Introducing Christina Oxtoby and Eze - Freestyle Team

Christina will be competing at the OEC with her lovely Border Collie Eze (Legacy's Eze Ezekiel.) He will be 8 years old at the time of the OEC and he competes at Advanced level in both Heelwork to Music and Freestyle and also competes in agility. He is duel registered ISDS (both his parents work sheep) and KC and arrived as an extremely challenging and strong willed 8 week old puppy! After much hard work he has blossomed into Christina’s dream Border Collie who she wouldn’t change for the world. In 2013 he was part of the British Team at the OEC in Holland and he then went on to compete in the Crufts 2014 Freestyle Finals. He's a real sweetie to live with and has a delightful personality.  

Christina also shares her life with 2 other wonderful dogs, Ru and Shai. Ru is a 7 year old Great Dane who Christina rescued when he was 6 months old (this was the 3rd time that he had been re-homed.) He is an absolute delight, being great fun to work with, very loving and a big baby! He currently competes at Advanced level in Freestyle and Intermediate level in Heelwork and is the only Great Dane in the UK to compete at HTM. He is affectionately known as the ‘Dancing Dane’ when he performs as part of the Dog Activities Display Team at Crufts. The newest member of the family is Shai, a 3 year rescue Border Collie who joined the family in February of last year. He’d had no training before arriving and LOVES his training sessions in obedience, agility and HTM. He has just started to compete in HTM and Christina has high hopes for him in the future. He is also a very sweet (if somewhat enthusiastic!) boy.

Christina's work and interests include teaching the violin and piano, singing for events, running a Gospel Choir and training dogs, and she lives with her supportive and encouraging Husband, David. 

Christina first started HTM 11 years ago with her Great Dane Caleb, and her rescue German Shepherd Asaph. She will forever be indebted to her lovely dogs for teaching her so much of what she has learnt, as well as the many people who have helped her along the way. 

Please note that the Kennel Club is not supporting this team in anyway by selection or in any other way.  However the Kennel Club of Great Britain has given permission to Louth and District Dog Club to enter a team for Great Britain.