Vacation!
Today we started our vacation by having a fika at Wayne’s Coffee!
IPO-R Weekend
I’ve had a perfect weekend with two days of IPO-R training!
Bosse Gustafsson has been successfully training and competing in IPO-R for several years and this weekend he came to Blekinge to give us an introduction. He gave us lots of inspiration and was very positive to all individuals in our training group even the ones that are mainly interested in having fun with the family dog!
IPO-R stands for Internationale Prüfungsordnung – Rettung and is an international dog competition for search and rescue dogs. Saturday we trained the obedience part and on Sunday it was time for disaster rescue training.
I don’t plan to actually start competing, but who cares? Just the training is not only great fun, it’s also a prefect way to train Quanda’s social skills and her self-esteem!
IPO-R obedience: you have to be able to carry your dog!
Quanda lying in the middle of the training field while I’m taking pictures.
Quanda working on the disaster location. She really had fun yesterday!
That’s how it should look like: 100% focus on the fig.
These photo’s were taken by Towe. More pictures can be found in the gallery.
Search and rescue dog
Yesterday we’ve tried search and rescue training and we had a great time!!
It was actually disaster rescue (ruinsök) so we went to a special training field which is supposed to mimic a disaster area. We’ve never tried search before, so we started out easy. The first time Quanda got to watch the figurant hide herself. The second and third she only got to see the direction in which figurant left. Here is a photo sequence of Quanda’s first try.
Look at that… she’s got sausage…
She went that way… maybe she’s got more sausage…
She’s over there… what do I do now??
Maybe I can walk over this stuff…
There she is… and there is the sausage!!
I like you… and I like your sausage 
These photo’s were taken by Towe Engdahl. More pictures can be found in the gallery.
A brand new bike!
Lukas is making a test ride on his brand new bike! Unfortunately he doesn’t want to ride it, since it’s to scary…
Picture time
I haven’t found time to write anything here for the last couple of weeks, but I have taken lots of pictures.
Lukas is doing the dishes.
Lukas started out having a picnic, but then decided it was better to sit at the table so he tried to carry his chair outside. After some help he could finally sit and enjoy his sandwich in style.
Lukas showing of his sunglasses.
Some more pictures can be found in the gallery.