Blackcraft K9

03/10/2025

Let's dance. 🐾

03/04/2025

It recently occurred to me that I've been a little (or a lot.. 😅) bad about updating our page.

Our Instagram page has been much more active:

Took a little hiatus, had a few changes, and have been getting back into the swing of things.

12/18/2023

Nile (Berserker), Hexe (Abracadabra), and Muninn (Björn).

11/04/2023

Some OB fun with Muninn.

11/04/2023

Muninn (Björn) being introduced to the bicep.

10/24/2023

Muninn! It's been slow and steady with this young man, and I'm really liking where he's headed. 🥹

10/24/2023

Hexe! Small but mighty.. maybe not equipped with much of an out though. 😅

10/02/2023

10/02/2023

Vandal's celebrating his 6th birthday in style!

09/24/2023

... and a perfect Vandal moment from today's OB. 😅☠️

09/24/2023

Annnnd that's a wrap on the trial weekend! While we did not grab any legs of our PSA 1 this weekend I am so fu***ng proud of my dog and the work we've done these last few months.

Day 1: Passed OB! Those who know us know how much of a project that has been, he's not a very easy dog and we've been working pretty hard to revamp our approach to heeling and decoy neutrality.

Unfortunately when it came time for protection, Vandal decided that he'd rather not out during the carjacking. Honestly if we're going to fail in protection that's the way I'd want to go out.

Day 2: Shenanigans! I think we were both feeling the fatigue of the multi day trip and OB was a bit loose, crept out of boundary during the long down, and assaulted a teddy bear. But! He didn't bite the decoy so we'll take that win.

While it would have been amazing to have made it all the way through both phases, my main goal was to just do better than we have previously, and we accomplished that. It's been a bit of a rough year and I struggled a lot with burnout and questioning a lot of my "whys". This weekend helped to remind me.

Guess we'll be back at it again next season. 🙃

09/15/2023

Happy 2nd birthday to our "A" team! (Riot x Hruza)