01-25-2010 – Nico video

Over the weekend we made the trip to CherCar Kennels in MI with a friend of ours who is interested in a German Shepherd Dog.  While we were there, they were nice enough (as they always are) to allow us to do a bit of training with Nico.  Below is a video of Nico in the very, very early stages of his protection training.

Nico absolutely loves the protection work so far.

01-13-2010 – New pics and updates

Well, it’s been a very long time since we’ve updated the web page.  When I logged in to update it I also found 8 legitimate comments that were flagged as SPAM, so that’s why there were never approved and posted.  I’ve since approved them, so thanks for the comments.

Since the last update, Nico has been awarded a couple of UKC titles in Dog Sports, he got his Family Obedience title as well as his Protection Alert title (which makes his “official” name ‘PA Cher Car’s Nico Suave, CGC’).  We attended a trial up in Michigan put on by Capital City Dog Sports, the club that trains where we got Nico – a great bunch of people that made us newcomers to that world feel extremely welcome.

We also “fostered” a new pup, which quickly turned into us adopting the new pup (we flunked fostering, which I’m sure doesn’t surprise anyone that knows us).  We’ve named him Enzo, he’s roughly 6 months old, and we have no idea what breeds he might be.  Any guesses?  He’s currently 35#’s (at roughly the same age Nico was already 67#’s, so he’s a little guy by comparison).  He’s a lover, complete lap dog that absolutely loves affection and attention.  We think we may do agility and therapy work with him, but we’ll see how his training progresses.  Here are a few pictures of Nico and Enzo – some were taken in late Ocotber, around the time we got Enzo, and some were taken at Christmas.