Update

 Again a long delayed update

Since Scarlett's passing we did a couple of cool things.

Anna got Belgian veteran champion, and Judy got her first points towards the Belgian veteran title aswell

We went to Antwerpen in the beginning of April
Judy gained excellent 1 best veteran of the breed and Best opposite from judge mr K Young (UK)
Anna gained excellent 1 best veteran of the breed from judge Mrs M Vermeire (BE)

We have been showing in the easter weekend for a full 3 days

Saturday began in Goes with Judy gaining Excellent 1 res-CAC from Mr Beare (Irl)
Sunday we had a younsters and veteran show in Herent Belgium where Judy got Excellent 1 best veteran of the breed and 3rd best veteran of FCI group 1
Anna became exellent 1 best opposite and best veteran of the breed and best veteran of FCI group 10 from mr J Decuyper (BE)
And then on monday we drove back again to Goes where Anna was shown exellent 1 best veteran of the breed by Mrs Beare (Irl)

At the moment Star is working towards several trick and animal acting titles, so we hope to have great news soon from her.

Also I try to make up a nice website of our Glamourace Collies alongside this blog, but it is still in the making.

Sadly no pictures as our memory card is damaged and all taken pictures are gone.

Very Very long delay in updates

 I'm so sorry for the very long delay in updating.

I think I said it a before, but I will try to get some news on this page more often.

We had loads of things going on.

I will start with Vivien, she became Dutch Champion, Dutch Veteran Champion and Belgium Veteran Champion at the end of 2021, we are very proud of these resuls.

Anna became a Veteran Champion in the Netherlands aswell. And she became one of the first dogs to win a Grand Champion title in the Netherlands
This is a title that is awarded to dogs who got a Junior title and a Dutch Champion title and a Veteran title
The Grand Champion is introduced in 2021 so we are really exited Anna is one of the first dogs to get it.

Judy managed to get her Dutch Champion title and her Dutch veteran title in februari this year, so that was an amazing result to start the year with.

We did a lot of trick training, and all of our dogs now earned 1 or more tricktitles to their names.
Star even got her level 1 in animal acting.

We also had sad news.
Februari 4th we celebrated Scarlett's birthday with cake! 1 week later she got her Summer Scavenger hunt trick title, and 2 weeks after getting her great title (february 25th)  she died of old age.
We are ofcoarse very sad, but we also know she had a great life. 

We are so gratefull that Irene Snow of Cornerstone collies let her life with us, she was a wonderful companion, a great friend, a nice mom, an even better grandma, an amazing kids lover and so much more.

Scarlett on her 13th birthday

Delayed update with loads of happy news

 Finally finally,

it seems facebook is an easier way to just quickly share the news of shows, however, I tend to display a lot on my personal facebook, and I do not accept everyone on it.

So here a long delayed update,

Shows are gradually making it's way into our lives, and we are super blessed to be in the position to make a lot of them.

Here some awsome results by Vivien
She gained excellent 1 best veteran of the breed, and best of breed, in Itteren and best veteran in Show (judge Puts and Marijnisen)
In Geraardsbergen she got Excellent 1 best veteran of the breed, and best of breed (judge mr Wulteputte)
In Antwerpen she got excellent 1 best veteran of the breed and selected in the mainring with the last 6 (judge ms Lawless and mr Vandenbosch)
In Gorinchem she got excellent 1 best veteran of the breed (judge ms Ricky Lochs-Romans)
And yesterday in Genk, she did an amazing job by getting another excellent 1 best veteran of the breed and in the mainring, on the podium getting BIS2 veteran (judge ms Kelveri-Phillipou and ms Vivianne Boesmans)

She is now Dutch veteran Champion, and Dutch Champion!!!!

Anna also went to some shows
In Itteren she became excl 1 Best veteran of the breed and best of breed BIG, and BIS3!!! (Judges ms Marijnissen and in the mainring all attending judges)
In Geraardsbergen excellent 1 best veteran of the breed and best of breed (judge mr Wulteputte)
Zwolle she got excellent 1 reserve-cac and best veteran of the breed (judge ms Vermeire)

Judy started her Veteran carreer in Zwolle by gaining excellent 1 best veteran of the breed (judge van Veen-Keur)

Lucky has been to Antwerpen and got excellent 2 reserve-CACIB (judge ms Lawless)

And Star has now been showed twice, 
She gained excellent 1 CACIB in Antwerpen (judge ms Lawless)
And in Genk she gained excellent 1 res-CACIB (Judge ms Kelveri-Phillipou)

Also we had a great braceclass selection in Antwerpen, even though Lucky was in love with Star who was in season (and I tought I would manage with only a spray under Star's tail) they got selected within the last 6 braces in show.

