Jure Klobučar

We first met Thor about three years ago at an animal shelter. He was the only one of the six puppies to turn his back on us. We decided he wasn't going to get rid of us that easily, so we reserved him and soon after took him home with us. When we gave him his name (Thor is the god of thunder and lightning in Nordic mythology) we had no idea how well it fit his character.

We had all kinds of problems with him-initially health problems, then, even more challenging, behavioral ones. Since we were not able to cope with them on our own, we began attending obedience classes. He passed his A exam, but we gave up on the B-BH one. In the meantime he had a complicated fracture in his front paw, and we had to put aside his training for a while. After he recovered we tried again-this time with agility. On the first day he refused to cross the entrance to the kennel club grounds, but after a year of effort we now have a completely new dog coming to the club-always with a frisbee in his mouth. :)

He has been interested in frisbee from the very beginning. We started with a plastic frisbee, then continued with cloth ones, then we got a real professional frisbee made for dogs as a gift and the others went into the trash. When we attended our first seminar with Jean McCollister, we didn't take Thor with us, due to his continuing behavioral problems. But after the seminar we trained frisbee with him at home more systematically, and the results could be seen at the 4 fun competition in November, 2008, where we were third in Minidistance.

We always have a frisbee with us: we use it as a reward in agility training, to liven up our walks, and also has a way of getting Thor's attention. As a joke we often say "Give Thor his pacifier!" For us a frisbee is much more than just a toy and so we are all the more happy to see this sport developing so nicely in Slovenia.