saturday competion D:

We got overtimed 5 from the track. The mistake game after she first lost me, and after it she just did not give me fast enough information to go wave. Her friend has earlier told that she need to keep her back streight. She was jogging on track not running. And we realy have to something with that dogwalk. That she keeps blaming on me. On training she runs forward and I stay in dog run but earlier if she tryed in competion I jumped over the contact area. If she slowed down I made great running contact. Now when she slows down I stand and bark on down run. After A -frame she told too slowly to me to turn because (now you can here her excuse) she was affraid that I would turn on A-frame and miss the contact.

C-track (Jump course)

Can you imagine. She blames me from this DQ. I dropped thrid bar becouse she turned me too early. And the Dq came from the tunnel after waves.

E-track (jump course)

And this one. Don't want to even say anything first she shows something and then it is not what she is telling. MAKE UP YOUR MIND WOMAN! (she keeps doing the track differently than she plans and it always ends up like mess)

Sundays track mom needs to be proud that we made "cleanrun" (overtimed but no track mistakes)From 49 competors in medium 3 class only 19 got result ( 3 cleanruns under timelimit and two over timed)

Couple of savers midlle of track and there is lot to embrove.

Years first agility competions (with Lenni)

2010-01-03T21:04:00.003+02:00

We started a year with three DQ's. That was expected result after 3 months brake. Mom was so late and did not get her handling to flow at all. She made SAME mistake on two first tracks. There was same jump tunnel compination on both tracks and she FORGOT to turn me on time. So those where the two DQ's. She was rushing too much and there was a lot of problems because that (mainly too many obstacles were jumped and once she even pulled me away from tunnel) She was very pround of my energy level and felt little bit sorry that she could not handle her cometion nerves at this time. Here is videos from the last two tracks.

(Because competion was late on timetable we needed to left the track after DQ in this track)

Waiting for the year 2010

2009-12-31T11:57:00.006+02:00

Every year we give our 7 best competion results to the kennel clubs secretary to solve who is going to get the title "years agility dog". I was suprised when mom told that we had only two clean runs in whole year.

I have competed 229 times in my whole career. From these 140 has been DQ (that is 61%), 52 times I had result between 5-20 (23%). Cleanruns without overtime 15 times (7%) and overtimed cleanruns 11pcs (5%). And the results over 20 I had 10 psc (4 %). Not so pretty *eh*.

So if we look it more closely. In the class 1 we had 32 DQ (54%), 3 clenruns (5%), 3 overtimed cleanruns (under 5 result)(5%), 16 result 5-20 (27%), 5 over 20 results (7%). We had 59 starts before getting class 2. In the class 2 we had 33 DQ (62%), 4 cleanruns (8%), 1 overtimer cleanrun (2%), 14 result 5-20 (26%) ,1 over 20 result. We had 53 starts before getting class 3.

And the class 3: 75 DQ (64%), 8 cleanruns (7%), 7 overtimed cleanruns (6%), 23 result 5-20 (20%), 4 over 20(3%). We have had 117 starts in this class.

And last year:

33 DQ (67%), 2 cleanruns (4%), 6 overtimed cleanruns(12%), 7 result 5-20(14%), 1 over 20 result (2%). We had 49 starts.

Absolutely best event of the year was our competion in National championshios in Tornio. We managed to make two overtimed cleanruns (one in team and one in personal). We were 55/124.

(picture by Christina Råsted)
There is lot to achive next year. This year we maded to the goal. Next year: Start Ressus agility career.

Happy New Year 2010 for all our friends!

Looking for new adventures!

Full speed ahead!

New camera

2009-12-25T23:24:00.004+02:00

Don't know how much there will be new pictures from us for while. Mom got new camera for x-mas present and it seams to bee grown in her hand. She keeps taking pictures from us, our human brothers even from WALLS and VASE. Crazy!

As you see we are all ready bored about it.

Here has been snowing for while and today was so beautiful that we went trip to our nearest forrest. Mom (suprice) did take the camera with her.

X-mas

2009-12-20T23:10:00.002+02:00

God Jul, Glædelig jul, Hyvää Joulua, Joyeux Noel

We try to catch you up all during holiday time.

Playing with clicker

2009-11-18T20:33:00.004+02:00

Honey asked mom to take video off our clicker training. That was probably not good idea. Becouse she did miss couple of times timings when she focused to keep us in camera. (And she kept dropping treats on the floor. There were over 20 minutes/beagle so she edited some clips for you to see. Mom is trying to teach us to go stand in the box with all four paws.

Lenni's video:*beware of barking beagle*

Ressu's video:*beware of the beagle nose*

For a long time we have had opportunity go agility trainings. Next time when we are going to compete is end of the year.

Lenni is on group where we train only full tracks. And the goal is to get him to move more away from mom.

Ressu is learning basics and mom has big problems to guide him "dummy" way like she says. Lenni does lot of things on track with small hints and she is used to guide that way. But Ressu needs very spesific information what to do so she needs to take every movement in parts and show more focused every obstacle.

Ressu's contact is still sitting on dogwalks down contact and eating sausage.
Ressu's waves are teached with clicker and he does them on right side all 12 and left side is stil on 4.

News from us

2009-11-02T10:46:00.002+02:00

It has been long time since we have been here! Our secretary (Mom) had first little back problem. Her spine is still partly jammed and sitting long time at computer is not good for it.

Ressu has started agilitytraining in group. We have learned a lot after last writing time. We have started dogwalk training = he sits on down contact and eats treats. Weavers he goes all 12 from the "right" side and wrong side he goes 4 poles. With jumps he tryes to do every trick that is possible to get mom and coach lost their temper. Plan is not working. Mom has elephants nerves.

Lenni did keep mom on her toes for while. He had jam in intestine. Four couple of days there were no clue what he has eaten. He is ok now after vomiting sausage skins that caused the problem.

Mom told that we try to visit our friend blogs as soon we can...

Beagle - human with clicker

2009-09-25T13:56:00.003+03:00

Mom has tryed to teach us to touch mouse pad with paws. She took pile of treats, clicker and mouse pad. After this she locked her and me(Lenni)in lavatory. I know this means I have to offer behaviors.
I tryed:
lay down, sit, hiting her leg with paw, bark and hiting the mouse pad. *click*
Where did it come from?
Try 2:
sit, lay down, bark, attact the mouse pad *click*
It must be the bark
Try 3.
barking mom,sit and bark mom, stand and bark mom, bark and hit the mouse bad *click*
Ok, it is the bark and mouse pad
Try 4.
bark & touch mouse pad *click*
Try 5.
bark & touch mouse pad *click*...

Now she says that she needs to find how to get rid of the bark part.

Ressu's version:
Try 1.
Gimme the treat! Gimme the treat! How to get the treat?
Lick moms treat hand, lick moms nose, runing around the room, lick moms nose runing over the mouse pad (and touching the pad with front paw)*click*
Try 2.
What!!! Gimme another treat! Gimme the treat!
sitting on the mouse pad, lick moms treat hand,running aroud the room, lick moms nose, run over the mouse pad *click*
Try 3.
Running around the room?
Runing around the room no?,lick moms nose, running over the mouse pad *click*
Try 4.
Ok, I need lick moms nose before running around
Lick moms nose, running around no?, licking moms nose, running over the mouse pad *click*
Try 5.
lick moms nose and run to the pad *click*
Try 6.
lick moms nose and run to the pad *click*
...

