Another sporty shiba stories!
Hi all!
I have been pretty quiet at here for a while but I though I should properly introduce last summers addition to my family.
Last spring I was actually looking for a getting a shikoku and were considering a kai. But then I got this really good offer with this shiba pup and in the end went for shiba again. Mainly because I have been having really bad luck and with this shiba the health questions were looking really good. (Especially comparing to importing from japan. I really appreciate the health screening of parents and family).
We have been doing a lot groundwork for dog sport activities and being a puppy. She have turned out really well at least for now. We have started training obedience tasks and showing stuff. I also plan to start agility with her when she is older. And everything that seems interesting
So here she is:
Navi the 10month old shiba inu.
Here she is with Ganon (my 6years old shiba)
Few pictures from last november:
7month old training showing stuff (she is really good with that, even though I like other doggy sports more)
And of course there has to be atleast one puppy picture
Training recall
Navi has her own blog of her life and training. I put there some obedience instructions too.
Journey of Navi
And here is a short video of training recall, heeling & retrieve.
Not perfect yet but she is only 10months and I think this is looking good to keep training!
Video
I have been pretty quiet at here for a while but I though I should properly introduce last summers addition to my family.
Last spring I was actually looking for a getting a shikoku and were considering a kai. But then I got this really good offer with this shiba pup and in the end went for shiba again. Mainly because I have been having really bad luck and with this shiba the health questions were looking really good. (Especially comparing to importing from japan. I really appreciate the health screening of parents and family).
We have been doing a lot groundwork for dog sport activities and being a puppy. She have turned out really well at least for now. We have started training obedience tasks and showing stuff. I also plan to start agility with her when she is older. And everything that seems interesting
So here she is:
Navi the 10month old shiba inu.
Here she is with Ganon (my 6years old shiba)
Few pictures from last november:
7month old training showing stuff (she is really good with that, even though I like other doggy sports more)
And of course there has to be atleast one puppy picture
Training recall
Navi has her own blog of her life and training. I put there some obedience instructions too.
Journey of Navi
And here is a short video of training recall, heeling & retrieve.
Not perfect yet but she is only 10months and I think this is looking good to keep training!
Video
Comments
Training video is great!
Thats one reason of doing that blog. I hope that I'm able to make more of training videos with her (and Ganon). And finding other people training with their shibas too.
I try to concentrate on more how-to-do rather than can't-do-with-a-shiba.
Thank you Saya!
All the commands are with verbal commands only (no body movement or ques on my part). He went from "sit" to "stand" to "drop" to "sit" again and then I released him and he came forward and I asked him to "drop" again. It is a "moving drop", meaning he "dropped" immediately after I told him while he was in motion coming toward me. He then held his "drop" position under distraction. I threw a string cheese to the side and the cat got it (not intended), so I threw another one closer to him and he still held his "drop/down" position until I gave him the verbal release. No treats were shown to him while he performed and he got the string cheese in the end as reward and verbal praise from me.
I think I will take a look at your blog and try some of your tips with my Hokkaido.
P.S. Ganon is cute, too.
If you have some questions or need more help with something in that blog feel free to ask
Koji looks so happy to work! Lucky cat to get the cheese. Ganon knows those too. But luckily the FCI obedience rules let's you to use voice&hand signal with that exercise (not in others though).
Here is Ganon training them last summer: Training
And here doing then in a practise trial: Distance control
The thing is to get the dog to keep his back legs at the same point. In the first video Ganon moves them switching stand-sit and in the second video a lot more... But Ganon seems to be pretty awesome now that I have Navi who can't do that at all yet :P
Navi has beautiful overall structure and a nice head. cant wait to see her fill out even more.
Navi had her first official dog show a week ago. She did really well and got a good review. She also got her first certificate (CAC) and placed best of breed
Snf
Thanks everyone
Story goes that yesterday was international dog show at rovaniemi.
Navi got best of breed & CAC again. And got second place at Group!!
I was a bit lost when we got picked in top 6 at group judging. I was thinking "and now I do what? Okay others go there and I see what they do and see from that.." Looks like it worked because soon I noticed there is only 4 dogs left. And then placing started. And we werent picked until judge had to decide group winner and it was like there weren't so much difference
But looking great!
I think Navi has grown up now. Right now she is in full coat and her cheeks are huge ;D
Back to what has happened after last update.
We were in the world dog show at the end of the summer but it wasn't very successful. Navi was already over her best coat and lets just say that there were so much competition! It was great to see over hundred shibas in one place from all over the world
We contiuned agility for another short course and it was fun.
http://youtu.be/NQ2JDYN78Rk
Last week thursday I finally decided to ask if they have any free spots in one of local agility clubs and actually someone had decided to leave her spot open that day! So after a long hiatus from agility we started again friday
We also trained a little more obedience at it started to look better. Right now I have some motivation problems with combo obedience+Navi (Navi is motivated. I'm not).
Then I decided to enter Navi one more show before we take a break until she turns 2yo. That show was finnish Voittaja (=winner) show.
She really suprised me by winning all the females and getting the BOS! And a nice title Voittaja-14
Ganon wanted to retrieve my glove
And Navi follows the example
And Ganon handsome also (love him!). Does he do agility, too?
Unfortunately Ganon has really bad hips so no agility with him
Our agility training is improving. We took part in "training-trial" at march. There were no all obstacles so we did great
We actually won this class:
Navi also had her first obedience trial this spring. We got enough points for first prize. Only thing we had problems was sitting on command.. Lol. I'm so happy she didn't have any problems with the trial environment or me being nervous. There is also video of this but it's pretty boring.
Oh. And the most important thing. Navi had her x-rays & health checks done and they are looking really good! Looks like we can keep doing all the things
Eyes: Clear
Knees: 0/0
x-rays:
Hips: B/B
Elbows: 0/0
We also took pictures of the whole back. It has been only a few years possible to get official back results from finnish kennel club. There has not been any problems but I though it's not a bad idea to took them while the dog is already sleeping on the table. And my dogs live a fairly active life.
Results of back:
lumbosacral transitional vertebra: LTV0 (normal) (Means the bones of back in the hips are normally formed).
spondylosis: SP0 (free)
vertebral anomaly: VA0 (normal) (all the bones of the back are normal and there is no any missing or extra ones).
Then there is this heelwork to music competition we took part with Ganon. I have had some interest at this sport but there was no courses near me so I decided to check it out by entering us into the event
*Adding videos isn't so easy..
A little update.
We participated at weekend training of HTM&freestyle. Now I actually more knowledge what I should be doing in that sport. Sadly Ganons back legs have been a little worse so we haven't been doing HTM.
But Navi has actulally done a lot
We had obedience trial. It was a too hot day but we actually did good job. We actually got placed 3 out of 19!
In case video doesn't work..
Video of practice trial few days later.
Navi had probably last conformation show for this year (heavy shedding started) and she got her last certificate and is now Finnish Champion!
Laslty but not least we had another obedience trial. We needed one more result with over 160points to got the beginner title, but I didn't really believe this was the trial to get that because this was regional trial (once a year thing).
Yup. It went a bit better than I though
Now we probably have to keep training now and then before we can progress to next class. Right now I'm waiting that our next agility class would start. I got a lot of inspiration while trying to find good agility videos of shibas
I live in Lahti, southern part of Finland. But my hometown is Rovaniemi so I travel to north now and then.