I have to say it again: Jiggy is getting huge! If I did not know when the mating happened I would think that she was ready for delivery now! The puppies are kicking like mad! Jiggy has gained more than 3 kg and she is not fat! I have stopped taking the long walks with her. She is like an old lady stopping to look at shop windows to get a rest. I have to call her often because she is just sniffing around and eating grass all the time to get an excuse to stand still.

This picture is from yesterday where Jiggy was 7 weeks and 1 day pregnant. She is now weighing 16 kg - which means that she has gained 2,3 kg. She is getting huge! I have removed the hair from her belly, so the puppies can find the milk bar. I have been able to feel the puppies for about 1 week, but now I am able to see them move around as well. There is some real action going on in there. I have been filming her belly today... It is easier to see the movements live but you can see some movements in the video. Jiggy is still doing fine... She feels the limitations of the gained weight and the missing energy, but she seems happy and content.

Weeee.... It is getting more and more real! Today I sat down with Jiggy and put my hand on her stomach. I was trying to see if I could feel the puppies kicking, but I did not expect to feel them so soon... But I did. They did not kick very hard, but they actually kicked a lot, and in lots of different places in Jiggy's stomach. Her mammary glands has also started developing. 2½ weeks left!!!

Yesterday I bought some vinyl sheet flooring and I have put in the area where the puppies will stay. It looks great I think... And it is making things feel so real!

Below yo can see a before and after picture of Jiggy's stomach seen from above.

Jiggy is now 6 weeks pregnant... Only 3 weeks to go! This past week Jiggy has gotten her appetite back and she is eating like never before. I know feed her 3 times a day and she has gained 1,2 kg - Now weighing 14,9 kg. Jiggy is feeling well but is starting to feel the weight on her body. She has also started to shed some of her abdomen hair.

I have uploaded all the pictures from the ultrasound in this new photo album.

On the site about kennel All Zet I have specified the list of some of the things that you will get when you buy a puppy from this kennel.

New picture of pregnant Jiggy. It is starting to show a little but not to much.

I have uploaded some of the pictures I have taken on the trip to Italy here.

Yesterday I took a couple of pictures of Jiggy to see how her stomach grows these next couple of weeks. Not much to see at this point in time.

Wee... Jiggy has been mated to Fetch ;o). Jiggy is now almost half way in her pregnancy... four weeks to be precise. At this point in time I am pretty sure that I can feel the fetuses - really amazing. I can feel at least two puppies... but I bet there are more puppies in there. I am really excited and so are my puppy buyers who allready have booked airplane tickets and planned vacation. I expect the puppies to be born Thursday the 9th or Friday the 10th of September.

Sunday the 4th of Juli the trip to Italy began. We drove for two days and made a stop over night in Germany. We arrived late Monday at Marco and Francesca's home. Marco and Francesca lives In the moutains near Verona, so the last couple of kilometres to their home was quite an experience. The view from Marco's house was really amazing!

Wups... It's been a while since last update... Lots have happened!!!

Let's take it from the beginning. One week after the competition in Hillerød Jiggy suddenly started to limp. We had not been training the days up till she started to limp, but we had been on some long walks on the beach. I was going to participate in the World Dog Show (WDS) in Herning just one week later, so I was really afraid that we would not be able to go and even worse that her limping could be anything that could stop the breeding plans and her agility career. I got an appointment the next day with vet Thomas Ingvordsen from Højelse. Jiggy was still limping and she did not like it when Thomas pressed on her right shoulder. Apart from that she was fine. He did not suspect that it had something to do with OCD, he thought she had just sprained her shoulder. He ordered her to do nothing for at least a week. I was relieved that she would be ok, but really sad that I could not take part in the World Dog Show... A show with about 24.000 dogs entered! The next day I took Jiggy to my own vet to get her shoulders x-rayed... Actually I had ordered the x-ray one month before to get Jiggy tested for OCD before the mating - what a coincidence. My vet took pictures of the shoulders in different angles and just to make sure he took a couple of pictures of the elbows as well. The pictures looked fine and I got the status from the Danish Kennel Club shortly after that Jiggy is OCD clear! I am so happy ;o)

Even though Jiggy could not participate in the agility trials at WDS we went as spectators. WDS was huge... There were the world championships in obedience and dog dancing, a HUGE exhibition, agility, show ring and lots and lots of shops selling dog gear... And I got to spend a lot of money. I got to do a little agility as well as I got to run Tine's Mac in a couple of classes and Lone Sommer's Du Der in one class. It was so great to be a part of the competition anyways. The run with Du Der was flawless... She did everything I asked her to do, and we came 4th in jumping class 3... Good dog ;o). I got to run with Mac in the Final, and he was great. Unfortunately I was really stupid at the end... I was so thrilled when there were only two obstacles left that I forgot that the last jump was not on a straight line, so Mac ran by the last jump. Afterwards I was told that we would have had a great time and that it could have placed us 2nd in the final... Bummer! By the way... The final was won by one very special team... Jiggy's mom Simic and Sarah Lorentzen.

