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Thanks for popping by 🙂 I am Carina and this website is about my dogs – what do, how we train and our endeavours.
My dog career started in DcH-Ribe, where I went to obedience training with my sheltie Danbret’s Bronze Basil (born 1989). Basil was the best dog you could wish for. He was such a quick learner and he got along with all other dogs even male dogs (also those that usually didn’t like other male dogs). Basil won all our semester closing competitions and also in obedience he graduated to class B with very high scores. But here began the challenges, for Basil was definitely not very good at tracking – I could animate him to find the object on the track, but he hadn’t really understood that he should use his nose 😉
I had seen other clubs had introduced agility so I tormented Hans Peter Dinesen (H.P.) from the club, as I wanted him to build the agility obstacles for us. As a teenager, one is really good at tormenting 😀 After returning from the summer holidays I got the best present ever: H.P. had built the agility obstacles and we had a complete course in Ribe, Denmark 😀
The first year I ran competitions with Basil under the auspices of the Danish Kennel Club, we became number 2 in the Dog of the Year Competition in 1992. Basil has also won the National Competition in DcH (now called Danish Championship) in 1993.
After Basil was retired I started running agility with my border collie, Elliot. Together we achieved a lot – both obedience wise and agility wise. Elliot was part of the National Team in 2002 and 2003 – best results from the championships were in 2003 at the Agility World Championship where we finished 9 in the individual competition and later that year he and the team won the Nordic Championship.
I am an approved agility instructor in DcH, DKK and also a GB Agility Club Approved Instructor. I have taught in several clubs, and I also organize weekend and week courses.
I really enjoy working with dogs and seek inspiration from great handlers from all over the world. It always makes me happy to train my dogs – every one of them I’ve had – they have all been special in their own way.
… And lastly, why is the website called aikandi? Yeah… Elliot was taken, carina was taken… and I did not want the name to be so long.. something with agility and obedience would be a little misleading, as the website was meant to be a presentation of my dog(s)… Many times when people have seen Elliot working in obedience and agility, or just in general, I have repeatedly been told that Elliot is eye candy… so I decided to name the website for eyecandy as pronounced: ai’kan-di 🙂
Elliot – Carina – Kopy
Denne blog fortæller om, hvad vi — hundene og jeg — får tiden til at gå med, de tanker, der melder sig og ikke mindst, hvor(dan) vi får trænet.
Min hunde-karriere startede i DcH-Ribe, hvor jeg gik til lydighedstræning med min sheltie Danbret’s Bronze Basil (født 1989). Basil var den bedste første-gangs-hunde-ejer-hund man kunne ønske sig. Han var så lærenem og der var ingen hanhunde-problemer med ham. Basil vandt alle vores afslutningskonkurrencer og rykkede også op i B-klassen. Men her startede udfordringerne, for Basil var absolut ikke en ørn til at gå spor – jeg kunne animere ham til at gå ud og finde genstanden på sporet, men uden han havde fattet, hvad selve det at gå spor, gik ud på 🙂
Så jeg plagede Hans Peter Dinesen, om ikke han kunne bygge en agility-bane til os. Som teenager er man jo god til at plage, så efter sommerferien stod der en agilitybane i Ribe 🙂
Det første år jeg løb konkurrencer med Basil i DKK-regi, blev vi nr 2 i Årets Hund Konkurrence i 1992. Basil har også vundet Landskonkurrencen i DcH (som nu hedder DM).
Desuden har jeg jo løbet en del agility med Elliot, hvilket I kan læse mere om på Elliot’s side. Jeg har også lånt en sheltie, Enzo, at løbe med.
Jeg er uddannet agility-instruktør i DcH, DKK og den Engelske Agility Klub og har undervist i flere klubber samt afholder også weekend- og ugekurser.
…og hvorfor hedder hjemmesiden aikandi? Tjoo… Elliot var taget, carina var taget… og jeg synes ikke navnet skulle være så langt.. noget med agility og lydighed ville være lidt misvisende, da hjemmesiden skulle være en præsentation af Elliot… Mange gange, når folk har set Elliot arbejde i både lydighed og agility eller bare i det hele taget, har jeg flere gange fået at vide, at det er en fryd for øjet at se Elliot… så derfor ville jeg kalde hjemmesiden for eyecandy, som udtales: ai’kan-di 🙂