LO
(Vedette of the Gloaming, born 10.1.1997)
Lo is the funny one, always in a good mood, always full of energy, always ready to make you laugh - actually she is always ready to do ANYTHING for you. And everything she does, she does it with so much enthusiasm as just Pyrenean Shepherd can…
That makes her a great dog to work with – despite all her fears and phobias… Yeap, she is a strange dog and used to be terrified of almost everything as a puppy, it took me six months to get her over dog-walk because of her fear of height... She is also not the brightest dog around, but she sure has a big heart… - Big enough to make her one of most successful agility dogs ever, she has gathered many, many important results in her long career.
She has been among top three in most of numerous competitions that she ran, she has many, many wins from many different countries, including wins in some big competitions (IMCA, EO etc.), is running in World Championships since 1998 and has many great placements on world level too, 4th place in 2005, 5th place in 2000, 2nd place (after La :) in jumping 2003, many jumping team wins etc. to name just a few. Because of her flat jumping style, she slips way more as other dogs on carpet, so she is not really World Championships dog, but for years, she had been unbeatable on grass. Despite her age and training methods that were used 10 years ago (stopping contacts, training more for straight lines as turns etc.) she is still one of the best medium dogs in the world. She had been National Champion every year from 1998 to 2004 – after that, La took the glory while Lo is normally ending as second one now.
Not too bad for a dog that I was told will never be able to do agility because of her fearfulness. I heard that before, I was told my Samoyed will never do agility either, so I again just didn’t listen. I have long history of not listening: Samoyeds can’t do agility, get a Border Collie, PyrSheps can’t do agility, get a Sheltie, Lo won’t be able to do agility, get another dog… I’ve heard it all. And always knew better than that :).