Ques what. Mom says that she needs to get rid of the licking part.

Isn't it fun?

Weekends competions

2009-09-23T22:52:00.003+03:00

I had great time once again. We had two competion both days on weekend. Mom was sitting on computer almost all the rest time checking up WC agility results.

Saturday we had two agility tracks. Mom forgot to load video camera so we don't have any video of that day. First track I sneaked to track and managed get mom fussing around the feeld. Silly mom our track was awfull becouse she didn't tell me well enough were to go. DQ on that track.

In the second track mom did manage better. There was couple too long turns and we got 0.14 sec overtime. Placed 2nd in the competion.

On sunday mom has video evidence. She is nagging that we need to do something to my sniffing habit on the start. Her friend did saw the time what I managed to get by starting the electronic timing before entering the track. It was 0.26 sec. We did no track faults, but overtime also in this track. 0.62sec. Mom says that lot of it came from after dogwalks turning becouse she was afraid about the next jump.

Next track... mom just did not work proberly. She did get good start. I am too tired to remember all of that track but here is the video:

Agility weekend

2009-09-18T09:23:00.002+03:00

*huh* I had weekend of from humankids and the terrorist. We were in agility training camp whole weekend.

Friday night was boring. I had to wait in room when mom was learning about active dogs physical training and muscle maintenance. She seems to have lot of new ideas.

Saturday we had Seppo Savikko coaching us. He kept mum running a lot (me too, that was not so funny). Timing, timing and timing. He told that mum tryes too much to get front of me. And she needs to find the rythm to the movement.

Sunday we had Ulla Kaukonen coaching us. She give us advice to use targeting on track and person who puts the target needs to me more clever than beagle. Most of mums training company laught that there is no one smart enough. Mom also needs to add movment to the turns. She looks funny because she is moving her lesgs a lot but doesn't move anywhere.

Ressu is in screwed. Mom has had enough his bad behaviors and he is on "iceage". This means he is not allowed to be near mum or dad (1m) and they ignore him. This is because he is ignoring mum and mums rules. Last thing what did get mum upset was when he was standing on mum's bedside table and waked her up. I told him that bending rules won't get you far.

~Lenni

Beagle in agility? Mission imposible?

2009-09-05T19:03:00.002+03:00

(Lenni behind keyboard)
We had today two agility competions. First one was jump course. Mom made one little mistake and I did get revenge from it right away. After a competion pause she started also get nerves so I tryed to calm her down a little by sniffing.

The second track: (video says more than words)

Mom keeps sayin that it is not imposible. It just need certain kind of attitude. The best thing the audience has fun!

On the winner's rostrum

2009-08-29T20:50:00.002+03:00

We did it! Mom was so not in condition but we managed to get 3rd place in kennel region team championships. (We had two middle size poodles and staffonsfirebullterrier in our team)

Mom told that she is proud of me becouse I did so great dogwalk down contact and end of the track I did go forward of her to obstacles. She has been on fever couple of days so she did not have speed to run with me. The time limit was tight and mom guided me once past of the tunnel. (tryed to bunk the guidance) Also I did snif on start of the weawers but she did forgive that.

-Lenni

Human kid birthdays!

2009-08-25T13:56:00.002+03:00

Now we know what is more awfull than x-mas! Birthdays! Can you imagine house full of people little bigger than foam extinguisher. Fallen cookies, treats... Hands full of candies. And what mom is thinking! She told that we are isolated for two hours when those are here! Not fair at all!

Next weekend we start our agilitycompetions again! Lenni is competing in team chamionpships of our region. The club what we represents in Etelä-Häme (south-Häme) so we compete team challence in their competion. But for individual region championships we compete in Pohjois-Häme(North-Häme) region. That championships are in September.

Fall is coming so mom wanted to post an old picture of Lenni in Kuusamo:

End of the vacation season

2009-08-16T18:09:00.003+03:00

Last week we had the physiotherapist. She did first check up Ressu.

Ressu did get treatment because mom needed to have exercises for him to teach how he can handle his body better. Mom told that the therapist has been hilarious becouse Ressu is so overwhelming energic. Ressu had also sore spot on his back. Mom says that is becouse he keeps jumping and running down everywhere without any caution. They got a lot of practises to do. There was slow on-leash walks to forrests ( not allowed to go by paths and more difficult ground is better than easy). Slow walks over ladders wich are laying in ground that he needs to lift his paws. Trying to get him stand on small stool so he needs to think where his paws are.

My (Lenni) treatment was check up if my back is ok after the last treatment. There was some stifness again but the therapist was suprised how litlle. I got some homework too. Stretsching a lot of it expecially to left side.

Dad had last week of his vacation so we made short trip to grandads gottage Jyväskylä. It was boring there becouse mom couldn't keep us free there. There has been a lynx with a cup in area so mom told that is too dangerous for us wonder around there.

We did get to small sand beach were mom walked us in water. She lures us with treat so far that our paws don't reach to bottom gives a treat and let us to swim shore. I start to swim when my paws don't reach to bottom but mom was so hilarious about Ressu. He did keep on walking under water. He did swim to shore. Also our treats did float so mom throwed some of them to water to us. I did get those easily but Ressu kept blowing bubbles under water becouse he missed the treats when hi tried to cach those.

Ressu did run away just before we were coming home. He sneeked out when human kids where coming in. Mom says that the recall works on him as long as he is on sight. Needs more work on that (If I say he needs a lot of work on other things too). *phui* Mom was worried. She kept nagging about the lynx. Never seen one so can't say are those so dangerous. So we went to search Ressu. You dont quest where we found him? He was _eating_ apples on the old farms yard. I did so give him peace off my mind how he shouldn't run away like that. Mom was just relieved that we found him.

Oh, mom told that the lynx is biggest cat beast in Finland. But still I don't think that those are dangerous. She keep telling that never unestimate moms with cups. *phah* Okay, I need to say mom can get little mean when there is something to be worried about those humankids who live with us.

-Lenni

Coaching beagle in agility with clicker

2009-08-01T20:01:00.005+03:00

Mom read Honey's blog and got idea to but some our practise here too. She uses clicker lot in our backyard training.

Here she is using clicker and luring when she is teachin tire to Ressu. Ressu doesn't have a good concentration so it is sometimes hard to get him do anything (but stare you for treat).

Here is the goal. (Me doing the same thing)

As you can see I am all right. Mom has started to practise with me and the physiotherapist is coming next week to treat Ressu. She will check me up same time.

Mom has teached Ressu to weave using clicker. There was first two poles and she throwed treat between them. Everytime she got Ressu go between poles she clicked. Next step was she waited him to offer same manner and click + treat from hand behind the first pole. Then she added another couple of poles with long distance and started to make two times in row it. Then she closed the cap to 60cm. And now Ressu is doing four pole weaving. She is practising both sides and different angles at this moment. Next step is to add second four pole set to long distance. (etc.)

Mom took some pictures from our forrest trip on the nearest forrest in here, but she needs to find out how she gets them out on her phone. (And she dares to call her self BEng of telecommunication)

*EDIT* There has been some questions about my situation. I am recovering well. After two weeks rest I can now slowly start to do agility training again. Ressu is having physiotherapist next week and she will same time check my back. (Ressu is having treatment to check out his balance and get some advice to how teach him to handle his rear end)

Up to date

2009-07-27T14:08:00.002+03:00

Mom is on vacation and *huh* does she stay on put. No! This day here, next day there.

