- [Kayl] Hello my long lost sister.
- Hello, thank you for the balloon.
(laughing)
It's really pretty.
(puppy barking)
- Alright here we are at the agility arena.
Really busy day today.
Kayl what have you got on tap?
- Classes, visiting with my family who's here from Alberta,
which has been awesome to show them what we do.
They do competitive horse chuck wagon racing and stuff,
so like half of my family went the horse route
and half of our family went the dog route.
So it's so fun to compare things.
There are so many similarities it's amazing.
And then the big project of the day is working on
a display that I'm doing for Lexi and Kieran's stag and doe.
It's like a wikipedia version so that people who
don't know that much about them get to learn
some things like how they met and what they like
and things like that.
The fact that Kieran is from Kerala, India is awesome
because there's so many great traditions that we
can share with people.
- You know what, one of my favorite parts of vlogging
is people dropping into the vlog.
Here's Steve.
- Hello, good morning, how is everyone this morning?
- Thanks for dropping in.
It's a really busy day and we can't wait to get it started.
(upbeat music)
I'm in between classes.
I just came home.
We've had a busy morning.
We taught our level four agility class
and then I had a meeting for the last little while
and I'm right in the middle of my condensed section
for my fire schedule and I work 24 hour shifts,
so the next two weeks is the busiest two weeks of my month
but sometimes I just need to get out
and unwind a little bit.
I brought Deegan and Mack with me, Kayl's got the other dogs
at the hall and she'll probably run some agility
and maybe take them for a big walk,
but with these two guys I just want to have some fun.
And it got me thinking, you know,
I've often had circumstances,
whether working as a paramedic or a firefighter
where we deal with someone with a therapy dog
and they're highly skilled, well trained dogs,
much like a service dog is
but I started thinking, you know, it's so therapeutic
for me to come out here and just take the dogs for a walk
or maybe go play som Frisbee with them
or something like that but I started to think
that any dog could essentially be a therapy dog.
It just depends on the circumstances.
So I'm looking forward to coming out here,
unwinding just a little bit,
then I've got to get back to work.
But I really plan on doing something awesome
with these guys today.
Deegan loves Frisbee.
Mack loves chasing Deegan who's chasing the Frisbee,
so we'll have some fun with that.
(upbeat music)
Now admittedly I'm not the best Frisbee thrower in the world
but you've got to consider the disc that I'm using.
Now we have competition discs at home,
which doesn't make a lot of sense because neither Kayl nor I
compete in disc dog stuff, but this is old faithful.
This is by the back door any time we want to go out and play
so you can, I mean take that into consideration
when you're watching my throws.
Now I feel pretty rejuvenated.
I think that was a lot of fun for Deegan and Mack.
They're both panting and stuff.
We're going to stop in the shade and get a drink of water
before we head back home, but I feel like
I'm ready to take on the rest of the day
and I'm pretty excited to do that.
So away we go.
(upbeat music)
I haven't done a slow motion food montage in a while
so I thought I'd just give a really brief one
because we're making stir fry tonight
and it looks really good.
It smells really good and hopefully it looks cool on camera.
(upbeat music)
Quick turnaround today.
After having dinner I have to head right back to the hall
and teach grade one and then agility.
I really do, we're in week seven right now
of the obedience program so people are really starting
to get connected with their dogs
and really understand the foundations.
So it becomes a lot of fun now for both the students
and certainly for the trainers and it's always exciting
to see the progression.
So I look forward to these lessons
maybe even more than the early ones.
(upbeat music)
That was fun.
Grade one is always fun.
It's so much fun to see people begin to connect
with their dogs and it's such a gratifying experience
as an instructor.
Off to the agility arena and to continue on with my night.
This is our last course of the day,
our last class of the day.
Kayl and I are teaching together.
Kayl was just walking the course.
I don't know whether you could see that
but in previous vlog episodes--
- I have a tweaking problem.
Not a twerking problem.
- No.
- A tweaking problem.
So obstacles have to be perfectly in the right place
otherwise I get like a twitch or something.
- Yeah it's pretty bad.
Even tiny adjustments need to be made.
- Do you know what's exciting?
- What?
- In less than an hour I'm going to see my sister.
- Yeah, that is exciting.
- It's really bad that that's what I'm thinking about.
- We're going to bring you guys with us so you'll see.
- Okay gotta go. - Let's have some fun.
The end of another busy night of agility.
We are going to pop over to Kayl's parents' house
because her sister is home.
- We think. (phone beeps)
- Yeah we think she's home.
This will be much less dramatic if she is not in fact home.
- Lexi.
- Is she home?
- Oh you can't see it.
- We'll find out.
Here's what Kieran and Lexi had on their car
on the drive all the way here from Vancouver.
There's something moderately terrifying
about being responsible for a helium balloon.
Like it could just take off at any point in time.
I always worry about that.
I feel a little bit better.
- It's not going anywhere.
Is there a stone here?
- [Lexi] Why are you knocking?
Are you a zombie?
Hello!
(dog barking)
- [Ken] Hi guys.
- [Kayl] Hello my long lost sister.
- Hello, thank you for the balloon.
(laughing)
It's really pretty.
- All the other ones said happy birthday
and I thought well I'm happy that you're home
so why don't I get you a happy face.
- [Woman] So they're vlogging.
- [Ken] Hey.
Look at how happy that balloon is.
(giggling)
Look at how well lit we look.
This is my good side.
It's a busy day, it's time to shut things down.
I think you might see Kayl tomorrow
doing some interesting stuff with her sister.
Yeah it should be pretty cool.
I think you guys will enjoy that,
but on that note, remember to do something awesome
with your dog today.
Happy training.
(upbeat music)