AKIRA featured on Trini Dog Stars website!!

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Akira Vom Foesterhaus, oh what a beautiful dog, owned, trained and handled by Vithala Singh. She is the first locally trained and titled Schutzhund 2 dog in Trinidad and Tobago.

To achieve a title of Schutzhund 2 is a large undertaking but what Vit, as he is commonly called, is trying to do is get her titled as a Schutzhund 3 dog with a score to represent Trinidad and Tobago in the WUSV (the World Union of German Shepherd Clubs) in Spain October 2010.

We, the dog community is giving Akira and by extension Vithala our undying support in this huge venture, and we look foward to seeing the success of this fine specimen which is Akira Vom Foesterhaus.

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World's within our reach!

To have put a Schutzhund 1 title on a dog in Trinidad is hard enough. To make the Schutzhund 2 was large undertaking. Now we must do again what no one has and even duplicating our efforts seems to be an ellusive goal. We intend on doing the Schutzhund 3 in Trinidad and making in that trial, a score for qualification to represent Trinidad at the WUSV in Spain October 2010.  We need to clean up a couple areas like smoother corners in the tracking, and faster retrieves with the dumbbell, and of course Akira could be a bit cleaner in the Hold and Bark. But that's just the training! We would need a coaching decoy to help us for the qualifications, a Judge to agree to our trial with short notice and then that's only the Quali trial! Then if we stretch our ambitions further, we need to get to Europe in time to prepare and acclimate in the weather and conditions in order to just make it as one of the 140+ competitors in the World Cup for German Shepherd Schutzhund Sport....

Alot must come together. I have asked my coaches' advice and we are working daily on the finer points... But at the end of it we may still need a little bit of luck. So send me your comments and feedback and keep logging in to see more updates.

Schutzhund Trial in Trinidad under US Judge

Thanks to Judge Joe Tackett we were able to have a schutzhund Trial in Trinidad for the second time this year. And it was one that set the stage for a couple historic occurrences. It was the first time a Rottweiler got a BH Title locally. He is owned by Michael Walcott from the Universal Schutzhund Club of T&T.

Also, I was joined by Allan Mitchell as being the first Decoys from Trinidad to work in a local trial under an international judge.

And as if I did not wear enough hats on the day, I was able to title Akira to her Schutzhund 2 with 91-90-88 and a High in Obedience and Tracking. All the work with Bernhard Flinks on my tracking, and using techniques from Ivan Balabanov on my obedience really paid off! The Trial was held under the auspices of the German Shepherd Breed Club of T&T and now we are one step closer to the qualification trial in September for the WUSV Trinidad Team.
We will take a rest for a couple days and then back to training pretty soon so we can improve on those scores for the Schutzhund 3.