Introducing: Kamarda Hot Chick (Vogue)

Vogue is my new pup she is a gorgeous blue & white border collie puppy who is now 9 weeks old. I collected her on Sunday so she has only been with me for 3 days, and she is such a little devil!

(She doesn't believe in sleeping haha)When she first came home she leaped out the crate and made herself right at home. She is a very confident pup with lots of attitude, so i guess im going to have a lot of fun training her!! lol.She is extremely outgoing with a BIG attitude! From the moment i first met her all she wanted to do was play tug and chase her toys around!

She is as bright as a button and really enjoys playing with Jazz. They chase each other around playing with there toys. Angel doesn't get involved with the puppy, she just watch's her play with Jazz lol. Vogue doesn't bother trying to play with Angel because she knows Angel will give her a telling off so she takes all her toys to Jazz instead.Vogue's parents are very outgoing/loveable/confident dogs.

They were bringing me toys and they were full of kisses and cuddles. They are very bouncy dogs with lots of character!

Her parents have excellent Hip Scores and and are genetically clear of (CEA, CL and TNS)
Dam: Kamarda C'est La Vie (Evie) - 3:3
Sire: Kamarda Duval (Harry) - 4:7

Vogue & Jazz playing

Angel's Christamas Runs

Im one very proud dog owner! Angel has been such a little star lately, she has been running so well and she is really enjoying herself. I will be hopefuly be competing with her in the UK next year, which im already looking foward to!


Here is a video of both of Angel's Christmas runs...

Jazz obedience update

As some of you know i have been having major problems with Jazz especially in her training. For those of you who don't know i haven't been able to do agility training with her for a couple of months now and i have also had to stop the obedience although she does enjoy this more then agility!

Lately she has been alot more confident in herself and has been very playful etc... Today i brought her a new Sphericon dog ball which she LOVES!!! So this is her new training toy =)

Anyway... Tonight i took her up to obedience training (I must admit i was anxious because i didn't know how she would react) Janet kindly offered to give me 1-2-1 lesson's each week which is better for Jazz. We did little excercises to keep Jazz's attention on me and doing excercises with no hand signals! Jazz was really enjoying herself, i am training everything on the clicker which i am re-introducing to her. At the end of the session we done heelwork, one word to sum it up 'AMAZING'. Her head was high up and she was really prancing and taking big strides she looked stunning!


We had been thinking about whether to take Jazz to Crufts for a while and we have finaly come to the decision to....... TAKE HER =D. I am very happy to be with my 2 girls at Crufts next year (As Angel is doing the Good Citizen gold display on the Saturday & Sunday) So i have Jazz on the Thursday and Angel on the Saturday & Sunday.

We have now booked the hotel and flights we are staying in the Novotel which is right opposite Birmingham airport and is 5mins away from Crufts! http://www.novotel.com/gb/hotel-1158-novotel-birmingham-airport/index.shtml

So lots and lots of training to do to prepare for Crufs - especially with Jazz for the YKC Starters Obedience competition!

Angel Movie

Last night i thought i would make a video with some of Angel's old & new photo's in :) And a few agility clips in to...

Hope you enjoy it =)

GSD Agility Show

We had a agility comp on saturday with 4 classe's, i was very please with Angel as she won the Novice Agility =) She really ran her socks off (unfortunatly i don't have a video of it)

She seems be starting to be really enjoy her agility now, even though she is 6 i think she has hit her prime!?!?! We have a lovely shield for winning the Novice Agiltity class =)


But i have to mention the difference between these 2 photo's the first photo was taken 5 years ago and the second photo was taken tonight (look how much we have both changed) I was about 12 and Angel was about 1.....

Dog Dancing Show - Angel !!

This morning me and Angel headed off to the 'Royal Jersey Showground' to take part in a doggy dancing competion! It is held once every 2years ... So i thought i would give it a go, and i am pleased i did.

I was entered in 'Starters Freestyle' The song i performed to was 'Grease - We go together' It is a nice up-beat song =)

The result ........ 1st!! I was the only Jersey competitor all the other's mostly being from Belgium which was great so meet new people, who were all really nice. I am over the moon that Angel won because we have been doing it for many years now and she deserves it :)

We also took part in the evening show which is open to the public (this was very nerve racking!!) But it wasn't to bad in the end.

I love these photo's of Angel with her trophie (just look at the faces she pulls haha) ...

Angel doing her Elvis impression (which she does very well )

Tired Angel waving lol

Her lovely trophie

Paws Agility Show

Today i had Angel entered into 5 classes at the paws show. She ran well in the first class (helter skelter) But i felt as if she was struggling when jumping near the top of the course it was if she was stuff, but later in the day this seemed to dissapear.

Angel does NOT like running in the rain, and there was quite a few showers during the day but luckly the weather was on our side and we just managed to dodge the rain during our runs woo =)

One problem that was occuring was her .... Weaves!!!! I think it is because i don't trust her to get her entry in the ring but in training i will let her find the entry independenatly (I must stop getting in her way) She can do the weaves perfectly as long as i let her find the entry instead of me using my hands to guide her in! On a more positive note her speed has really improved in the weaves so i am very pleased =)



Overall it was a really good day Angel was running well so i am very pleased! She is shattered now though and we have a Heelwork to music competition tomorrow so plently of rest for her tonight unfortunately it means missing agility tomorrow but the Heelwork to music competion is only once every 2years over here so i can't really miss it! I will post tomorrow on how the competition went.


I have got 2 of her runs on video, unfortuantely i didn't get the last class on video which was pairs which she got a 1st in.



It won't let me upload the video yet - I will try and get them on asap