First CAC show in 2021 with great results

 Finally after 10 months, we had a dogshow! Outdoor Zeeland And finally a show update on the webpage!

We did super.

Anna was shown on saturday exl 1 veteran-cac

judged by mr Jos De Cuyper

And sunday we showed Leia and Vivien.

I was terribly nervous because Leia has been only shown 3/4? times. ( she had hardly any training at all)

She did amazing getting exl 1 res-cac

And Vivien wow, exl 1 CAC veteran-cac and BOB!!!

just a few days shy of her 9th birthday, and she really blew my mind,

Thanks to judge mr Hans van den Berg

Super nice athmosphere at the dogshow, superfriendly people at the organisation, I'm so happy to be in the ring again.

Update after a long while

 We are still going strong.
And still staying home sort of. As you probably know we are doing many virtual titles. So we train tricks at home, and put them on video in order to get a working title!

Super many fun. With Lucky I do virtual runs/walks. After his condition in januari I was very scared to do anything with him, and I know the vet approved he can do fitness and running like before, it is sometimes scary.

So we don't do runs, but we do walks/speedwalks instead.
We did the do more with your dog 2 k9 speedwalk, and we did the virtual Grand Canyon, so we had 2 beautfifull medals and a great certificate!

We are now in the middle of a virtual Kruger Park race, and there is still a Bob Ross happy little 5k medal in the mail.

So we are not at the dogshows, but still very active.

Star's new trick titles

 We have been pretty silent over here, well, no shows, is not so much news. We are as always pretty active with training and such.

As I'm a tricktrainer (now All Star of the year) I do have to make inspirational video's, so we have been doing an Alphabet trick challenge, and a 20 tricks with 1 prop.

With the ABC we needed to come up with a trick for every letter of the alphabet, and for the 1 prop 20 tricks, we choose to do 20 tricks with cavaletti's

We had super much fun, and ofcourse I'm still training with Anna, my goal is that she will have a trick title too!

Here's Stars prop challenge video!

And for everyone who is curious about the health of Lucky and Scarlett, they both are doing great, both are living their life as if nothing happened, so we are super glad about that. 

Our borzoi Anna is training for a trick title

 So we are still in Lockdown, stuff is getting more boring every single day. However we still try to do fun stuff. All our collies have a trick title now, and Anna doesn't have one.

Borzois are not easy to train, they are super smart, only they will work if they think there is some personal gain.

We started a youtube vlog and an instagram page for Anna, because that will keep me accountable, people know me for training collies, and I did have many successes with the collies, and now I like to train with Anna.

You can follow her on instagram https://www.instagram.com/barsoi_anna/

And I have her vlog on youtube, her first video is up today!!

2021 it started a bit weird, but we are ok now!

We did have a very intersting start of 2021

Before the new year Lucky was not really enjoying his meals, but hey, he is a boy and if there are females in season that is normal.

But a few days in January he was still not feeling well, I looked at him, he looked sad, he looked lethargic. His belly was swollen, he had diarea. I went to the vet (ofcoarse I had a different vet as my regular because that is what always happens to me)

She checked his belly and it was extremely full of gas, no doubt why he wouldn't eat, he got a few shots a few pills and he should be OK in 2 days, and his stools had to be OK after the weekend.

2 days later I looked at him, he was breathing heavily he looked sad again (he felt pretty ok 1 day after treatment) I was not sure so I called the vet again. After explaining she told me to come. His belly did not feel really blown up, but she decided to do an echo.

Not good, there was fluid in his belly and she told me she could take the fluid and check it, only she could probably not do anything from the checks, so she called a specialist and 3 hours later I was in Roden.

Check, check, check, he looked OK but he did not behave like my Lucky.

Echo for Lucky, did not look bad, but why was he behaving so sick. The next vet came in and she instantly said, "have you checked on his heart" well not yet. I was so happy this vet was a heart specialist, so more shaving under his belly, and OMG, loads of fluid around his heart.

My own heart started racing, I was so shocked, again I took action at the right time, 1 day later, and Lucky would be gone.