Last week I went to physiotherapist and she did massage me. My whole spine was in horrible condition (also my ribs). Another side of my back muscles was in jam. She could help me and now I have couple of days left to be rest out of agility. Mom is clad that there was no worse problem.

Today is our training day but mom goes to teach beginners class and I can only take weavers. Boring! She told that Ressu gets more practising than I. So unfare.

Back from vacation and accident

2009-07-18T11:32:00.002+03:00

*huh* Two weeks on the road. First we were in grandads gottage in Jyväskylä then we continued trip to Kuusamo (north Finland). This ment that we had to sit on car a lot but also we could be free in forrest on long walks.

Mom is worried about me. Two days ago when I was stretsching Ressu did sit on my back. I was sore after it that she needed to call doctor and I have now painmedicine treatment for week. Doctor gave us treatment by phone after mom had told her my symptoms. ( couldn't eat my food from cup on the floor, I yeld from pain when I changed sleeping position and I couldn't jump to couch) Worst diagnos is that I have intervertebral disc -problem.

Mom is hopeful now that is less becouse I have been stretshing my self. Still sleeping so that I keep my back straight. She is worried how to keep me in rest becouse I don't see to have any problems anymore. Now she is looking for physiotherapist or reflexology wich is not in vacation to give me treatment after the medicine treatment is over.

She is afraid that my agility career may end to this.

Showtime

2009-07-04T19:55:00.004+03:00

*huh* Mom drages me once again to dogshow. First she gives a bath to us ( yes me and Ressu) then we need to go most boring places just to stand and run around rings.

Well this is what judge said about me:
"Exl breed type. Correct size. Exl pigment. Good eyecolour. Good lenght of neck. Good laid back of shoulder. Correct chest. Good hindquarter angulation. Good movement up & down."

Mom was thrilled about the fact that I came BOB vet. (over eight years can get this) And I was also BOS. I just so bored when it was vet group ring that I didn't want run anymore. Mom says that I just act like clown so she doesn't take me often to shows.

Ressu was best male 4th and Reserve Certificate. His evaluation was:
"Very good breed type. Needs to mature in body. Very good head & expression. Exl pigmentation. Eye could be darker. Good lenghten of neck. Good laid back of shoulder. Short upperarm. Good hindangulation. Good topline & tailset. Good movement comming & going."

The judge was Dianne Tyssen, NZ

Pictures from Finnish Agility Championships

2009-06-30T11:43:00.004+03:00

All the pictures are taken by Stina Råsted who was the another beagle handler in competion. Thank you!

National championships :)

2009-06-15T19:14:00.004+03:00

Single: 55th of 124 dogs. Just out from final track only 50 did get on it. Overtimed clean run.

Team. Our Team was 17th and my track was best track (overtime clean run)

We will consentrate to get mom move more and faster that she don't hold me back anymore. :)

Jump training

2009-06-10T23:17:00.003+03:00

Lenni told that I would tell about last weekend. Mom was in course with me whats theme was jump technic. The course started on saturday with lot of talking. The trainer told about dogs and handlers jobs on jumps ans how they affect to each other. She told that the technic teaching meaning is to have independent dog for jumps and that dg does not brake them self on obstacles.

First exercise was single jump. I was so keen about meatballs that the trainer asked mom to take next time dry bread for treats. I have nice technic, but there is big lack of muscles that keep the balance. Also mon has to teach me to consentrate and realize where my body is.

Next obstacles were for see how good I can jump short. This was also nice, but the lack of balansing muscles is making problems.

Sunday we had distance excersises. I had only one excersice becouse my body was just too tired for saturdays jumps. I can read distance but the body needs a lot of work.

So we can make short jump excersice once a week. Mom needs to take me to physiotherapist to get training program to get my balancing muscles grow. And we need to practice a lot of my concertration. Mom toke some videos of the course. But she needs to edit those before ading them here. I stay here with dad and kids when mom leaves tomorrow for the big contest.

Nagging mom!

2009-06-09T09:04:00.002+03:00

I just don't understand mom. I just toke the bone backyard and hided it from Ressu. And now she is nagging and nagging about it.I wount tell you where I hide it becouse mom will throw it away. But mayby the flowerbed was not the best place.

*ups* Somehow mom already knows it. But luckily she does not know wich one. In this year she has been very mean about her flowerbeds. First Ressu ate all her lilys (okay, I helped a little.) Then Ressu dig up some holes on the other with the yonger human kid. And particularly nasty commands have been heard when Ressu and I sleeped on one of her flowerbeds. If they are called beds they should be for sleeping???

Mom has laughed to us for couple of days. She says that I am silly when I try to eat all the dandelions before dad cut down the lawn. Ressu is pees like a girl becouse last weekends training. He will tell more about it later. Need to go see what mom is doing. It looks like she is going to go out side to find MINE bone.

pst... National championships we have 127 competitors only 20 best can get to the final track. Mom is so nerves all the time. The competion is next weekend.

To the national championship contest?

2009-05-31T13:41:00.005+03:00

Saturday:
Hah, mom was so stressed that I desided to calm her donw on our saturday first track. She is so nervous because of the last qualification zero. I react with sniffing on the track when she is not calm and that cost us a jump wrong way.

Next track she was like she has given up. We had only one little mistake on tunnel and result was overtime 5.

Sunday

Firs track was the last change to have qualification zero. We made clean track and mom was half hour so nerves becouse she did not know if the time was enough. IT WAS! Now we have all 7 "clean runs" (two of them can be from jump course and it has to enclude two clean run tracks from the same day and those must bee one after another)

Another track was jump course and her friends asked her to run as much as I can to get speed to our track. Result was that she forgot to tell me where to go and we got DQ.

So June 13th-14th 2009, we are in Tornio. Saturday competing in team championships and sunday we compete in individual championships.

Updated pages and awards etc.

2009-05-26T14:31:00.007+03:00

Blog is ready and homepages are waiting to be moved to server. Mom told that she will translate my results later.

Thank you for the awards!

Honey has given me the Honest Scrap Blog award and so I will have to tell you 10 honest things about myself. (Ressu is still too shy to do this so you have to settle for my answer.

1. I love warm places. Mom says that I will burn my coat some day because I sit so near of fireplaces. Human boys keep nagging in mornings that I sleep middle of their cames. Mom always chase me away there. (But the best sun spots are in those rooms.

2. I am breed rasist. I hate bordercollies. Before I was sixs months old I have been attacked many times when I was in leash by this breed dogs.

3. I am water maniac. If I get wet I love to have sprint all over the places. Mom hates this in rainy competions becouse she never knows what I'm going to do.

4. When I was a pup I had habit to steel mom underwear from laundry basket and then I buried those under bushes in backyard.

5. When I was a pup I had habit to steel everyones ciders and beers. This one mom is glad that I have forgotten.

6. Breeder has given me my pet name Lenni. She told that I was cute like Lenni-Kalle Taipale

7. I have had two times on antibiotic cure, because of eating wood. My throat was full of small wounds.

8. Mom says that I am an gentleman. I leave the ladies tail alone so they usually like my company.

9. Mom tough once agility to me and awards was flying snowballs.

10. I hate water. I do not like walks in rainy day and swimming is *uh* horrible activity.

RULES: you must name and link to the doggie who gave you this award and then you must choose at least 7 blogs to pass this on to. This last one is hard, becouse we don't have some many blog friends and everyone seems to have this one already.

