Merry Christmas from Astraios
Merry Christmas to you all from all of us here at Astraios! Wonderful art / card of our lovely dogs kindly created by Emma and copyright to Emma * Do not re-use without permission *
Results, Critique & Blog
National Obedience Finals 2017
Judge – Elaine Hopwood Faith Pre-Beginners Class – Astraios Earth Angel “In 11th place after the above runoff was number 18 Nina Fotara with Astraios Earth Angel Weimaraner. 7.5pts. Well done.” What an amazing day this was! Literally could not fault it. Was superbly organised, had such a fantastic fun atmosphere, no stays meant that […]
Rheas birthday
Happy birthday to our little bush baby and all the Waldwiese C Litter When I was blessed enough that Claire and Lois allowed me to import Rhea I didn’t know what was in store but it couldn’t have been a better decision and I will be forever grateful for the start in life that Lois, […]
Roos UKA Grand Final 2017
Roo (Astraios Wizard of Aus) and his owner Dee have excelled themselves this year with their agility achievements, I am so proud of all that they have achieved and all with positive training. Today they not only got to attend the UKA semi finals but won through to the Grand Finals and finished runner up […]
Rheas 1st Obedience competition
Clever Rhea & Gabriella! Never having done more than a couple of obedience classes each they were brave enough to give an Introductory class a whirl, so proud of them both! Rhea coped wonderfully with the environment and distractions and had a brilliant time, Gabs was a bit more stressed by it all but did […]
WSDA – 2 day course
I run a Scentwork classes when I am not busy training my own dogs so as part of my continued professional development I signed up for a World Scent Dog Association 2 day course. It was held at a lovely venue but public access so members of the public, their children and dogs coming and […]
Discover Dogs – Semi Finals – Faith
So the day final arrived! Set off to pick up the lovely Kim who had kindly offered to come lend me a hand with everything and watch Faith so I could nip off when I needed to, I was sure I’d packed everything albeit a rushed last minute pack as I’d had a busy week. […]
Heelwork to Music – Rhea
As Faith has her Discover Dogs event tomorrow I didn’t want to wear her out so Rhea had the chance of taking her place and taking part in her very first heelwork to music class! Well what can I say, a natural! Rhea sauntered in to class bum wagging as always, she hadnt been to […]
Jo Hill – Obedience – Constructive Training Round Day
What a cracking day we had! This summer I did a couple of training rounds with Faith but I didn’t feel like I had made the most of them and when I saw and advert come up for this day I jumped right in. I didn’t know who Jo Hill was as I am new […]
Rhea back at work!
As Faith has her Discover Dogs event next weekend I decided it was safer to take Rhea on the shoot rather than risk Faith picking up an injury. Not doubt Faith wasn’t amused today being left behind as she really does love her days out beating more than anything else in the world but hey […]