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. 

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.

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 6

Jump through a hoop!!

Again I used a tug toy to get Leia enthousiastic, and a lot of praise aswell.

Jumping through a hoop can be intimidating for dogs, so first lure your dog through when you just hold the hoop up. Don't put any height on it.

After some great repetitions, you can slowly increase heigt, keep encouraging an praising, and if they get a bit scared, just lower the hoop again.

If you are enthousiastic and encouraging, this trick will be no problem

Tomorrow another video for you! 

Fitness with Leia day 3

Passive range of motion.

This can be a little bit harder for some dogs, because some don't like to be touched on their feet.

Leia also tought this was a bit weird.

This exercise is very relaxing, you manually rotate the limbs of your dog through their complete range of motion.

Don't just pull and jerk on limbs, that will only cause damage, but slow movement is really relaxing for the dog.

This video is rather long and if you like to know more about this exercise I suggest looking through the site and look for the stretching video of Scarlett.

Tomorrow we have a bit more action again

Fitness with Leia day 2

Day 2, are you ready. Leia defenitly is.

Today is Bar jump. 

We do have a lot of equiptment, but buckets and a broom will work just as well.

Begin with the bar on the ground, encourage your dog and praise when he get's over de bar. (and give a treat or toy)

Then slowly start raising the bar, and when they jump over, praise and treat!! This should not be so hard.

When I have a cookie Leia does this pretty well, but if I have her favorite tug toy, she performs even better.

Will you check back tomorrow for another exercise??

Fitness with Leia

Now we had our pictures with the fountains, I wanted to show you some training with Leia.

I hoped by now there would be some dogshows, but things are looking, well, not to positive.

But we keep positive!!!

Leia and I have been working on our Fitness title.

Star has all her fitness title's and we are working on our fitness champion title, and Scarlett also has her fitness title level 1. (CCF1)

As a coach I wanted to motivate the students to get active with their dog, and as an extra motivater I did all the exersices with Leia.

And as I now have all the video's I'd like to show you the video's aswell 

If you like to join, you are welcome, and if you like to get a title, just contact us and I'm glad to help out.

Here is the first video.

This is a substitution for walking on a treadmill. I do have a treadmill, and we use it very often, but I find it also very important to walk the dogs outside, next to my bike, or next to the step scooter.

Jogging is also very nice.

Leia has been running next to my step scooter for a few weeks now. We slowly build up the km's. Currently we are not even up to 1km. For me it is the most important to get her moving correctly.

Check back tomorrow for a next fitness video

 

On the move

Here is another on the move video, and this one is a recent one.

We made this last sunday, the wheater was great so we went to our local sportlocation.

Unfortunatly they just mowed so there was a lot of loose grass.

It was a bit funny because Leia tried to snitch the grass while gaiting, so a lot of footage had to be edited from the video.

And because of that we needed to re-start again and again, making me more tired.

I am a runner, but running at a speed that the dog is gaiting nicely is very different from jogging.

I hope you like this video of Leia, she is 11 months in this clip! 

               

Tricks on tuesday Vivien has her Novice title

And another Novice tricktitle for one of our dogs

This time was Vivien's turn

She is extreme energetic and sometimes super hard to train.

She loooooovvveeeesss to work, but out of her enthousiasm she doesn't know what she is doing.

So I was actually very surprised what we both could do!!!

Enjoy her video below.

And if you are exited yourself, just hop to Facebook, and check out Lucky pink paws trick dog spark team and earn your title

In 3 to 4 weeks you can get a title.

 
                   

Fountains in Fryslân

Last week was Harlingen, this week is Workum

This one is called "de Woeste Leeuwen van Workum" 

Personally, from the pictures I found this one not really pretty, to be honoust I tought he is hideous.

But in real life, well ok, not my favourite, but not that ugly as I thought from the pictures

It is really a high one and the water will come out at different speeds, from their paws.

Workum is a coast city so like Harlingen it was very very windy, and that made the water of fountain blowing on our backs.

I don't think Leia was impressed by this huge masterpiece, she was more interested in her cookies.

shake hands 

Fountains in Fryslân

Last week, we went to Bolsward and to Harns (Harlingen) to take a picture with Leia

and a fountain that was placed for the capital city of Europe 2018

Leeuwarden was capital city and all 11 cities in our Province got a fountain.

The fountain in Harlingen is a huge whale, and it will blow water every now and then.

I was told it will blow water at rhithem of the breathing of a whale.

We could not get really close to it. 

But we could get a nice shot of the fountain with Leia and me.

It was superwindy and really cold with the water.

When we took our picture the fountain started to blow water, and it is pretty cool it sounds like a whale too.

Super super windy

Posing with a buoy @ harbour in Harlingen

Fit dog friday square challenge

Here is a nice challenge for both you and your dog.

I'm always looking for fun stuff to do.

So last year I came across fitness with Fido.

Emmy has done a lot of challenges with me, 

doing fitness with your dog is really fun.

And doing fitness with Emmy is double fun

The square challenge was a nice challenge where the person needed to do a jump squat

and then jump in a square patten.

Then later you had to make sure your dog did a sidestep and backing up, in a square pattern.

Emmy has this weird behaviour of getting on her back to get cuddled in the middle of all kinds of sessions

She can do this is training, or in recall, and she does it also when we do fitness.

Here is the video of the square challenge, try it yourselve, it is a pretty nice workout for both.

Tricks on tuesday Roll over.

Still no dogshows, but always active!!!!

This week I like to show you how I teach a roll over.
I did post this video as an instructional video for my trick training group, but I really

like to share it here on the website.

I'm still not a great speaker to a camera, it feels really awkward, but I will get better.

So If I'm not explaining it super, I'm sorry.

Enjoy the video I made with Vivien,  and maybe you will even try to do a roll over yourselve!

Fountains in Fryslân

No dogshows................
Leia is in junior class now, and it looks not like there will be any dogshow soon.
We sure hope she will be in the ring when she is still young enough to compeat for a junior title

She was also in the competition "Mooiste hond van Nederland" that competition is also postponed and we don't know if the actual Animal Event will be held.

Leia is now a Novice trick dog, that is the only thing we can do from our home.

But in 2018 Ljouwert was capital city of Europe! And because of that there where placed 11 fountains in our Province Fryslân.
So to show of Leia a little bit, I try to take a picture of Leia with the fountains.

This one is "de Vleermuis" in Boalsert (Bolsward) Vleermuis is dutch for Bat
It is also the closest to where we live

We took pictures with this fountain last year also, when Leia was just a tiny baby puppy and her brother Asterix was still living with us.