My Australian Shepherd, Teco deserves a reward, since he achieved excelent in Class II of the 3º Obedience Trophy organized by Doggy Clube and accomplished 1º place in his class.
On this weekend took place the VI Animal Show, on Jardim Almeida Garrett, in Portela (Loures).
These initiatives are created with the goal to promote and educate the population in their relation with their pets.
Since the dog is the pet more adopted by the families has their 4 leg companion, it is on him that this kind of events is more focus.
Pedro Araújo of Doggy Clube presented by João Sá, of the Os Cãogurus, the school that organized the event
As such, in this event, several schools, associations and other entities were represented and it was possible to watch a demonstration of physical therapy and its benefits organized by the Monte dos Vendavais, watch a demonstration of obedience organized by Os Cãogurus, where the Obedience National Champion made a demo temperate by a Frisbee game, and watch a agility demonstration also organized by the school Os Cãogurus.
João Sá of Os Cãogurus presents Pedro Araújo of Doggy Clube in a very excitement demo of Obedience and Frisbee
Other initiatives, like adoption of animals, interaction with animal, like rabbits, ponies and horses (made available by Escola Profissional Agrícola D. DINIS - Paiã), were also available to the visitors.
Me and my sun, as members of the team Os Cãogurus, couldn’t have ceased to be at this event to help represent the school.
For my sun it was a very positive experience, because, until now, no working or showing attitude was requested to him as a representative of his work with Bianca, his Golden Retriever.
My sun and Bianca, his Golden Retriever, in the Agility demonstration
Of course, not all was gold, since as a child, he was extremely exited with the games that were available for the kids in the event, or he was exited with riding the horse and ponies, or he was exited with the other animals like rabbits, or … So it was difficult for him to calm down and focus on the important task of represent the club and some exercises were forgotten (I hope the master wasn’t to mad).
Teco, Bianca, my sun and a little friend
But to be fair, Bianca in her Golden Retrievernature and in the middle of much pamper from the children also forgets to turn off the “pamper” mode and turn on the “working” mode, so she doesn’t focus on the demanding tasks (yes a lot of patience is required) and so adding the Bianca excitement with my sun excitement we got ...
Well, but his mother wasn’t exactly perfect and she is older and experience.
It is never easy to work with dogs in a middle of a crowd and with extra distractions like smells, other animals and females in that “hiper appealing” phase, is lesser easier. So in the obedience demo, me and Teco, my Australian Shepherd, on the first day wasn’t so bad, but on the 2º day he wasn’t foul by the tasty rewards and the “hiper appealing” colleague odour attract him (I thought in placing a nose mask) and his work was far from good (oh, well, now the master can shoot us).
At this stage I thought that Angel, my Australian Shepherd, would save our good name and represent us in a glorious manner … but or her owner, like a crooked head she sometimes is, got wrong in leading, or the distractions were so many that we couldn’t got the slalom right, witch left us frustrated and very sad.
Well, we went, make our presence, showed will and tried to shine ... only it was a very low fainted shine ... << sigh >>
Pedro Araújo of Doggy Clube in a very excitement demo of Obedience and Frisbee
Anyway it was always a learning experience and we only have to thank our presence to the school Os Cãogurus and to the organization by Câmara Municipal de Loures.
This weekend, me and Teco, went to the Obedience Competition Seminar lecture by Mads Moller and organized by Doggy Club.
All organization and event was very well organized and we must give congratulations to Pedro Araújo for the warm welcome and personal assistance.
For someone that wishes to improve the performance in Obedience Competitions, achieve higher scores and know the best way to teach the dogs in this modality, it was precious and excellent seminar.
Personally I left with a clear goal and clear training method for my Obedience dogs and this was quite an achievement for me, since I was quite confused in how to proper train my dogs.
Of course I give a very special thanks to Mr. Moller that shares the some admiration and joy to handle and work with dogs and specially dogs from the breed Australian Shepherd and Border Collie.
We compete in class I, also known as COB – Basic Obedience Certificate and Cookie, achieved Excellent, witch will allow us to proceed to the next level.
Yesterday, at 26 of October, I and Teco went with the team of CIC Lagos to our first Obedience Competition.
We compete on class I, also known as COB – Certificate of Basic Obedience, and acomplished Excelent in the end wich will allows to proceed to the next level.
So I think after a long trip of more then 300 km, 3 hours drive, more then 5 hours waiting to get in, Teco deserves a big big hug, kisses and praize to accomplish such a good score.
