Once again I made sure that berner zennenhunds are very cleaver, careful, have a fair and realistically assess their strength. Last summer Hilary bravely was going after me in the water and was trying to swim. Her back legs were touching the bottom and with her front legs she was “properly” swimming. Once I rushed to swim to the shore letting Hilary to catch me up. Unfortunately just later I realised that I made a huge mistake. My girl touched the shore terrified, tired and she was scared to go with me in the water again. My hope to teach Hilary how to swim was lost.
This summer I started from the beginning. Knowing that my girl protects me a lot she started to go with me in the water again. Half walking she was “swimming” forwards to me and with her front legs was trying to climb on me asking a break and come back together to the shore. To turn her around and teach properly to swim 40kg dog is not so easy. My all body was full of bruises! By holding her tail, belly and letting her know that I will never leave her alone we were learning how to swim.. and finally she believed in me and her strenght. The panic and fair disappeared and my Hilary bravely jumped into the deap water to take her toy. We were ready to jump after her to rescue but she proudly swam fully under the water with a toy in her teath to the shore. I am very glad that my both girls are swimming as this is the best sport for the massive dogs!
2013.07.21 was National dog show in Ukmergė, judge Igoris Zizevskis (Lithuania). First time in the puppy class was our girl from "D" litter Divine Discovery Tai Brizo (Bacardi). Divine Discovery Tai Brizo - Very Promising 1 Congratulations to owner Dalia Gibavičienė. We wish you in the future many nice victories!!!
13/14 July was dog show in Tvaaker (Sweeden). In the dog show were 82 bernese mountain dogs. The first time here in the champion class was our male Shardo. The both days Shardonnet Cesar Brizo got EXCELLENT 2. Thanks to Jovita and Erikas Piskunovai for excellent Shardo's showing in the ring, nice grooming and photos.