Aloha's Ears Update - YES there are news

Finally I got a picture of this : "no pics please ear"!

 

When ❀Aloha has an ear up her right one is the one which is most often up- but the other ear gave a winky winky today too. Usually when I try to photograph a standing ear it suddenly plops down same time when I my camera App opens, or my battery is to low- apart from having to less light in this unfriendly weather conditions here.

But have a look yourself.



So- there might be some ear updates recomming :-)

Thanks for reading
Bettina

They won!!!!

I am on the road myself but have heard
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Congratulations to Bruno and the Merle gang !!! They won!
They won Romania's hearts !

Oh +Bruno :,-) I am so happy for you!
Bettina

http://romaniiautalent.protv.ro/stiri/romanii-au-talent-castigator-finala-live-protv-castigatoare-romanii-au-talent-2013-sezonul-3-castigator.html

Discdogging international : Heads up on Bruno Icobet +the merle gang

Bruno Icobet and the merle gang head for the title in Romania got talent - Romanii au talent

Bruno Icobet, a sympathetic 50 year old consultant is on stage in romania. He is one of the 3 last competitors in the all over the world known casting show: "Country" got talent. He is doing this in favor of our sport discdogginng. A sport convincive with atheleticism and team work between human and dog. He achieved the finals with his 3 Border Collies "the merle gang" in the nationwide live casting show in a country which is - let me say- not famous for animal welfare.

"Unfortunately I'm the only discdogger in Romania and this is what I want to change."  

Bruno Icobet

Source: Uploaded by user via Bruno on Pinterest

 the girl" Blessed Borders Jaya aka "J" Photo by Razvan Danaila "

3 Questions with Bruno Icobet - 

Romania got talent- Romanii au talent

Hey Bruno! Congrats for making it to the finals in the nationwide casting show Romania got talent- Romanii au talent! I know you started in the casting show to spread the love for disc dogging in Romania- as we discdoggers say: to spread the disc dog bug.

2012 for me was the year I decided it was time to bring this sport in Romania. I had many demonstrations, I attended events, did a lot of live shows and in one of them I had the pleasure to have as Special Guest +Apryl Lea and +Ron Watson by G+ hangout. All these culminated with our participation at this show with the largest audience in Romania .

And now we are in the Romania’s Got Talent Final which will be tomorrow night starting at 20:30 GMT +3

Source: Uploaded by user via Bruno on Pinterest

Gentle Storm @ Wendigos Wind aka. Blue Photo by Razvan Danaila

Your show doesn’t only show that dogs can be athletes and dog handlers can obviously look fashionably- but it shows love for dogs. You are not pushing Ozzy, J and Blue beyond their limits.

You are pushing the television audience and the judges at the casting show minds beyond their boundaries.

Well after two weeks of training, not to mention the last two months to bring my team in shape, thousands of hands that have petted, we are tired -mentally. What I will do tomorrow night, is to rely on their attention on me, I will not have discs in hand, it will be a dogdancing routine, unfamiliar area to me, I will communicate with Blue Ozzie and J only with my hands and no word out. The message I want to convey is Canine Education, which is very neglected in Romania.

Source: Uploaded by user via Bruno on Pinterest

 Blessed Borders Get Up aka Ozzie Photo by Razvan Danaila 

Can you tell what your biggest fear is for the live show tomorrow?
My biggest fear is lack of attention of the boys (Blue and Ozzie) on me, because J is in season. [if a feminine dog is “in season” she is withdrawable for male companions: Wow Bruno you are raising the bar very high! ] It would have been very easy to remove "J" from the show, but we are a team in any conditions. We go together and show. Imagine two boys and a girls in season on the stage!

What is your biggest wish for tomorrows appearance at the live show?

My biggest wish is to do the show like a magic, to connect thousands of peoples with their dogs, to tell them YOU CAN DO IT!

Good luck!

Thank You Bettina !

And here they are : Bruno and the merle gang live: 

Precall:

Official link: Please click to support Bruno! http://www.protv.ro/video/romanii-au-talent_bruno-icobet_20513.html

Semifials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf-s4qYZggs (not for Germany)

---> Alternative video SEMIFINALS BRUNO ICOBET on videobam ( attention pop ups)


Please support Bruno in the finals! Heads up on dog training in Romania!

International voting can be done over the app alonia (windows and mobiles) http://www.alonia.ro/

if you want to learn more about discdogging and dogs in Romania feel free to contact +Bruno ICOBET
Bruno @ twitter https://twitter.com/K9SportsRomania
Bruno @ facebook : https://www.facebook.com/bruno.icobet?fref=ts
Bruno @ G+ : +Bruno ICOBET

Photos via pinterest by Razvan Danaila web: http://spotyphoto.co.uk/


Bruno wanted me to add : There are two great romanian discdoggers Istvan Fodor and Adrian Stoica but they live outside of Romania.

