Carma is now 19 months old and she still amaze me, I have been focusing a lot on her social behavior as I don´t want a bitch that reacts bad/negative towards other dogs and puppies, Carma choose carefully who she likes (both human and canine) and in the beginning she was often abusive to other dogs who greeted violently or young dogs, after a very intensive training she has become softer and gentler in her dog language and understand now that I will handle any situation she is presented to.
In all my years with my beautiful maledog Morgan, I experienced a lot of bitches as “snapping” or showing teeth of other dogs (especially at competitions) and this is often ignored by the dog owner since they excuse it with "it's a bitch she doesn’t like males or puppies" or “she is stressed " but I do not want my dogs to show this behavior and after Carma was attacked, I started working very intense with her confidence in me as her owner. She had lost faith that I would help her in a “potential situation” and lost confidence in herself when she met other dogs because she had been attacked as a young dog,
So with all this training and help from professionals I now have a Carma that can ignore other dogs when they barks/growls or show any other bad behavior, and she does not seek other dogs on our daily walks, she often ignores them, and she now plays joyfully with dogs we know.
Our agility training is going very well we will in short time start our first agility competition. Carma still works very “high stressed” (with sound) and intense but I love her to bits, she shows great independent on the course, and she is always fresh on the challenges I present to her.
At home Carma is a big lab-dog she is very cuddling.
Carma has shown a big talent at herding sheep and we will therefore also be focusing on herding and taking courses, and on long term go for competitions.
We have entered a weekend course in April where Alan Bradley from Lake District Working Sheepdogs will be training us.
En rigtig fighter.
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Contact information
Carina Minna Andersen
Rugvangen 3
3310 Ølsted
+ 45 60430576
carinaandersen@hotmail.com
carinaminna@gmail.com
ABOUT MORGAN
Morgan is born on the 22 June 2007. He is Dark Zobel with a unique splitface.
Morgan is a very balanced Border Collie, as much as he enjoys to give 220 % every minute of the training he also enjoys being at home and relax. He functions with all dogs. He is very playful and he loves running long distance and have a great speed and acceleration - his spring technic is plain awesome and smoothed and he donsen't have trouble jumping over 65 cm and making smooth turns.
Even if he seams very stressed and "switched on" off the agilty track hes remains very focused and controlled on the track he follows the handler 110% he accelerates with great control and he is sensitive regarding the handler and follows every single hint and it allows him to make the nessersary smooth turns and therefore achieves getting the shortest and fastest way on the track.
We have been focusing on Agility and are at the moment running in "3 class", but we will also be trying our talents at Dog shows.
We are training at VAS (Vallensbæk Agility Sport) and KAF (Kvistgård Agility Forening) we do also train at courses when possible.
