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Longcrags Rooskie. Papillon.

Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog -- Bronze and Silver.

Heelwork to Music Dog

On the 17th October, 2002, Rooskie took the test for the Paws and Music Association's Progress Award in Musical Dressage, Level 1 and passed with Merit.

He later took further tests and gained further Progress awards certificates. This was the very beginning of Rooskie's career in Heelwork to Music. He became an enthusiastic competer at HTM Events competing under Kennel Club rules and in August 2006 he qualified out of Starters Freestyle and was now in the second class -- Novice Freestyle.

To learn more about Rooskie click on the following.

Rooskie. Stories and Memories and also the Rooskie Press Newsletter. Also More Photographs of Rooskie and Rooskie Training Notes. And Rooskie and Heelwork to Music.

With regard to the Newsletter, it is in the form of a diary and it is divided into sections. The last section is always about Rooskie.

Rooskie was born on the 19th June, 1998. I got him when he was three months old. Here he is at four months.

His name is the Galloway Tinkler-gypsy word for basket -- and he is small enough to go into a gypsy basket. He is called after a dog in a series of books I am working on. Solway Sleuth-hounds -- a series of who-dunnits set in south west Scotland at the time of Robert Burns.

Here I am with Rooskie when he was three months old.

This photograph was taken in the garden of my holiday chalet on the shores of the Solway Firth. Rooskie enjoys long walks along the Solway beaches. For such a small dog he has an amazing amount of stamina.

Rooskie at fourteen months learning "Hold" and "give" with his little dumb-bell.

Rooskie has been going to the local dog class since he was four months old. He gained his Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog -- Bronze -- at nine months old and just over a year later he got the silver.

Learning to jump. For fun. Again in the garden of the Solway chalet.

I don't drive and travelling by public transport is difficult so Rooskie will not be following in Moff and Dusty's pawprints in Working Trials.

But something very exciting has just happened. We have both discovered a wonderful new canine activity -- Heelwork to Music. We both thoroughly enjoy the training and hope to pursue it.

Rooskie at fourteen months.

Rooskie is proving to be very photogenic and is giving me plenty of practise with my digital camera. He is a very affectionate dog and below is another photograph of me with my little pal.

Finally here I am again with Rooskie -- this time at nine months old.

Click for More Photographs of Rooskie. Rooskie and Heelwork to Music.

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