Merry Xmas

Eric, Tatiana, Zino and our sweet Esed and me wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Happy 2011.

Snowtime

Esed & Zino have been playing and walking in the snow. Even our Zino, 10,5 years old, still acts like a puppy in the snow ;-)

What does Esed do on a cold evening?

He lies on my lap and sleeps while I try to watch the TV.... very warm & cosy, just a bit difficult when you want to drink or change the post ;-D

Kortrijk

Esed had a fun-loving weekend. This because of the long awaited visitors from Berlin. Chrissi, Daggi & Andrea came to stay with us and the girls were with them. Esed enjoyed having the girls around so that he could play with them. He fell very much in love with Tagola ;-)
We also participated at the two dog show in Kortrijk, and once again we were confronted with the difference in judges and their idea of how an azawakh should look like and behave in the ring.
On Saturday the judge gave Esed a very good, because he had a rough head.... The girls were more appreciated and all three received an Excellent, and Djangalah the KBWC-Winner 2010 titel.
After the show, we went to the dogpark near our home, and Zino & Esed had a great time running and playing with the girls.

Sunday we were once again at the show, looking at the stuff for the dogs and buying some nice things. Eventually it was time again to be judged. This time the judge appreciated what she saw. She awarded our Esed with 1 Exc, CAC & CACIB and in the end even with the BOB. This we didn't expect at all, as Tagola, who received the same notation and became best female, is older and more mature than our crazy azawakh.
We were thrilled with these results.

In the evening we had a nice time with our guests and a lovely diner. The dogs were playing and fooling around. Sadly on Monday we had to say goodbye to our visitors. Esed misses the girls very much. We hope that Chrissi, Daggi & Andrea will repeat their visit soon.

Maybe we should start thinking of getting a younger (azawakh) friend for our Esed. Our Zino is enjoying his privileges of his old age and doesn't always play or agrees with Esed & his crazy escapades.

Pictures will be put on the site during this week.

Getting ready

We are going to the dog show in Kortrijk this weekend, on Saturday it is the KBWC special and on Sunday the CACIB show. And as a big extra for Esed, he will be having visitors over from Germany. We are delighted to have Christiane, Daggi & Andrea in our home and the dogs. Esed will be happy to have a bunch of Azi girls in the house ;-)) as you can guess....

A picture of Esed in Denmark on the beach, taken by Christiane Thier-Rostaing.

Lazy Esed

Due to some unforeseen situations, we didn't have any time to update our website and our blog.

In a short periode of time this will be done and you can follow Esed his escapades on this blog and his showresults on the website.

But I would like to show some pictures of our "sweet boy" being very lazy and protective of his couch :-)

Enjoy....

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.