WAO 2013 - team Argentina
The favorite toys of your dogs ?
With Shadow , I had to use really dobermann-proof tugs , but anything that I had on my hands worked just as well ( a simple rope , tennis ball , you choose ). Marvel has a preference for soft toys that make sounds , be it squeakers or something else .. I have 3 or 4 “ dog plushies ” for her I use as special rewards , and she loves them to death . Also she loves the crunchy feeling of empty water bottles . Bliss , my Border Collie Pup who is now 8 months old , is a tug-a-holic . Like Marvel , she likes soft toys a lot , but she tugs like a beastie , so sometimes I need to use more resistant tug toys with her . All of them love frisbees , and squeaky balls too of course . There are actually very few toys they don ’ t like .
Plans for the future ? ( after the WAO 2013 )
Vacations ! Haha . The WAO is actually the last and “ really huge ” activity of my crazy 2013 schedule . Before the championship I assisted a big local competition in Santa Fe ( we got 2nd place in Teams , 5th place in the Best in Show Ranking ) in February . Then we had the first official competition , and she got the last qualifying run she needed to be a National Champion ( small thing to some , but a huge step for the first Agility-Aussie in our country !). I just got back from Brasil with Marvel , where we took a Seminar with Tereza Kralová and Lisa Frick , and now in a week we have the Americas & Caribbean Championship . Then less than a month away is the WAO . I ’ m already signed up for 4 seminars in August ( Freestyle ) and September ( Dog Behavior ), but I ’ m hoping to take a break after Spain , maybe take Marvel somewhere she can swim ( she adores swimming ) for a week or two , so we can at least catch our breaths after this insane first semester . Then , who knows ..! I haven ’ t participated in the WAO and I ’ m already wishing I can return next year !!