Indian Summer

We have been very busy these past few weeks, and also very successful. And up to now the weather has been kind to us. We have enjoyed a real Indian Summer. We went to Luxemburg, to Greppin (JAS 2010) and to Köln..... everytime we were accompanied by nice, sunny & dry weather. And on top of this we had a nice time with nice people and excellent results.

Esed's website will be updated this weekend.

One picture of Esed on the JAS, thanks to Bettina Schmidt. We will put more pictures on the website and on this blog through the weekend.

Show Mechelen

Last saturday, August 21, Esed and I participated at the 30th CAC-CACIB Show in Mechelen (Belgium). As two months had passed since Esed had been to a show or to a busy place, because of our holiday, we were curious to see how Esed would react to the whole situation.

Well, he showed us that he doesn't care to go around a busy hall, where dogs are barking, people are shouting and in a tropical atmosphere (28 ° celcius outside and much warmer inside).

So when it was his turn to be showed to judge Jean-Jacques Dupas (FR), he did his best and made us proud, again ;-). He received the notation of 1 Excellent, Best Junior & BOB. Later in the day he went into the ring of honour with all the hounds of group 10. Judge Alexander Ivanov (RU) was impressed by our youngster, he placed him 6th Best in Group, while the other houds present were older & more experienced. We are truly thrilled with these results.

Happy Birthday!!

We like to wish all the brothers & sisters of Esed and also our lovely boy himself a Happy 1ste Birthday!!!! We wish everybody many more years to come, a lot a fun, love, happiness and succes in whatever they do.

From Eric, Penny, Tatiana & Zino and also Esed.

Trip to Denmark

We went on holiday to Denmark & we participated at the World Dog Show 2010 in Herning. We had a lovely time with our friends. At the dog show on Friday, we had a little family reunion for Esed, two of his half-sisters and one half-brother of the previous D-litter were there too. The day after the show we went to the beach with Esed, his mummy Essamet, his two half sisters Dafiinah & Djangalah and Tagola.

Thanks to Christiane, Daggi & Andrea for giving us such a nice day before we started on our night trip back to Belgium!

PS: Esed did very well at the WDS 2010, you can see his results on his website.

Some pictures of our family day at the beach.

Showresults Lommel

We went to the CAC Dog Show in Lommel (B) today. To our surprise Esed did very well as up to now he was shy of being touched by strangers. But finally Esed realised that it isn't so bad to be touched by people he doesn't know. The jugdge, Mr. G. Tesics (HU) took his time, and was very happy that he could touch an azawakh, Esed really surprised us all and stood very calm and let the jugde stroke & touch him. Finaly we received the following results and very nice comments, 1 Excellent, Best Junior & BOB.
We are very happy with our lovely boy & these super results.

Time flies....

Time flies when you're having fun, or when you have an azawakh in the house. Esed is now 10 months old. He sure likes to keep us busy. Even so busy that we didn't update his blog or website. We will try to let you catch up with Esed, as he has grown in to a nice, strong, funloving azawakh!
Esed is getting used to his muzzle because we are going to start his training at the racetrack.

Esed @ sea (-side)

Yesterday we went to the sea-side, it was Esed's first acquaintance with the sea. He loved the sand and running on the beach. He played with Zino and even dared to get his paws wet in the small pools of water that was still on the beach. But he didn't want to go into the sea, not even to get his toenails wet ;-).