So fluids around his heart, before I knew they had to tell me, we are going to put a needle towards his heart to get the fluids out. It almost never goes wrong, but we are going to put a needle close to his heart.

There was no choice of course, so there I was, holding his head, giving him kisses through my mask.

A lot of fluids where drained out and we got pills, I was also very worried because what if it is something comes with my breeding, or maybe his brothers and sisters will also get this.

They assured me this was nothing that was from my breeding and it was not likely any one of his relatives would become this.

So now 1,5 week ahead. Today I went for a check up, Lucky was so happy he greeted the vet with enthusiasm, echo again and nothing to see, his heart looks like it should!!!!!!

No reason to panic anymore. Most likely he had the biggest case of bad luck ever, what it was exactly we will never know. It can come again, it can never come again, it can come in a few years we just don't know.

What I do know is that he is happy now, his heart is super now, he loves his food, we can go loose lead walking he is allowed to enjoy his life and do tricks and fitness.

This is again a great reminder to enjoy every day, there is always something to be grateful for, I was so shocked when this happened but later that day I said to myself I'm grateful I saw he was not OK, I'm grateful I took him to a vet and I'm grateful for the people who helped him.

Christmas update

 I hope you all are staying healthy,
Christmas is around the corner, and we are making sure our dogs are being totally fine with the things that happen around the house.

Non of our dogs seem to have problems with the tree and decorations. We do loads of fun games and involve Christmas decorations with our games.

I just wanted to share this with you all, as we do not really have lots of things going on. We do our training/games and we have our snuggles and walks, but we sure look forward to some conformation shows.

In the meantime please stay healthy.

Glamourace Collies Princess Leia

 Finally a page for Glamourace Collies Princess Leia
pet name Leia
DOB juli 3th 2019

Rawenclaw Black Illustion of Kingly Shine x AKC ch. Highcroft summer Embrace

Due to Corona crisis Leia has been shown very very little
Her only real succes was best puppy in show (at her first show)
a few times best puppy of the breed, and a Best opposite.

We did have the time to get her a Novice and intermediate trick title and level 1 fitness
She was awarded 1st in our area for Most prettiest dog of the Netherlands (photocompetition)

We are working towards an awsome 2021 with her

Mid november update

 Still no dogshows, we don't really get used to it, but it is what it is.

We started with some tricktraining with Judy, nothing to fancy, and we are not putting an enddate on the title. Scarlett is doing very very well.
We shot a little video that shows her movement at this moment, and I'm happy she is able to move like this at the age of 11 years and 9 months.

We took some pictures with Leia, only the weather was a bit windy so hair and ears where flying all over.
Still they are pretty nice so I'm putting a few of them here anyway.

I hope you all stay healthy and happy, and I will try update soon again! 

Quick update

 No updates is such a long time.

I'm so sorry.

We are doing great here at Glamourace Collies.

Tricks and Fitness are now our current main goals.

We did participate in some online dog shows and Lucky gained a Best of Breed that way, but it is not the real deal.

Scarlett had a pyometra so 15 days ago she had surgery, but all is looking fab.

She is happy and healty again.

Since we went into this corona period, Star gained level 3, and 4 in Canine fitness, and Canine Fitness Champion, she is the first rough collie Ever!! to get this title.

She also gained her advanced and expert trick title.

Emmy, Vivien and Scarlett!!!!! gained their novice trick titles.

Leia got Fitness level 1, and trickdog novice and intermediat.

Emmy won in a photocontest!

Leia was nr 1 in the competition "Mooiste hond van Nederland 2020" for our area Sudwest-Fryslân.

Judy did an online fitness challenge called ob-STAY-cle.

We cannot wait for things to go more normal and to be in the showring again, but for now we are trying to keep happy and healthy and just do lots of fun training.

Fitness Champion

 We are super proud to say that Star got her Fitness Championship title

And she is the first rough collie to get awarded this title by Do More With Your Dog.

She needed to complete a list of exercises and we needed to video that, then we could send it in for assesement and after that, she passed.
We are super exited by this new title, as it is very new, so we did not have a lot of video's we could watch from other  people and their dogs

Here are the video's of Star who is now officially a Do more with your dog Fitness Champion!!!

And her pictures, the ribbon is so pretty, and if you like to get the titles yourselve got to the Canine Fitness and Tricktitles page on this website

Show update!!!!! Heteren, Teteringen and Maastricht

 Finally we had some dogshows!

