Hayaikaze - Kai Ken Breeder (2024)

22/01/2023

Hello 2023!

We wrapped 2022 up with a lot of fun.

Kurisu finished the year with getting her Trick Dog Intermediate and ACT 1J (Agility Course Test Jumpers) titles!

Bakugo finished the year with getting his Trick Dog Intermediate and CGC (Canine Good Citizen) titles! He also finished and started the year with a Group 2 in UKC in a competitive Northern group of 8 breeds!! AND a Group 1 / Best in Miscellaneous in AKC for 2 more points towards his CM! (6 points total out of 15, almost half way!) We also did 1 day of Nosework where he picked up 2 Qs towards his Advanced Containers title!

Tavi finished 2022 strong with completing both of her Open Standard and Open Jumpers titles, and getting 2 Excellent Jumper legs!

Nare also went to his first Nosework trial as an old mans, and got 2 Qs in Novice Containers and 2 Qs in Novice Interiors :)

We are starding the year as:

"Tavi", MBIS MRBIS ALCH Yamabushi no Octave Melody CM RN CAA DCAT SCN SIN NFP OJP OAP NJC DDCN CGCA CGCU TKA ATT RATS RATI SPOT-ON

MBIS MRBIS IntCH UWP GRCH Hayaikaze's Lab Member 004 CM CAA DCAT RN ACT1J CGCA CGCU TKI ATT FMD RATO RATI SPOT-ON

"Bakugo", BIS Hayaikaze's No. 1 Hero Bakusatsu-ou SCN CA BCAT CGC TKI RATI

And I can't wait to see where 2023 takes us !! 😁

02/10/2022

At the start of September we went to an AKC Rally Obedience trial where Kurisu won 1st place in Novice and finished her Rally Novice (RN) title! She is the 3rd Kai Ken ever to achieve this, her momma Tavi being the first 😁.

Tavi then won 3rd place in her Rally Advance trial the next day!

These girls always impress me so much. 🥰

26/08/2022

Spotlight time!

This is Tavi, also known as Yamabushi no Octave Melody. She was the first Kai Ken I ever met, when she was flown to me at just 9 weeks old and only 4.5lb! She was born September 9th, 2013, making her almost 9 years old!

Words cannot express how amazing of a dog Tavi is. Every day is a wonderful journey with her. She is so sweet and understanding, yet also fierce and driven. I am so proud to call her my teammate. We do our best to communicate and we work through all of life’s challenges together.

Tavi is the mother to all 3 of the litters we’ve had so far and has been spayed for a couple years, having her litters in December 2016, September 2018, and June 2020. I spaced litters out because it is very important to me that she had plenty of time to recover and have time to herself between litters. Shes an amazing momma, but I love being able to enjoy her too!

Just because she is spayed though, doesn’t mean the fun has stopped! My dogs are members of the pack for life and she has been enjoying her retirement thoroughly with non-stop agility, coursing, and hiking fun! She gets spoiled often with puppuccinos from Starbucks and wishes to eat her weight in string cheese during training sessions. :P

Tavi is a record-breaking Kai Ken, she is so versatile and fun that it is just in her nature to go the limit!

***The first Kai Ken ever to earn a CM (Certificate of Merit, rare breed Champion equivalent) in AKC. She earned her CM in 2019, 22 years after the breed entered AKC FSS in 1997!***

*The first Kai Ken to earn AKC Scentwork titles, the second Kai Ken overall to earn Scentwork titles (the first being Sumi of Minimeadow, who earned her NW3 in NACSW!)
***The first Kai Ken to earn RATO & RATS titles in Barn Hunt!
*The first Kai Ken to earn an AKC Rally title!
***The third Kai Ken ever to title in AKC Agility (the first and second being Kori & Pop!)
*The first Kai Ken to pass AKC’s Temperament Test (ATT)!
And so so so much more!

