Pet Expo

Sagira did her first agility demo for Columbus All Breed yesterday at the Pet Expo. She didn't do bad considering this was her first time performing in front of a crowd that was cheering on the dogs and clapping, there were lights, music. She was nervous at first but ended up doing well. She kept right up with the ones that are pretty advanced in agility. Only thing she didn't do was her weave poles and that is because she doesn't know how to do them yet.

Here is a video of her first time doing agility in front of a crowd. (she is on the left).



Here are some of the pics from the Pet Expo. We are going back today. Should be fun!

Sagira is on the left in this one:



Crowd coming to meet the dogs after the show (Sagira is in the middle with Jeremy)



Doing her novice recall:





Sagira on the left

Agility update

Sagira's agility class night went really well. We actually got a huge compliment from Stacie. She is one of the main people at the training club when it comes to agility. She told me that Sagira was a good girl and she can't wait to see her in Level 2 agility.

Excited about the Pet Expo that starts tomorrow. Sagira will be doing demos for the training club and in her downtime she will be at Canine Collective's booth with her donation vest on. :)

Loving spring

We have been enjoying the beautiful weather. Went to the dog park again this past weekend. Sagira always has a blast. She met a cute Rott puppy that she played with for a little while.



Starr always seems to attract all the other Weimaraners at the park as well. This was Toby.



Sagira went off and stole someones green ball. She really enjoyed playing with this. Throw the ball, throw the ball!



Her little mouth is almost too small for this big ball.



Sagira being submissive with the bigger dogs...



Jeremy was playing around with the camera and got this shot. I really like it for some odd reason.



Tongue out at the end of the days means we have one pooped Sagira...



Starr loves riding in the car.

Tailwagging Tutors

Yesterday we took Sagira and Samick to an event at the library where kids who have problems reading get to read to the dogs. Samick did awesome. The kids couldn't get over how big he was. A lot said he was the biggest dog they ever saw. Sagira did pretty good as well, but I think she was pretty tired from having her regular therapy dog visit at the hospital in the morning. It might have been to much for her in one day. But the kids loved the dogs. We had 4 dogs from the training club show up.

This little girl loved Samick



Sagira and Samick listening to the stories







The other two therapy doggies that showed up

Weave Poles

Sagira went to her first weave pole class this week. They made it fun for the dogs. They got a treat each time they went through the weaves. Right now the weaves are just open and to the side of the dogs. I guess as they advance they will close them in more and they will begin to learn how to weave through them. This is neat to learn how all these dogs learn how to do this from the beginning.

Here is a video of her doing weaves and tunnel.



and a few shots from her first class. Sorry they are blurry, my camera doesn't like the lighting in the training building for some reason.

Weave Poles

Sagira starts her level 1 Weave Pole class this evening. Wonder how she will do. She doesn't seem to like the poles right now so hopefully we can change that.

Dog Park

The weather has been beautiful here in Columbus. Yesterday we took Starr and Sagira to the dog park and Sagira got in her first swim of the year. She also found a new friend that she loved playing with.

Where we going huh? huh? huh?





Our lab, Harley, did a great job teaching Sagira how to swim.







Starr even got in. This is what Starr normally does:



She actually went in and tried to get a stick...



Sagira found a new playmate. They played so well together. They even laid down together, it was SO cute. His name was Blue.









The girls...

Sagira visited Grandpa

Sagira went to visit our Grandpa this past weekend as he was admitted to the hospital with congestive heart failure. He was very proud of us and told all the nurses how much training we have done with Sagira. Of course they all loved Sagira and thought she was the cutest thing ever.







We also got Sagira a new squeaker mat since her first one died. She loves these things. Of course Starr wanted it since it was a new toy and they decided to play tug of war with it instead.



and we see who won....

Sunny Sunday

My dogs love laying in the sun....

Awesome visit today

Sagira had an awesome visit today. Angie our therapy dog director met us today and wanted to get a photo of us for her website. Sagira's tail even wagged at one point so we are moving in the right direction. She got up on the bed with two of the patients today.

This picture is one of the last rooms we went in for the day. The patient's wife came out and asked us to please visit her husband. We came in and he was having a hard time reaching her so I asked him if it would be okay for Sagira to get on the bed with him. She got up there, laid down with him and he kept petting her. He put her to sleep. She was so relaxed and calm with him. It was really something to see.

Now we are off to visit with Grandpa.

Visiting Grandpa

So my Grandpa has been admitted into the hospital last night. I just called and asked if we could take Sagira up to visit with him and his nurse said sure. So I know that will cheer him up.

Sagira had her third agility class this past week. She did really well. She learned how to do the chute in this class. Sagira seems to really enjoy doing agility. I think it will be a lot of fun for her once we get all the basic equipment down.

Dog Park here we come!

So the weather has finally reached a decent temperature and we were able to make it back to the dog park.

We met up with some fellow Weimaraner owners at the Alum Creek Dog Park today. It was a nice time. I love watching Weim butt wiggles all over the place. They are such a funny breed.

Sagira had a great time playing. She was completely pooped by the time we left for home.

Circle of Weims... Starr is Sagira's sister and is in the pink collar.

Sagira at the park

Sagira checking out a German Shepherd

Pooped by the end of our dog park adventures