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My everyday time is more or less in the sign of the companion animals – especially dogs. I am Marketing Manager  in a pharmaceutical company promoting veterinary products, my main hobby (my way of living) is kinology, and everything is driven by my basic subject – veterinary medicine. On the first week of my leave I attended the Rehabilitation & Physiotherapy course for companion animals in Wien.

Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien looks like a small town. Dogs seem to be not only allowed but almost like a “must”. Boji was one of our “students in the rehabilitation class . During the lectures she jumped around playing with the parsons russell terrier Sugar owned by the lecturer and during the breaks she played in the nearby playground reserved especially for dogs. She even joined us at lunch in canteen.

There were 30 participants from around the world (Italy, Turkey, Spain, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Austria, Litvania, Thailand, Slovenia  ). We learned basics on Rehabilitation & Physiotherapy of companion animals. We enjoyed the practical part, which will be even more intense on the advanced course in September. Thermotherapy, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, neurology and neurological examination of our “patients” and Boji, are only one small part of the wide world of rehabilitation and physiotherapy in which we will dive again in September.

I already practiced some massage, thermotherapy, therapeutic exercises and electrotherapy with Ajk and Kaya – of course under the supervision of our physiotherapist Kristina Porenta. Now, I am going to upgrade this knowledge and maybe by TENS and if winning the lottery maybe also underwater treadmill.

Photos!

My weekends this year are full of K9 events. On the first weekend of June I attended the seminar of Nikita Xever. Theoretical work with video clips has been mixed to practical exercises of Nikita and his wife Olga with the dog Aya. We also had some time for practice with our own dogs. I must say that I really like this method, which uses the dogs will to work and it is not based on the commands from the handler. Now I know a little bit more about it and I must say, that a lot of my question-marks vanished.  We are constantly learning new skills.

Unfortunately there are no photographs – I forgot to take some.

Kaya made it again! On the last competition she performed really great – it was her best performance ever – in RO competition. We made it to the 7th place and achieved 132 points.

My little girl Kaycha

I was disqualified with Ajk. Despite disqualification, I was really satisfied with his work. Not so good work at the start  finished in really great cooperative work. Unfortunately we were to slow and we exceeded the allowed 3 minutes.

PHOTOS!

Long working week ended with K9 working weekend. Saturday was in sign of the ERPS exercise (= exercise of  all SAR units of Slovenia), that took place on 5 workstations in Dolenjskem. In other words: waking up at 5 o’clock in the morning, “coffee” with other K9 SAR “maniacs” and work, work and work – with a lot of fun, of course.

Ajk as usually knew already the day before, that we are going somewhere the next morning. Therefore he followed every move of his beloved owner in order she doesn’t forget anything. This time I remembered to take his toy. He woke me up in the morning and jumped in the car with happiness on his white face.

The organisation of the exercise was great.

"parked"

Sleeping beauty

At the first stop, we had the task to search for the person suspected of committing suicide. Our team leader Robi delegated the parts of the route we had to search and we were looking for everything that could belong to the missing person. We found a hat and a shoe. On the second workstation we crossed “a big dangerous” river   and continued the walk towards our third stop, where we searched some ruins. Ajk found the missing person really fast. We left the other victims to other members of the SAR team. Next stop was the bar on the small sports airport, where we got some rest in the shadow. After refreshing with the cold drink, we continued to our last stop. We had to find 2 missing persons in  the steep slope. Since Ajk was the oldest SAR dog in the group, we got the easiest route for searching. Since I was delegated the middle route (the easiest one) I was responsible for coordination of the whole searching line. Together we searched the area and Ajk did a very good job. He was paing attention to every hint I gave him (I am not giving him orders since a long time ago – I don’t need it, since  I must say we have a really great relationship). At the stop for the needs of the coordination of the searching line, I heard him barking. He found the victim. After this last exercise we provided our empty and hungry stomachs some food.

HERE you can find some photographs!

Some of the photos are also stored on the SAR gallery!

Kaya - waiting to go

This weekend we had to do some K9 work again. Ajk, Kaya, me and my partner went together on the 2nd national RO competition. My wishes for the cloudy weather didn’t come through. So, we had a beautiful sunny day a little bit hot for an English bulldog and a veteran boxer.

I started today K9 work with Kaya. We were the last competitor team in the RO I class. Despite high temperatures and my skepticism, my girl surprised me with much better work than last time. She was still far away from the work on the trainings, but we achieved a great 8th place  .

Let's go!

We didn’t have so beautiful race with Ajk this time. It was my fault, since I wasn’t careful on his will to work. Because of this fact I was loosing his attention more and more during the race. Therefore he did some bad jumps & slalom. The result: unqualified. I was angry on myself, but I felt a little bit better when performing on the same course again unofficially with much better work.

Some PHOTOS (unfortunately not of very good quality).