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Other hobbies
Dog shows aren't our only hobby, not even close. Likita is specialized doing tricks and agility, Ifa does... both of those and everything else possible too.
Likita knows at least following tricks:
- giving paw
- turning 360 degrees around
- sitting like a squirrel (pic)
- jumping to my lap when I'm standing
- to bow
- walk on her hind legs
- jump (she jumps somewhat HIGH, pic)
- weave under/between my legs (pic)
- go round a cone (pic)
and she's learning to close doors and point me fingers. Likita loves agility. We have been training agility on several courses. She loves especially big obstacles where she can run FAST, like A-frame and dogwalk. We have participated one unofficial agility competition and well... it didn't went like expected but hey - there's only one way and it's up! Likita decided the tunnel is a terrible thing, can't go there so decided to entertain the audience. She for example jumped ON the tunnel instead of running through it. In addition to that the audience got double fun when Ifa did the exactly same after Likita. You can see our terrible competition videos here:
Ifa is my little multi-purpose dog. We're doing obedience, rally obedience, agility, Ifa is studying sledding, we go cycling together, we're doing dobo which is basically dog's gym ball training, Ifa has her own backbag she likes to carry and so on. Ifa barely knows any tricks that Likita does. To follow Ifa's training I've made her an own training blog. Unfortunately it's available only in Finnish.
We (me & Ifa) have been competing in both obedience and rally obedience competitions. We also run one course on the same unofficial agility competition with Likita. Obedience is like our "main hobby", my biggest dream to succeed in that. Rally obedience is fun for us, not that strict as obedience itself, allowing to have fun in competitions. Agility has been a good hobby for raising Ifa's self-confidence. We are still having issues with few of the obstacles and with base materials of all the training halls.
Our obedience competition results
- Unofficial toy/sweet class 140/160p
- Unofficial toy/sweet class 117/160p
- Unofficial novice class 145,75p, II result
- Unofficial novice class 155p, II result
- Official novice class 151p, II result
- Unofficial novice class 194,5p, I result, place 3/11
- Official novice class 9p suspended
Our rally obedience competition results
- Unofficial novice class 90/100p, place 3/8
- Official novice class 72/100p, result
- Official novice class 88/100p, result
- Official novice class 83/100p, result, RTK1, JF*
RTK1 is kind of a "training title" you(r dog) get(s) after getting accepted result three times. Accepted result is getting 70 or more points. JF means judge's favourite. One dog is always rewarded as a JF within each class.
Our agility competition results
- Unofficial facilitated class 102,50p video