Last week we had the Borzoi championship show, and we showed Anna, in championclass, she gained an excellent 3 from judge ms Regina Tromp-Pruijn

One day later we had a very small outdoor clubshow

We entered Leia and Anna.

Ofcourse it was a little bit exiting doing shows in Corona time, but it went all well, everyone wearing masks and a lot of space

Leia was entered in Juniorclass and got excellent 1 BOS!!!!! And that for her first show in juniors, Anna did even better by getting excellent 1 BOB, and later on BIG2, Thanks to judge mr Jan Coppens.

Picture by Clemens Bosman

And then yesterday we had International dogshow Maastricht.

All corona proof, temperature check at the door, we all wore masks our judge a face shield. We where not allowed entering to early and we had to be out of the building after judging and a bit of shopping (If needed)
We had a few talks but not to much, we made sure our dogs where ok and be as short time as possible in the building. I do think dogshow Maastricht did a very amazing job organizing this event!

This was for Leia the first time on a big show in junior class, and as it looks now, it is possibly the last one in a big building for a long while.

Leia got Excellent 2 in junior class.
Vivien was also entered, for the first time in Veteran class, and oh my, she did a super job, she actually outmoved all the other dogs, she performed beautifull.
She got rewarden Excellent 1 Best Veteran of the Breed and has her first veteran championship point

Judge was Ms Roel van Veen-Keur.

I was so happy to be in the ring again, and so where the dogs. 

Fitness with Leia day 14

The last day

I hope you liked the video's, and I hope you liked watching what we do on a normal base with our dogs.

All our collies and borzoi are doing those exercises, and not all in order, and not all to get a title, but we like being active with our dogs.

This last one is crawl tunnel,

And I made Leia crawl under 2 chairs, I encouraged her with cookies and praise 

Lots of dogs find it very weird going under something so  this can take a while before they get the hang of it.

Leia also wasn't doing this in 1 practice.

Maybe you get interested in training fitness with your dog aswell, on facebook I have my spark team

Lucky pink paws   you can go there and get more info on getting a fitness title.

It is a lot of fun, and it is really great for bonding with your dog.

I'm very proud that my furry friends are so easy with exercise and video taking.

Fitness with Leia day 13

We are almost done with all the exercises towards Do more with your dog Fitness level 1

Only 2 exercises

Today we have fitbones

I used all my low inflatables for this.

Cushions and pillows will also work.

Let your dog walk over it in a slow manner.

Put your equiptment in different patterns to make the exercise more difficult

Tomorrow is the last day............

Fitness with Leia day 12

Walk a line of platforms.

I'm a lucky girl, because my dad made 2 platforms for me, but when I did my exercises with Star I did not have these pieces of equiptment.

So I used chairs.

Now I used 2 chairs and my 2 platforms.

Leia is not afraid to go over the platforms, but that is because we did so much exercises in the whelping box, so this was very easy to train.

I placed my platforms in a way that she needed to think on the landing, but close enough that she would not make any weird jumping, the exercise is called Walk a line of platforms, not jump.

I lured with a cookie, and she was going great.

I hope you are all still liking this and following 

see you tomorrow 

Fitness with Leia day 11

Ladder work.

Use a regular ladder, or a fancy rainbow ladder, or cavaletti's. Even can's with brooms will do the job.

Make sure your dog goes over the rungs, in a nice even way.

As you can see, Leia needs to really lift her paws, so this works her muscless, and she has to think about where she places her feet.

Ofcourse make sure you praise your dog as he goes over the rungs.

We are almost finished with our exercises for CCF1

Tomorrow again a video 

Fitness with Leia day 10

This exercise is scattered sticks.

Get your cavalleti sticks, brooms, other sticks, hoops what ever you can find,

just place it on the floor, no need for a pattern.

This makes the dog think on where he needs to put his paws.

Leia thinks this is pretty easy, 

Are you checking back tomorrow? 

Fitness with Leia day 9

Today is wall stand,

So your dog needs to stand against the wall, this is real great for the back end of the dog.

I lured Leia up, by putting a little treat in front of her nose, and then very slowly move it higher until she needed to come up and lean against the wall.

This can be a bit weird at first but if you keep calm, and keep encouraging with a cookie and a happy voice, your dog will do this in the first session of training!

Tomorrow another video