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Here are the rules:

1. Link the person who tagged you.
2. Copy the image above, the rules and the questionnaire in this post.
3. Post this in one or all of your blogs.
4. Answer the four questions following these Rules.
5. Recruit at least seven (7) friends on your Blog Roll by sharing this with them.
6. Come back to BLoGGiSTaiNFoCoRNeR and leave the URL of your Post in order for you/your Blog to be added to the Master List.
7. Have Fun!

Here are questions & our answers:

1. The person who tagged you: Cinnamon and Cookie
2. His/her site's title and url: Beagle diary
3. Date when you were tagged: Monday, May 25, 2009
4. Persons you tagged: Honey (Didn't get here any more bloggers to tag)

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Last but not least from Dughallmor beagles from Scotland.

The award states that "This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships!" In other clearer words, "These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

The award was started in Portugal and because of it's meaning we are going to award it to some of our far away readers.

Awarded:
Cookie & Cinnamon, New Zealand

(these awards are pretty difficult to find anyone who has not already have these.)

Vekku has a new home

2009-05-12T11:24:00.003+03:00

At last we have time to write again. Vekku has been living now a week with his new family. The family considers two girls (16 and 19 years old) and parents. The dad has read everything about beagles for five years and is over calm person. We think it is good for Vekku. He is going to be international dog having trips to latvia and living in Finland's capital town Helsinki.

First night he has cryed, but after that there has not been any problems. We can see that the people are serious becouse they started to study about BARF than started to feed him dryfood.

What has it changed on our life? Ressu cuddles again and doesn't peek around corners. Nobody is running around the house in evenings before food time. Food does not disappear from high places.

Mom and I have been hunting that last qualification zero. She promised to buy me cooling rug what says "Yes, she knows how to guid me in training zone". In the last weeks we have had 10 starts and all of them has been DQ. Mom says that atleast three of them is my fault. First one I didn't listen to her (but the other end of the tunnel was more logical to be next than that one she pointed), second on was sniffing (yep, those wonderful smells, rabits you know) and last one water maniac atack. (I love to do that. When I get soaked I ran circles keeping my tail in curve and runing as fast I can)

Mom has couple of weeks vacation before summer school starts and she trys to have time to update our webpages and these to update. (Thatincludes those lovely awards what have had)

Just need to speak out

2009-04-27T15:31:00.002+03:00

Just living in very busy situation in life (shcool year ending with all the project works) this was the last wake up call that did not need to have in my head.

A year ago I had to seriously think that could I keep Vekku (the middle one off the pack). Reason to this is that he is not very stable and I can't trust him with the kids. For while after consulting problem dog trainer we did get him pretty stable and our life was normal.

Half year ago Ressu came to our life and we have had more and less problems. This morning Vekku once again attacked Ressu and we just tought the maniac did it again. It was shocking to realise that it is just notice that "okay, it hapend again". Vekku has also attacked Lenni couple of times. Like he is not mentaly feeling well.

It is hard becouse I have taken him to live for life with us and now I think if it is better to find him home where is no kids or other dogs. It is just too heartbreaking even to think this situation. If I wouldn't have young kids I think that I would not think this. But I can't wait and see if he decides to bite my sons. (Or not) My mom already is afraid of him.

The same dog is the most loving creature to people and other dogs. Like living with Dr. Jerkyll and mr. Hyde. I hate this. It just makes me feel like loser. Not good enough to be dog owner. No one else can't make this decision for me. And I know that many will disaprove it if I give up becouse everyone knows only the "Jerkyll".

Maybe we try something out but does it work and if it works how long. I do love him. But this can't go on.

Ressu : 2 years

2009-04-07T14:09:00.000+03:00

End of last year young beagle boy moved to live with us and today is the first birthday with us.
Happy birhtday Ressu ( it is Snoopy in finnish).

Beware if you visit nigthover in beagle house!

2009-04-02T13:32:00.002+03:00

Mom made this list and we have so had fun with it:

1) Do not leave your bag on the floor, if you don't want your underwear runing around the house and backyard (Lenni's special)
2) Do not leave your bag anywhere low or hig, if it's not beagle proof. Everything eatable and sometimes not eatable will desapear to better place. (like Vekku's mouth)
2) Do not eat food holding plate on your knees, if you don't be aware of three beagles position in the household. And it is couple of feets away from your plate. (This has cost lot of lost treats *sight*)
3) Beware "flying" beagles. They can jump without speed to your face hight and poke your plate empty.
4) Middle of table is not safe place to your food if you leave it alone in the room.
5) High places aren't safer. Beagle can always clime there.
6) If you hate fur on your cloths don't were black and taking beagle on your lap won't be good idea.
7)Dinks are not more safe to place anywhere than foods. Everything goes. (even soap)
8) If you don't want beagle to do something Please don't doesn't work. Just se NO.

For some reason mom's relatives just know this without saying. We don't know how?

GOSSIP!

2009-03-30T13:43:00.001+03:00

We have to tell this. One off our fellow beagle made it! He got all the qualification zeros to National championships. Way to go Bruno! We are so proud of him.

Back on track

2009-03-29T21:15:00.003+03:00

*phiu* What a day. Vekku competed first time for a while. The result was overtime 5. Mum hasitated on weavers what cost a mistake. The track was little over timed. They still came third on competion.

I was competing twice.First was agility track and there we got mistake on weavers ente. Mom told that it is possible that I couldn´t see the first pole. She told that it has been difficult for while me to enter correctly in white poles. Don't know why. She is nagging that I want to go my way not with her guidance. We still did go under the qualification time.

Next track was jump course. Result was clean run and so on we miss only one Qualification zero for national championships.

Vekkus track:

Lennis track:

hmm..someone is eating poop in the start. This is a problem in riding rings.

Boredom

2009-03-26T17:18:00.004+02:00

*puuh* Mom is just sitting inside. We got only short walktrip today. The weather is awsome. Mom told that we can't go for long trip becouse the yonger human brother has been sick (38.5 celsius fever) earlier this week. Dad is not home for couple a days and we are just staying home. We didn't even togo train yesterday.

We have big fenced backyard (about 50x30 meters) so we can spend time out side. Mom did tease us by putting us to stand on exercise ball. Lenni knows what to do so it was easy to him. We had so much fun when it was Ressu's turn. He just layed dow on his stomach midlle off the ball. Mom tryed to hold the ball with her knees and help with hands and treats Ressu to sit, lay properly or stand. There should been someone to take video or pictures of that. Mom told that Ressu needs lot of practise before mom lets him to practice on dogwalk or A-frame. She talked something about that why the young mans think that the speed is everything. And what do you need the speed for if you can't stand proberly.

Stupid mom speed is everything exspecially when you are steeling food or just hunting rabbit. Otherwise she is complaining that Lenni isn't fast enough if you compare him to the top of agility medi dogs in Finland.

Two overtime tracks

2009-03-24T09:18:00.002+02:00

Mom is crazy. I just can't understand why you need to wake up 5.30 am to go run around agilityfield.

Our trip was to Hyvinkää where was two starts: Jump and agility. Both tracks were judged by Ritva Herrala.