I know both of them and they do great in promoting our sport! Istvan in Hungary and Adrian in Italy.

Go Bruno! Go Blue! Go Ozzy! Go J!
Rock*a*Bello supports you!

Beautiful eyes

"just" photos

The Girls

Aloha eating a daisy

Aloha herding

Tabasco herding instinct

T
Tinka- long time ago I had such a colourful sun in the eyes foto of Tinka!

I love his natural eyeliner- and of course his colourful eyes!

Aloha has more than one colour in her eyes, too... and I am pretty sure the colour will stay as it is :-)

And ears? Well I saw some ears up ... yeah I know- but not very often- so another 2 ears down day!

Bye bye

Betty

Wie lange sollte ein Welpe spazieren gehen (dürfen) ?

German post- about the length a puppy has to / is allowed to go for a walk.
If interested one word and I will translate!

auf diesem Bild ist Aloha 10 Wochen alt

 Wie lange sollte ein Welpe spazieren gehen (dürfen) ?

"Die Länge des Spaziergangs: Als grobe Faustregel gilt: "Etwa 5 Minuten Zeit pro Spaziergang pro Lebensmonat.". Ein 12 Wochen alter Welpe ist 3 Monate alt. Er sollte tatsächlich nur etwa 15 Minuten (5 Minuten x 3 Lebensmonate = 15 Minuten) spazieren geführt werden. In dieser Zeit können Sie keine große Wegstrecke zurücklegen!"

(Quelle easy-Dogs.net)
versus

 "Babyspeck ist für Welpen gefährlich, weil ihre Gelenke bei Übergewicht permanent überfordert und so geschädigt werden. Was in den meisten von mir beobachteten Fällen zu kurz kommt, ist die Bewegung des Welpen. Nur bei Normalgewicht UND genügend Bewegung können Gelenke, Muskeln, Sehnen und Bänder des Hundes gesund heranwachsen."

(Quelle Hunde.com)

Das sind die mehr oder weniger ersten Hits, die bei Google mit den Suchworten "welpe wie lange spazieren" auftauchen.
Was ist eure Meinung dazu? ❀Aloha 4 Monate alt mit 20 Minuten AM TAG insgesamt "draußen" zu beschäftigen ist völlig außerhalb meines Verständnisses. Manchmal macht sie erst groß nach 23 Minuten- und dann? Dürfte sie demnach den ganzen Tag nicht mehr raus? Ebenso halte ich aus dem Auto (Kofferraum)  springen für eine noch zu große Belastung.  Und wie ist dieses "spazieren gehen" definiert?
Bei unseren Gängen - ich fahre wirklich bisher konsequent irgendwo hin wo sie dann rennen darf, da legt sie sich selbst oft genug ab, wenn sie sieht das es außerhalb ihrer Möglichkeiten ist- zu schnell zu weit, etc. Meiner Intuition nach dürfte sie auch mit joggen kommen. Nur eine mini 2,5 km Runde - ohne Zug natürlich. Was meint ihr? Klar 9 Wochen alte Welpen sind noch nicht ganz so langbeinig und koordiniert wie meine 4 Monate alte BC Hündin die hier mit Sparring- Partner tobt, aber ich hätte gerne mal so eure Meinung dazu :-)

 Pizza with BC Topping 18.März 2013

Aloha fängt mittlerweile an mal die Treppen alleine zu gehen, einerseits kann ich meiner Nachbarin nicht die mittlerweile ca.10kg Hund zumuten, andererseits  um Muskeln und Sehnen langsam zu stärken. Wobei ❀Aloha hoch öfter laufen darf, runter Laufen ist noch an 2 Händen abzählbar.

 

Was ist euer Gefühl, wie macht ihr es und wie habt ihr es gemacht ? 

 Bin gespannt !

Aloha Yin Yang

Today we were meeting (human) family and the borders were allowed to do their border thing with the boys. And now: tired!
But this allowed to catch a nice yin and yang photo from Aloha with Tinka. Btw. a mixed ears day.

Ears- on the go + Tinka photobomb

Ears go up, stay down, one, or two... ha. but never to be captured.
I couldn't stand to write another post full of- ears anywhere but not on a photo.. ;-) We had bad weather again, so for a decent pic I need more than my mobile phone :-)

and again- she is growig into her ears- her right one a bit higher than her left one- last week it was a whole 2 ears down week!

Today my cam went with us and I had some time to go through the pics, too.

Thank you for your concern about Aloha and apparently for reading the blog! Don't worry she is doing perfectly fine!

Aloha proudly moving in front of Tabasco, showing of her captured goodie

"WHAT? I think it is comfy down here!"

While the Borders were running around and around and around me, I lent on a tree trying to capture them- Tinka instead photobombed and wanted to be No. 1 motive. Okay: I listen to my dogs: here you go ;-)

Tinka photobomb 

Photobomb2 Tinka

Which one do you prefer?

 

See you soon!
Bettina