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Welcome to Wendy's Blog!

Wendy Beard: Mother, Dog Trainer, Agilty Competitor, AAC judge, Engineer, Photographer.

Wendy lives in Carp, Ontario, just outside Canada's capital.

Tyra – 9 September 2002 to 28 August 2018

So hard to write, as somehow, by writing it down it becomes real.

Tyra left us on 28 August 2018, less than two weeks before her 16th birthday. She had valiantly fought bone cancer for the last two months of her life. Her spirit and determination showed through the whole time, until one day, it became too much, and the spark left her eyes.

She has ruled the roost at home ever since she arrived that evening in November. She flew into Montreal. We picked her up, and drove 3 hours back home in a snowstorm with her ranting crossly in the crate in the back of the car. When she got older she ranted a lot too. Usually on an agility course. I never really noticed that she did it until I saw the photos afterwards. I have a huge collection of her rants 🙂

We did so much together, and she brought me so many friends. She achieved many titles. Conformation champion, Agility Champion, She also earned titles in Disc, Herding, Obedience and Rally. We travelled far and wide – to Moncton, NB in the East and Calgary, AB in the West and to many places in the US.

Having never been to a dog show in my life, I decided we should take conformation classes and amazingly in our very fist show, she took Best Puppy in group and went on to the best Puppy in Show ring! She took this award two times more in her show career and easily achieved her conformation Championship.

We moved on to Agility and competed for over 9 years together. She earned her CKC agility championship twice. Once as a Regular dog, and again as a Veteran. She earned her AAC Championship and then went on to earn her Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012, she won her category at the AAC Regional Championships.

She was an inveterate toy thief. No bags were safe. If there was a toy there, she’d find it. She didn’t de-stuff them, just squeaked them to death! The sheepie toy she was given as a gift a long time ago in her Rally class, after coveting it the whole session, now sits on top of the cupboard as a reminder of her.

But THIS is how she will always be remembered. In the agility ring.

AGMCh AGMChV Ch Blackcomb’s Dreaming of Ewe ATChC, LAA (Lifetime Achievement Award), VGA, ExSt Gold, ExJ Gold, ExG Gold, ExS Gold, ExSc Gold, AGMX, AGMXJ2, MX, MXJ, MXF, AXJP, XFP, OAP, RECL (CARO), RE (CKC/AKC), CGN, PCD, CD, DD, HT

And then there were two!

Two of the puppies went to their new homes this weekend, Maris and Yukon. Here are the 4 puppies together for their last playtime.

Puppy Playtime

Puppy Playtime

Maris – Now named “Swick” was the first to leave on Saturday with new owners Lise and Michel

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Yukon – Now named “Mika” left on Sunday with Helene and Alain

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Marco/Thalys puppies at 7 weeks

They went on the road to another agility trial on Saturday and Sunday. Here they are at Guides Canins in St Lazare, QC

Puppies do Guides Canins

Marco/Thalys puppies at 6 weeks

Playing in the bottle pool!

Marco/Thalys puppies at 6 weeks

Marco/Thalys Puppies at 5 weeks

Getting bigger and more mobile – just like real dogs now!

Marco/Thalys pups at 5 weeks

Marco/Thalys puppies at 4 weeks

Puppies at 4 weeks. Their first trip out onto the grass.
Click through the photos to flick through their Flickr album!

Marco/Thalys pups at 4 weeks

Marco/Thalys puppies at 3 weeks

Puppies at 3 weeks. Click through the photos to flick through their Flickr album!
As you can see from the first photo, Mr Jersey Royal has a cleft nose. He has been thoroughly checked out by the vet and his palate, jaw and septum are unaffected. It just means that he looks a little different than the other pups, with his heart-shaped nose.

Marco/Thalys puppies at 3.5 weeks

Marco/Thalys puppies at 2 weeks

Puppies at two weeks. Their eyes are open now. Click on the arrows to flick through their Flickr album!
The first three are Jersey Royal, the next two are Yukon Gold (with the white paw) the nest are Maris Piper and finally King Edward – aka Fat Eddie!

Marco/Thalys puppies at 2 weeks

Puppies – Day 6

Weigh Day!

We’ve got babies!

We’ve got babies!
Born 20 July 2015 to smug father, Marco (Am/Can Ch ATChC Silver Award of Merit Basquelaine Ewe’R Marco Polo AGX AGXJ IP CD CGN MX MXJ MXF ExSn Silver ExJ Bronze ExStd Silver) and Thalys (Can Ch Blackcomb Roodkapje Ewe Bet)
4 babies – One black boy, one brown girl and two brown boys. Mother and pups doing well.

Thalys & pups.

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White Boy
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Black Boy
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Pink Girl
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Brown Boy
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