Jump course we got over 3 sek overtime. Mom just couldn't let me go. She was so worried that I might go in wrong obstacles that she just leaded me to every one.

Agility course we got almost 5 sek overtime. And we had the same problem as in jump course. Oh why mom just can't trust me? And ofcourse I needed to say some very bad words to her when she was standing on my way in weavers.

Mom was happy to have two cleanruns (=no track mistakes), but of course the time is something that considers her. She says that next Sunday we have same judge on two tracks and she hopes that she can improve her guidance.

Unfortunatle, we don't have these tracks on tape becouse mum forgot to load the batteries in the camera.

Three competions, one "cleanrun" closer to goal

2009-03-16T22:25:00.004+02:00

Mommy is maniac. Once again three starts on the same day. Two agility starts and one jump course.

Silly thing mum has been sick everytime last half year about week before competions. This time it was vomiting. She was okey to compite, but I have to say she was slow and not so focused that she should have been. When she was sick Ressu was so testing her nerves. He thought that poking mum awake or barking to her would get her moving from bed. He found out that it was box time becouse mum was too tired to bee awake too sick to stand up.

But to the competions. First track was agility track. I just needed to test how good mums head works and I tryed couple times to escape to contacts. That worked perfectly and she lost control and hasitated in sending to tunnel.

Next track was also agility track and we got result from it 0.97. Becouse it is not June yet it is countet to be national championship cleanrun so we have time to end of April get to more cleanruns (one can be from jump course) and we have right to compete in national championship and WC qualifications. Over time we got from mums slow reactions in my guidance. You can see my great nosework from the start in the video.

Last track was jumping course. Good start but once again mum hasitated and started to do front crossing too early and we got 5 points. And middle of track she shuold have told me that it was closed tunnel were to go not to long jump.

Eight years of beagle life

2009-03-10T20:54:00.004+02:00

March 2001- February 2002
- I was cute litlle puppy. My breeder named me by "Lenni-Kalle Taipale" (a young man how was cute piano player in finish talk show)
- My picture was in the talk show when mums one friend send it to them
- Mum teached me some obedience (I was first very fast learner, but nobody didn't tell us how to motivate beagle and I got bored)
- I was in 12. best puppy in Finnish winner showing
- learned basics of rescuedog works in Finland (mom didn't want to continue this becouse it would have been unfare to take place for people how really wants to do this and has strenght to face posibility that the people what we are looking for might be dead)

1. year (march 2002- February 2003)
- started to learn the secrets of agility
- got all three sertificates needed for champion title ( hear we need the hunting test result to get champion title)
- competed the first and only time in obedience beginners class. 103p.
-Best in breed in small goup show and 4th in group

2. year (march 2003- February 2004)
- started my competing in agility ( 6 kpl starts all DQ)
- got new family member, human boy called Aleksi

3. year (march 2004- February 2005)
- continued my agility competing
- learned some blood tracking
- got new family member, dog boy called Vekku

4. year (march 2005- February 2006)
- I got all three agility sertificates to get in compete in class II
- got new family member, human boy called Juho

5. year (march 2006- February 2007)
- I was in character test: 172p.

6. year(march 2007- February 2008)
- Got the last result for right to compete in third class in agility

7. year(march 2008- February 2009)
- became dad first time in my life
- Best in breed in small group show (breed group 4.)
- got new family member, dog boy called Ressu

8. year
-Time shows, mom has big plans at me competing in agility national championships and some shows in veteran class

HAPPY BIRHTDAY LENNI!

(mommy added some history pictures here, some wich I rather didn't remember)

Hi, from Winter vacation

2009-03-03T17:33:00.007+02:00

We were in Jyväskylä for long weekend. Ah, vacation. Lot of time beeing free soul in the large frozen lake. Mum just didn't take it as vacation. She told that we give her gray hear too early by having her chase us around the cottage neighbourhood. Luckuly neighbours were not "home".

The weather was good. There was little windy, but it didn't rain snow all the time. There was only -5 - -7 degrees cold.

I saw another side of the lake a rabbit and I terminated to go chase it. Mom tryed to shout me that I shouldn't go. Near the strand I found out that black dot was a car not a rabbit. At that moment I didn't know where mom Lenni and Ressu were. Luckily mum came to save me with Lenni and Ressu. (The other strand is 3 km away from our cottage) For some reason mum has laughed me much about this.

I think Lenni is silly, becouse he steels fish from icehole fishers. Mum doesn't like this either. Ressu runned away couple times to eat fishcleanings. That was also little extreme trick becouse he has womited earlier of eating it. This time that didn't hapend.

And here some pictures from our trip:

"Lenni"

"Ressu"

"Vekku"

Mum played with camera settings "the gray old man"

"Retro?"

Updating...

2009-02-23T17:24:00.002+02:00

Who, once again it has gone week(s) when we last wrote here. Mommy is one lacy thing and has just cleaned house, clipped our nails, used that furminator. And all this because the mother-of-law is came visit to us.*sight* We just can't understand people who don't like fur on their clothes or thinks that we are over eger to get in to lap. Mommy says that it is strange that when we have visitor who a) don't like pets or ) is allergy to them, we make most effort to be noticed by them.

Ok, "granmummy" is so easy to trick that we always can steel some snacks from the table.

Lenni was competing once again in Kirkkonummi. There was three tracks one jump and three agility. First agility track they got overtime 5 becouse Lenni ran to moms legs when he once again read the trakc on his own. Mom is still not on hear best health and she was very slow. Second track was DQ, she anticipated on tunnel and got Lenni to the wrong end of the tunnel. The jump course was also DQ. Lenni took the shortcut to the finnishing line.

Ressu has ben studing still some basics in weavers and tunnel. Mom has also done some floor practising to teach him turning. I do not understand how he manages to do that becouse it is more funnier to get the treat than turn to right away from her.

Newest agilityvideos

2009-02-12T15:07:00.003+02:00

Hyvinkää couple weeks ago:

Helsinki last weekend:

Clever or not? Decide your self... Living with a beagle

2009-02-04T23:05:00.003+02:00

A long time ago lived little beagle boy on huge house with two humans.

Case 1.
He was half years old. Man was making breads and decided to enjoy them as he watched tv. He sits down and reminds that he forgot his milk glass in kitchen. He leaves his plate on living room table and leaves to kitchen. What do you think he founds on his plate when he returns?

a) his breads are missing
b) both breads are unthoucable
c) another bread is changed to ropetoy

Case 2.
Same dog, little older. Man was home alone and playing online game called counter strike. Dog comes to the room and gives hints that he needs to get out. Answer is "wait a minute"... half hour goes and the dog comes another time. Same answer. What happends?

a) he makes his "bussiness" in middle of living rooms mat
b) crawls behind soffa and unplugs the computer from the net
c) askes thrid time

Case 3.
This time the woman is sitting on her computer. She listens that is some one pulling the toilet paper out of the rack. Nope it couldn't be. Another short sound... still she is wondering is it toilet paper. She looks at the rooms door and the dog is peeking behind corner. While goes and once again short sound. The dog is agoin peeking like checking out what is happening... What happends next?

a)you turn your head and next you hear is sprining paws and the toilet papers rolling in the track. You turn your head and see toiletpaper speeding up in doorway.
b) nothing
c) sound continues and dog is still peeking

These stories are true and the star of show is still living with us. He is almost 8 years old. Correct answers are case 1. c), case 2. b), case 3. a).

