Sooshine Border Collies

Well, at long last the young man has made is Working Trials debut at Wessex on 3rd July and managed to get his CDex at first try.  

Image below is by Stanford Photographic

Archived entries:

1. Cesan's first Tracking lesson
2. A field full of Dogs
   
3. A walk in the woods
4. Kennel Club Herding Test
5. Hallowe'en
6. November Training
7. Christmas 2008
8. Snow Dogs
9. More Snow Fun
   
10. Starkids 10th Birthday
11. Sad day at Sooshine
12. Cesan's First Birthday
13. Camping in Somerset
14. Surgery for Bliss
15. Kay retires
16. Bliss Again
17. A New Year Update
    

It has been a long while since I updated the blog as there has been little news to report.

16th May 2010 saw Cesan's second birthday. He has not started his competitive career yet but Barrie hopes to have him out and about soon in time for the Autumn trials.   Below is the latest image of him as he is now. More to come soon on his own web page.

A happy, healthy and successful 2010 to all our friends.

Well quite a bit has happened sine my last blog update.  Bliss has had a lot of expensive blood tests tand so far, everything has come back negative to serious pro0blems.  It may just be that she is getting senile and age is creeping up on her. Hard to believe that she is 14 otherwise, She does not look it, has hardly any grey hairs and still has a lovely thick, glossy coat.

For now, we are just monitoring her carefully and spoiling her loads.

We did have some very sad news for one of her daughters just before Christmas.  Holly was diagnosed with terminal cancer and had to be given sleep just a few days before Christmas. A great and sad loss to her loving family and we feel for them at this time of year. She will be sadly missed but leaves some happy memories I am sure. Sleep well little Holly.

We had a quiet Christmas, just trying to keep warm.

January images

The field behind our house

We, like many other areas of the country got a good snow fall the week before Christmas, and as of 7th January we still have plenty of the white stuff on the ground, and are feeling the cold. Well, the humans are, the dogs think it's great to play and roll in and do not seem to notice the cold.

Frozen landscape

Kay

Roy

Jedi

Cesan

Bliss

Bliss and Drift

Because of the weather, Cesan's training has been on hold for a while, but will soon resume and Barrie hopes to be entering him in his first trials before too long.