Rello has also attended an agility competition during the weekend.

Rölli, Rello and Caro took part in agility competitions during last weekend.

We spent a relaxing weekend in Joensuu with Kessu's family. Thanks Minna, Pera, Pinja and Miska for such a nice weekend! However, the results from agility were not anything to brag about...

Also Coco did nice work during the weekend. Unfortunately, she has lost her speed during the heat holiday and we spent far too much time on slalom and A frame.

During the last month I have received both good and bad news. First of all I would like to send my deepest condolences to Chris, Barry & Blair in NZ for loosing Dougal. We will all miss him so much!

The good news come from the agility fields:
* Congratulations Rello & Tarja for the last clear round in the class 1. Welcome to the class 2!
* Congratulations Tiina & Woitto (from our training team) for the last ticket to the class 2 and for the first ticket in the class 2!
* Congratulations Caro & Minna for the very first clear round in the class 1!
* Coco also run one more clear round in class 2. She still needs one more to go to the class 3.

I have updated the agility results page.

Kessu was shown in a dog show in Jämsä.

Mikki - the sire of the Copy litter - won the individual tracking competition with 280 points on Saturday. He was also a part of the border collie team, which won the Finnish breed championship. Congratulations Reijo and Mikki!

Plenty of good results were done by our training team. Congratulations Leena & Kenkku (4 times clear run), Merja & Santtu (2 times clear run and one 5 fault course), Anne & Oona (one clear run and two times 5 fault course), Kaisa & Ada (one clear run + the first win in the class 3 and one 5 fault course), Tiina & Woitto (one clear run and one 5 fault course), Johanna & Bosse (two times 5 fault course), Jari & Nala (one 5 fault course) and Jenni & Chiqi (one 5 fault course).

First of all, my deepest condolences to my very dear friend Elena for loosing her best friend Olga yesterday evening. Napukka will now run free on the other side of the rainbow - without pain.

We have been quite active in dog sports this weekend. Especially the youngsters have shown a lot of potential. Kessu was shown for the very first time in a dog show. He received Excellent and was placed the 4th best dog! Well done Minna & Kessu!

We started our Easter holiday with a very pleasant visit to Kessu and his family in Joensuu. Thanks again Minna, Pera, Pinja and Miska for taking such a good care of us!

On Friday we had a very good day in agility. For the first time ever I run two clear rounds on a same day with Coco!!! The extra time from the second course was due to the 10 extra seconds we spent on the two A-frames making sure they were done properly. Rölli did two quite reasonable courses, too.

We were also very proud of all the other members of our training group! Anne and Oona made two clear rounds earning two tickets to the class 2. Congratulations!!! Johanna and Bosse as well as Tiina and Woitto made two good rounds (5 and 10 points) and Merja and Santtu did a very nice work in the agility course.

On Saturday Carmen celebrated her 10th birthday. Congratulations granny and all her littermates in NZ, especially Bonney! Lots of love to Chris, Barry and Blair whithout who I would never had had a chance to own this soulmate of mine! And greetings to Dougal "the daddy". I'm so grateful Carmen is still in such a good shape despite of the diabetes and all the bad luck she has had with her knees.

On the very same day I had lots of fun with Senta the soon to be 11 years old Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever of my parents. I had promised her, that she'll have her share of the fun in the show rings. She surprised us all by really having lots of fun in the show ring and by being placed the 3rd best bitch of her breed!!!

But this was not all at all...

Yesterday it was Metku's turn to be shown in Lappeenranta dog show. When watching the judging of the border collie dogs it did cross my mind that this would most likely be the first day of Metku's short show career that she'll be sent out of the ring with only the red ribbon. Out of 10 dogs only two received the pink ribbon. Luckily I was wrong! Metku cleared the table by being the Best of Breed for the very first time of her life! Naturally, she also received her second CC.

But... even that was not enough. On top of everything Metku was placed 4th in Group!!! Something I have never experienced in Finland before. Not bad at all from Metku at the age of 1 year and 9 months. Congratulations Sari and Metku!!! And thank you Sari for loving the little monster so much! (Photo: Juho Talvitie, Koirauutiset)

Despite of the result, Rölli did a fine course in agility on Sunday. Whereas I had to drop out the course with Coco for the third time in the last four competetions due to a fault on the A frame. We have got a lot to do with that in the near future!

Caro started her agility career in Kotka yesterday. This time the closed tunnel proved to be a bit problematic for them, but otherwise it looked quite nice.

Rölli did a nice run in Joensuu and two good runs in Kotka. Thy were placed third in the jumping class. We are still waiting for the jackpot.

Coco has been quite wild in the A-frame recently. Again, two faults from it in Joensuu... and I decided to finish there. Yesterday, in Kotka she was a bit too obedient and we spent quite a few extra seconds there. But it was worth it! In stead we got two other faults : (

Congratulations, Minna & Caro for excellent result in obedience yesterday. A ticket to class 2 was well earned! Caro has also started her agility career with a good result in unofficial competition on Saturday.