Agility training

2009-02-04T22:29:00.002+02:00

Some news from us for while. Mom asked us to update some training sessions:

Lenni:
At last mom has time to go practise with us. We train in small and cold old wooden summer dance hall. There is mats on the floor, but the walls don't have any isolation so there is usually little bit colder than outside. The poor thing in the place is that it is too small for proper speedy training so mom basicly takes couple times dogwalk, weaves, tunnels and some jumping angles. She is muttering something about why I don't take the contacts in competions like I make them in training sessions.

Vekku:
We are just having fun. Mom says that becouse I love to do agility I can but she won't hope any progress with me. She told that with her luck, becouse she competes with me I will get on the highest class even she complains about my lack of interest to learn things like contacts, weavers or runing in competions.

Ressu:
Mommy didn't start on jumping technics with me. We have taken too obstacles tunnel and weavers. In the weavers she guides me with treats. First time she was giving me snack after every pole. This time she was slow so I had time to offer another space before she had time to give me treat. She was proud of me. Other wise she told that I am too clever and she would have trouble with my brains later on. Lenni has also been very quick to learn things even the wrong ones. And she says that the wrong things are very hard to train off.
First time in tunnel mom guided me in and her friend was calling me end of the tunnel. This time she changed the way of training. She placed a treat plate end of the tunnel and showed a treat in it. Then she carried me on the other end of tunnel and sended me in. Her friend was watching the treat on case that I sneak to steal it. Mom was suprised that she could send me about one meter from tunnel to tunnel with this target. They also turned the end of tunnel little bit and it didn't butter me at all.

Now she is wondering how to teach me contacts, guidance and everything else. She sayd something about "tieto lisää tuskaa"(= "the knowledge adds the pain"). After she has thougt Lenni and Vekku there has come so many new trends on training dogs and she just don't know what to try.

sight mum needs to get control of her self

2009-01-26T22:54:00.003+02:00

It has been so booring week. Wendsday it should have been my training day, but mummy cancelled it. Her stomach was sour. In the evening she complaind of fever. Can you imagine three days she layed on bed that you could only see her nose under blankets. And when she was wondering around the house she looked like forrest-troll or daddy sayed that the gorilla has visited us. I don't know what that means.

I am clad she was able to go whit me competing sunday. But first on jump track she totally lacked speed and her guidance was out of date. So I decided to have fun on agility track. Two jumps and to the A-frame, just like I used to do when I was kid. Mom didn't like that becouse she has not needed to guid me of from contacts long time.

I think the troll attitude followed her from the sickness. Becouse she was a while very crumpy after I made beautiful leap of the dogwalk. She should be proud that I had speed on. Who cares about the stupid different color area end of the obstacle.

Behind the keyboard Lenni the old man

Now I know what is Furminator

2009-01-14T12:52:00.002+02:00

Yep, it was not eatable. *sight* Yesterday mom got one of those from post. I can reveal you a secret "IT IS A SHEDDING BROOM!". I hate brushing but this time it wasn't so horrible. Lenni was also victim when mom fussed around with the broom. Ressu was lucky one and she only tested few times it on him. It so unfair that those two who clearly love brooming don't need to be broomed. Mom is telling that I am worst.

Mom also bought me new harness. Ressu got my old ones. I don´t like harnesses or greatcoats but mum makes me wear those. These new Y shaped harness are more comfortable than the traditional ones.

Mom must hate me because shes so mean. I don't have any saying on stuff she buts on me. Always she has some sensible reasons like: There is too dark so I need to have reflector coat, there is too cold outside and I need to keep my muscles warm with greatcoat etc. And she laught to me because I try to get of the coats by running circles in mats, walking against Lenni (Tip: He does not like that at all)

Missing the handling routine

2009-01-11T20:39:00.005+02:00

Trip to Tampere is behind and one agility and jump course runned through. Competion was in riding ring and the ground was in awful condition. It was rock hard and full of bumps. I we were lucky but our friend tripped and hurt her wrist on the first track.

First track was judged by Anne Savioja and it was agility track. Start was good and Lenni stayed on start well. On the second tunnel I made handling mistake when I dropped guidance too soon and hasted to next obstacle. Positive aspect was dogrun contact that we maded this time clean. Result was 5.

Second track was jump course and it was judged by Jarmo Jämsä. Track was more challenging and I made poor plan to manege that place where we disqualified. We did not have opportunity train in fall and I can see the rustyness in my guidance timing and ability reed Lenni in track.

Couple weeks and next competions for us. Atleast I can get some practise before it.

When the handler just doesn't work correctly

2009-01-08T12:21:00.002+02:00

On sunday we were in Hyvinkää competing three times in agility track. It was first time for us to compete in warm hall where the floor was grassmat (not real grass but I didn't find the correct english term for it). I was worried about how Lenni reacts because our home situation (new family member and the authority is still little bit unclear) and the floor.

First track start was little bit catastropich. We walked dogs before track and Lenni pooped two times, but just before our turn he had to go again. So result of that was we runned to course after judge has given promission to start. I was panicing but we made clear start. The track was clean as long I didn't think. When we were in second tunnel I started to hesitate how to get Lenni in correct side of tunnel. And I guided him to the wrong end of tunnel with "buttguidance"(you lean up and your butt is up. Body guidance usually guides dog everywhere else than it should). So do not think in the track just make the moves that you have planned. (Video is not so good because the photographer was also late)

Second track: First five mistakes we got from teeter. Lenni jumps sometimes down on side before contact area. DQ we got from tunnel in end corner when I was trying to get more speed to Lenni and called him (crossed behind on U-tunnel). First he got in correctly, but returned middle of tunnel and second time he got in wrong end. Now when I am watching it from video the dog run contact was also awful.

Third track: Great start not so great ending. There was two difficult places in track first one we barely maded and Lenni made long run wrong way (without making mistakes). Second one caused DQ. Once again I hesitated in track and didn't stay on the plan. First of all I should have slow down on dog walk, secondly NO "buttguidance", thirdly do not walk that dirrection where you don't want your dog to go.

Video is not very good because you can,t get close enough in the hall and there seems to been some technical problems. Next tracks are in Tampere next sunday and we have five months time to get three clean runs (only one can be jump course) if we want to get in national championships this year. (Ofcourse this means if the qualifications are same than last year june 2008 - April 2009 7 clean runs on competions wich include one douple clean run (two tracks in a row runned as clean run) and only two off them can be from jump course)

(clean run is result under 0.99)

How compact is a beagle?

2009-01-08T09:44:00.013+02:00

Mom says that we take too seriously that people say we are compact breed. She bought as new big box for transportation. And she was wondering if it is big enough to three beagles. Here is photo of it:
Ressu and I (Vekku) thought that she is just fusing around because Kamu (borderterrier) was visiting us with our grandparents (humans) and his box is much more comftable than that large plastic cage. Here is the proof:

(DO NOT KEEP YOUR BEAGLES IN THIS SIZE BOXES!)

Mom sayd that we need to add that text to the post, because she thinks that box is too small even for one beagle(we can't stand straight in there). Silly mom it is good place to sleep when you have roof close to you. I don´t know why she is nagging to us when Lenni is always sleeping in small places like shelf, cartonboxes or suitcases.

