Veny - Girl Fever van 't Hof Diabolo

We 've heard from Kim, the owner of Veny, that on Saturday 12 July, they would try and go for their obedience license. We had loved to be there but unfortunately I had to work. Afterwards she emailed me to say they did an excellent job! They gained first place and that with a fabulous score of 100/100. A very big congratulation and carry on like this!

Reunion

On the 21st of July, we organised a reunion for all the families that had 'adopted' a diabolo-border collie. The weather was terrible for a day in July, but besides that, we had a very pleasant time. The dogs were running around and playing with each other as if they always lived together. We had no problems at all with any of the doggies. Everyone was very glad to see the littermates of their puppy back, although the most of them were quite big already ;)
Afterwards we went for a drink in a tea room a friend of mine, and owner of Golden Boy - Foley, had arranged for us.
I like to thank Martine for that and also Peter to take so many beautiful pics!

Here's a couple of them; more can be seen on our site

And as you can see, not only the dogs were having fun!!

A quickie

We were still waiting for the hipresults of 4 of our dogs. Today Falco's came in, he has a B1, hopefully the others will have the same good results :)

Casey and Ginger

On Friday, Casey was ready to be mated, so I drove up to Ostend to help our Falco do his first mating. After trying for a while, we inseminated Casey because although Falco wanted to cover her, he didn't finish the job. Martine would repeat it two days later and then we could only hope it would be enough. On Fridayafternoon, Martine left for a whole weekend agility competitions with Falco, Bruce and Phoenix, Casey stayed at home. When she got back and Falco went outside with Casey, he immediately mated her. Martine was very happy and when I heard the news I was to of course!
The mating has been repeated on Tuesday and on Thursday, we should be expecting chocolate and chocolate merle puppies around the 20th of August

We've started to draw blood from Ginger on Thursday, to see when she would be ready to be mated so we wouldn't have to drive all the way up to Laakdal for nothing. We got the results back at the evening and it needed to be repeated two days later. We went back on Saturday and she was almost ready for it, we've decided to drive to Daisy's on Sunday, since we already were halfway up there on a family visit anyway so. When we got there and Ginger saw Zion, she immediately growled at him, we've tried a couple of times but it was useless, she didn't want him near her. We drove back home and would come back on Tuesday.
When I went back that morning, everything looked totally different from the moment Ginger saw Zion, she totally fell in love LOL. After having played for an hour, Zion finally mated her! Daisy and I were both very happy of course! This litter is also expected around the 20th of August. We're very excited!
Here is a lovely photo of the handsome Zion, Illusion in Red From Borders Paradise:

More pictures

We've recieved some more pictures earlier this week from puppies that are born with us. It's always nice to know how they are doing and what they are up to and what kind of adventures they've experienced.

This time it's about Farrin, a blue and white bitch out of Spice and XTC. She lives with Natasja and her boyfriend in Holland. Natasja is very active with Farrin, they have recently succesfully ended an obedience course and they came first out of twelve dogs, congratulations therefor.

Now they have started with Farrin's favourite hobby, herding, and she has a lot of talent. People who are in that sport for many years, say about her that she could be an excellent herding dog, some of them are even a bit jealous. It's not that easy to find a good dog. Sometimes it takes them years to find the ultimated working collie.

So, keep up the good work Farrin, and of course Natasja....



Recently, Farrin gained a friend, the lilac tricolour bitch "Here I Am" Legend. A full sister to Farrin, same dam and sire, only a litter later. Hopefully Legend will have the same talent to herd as her sister, but for now, she can enjoy her life as a puppy.

We look forward to hear from these two rascals!

More pics can be found on our site