B.A.S.E. 2025

 (I know my blog posting is whimsical at best, but not gonna apologise)

So this year I made the crazy decision to go alone to BASE and bought myself a mattress for rear seats of my tiny yellow car with the intention of sleeping there rather than in a tent (good decision, considering how much it tends to rain in Denmark). Then Maupka got in heat and the situation with three boys and her got a bit intense, so in the end we decided that I take all the boys (and Mojo) with me and leave the girls, Maupka included, at home with Roman to make our lives a bit easier and drove 1000 km to Denmark for tne annual Pyrshep competition. 

I have literally one complaint, that the jumps were metal - everybody knows I hate metal jumps with all my heart and they should be gone from the planet forever, but 

as Brego is no longer competing and all the other Pyrsheps I know are smart enough not to crash jumps plus the judges Daniel Eiling Eichler and Gert Bruus did great job with course designing (really fun, FAST, fluent courses that we enjoyed a lot), no dogs or humans were hurt. 

Metal obstacles apart, it was PERFECT. The organising crew consisted of the nicest and most helpful people on Earth and thought of every detail to make the competition a great experience for everybody:

Attention to details :)

- they booked awesome venue with huge meadows to walk the dogs and lots of space for camping, plus all the facilities like toilets, showers, club house to socialise etc.

- they made nice podium and background for photos:

- they organised lunch and dinner every day and OMG, those were absolutely delicious. THE STEAKS. THE FRUIT AND CHEESE SALAD. I'm a simple woman and the way to my heart goes through the heart, so they have my love forever now. 

- they arranged for a great dog physiotherapist to be present on the spot and got everybody a free coupon for check up for dogs, 

- they found awesome sponsors so we got great welcome package and super nice rewards,

- they invited super judges who understood Pyrsheps, made awesome courses and had great attitude. 

- they made sure there was a tractor and red carpet which made it possible for some of us to leave the venue on Monday morning after three nights of rain. Oh, btw, somehow the organisers also made sure that it rained only at night ;). 

As we know, BASE is mostly about meeting Pyrshep friends from all around the world. This year it was very special to me, because we had a meeting of 5 out of 6 Brabousies (Brava and Babou puppies) - it was great to see them in great shape - Brie and Babou are even still competing at 12 years old! 

Babou (top), Brego, Neo, Brie

Babou, Brego, BB

Reksio also met his family. 

He didn't want anything to do with his actual brother:

Posed with mum, brother and half-siblings which somehow resemble him more than his actual siblings:

Because the actual sibling is father's clone:

On second thought, maybe not so sure about the half-siblings either... Are they crazy or what. Gimme treats.

But Brego and Chibee still love each other (they actually do and were happy to meet again, that was cute):

Oh, apart from numerous meetings with friends and family and socialising and eating and walking, there was also some agility involved. I was running with Pucek and Reksio and the boys did great, both qualifying for the final. Pucek was awesome and got 2nd place in individual final and 3rd place in teams with Bayli (with Melitta Berthold) and Filou (with Denise Eckert, how cool it is to make new friends and stand on a podium together few minutes later?).

Reksio was Reksio, had some great moments and some brain farts which caused him to miss straight jumps after doing all the difficult stuff (seriously: all the weaves and all the contacts were super). We had fun nevertheless :). 

So, some of our runs:

Pyrshep world family: 

Oh, I actually had a great suprise from Kathrin and Ulli, aka my wocker family, who were on holidays nearby and decided to visit, which reminds me I also need to write about our annual wocker family meeting that took place in the beginning of July and was just as awesome :).