And know for the very big news: Jiggy has just started her season this Monday. I will have the first blood tests taken tomorrow and I think I will be going to Italy in the middle or last part of next week... Still a lot of planning to do ;o). It is really amazing to think that if everything goes according to plan, there will be cute puppies in this house in just over 2 month!!!

Wow... A lot has happened since I wrote one month ago! We have been Trialing in Ribe and Albertslund, we have been on a week course in Ribe and we have been competing in Hillerød. Apart from trialing the last few things have fallen in to place when it comes to the mating between Fetch and Jiggy. The only thing now is to wait. I expect Jiggy to come in season at any time now.

Ok... Back to telling you a bit about the competitions. The trial in Ribe was not a success. When Jiggy did not make a mistake, I did... It was just not our weekend!

In Albertslund I was really sick the whole weekend. I suffer a lot from migraine at I had just changed to another brand of medication, that I apparently could not tolerate. I was feeling sick to my stomach and had only eaten half the amount I usually do for one week, which also made me feel really weak. I did not run all of my runs that weekend but got through quite a few even though I was not feeling all right. We got a couple of nice runs and was placed 4th in jumping class open where the first places was only separated by 10th of a second.

Last Saturday we participated in Hillerød, and it was a great trial for us. We participated in open jumping, SP2 and AG1. We got a clear round in open jumping on a very slippery course. I felt I could have done a lot better, and was surprised that I won the class. YEYH! There where 89 participators in the class ;). In SP2 We got a reallly great round but Jiggy knocked a bar - What a shame as we where more than 3 seconds faster than the winner. The last course was AG 1. Jiggy was really alert and great to run with. We got a clear round and won the class... YES, YES, YES... It earned us the last leg in Agility class 1 and we are know running in both agility class 2 and jumping class 2 ;o). Unfortunately I did not get the runs from Hillerød on video.

In week 23 Jiggy and I where in Ribe for a week course with Sarah Lorentzen and Jenny Damm... Really cool week if it was not raining that much! I felt a great improvement in that week and found out that some of my criterias have been slipping a little over the last month of competitions. Because Jiggy is so young I have not been training much in between competitions, and I could see that I need to train a little more. So I have a plan to train a little bit more before the World Dog Show in Herning. I am not planning to train long courses but I will concentrate on some small technical stuff and train often for a maybe 15 minutes, so she will not get any injuries. Thanks to Sarah, Jenny, Pia Metz and all of my agility friends for a great week.

We are leaving for Herning this Wednesday. I am looking so much forward to four days of competition and to see the world championships in both obedience and dog dancing. There will also be a big exhibition and there is almost 20.000 dog entered in the show!!! I think it is going to be the biggest dog events I will ever take part in!

Because I am such a scardy cat when it comes to breeding, I have decided to get Jiggy x-rayed for OCD... Just to be sure. She will get x-rayed this Tuesday - cross my fingers!

As a little treat I have new videos of Fetch for you. Here is one in agility class 3 where Fetch gets a 1st price

The 9th of May Jiggy and I participated in a trial in Hvalsø. This was just not our day. The first run was agility class 1. We had a great run with no faults, but stupid Jane had not placed Jiggy's toys in a straight line after the last jump so Jiggy ran past the jump. In the next run Jiggy knocked one bar down but the rest of it was good. The third run was a complete disaster... Our usual teamwork did not exist! The last run Jiggy knocked 3 bars!!! We had the fastest time in the class. Oh my - these dropped bars are giving me a headache ;). 

Now moving on to the trial in Skælskør the 15th of May... It was raining the most of the day and the event started at 9 am and ended at 8 pm = a very long and wet day! Jiggy did a great job. We got a clear round in the first jumping class 2 earning us a 2nd place.  