The weather is feezing out hear. It is -22 celsius and there is just too cold wind for long walks (*sight*). It is so boring be inside when mom would had time to go extra long forest trip with us.

pst... mom wil write Lennis last competion news after she has edited the videos.

X-mas

2008-12-22T20:59:00.003+02:00

Here is our holiday greetings for everyone visiting our blog:

Crazy X-mas

2008-12-19T14:19:00.004+02:00

Aroo! Mom is getting to our nerves. First she freez our peds. (out doors for couple hours) Then she is nagging
a) that we drop too much fur and wonders if anybody has knowledge of furminator with beagle. We just want to know is it eatable?
b) Just washed floors so most wondeful thing is run there with muddy paws. Isn't it? Mom doesn´t think so.
c) Just vacoomed mat is best place to scratch your ribs and back. Mom thinks ill of this too.

And if we help and dust couch pillows, she gives us warning that it is going to be "jail" time if we don´t calm down.

Have you noticed that peoples by nice toys for us and fil them with treats like dipers. The shapes shanges but always with little thinking it is opened and checked. For some reason after that we were jailed for 1 hour. Mommy just don't have any humor during X-mas cleaning.

"Old" beagles are just too serious

2008-12-11T18:30:00.002+02:00

If Lenni says that we are awful youngsters don't belive him.

First of all. If he sleeps why is it denied to go past him. (mom: read walk over)
And week ago Ressu was just tapping his forehead when we were going to sleep. He just flipped out and we needed to sit in row on other side of the room. (mom: If you tap sleeping dog whole day everytime he tryes to sleep in forehead he might get upsed)

And why can't we take a bone from his mouth without him making a total scene of it?

With lots of licks
Vekku (4) and Ressu (1½)

Officially new member of the family

2008-12-07T12:19:00.003+02:00

A month ago young beagle male called Ressu came to live with us from a old lady. She couldn't handle him after her husband had past away. Ressu is from same breeder than Lenni and his official name is Daragoj Second to None. He is little bit over 1½ years old.

Vet and physiotherapist have cheked on him and he is healthy. He has good moving muscles, but balance needs training. And, yes, he is going to be agilitybeagle also. Starting with jump technics.

Ressu is intelligent and reminds me lot of Lenni's youth. We are ignoring him at this moment. (no cuddling, following, forbiding) It means we pretend that he doesn't excist here. He gets hes meals and leash walks, but those are only things we do with him. We are doing this with dogtrainers guidance and its coal is to establish strong relationship with Ressu.

Lenni and Vekku are in competion and training leave at this moment, becouse the handler has examine weeks at school. But we will be back on track in January. (at least Lenni is, Vekku is just going to have fun in trainings and maybe in summer we will go in some competions)

I don't know how it is in other countries, but here beagle isn't very popular breed in agility. I know that few people will say to me why I didn't take REAL agilitydog and that I can't get any further with them. But that is their opinion not mine. Okay, I don't have agilitydogs. I have agilitybeagles and it fits better to me. Beagle is always beagle and there is something about it, you know.

Up to date once again

2008-11-12T15:09:00.002+02:00

Now it has happened. We live with three beagles. Ressu moved to live with us for test time last Sunday. He allready sleeps and plays with Vekku. He doesn't have any problems with Lenni, but Lenni just is gentleman and doesn't fuss around the house like those two.

We had three competions with Lenni saturday. Two agilitytracks and one jump course. Boht agility tracks were dq, becouse I have problems with dogrun. May sound silly. As you may have read we have trained Lenni's contact behaviour and in the first track Lenni made beautiful runing contacts. I just stand there and tryed to figer out what to do. (We have trained two-on-two-off technic) And result was wrong track. Second course we did get correct contacts, but after the dogwalk I just guided Lenni to the wrong end off the tunnel.

On the jump course I but the mistakes and the overtime completely to Lenni's account. First 5 points we got from refusal on third jump on track, becouse Lenni came to me beg treats. Next two 5 points we got from beging when he jumped towards me. And this was not all. In end off the track there was a place where track went near of the jump to tunnel. I told Lenni to go tunnel and Lenni standed front off the jump looking at me and then to the jump. I guided him another and third time to go tunnel. He was still staring me and the jump. I raised my voice little and then he slouched to the tunnel. Unfortunatelly I don't have videos of it.

Once again it is proofed: "Don't take it too seriously when you have beagle!" We got good laughts for this track.

Clean run in jump course and panic in agility track

2008-10-30T12:45:00.006+02:00

Once again news what's going on in our life. In the last post I told we were going competions with Lenni.
The agility track was a nightmare. It started fall apart from the start because I paniced on the start. Lenni stole from the start line and with some luck I managed to get him jump first three jumps correctly. After A-frame appeart some sniffing once again. I beleave my guidance was late. After closed tunnel were sniffing and after it Lenni shanged guiding hand. We made beautiful runing contact to dogwalk (what was not good becouse it doesn't follow our home training). The track was disqulified to wrong track. And most of the problems were my coused by my panicing in track.

The jump course went better. Four times bar almost droped. Weaving we made from long way. Lenni run about 1 meter after first pole, without making mistake. The final result was 0.09 overtime. So if the rules to national championships are same than last year it is another qualification zero (result under 0.99). There were over 50 competitors and we were 9.
Video

Other news: I haven't have so much time lately. Suddenly we have three beagles. Next saturday we will have another beagle in our pack. Because of changed life situation 1.5 years old beagle boy Ressu (=Snoopy) was looking for new home. He will be here a one weeks test period. I don´t know how this happened becouse we were not looking for another dog for while.

What is going on?

2008-10-21T14:03:00.003+03:00

I have been taking contact training two times a week with Lenni and Vekku.

Lenni: I can already jog or even run before or next to it. If I leave behind and I run pass him on down run Lenni jumps over the contact. The positive aspect is that it waits me on down run if I slow down.

Vekku: Our ADHD. It is just so full of life. We have trained now 6 times. First fiwe times we have started from scratch. Dog standing two-on-two-off position and from it *click* and treat. Then from down-run to same position and lot of treats (with the *click*). And thats all we have done. Today it suprised us by offering correctly performed dogrun. And it did it multiple times. It was hard to stop training but enough is enough at once. I would love to hear training tips for dogs witch don't have capacity to consentrate properly. It is not typical beagle and I don´t have any friends that could help me. I am so lost with Vekku's training. (And so many times I have just given up with it)

We had a agility course in Riihimäki with Lenni saturday. The couch was Jari Suomela (he was in Finish medi team in ACW this year). I had a beagle, wich was leaded from the nose. And after a while I realised it was using me as treat machine. We didn't get much out of the course becouse of Lenni's not so usual working on the track. I think it needs to go fysiotherapy. It have been over six months than we have last time been in fysiotherapy.

Lenni has next competions on sunday. I have autum vacation from school so I have time to figure out some problem areas.

Some training news

2008-10-05T22:53:00.004+03:00

I am still so overwhelmed of the Agility world championships. It reminded me how much I still have to learn and teach to Lenni (and Vekku). Unfortunately there where no beagles but so many great tracks with different breeds.

It was clear that you need to get your dog to understand every obstacle and how to work on them independend.

