Noonbarra Jackaroo X Barclays Queen
Born 11th July 2009
Owned by Anna (Kiss) and Istvan in Hungary
Noonbarra Elmo was purchased for high level Agility competition work in Hungary.
We watched the dvd, it is amazing how your dogs are herding. I've already read the book, and started down/stay lessons, I only had to push him down once, and he was sleeping, but on another time we done this with him he didn't pop up, but he whimpered all the time. Elmo is growing fast, he is now taller than Ethan. He is learning more and more things, like going around something (it is usefull in agility), walking without a leash, he sits down by himself before we walk across a road, he can walk by leg (not strictly by my leg, a bit before me, but he is looking up at me all the time) and he knows the most important thing what a dog must know: giving paws:)
He is much calmer, now if we work, learn or just have a
break and watching a film, he lies down by our feet and sleeps. He didn't stop
to herd everything that moves (mostly dogs, birds and people), but we managed to
break his car herding habit, so now we can walk peacefully near roads. In
december we will go to a herding training with Ethan, but we want to try it with
Elmo if the instructor allows it.
I've attached some photos, hope you can open it. There are some pictures from
his everyday life, and some of them was taken on the agility winter cup, where
we met Nina with Brynn and Will. (Noonbarra Brynn and Noonbarra Will in Croatia)
They were fantastic, I hope somedays I can run with Elmo like she did:)
Elmo is so big now, he is almost a real man:) he has really good body
struckture, when he jumps/runs it's like he does'nt spend any energie to do
it, he is so airy. All of our agility teachers and team mates speaks in
superlatives of him. He is crazy for agility. I take him to as much compatiton
as I can, so he get used to the noises and the lots of dogs.
Now we have like 30cm-s snow and -10 centigrade, and first I thought that he will need some dog clothes, but he does'nt seems like freezing. He actually does'nt care about the snow, even if only his head is out of it:)
He likes to sit by our smaller animals cage, and stare them all the day. At night he sleeps mostly by our bed, usually on my leg, but when we does'nt want him there, he also sleeps good in his own bed (he can be really funny, sleeping on his back, legs up to the air, and his teeth is out of his mouth).
August 2010....First of all, I have to say, he is a very
special dog to us and as always said, we can't thank you enough for him. Since
we have him, we can't imagine our life without a kelpie, and we are sure that
our next dog will be a kelpie too. He is talented in every dog sport that we try
out with him.
He knows now every obstacle in agility, we will now improve his contact zones. I love to do agility with him. He reacts to my movement in a fracture of a minute. Sometimes my team mates ask me if they can run with him. Everyone is amazed by his turnings, he can turn around in the air. At the weekend we will take part in our first agility competition. There will be an unofficial category for beginner dogs, without contact obstacles and he will jump on medium height.
We often play frisbee with him at the park, he is like a flea, jumping so high, that everyone who saw him doing frisbee says WOW! We entered a competition with him last month, we ended up on 8th place out of 20 (mainly because I can't throw so good).
He simply loves children...from the moment a child appears when we're playing frisbee, he gives the disc to the child and only wants to play with him/her. He is especially patient and friendly with children, they can do everything with him without Elmo going crazy :)
Noonbarra Elmo as puppy at the Noonbarra Stud - his first introduction to Merino sheep.
Noonbarra Elmo with his Grand sire, Noonbarra Dusty III.
Noonbarra Elmo growing into an adult in Hungary
Noonbarra Elmo showing agile skill in Hungary
Noonbarra Elmo was very keen as a puppy on sheep
We taught him to walk along the backs of sheep as this is excellent foundation work for Agility competition later on.