Three days ago I have had a doorbell installed for the dogs to use when they wish to come in from the garden. The problem was that Mille is to small to look through the window so she scratched the door to get our attention when she wanted to get inside. Both Jiggy and Mille have learned to ring the bell very fast. Take a look at the video so see how they are doing (turn up the sound to hear the bell ringing):

This weekend Jiggy and I has been competing in Hillerød. Saturday Jiggy was so awesome. We got a clear round in open jumping and won the class once more. Great feeling ;o).

Yeah... I have had a great weekend of trialling in Albertslund this weekend. It was great to finally get outside and run on grass! Saturday Jiggy won agility class 1, got eliminated in jumping class 2 (which was totally my fault) and got a fast round in open agility unfortunately with one bar down... If the bar had not gone down, we would have won the class.

The 27th and 28th of March Tine, Mac, Jiggy and I went to Northern Jutland to compete in Tutti Cup. We stayed at Laila and Jesper's place and they did everything to make us feel welcome... It was so nice. Thank you Laila and Jesper.

The competition was held on a completely new carpet... and it was unfortunately very slippery. Jiggy fell a couple of times, and she never usually does that on carpet. The slippery carpet made me handle her very carefully because I was afraid she would get injured. Jiggy got so frustrated with me not telling her what to do and by the fact that she could not get a good grip on the carpet, that we got eliminated 4 out of 6 runs! That is a lot! In the other two runs we got 5 faults in each. There where not many people without faults so we got a 2nd place in SP 1 and a 3rd place in AG 1. The organisation of the trial was great... Very nice trial if it had not been for the slippery carpet.

I have just been You Tube'ing and I want to share some of the great videoes I found of some of Fetch's offspring.

Jiggy was at the vet Tuesday to get her eyes checked. They where all clear as expected... But I am really relieved anyways.

I forgot to mention that at the competition in Vallensbæk Jiggy's sister Nala/Poul Lerche won AG 1 and Jiggy's brother Uno/Lars Bang won SP 1. At a competition in Sydthy Jiggy's sister Queenie won AG 1 and was 2nd in SP1. Congratulations to Jiggy's amazing sisters and her brother.

I have just found this great video of one of Fetch's offspring from training. Lumi is approximately 20 month old on this video and Lumi is a sister to Silvia Trkmann's young border collie Bi.

I know some of you are curious to know who the proud father is going to be... The sire to the upcoming litter is going to be Fetch Granting Pleasure. He has outstanding agility results in his pedigree and he is a very talented agility dog him self. Fetch has a good temperament and is very fast on the course. Still, like all of his sisters and brothers, he has an amazing ability to think clearly under pressure.

Fetch also has amazing HD results in his family, so I am hoping that the mating between Jiggy and Fetch will result in puppies with a potential to go all the way.

I have made a page about the upcoming litter and Fetch, where you can read just about everything there is to know. The puppies will only be sold to people who are going to use the very special abilities of these puppies.

Please do contact me if you are interested in hearing more on the upcoming litter.

Saturday afternoon Tine, Channie and I drove to Ribe to participate in the trial held by Ribe on Sunday. We stayed at a bed and breakfast... Really nice place, where the dogs where allowed to stay as well.

I was a little afraid that Jiggy would get tired through the day as we had been driving Saturday and slept in a different place with Mac as a room mate. She does not like Mac to much. He is the sweetest dog, but he is a little to sweet for Jiggy's taste. But actually I could not feel any difference on Jiggy's enthusiasm through the day. Every time I took her from her cage, she was ready to go. Even when we got home after another long drive, she wanted to play... I had expected her to climb in to bed and not been heard from that evening.

Wow... I have not been writing much here lately... But hopefully I will make up for it, as the first trial of the years is this weekend. We are going to Ribe and I am really excited about getting started again. Three months without any trials is to long ;o). The last couple of weeks we have been experiencing more snow than normally in Denmark, so it has not been possible to do any training... Hope training is not cancelled this evening. It is not funny going to a trial without having been able to practise two weeks before.

Although not much has happened on the training side since last I wrote, a lot has been going on. I have made some final decisions about my puppy plans. I think Jiggy will get in heat in June and then she will be mated - hopefully there will be cute puppies brought to this world late August early September. If Jiggy gets in heat before the first of May, I will wait for the next heat to mate her... Then the puppies will be born in the winter 2011.

Actually I have picked the father to the litter. He is a very talented agility dog, but I will wait just a little longer to reveal who he is. I am working on a page on this site with all the information you could wish for on this lovely guy. I already have a couple of reservations from abroad from some very talented agility handlers… This is really exciting. I hope to breed some wonderful agility and family dogs for you.

I think 2010 is going to be a very special year for me ;o)