We have trained dogwalk in my backyard with both of my dogs. Remind me that with the next dog DON´T teach the dog do the obstacle same time with you. It is hard work to get Lenni do the dogwalk intependently. The problem is at the moment if I have speed -> Lenni jumps down before the contact area. If I walk it stays and waits for me and takes the contacts. The problem is I don't have time to walk in tracks If we want get in time.

What we have done:
My friend has cliker and she waits on the down contact. She clikcs when Lenni comes and stays in two-on-two-off position. At this moment I can walk rapidly next to Lenni and go forward couple meters and it stays on contact. If I stay behind Lenni doesn´t go to contact area before me. I can't take only the down run becouse Lenni knows the difference between downrun and obstacle and doesn´t behave same on them. We are going to have more practise times than once a week nowon. First we just try to get Lenni stay on contact what ever speed I go. Then we need to find out how I can go where ever I want and it stays on contact.

Then Vekku... what should I say. Becouse most of the readers don't know the personality It might bee a point to tell some backround. Vekku just don't have time to think is the shortest version. And when you teach him something it makes same time so meny things that it don´t usually know what he was rewarded for. It is easily affected every where else than agility track. After four years agility training he basicly doesn´t know almost anything. (Don´t ask how we did get in class2, lucky I guess.) We just compete and train for fun. It was a dog without patience since it had fourth birthday. Now the patience visits some times and we have some success with teaching. It just loves anything and everything.

Vekkus dogrun training: We took mostly the down run and clicked two-on-two-off from position. Problem is that when you get front paws to ground and clicked the whole dog is off the contact. When trying to get him offer something the reaktion is "What, what, what, I don't understand, give me the snack, give me the snack". I am so proud that it was patience enough to do what asked couple of times. And that was all we wanted.

Little better day in tracks

2008-09-21T19:29:00.002+03:00

We had two trials with Lenni today. And we got overtime 5 from both of them. Both tracks were judged by Kari Jalonen.

Agility course:
Lenni was little bit slower than normal. The mistake in track was from entering weave poles (5 points). I just waved my hand towards them but not showing the start point. Another "mistake" was once again Lenni changed leading hand to another middle of the track. Good things from the track was that dogwalks down contact was exelent.

Result 14. /14,75
(9,75 over time and 5 from track )

Jump Course:
Lenni was still little bit slow (not so bad as in first track). I have to admit also the handler wasn't in her best movment. We got 5 points before tunnel becouse I started to cross behind too early. Lenni turned around to see what I am doing.

Result 10. /9,14
(4,14 over time and 5 from track)

Absolutely positeve from today I remembered to mainly to take the dog with me in crosses. Dog walk! And I realised some traps from the course.

News from the recent tracks

2008-09-21T00:36:00.002+03:00

Shortly my handling sucks. (with Lenni)

Sunday in Nokia we got from the first one 5 from refusal. I was too busy in crossing turn that I forget to take the dog with me. (btw. tracks are in http://www.youtube.com/user/TWa76 )
Second track some beagle ears were needed (jump course). We were disqulified from second jump becouse steeling in start. In the end of the track he just went streight. Okay, I did move too much front.

Today we were competin in Tampere. Timetable was over hour late when we arriwed to competion place. First track Lenni once again stealed from start. (5 from refusal) Dog walk is still problem this time I tried to calm down the going. Lenni stopped to the down run. Looked at me and when I moved little he made long jump over the contact area and jumped over wrong jump bothways.

Second run was so late that there was dark on field. Lenni ran four times to my legs (it doesn´t do that normaly) and we got off-course in tunnel. Darkness and black clothes dont go for us.
The positive aspect on the course: we maded the dog walks contacts clean! Once again I calmed down my movment during the obstacle. And in down run I didn´t move before Lenni was in contatc area.

Tomorrow we have two runs in Tampere. I hope it goes better than today.

Four starts in Nokia

2008-09-14T09:29:00.002+03:00

Yesterday we were compiting in two courses in Nokia.

Positive features of the day were no sniffing and Lenni had more speed than usually. Negative was that I was not able to direct him right and dogwalks down contact is once again history.

First track: disqulified after A-frame. Reason: track planned badly. Lenni was too much forward to be guided correct side to the jump.

Second track: disqulified in jumps middle of track. Reason: I was admiering how beautifuly Lenni goes away off me and forget to take him with me to the next jump.

There was also a puppy beagle. It was a tourist and the familys poodle was compiting. They were going to start teaching agility to it next summer. Great to have more beagles in this activity.

Now we are going to take some back yard contact treining and hoping that it helps before todays starts.

Not so good weekend

2008-08-08T17:23:00.002+03:00

When do I learn. If you work same day do not compete.

Saturday:
We had two competitions with Vekku. First one was disqualified because dog was out of the ring middle of the track. My fault. I couldn´t keep motivation up before start. (unsheduled pause just when we were goiing to the track).

Second track was clean run with some overtime. Problem was once again speed. It is hard to go when you need to lure your dog to move all the time.

Sunday:
We had three competions with Lenni. Lennis biggest problem was overeating day before morning. I choose to compete with him becouse he seemed to be normal. (How wrong was I).
First track was jump course. Sniffing, sniffing and more sniffing. 10 points from course and overtime.

Second run. Sniffing... around second jump and jumping it wrong way. I tryed to go rest of the track but after wall I picked up the dog and walked away from the course. Judge had fun when Lenni protested the leave whit low growling.

Third run. End part of the track was normal going. We were judged two contact mistakes from sewsaw and dogwalk. And one 5 points from the weaves becouse sniffing middle of it. Overtime run.

Beagles Lenni and Ressu

Great news

Mom and mom's old habits

Aroo!

Ressu's agility competion

A little brag!

Still alive

Healthy agility?

No competions after all

Competing again and training

Big agility breed happening in Finland

Ressu beagles first competion

Still alive

Mom and her camera

Forgetful mom! I had birthday 7th April

Learning agility (Guide: How to trick your handler!)

Happy Birthday Lenni! (9 years)

No more snow please!

Lennis retirement from competions and shows

Catching up once again

A weekend in Eckerö, Åland

Years first agility competions (with Lenni)

Waiting for the year 2010

New camera

X-mas

Playing with clicker

News from us

Beagle - human with clicker

Weekends competions

Agility weekend

Beagle in agility? Mission imposible?

On the winner's rostrum

Human kid birthdays!

End of the vacation season

Coaching beagle in agility with clicker

Up to date

Back from vacation and accident

Showtime

Pictures from Finnish Agility Championships

National championships :)

Jump training

Nagging mom!

To the national championship contest?

Updated pages and awards etc.

Vekku has a new home

Just need to speak out

Ressu : 2 years

Beware if you visit nigthover in beagle house!

GOSSIP!

Back on track

Boredom

Two overtime tracks

Three competions, one "cleanrun" closer to goal

Eight years of beagle life

Hi, from Winter vacation

Updating...

Newest agilityvideos

Clever or not? Decide your self... Living with a beagle

Agility training

*sight* mum needs to get control of her self

Now I know what is Furminator

Missing the handling routine

When the handler just doesn't work correctly

How compact is a beagle?

X-mas

Crazy X-mas

"Old" beagles are just too serious

Officially new member of the family

Up to date once again

Clean run in jump course and panic in agility track

What is going on?

Some training news

Little better day in tracks

News from the recent tracks

Four starts in Nokia

Not so good weekend

sight mum needs to get control of her self