In a couple weeks we're heading to a couple Rally trials and competing in Rally Advanced. 😁 Hoping to turn her RN into RA !

10/03/2022

Time flies when you’re having fun!

In June 2021 we had a lot of fun playing some agility and Tavi got her Novice Jumpers title! We also attended a USCSS (United States Canine Scent Sport) trial and Tavi received her DDCN (Detection Dog Classic Novice) title. She got this by qualifying in Containers, Interiors, Exteriors, and Vehicles all in the same day.

Bakugo is part of the Canine Hip Dysplasia Biomarker study with the University of Missouri—this included sending in blood and urine samples when he was a puppy and taking hip x-rays at 12 & 24 months old. When he turned 1 in June he had his preliminary hip testing done with OFA and came back as prelim Good! He also had pennhip done and came back with the lowest (best!) scores of all my dogs—0.29/0.33! We are not in a rush to breed him so we haven’t done any other testing yet.

In July 2021 we attended the Western Washington Cluster shows and Bakugo brought home a Best in Open Show, earning his first AKC points! At the same show Tavi got her Scentwork Containers Novice title and 2 qualifying runs for Buried Novice!

In August 2021 we attended a day of the Washington Classic where Bakugo got to show with a friend of mine since I had broken my ankle and couldn’t run. Kurisu was entered in Weight Pull and placed 3rd overall in Novice dogs, pulling 15.88x her weight and picking up 10 more points towards her UWPCH!

September 2021 we did some more Nosework with Tavi completing her Scentwork Interior Novice title and picking up some Advance Containers, Advance Interior, and Novice Exterior Qs. We also did some barn hunt and Tavi completed her Senior (RATS) title, the first Kai Ken to do so! Bakugo got his Instinct (RATI) and a qualifying Novice run, then he was a naughty p*e boy. The hay bales are very tempting!! Kurisu also played in Senior but did not find her 4th rat in time.

All the Kai Ken got to do their favorite thing—lure coursing!! We did FCAT and Tavi completed her DCAT title, the 2nd Kai Ken to get it. We are now a little over halfway to getting her FCAT title! Bakugo proved to be a sp*edy boy, his fastest run being 27.48mph!
Finally, in October Bakugo got his Scentwork Containers Novice title and a qualifying run in Interior novice! Bakugo also got his Novice Trick Dog title. Tavi played for the first time in Masters in Barn Hunt, we did not qualify (we got really close!), but we learned a lot!

January 2022 treated us to some good fortune with Kurisu winning Best in Open Show & completing her Certificate of Merit title! The 2nd Kai Ken to finish her CM (rare breed CH in AKC), the 1st being her momma Tavi. 😊

So far this month both Kurisu and Bakugo picked up a Rally Novice leg, we’re so excited to get their RN title! They’ve been working hard and are so smart. I’m so proud of them.
We also hit the agility course again, Tavi collecting Qs in FAST, Standard, and JWW! Earning two 1st places and a 2nd place. Tavi finished her NFP (Novice FAST) title, I think a first for Kai Ken. I’m really excited to play in Time 2 Beat and the other agility games offered! Kurisu and Bakugo have been making steady progress in agility.

March isn’t over yet—we still have some coursing and more agility to get through. I can’t guarantee my updates on here, but I usually post a lot on Instagram!

www.instagram.com/omgtain

The last year was a bit of a roller coaster, including me breaking my ankle and then when my ankle was finally healed a deer ran into our car on our way to an agility trial. Despite all of that we still had a ton of fun! So excited to see what the rest of 2022 brings.

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Last weekend Tavi ran her first Fast CAT and clocked in at 26.16mph :) Kurisu also placed 2nd in group at the Sammamish show! 💕 This weekend we will be at the Olympic Kennel Club in Enumclaw, WA for some more Fast CATs and next month we're planning to head to Cathlamet, WA for some CATs as Kurisu will be over a year old and able to run! 😁

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