Category: Dylan
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Fog
It’s been very foggy today. Being a good dog owner, I looked outside and thought about what a lovely walk we could take, since there would be no golfers playing golf in the fog. The golfers have a hard enough time playing in the bright sunlight, considering the amount of misplaced golf balls we recover…
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Mud
[singlepic id=327 w=320 h=240 float=none] Autumn is so pretty from the waist up, with all the golden trees and blue skies. From the waist down, mud. Flyball in the mud is not as difficult as agility in the mud, so we plugged on. Kim thought the whole thing was kind of stupid, but she’s a…
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Start Lines
[singlepic id=326 w=320 h=240 float=right]Inspired by HippieDogs, of course, and somewhat by my previous musings on whether to get a collar for Kim’s starts. I haven’t talked about my start lines in a long while. Kim has a running start, because she loves to race and run and waiting is boring and stressful for her.…
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Happy Training
Kim was rocking training this week, she was so happy to be back! She’s skipped a few weeks as I’ve had both Jet and Dylan to run, and there just isn’t enough time to let Kim play. But it’s not like Kim is learning anything new at this stage of her agility career, it’s just…
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Tailwaggers #1
Dylan was a little bit more restrained at this show than the past few months, which was a little worrying initially but he was very relaxed throughout and ran well. Watching back his videos I’m not sure there was a real difference speed wise, but our runs certainly felt smoother, and a lot less like…
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All Clear
Dylan officially has the all-clear, as of yesterday, and so I’m looking forward to Tailwaggers tomorrow! It looks like the Novice Plus classes are going to be quite competitive, they’re double the size of last years so I’m just hoping to get Dylan around the courses with the same enthusiasm he’s been showing lately. I’m…
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Misdiagnosis?
After arming the household with honey, contacting all relevant parties to warn them of our quarantine and then resigning myself to a boring month ahead, all my dogs have resolutely NOT coughed, hacked, spluttered, snorted or sneezed for two days straight. Dylan was hacking up spit on Tuesday morning, I checked his throat and tried…
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Where we are now
I should have known that trying to lay any kind of plans for the next 6 months would end in disaster! It appears that Dylan has come down with Kennel Cough** which means we won’t be competing again until after Christmas. The girls are both currently fine — in fact, Mollie is high as a…
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Where we need to be
In my last post, I said ” … I think Dylan could win out of Grade 5 this winter, but I think we would both be overfaced in Grade 6 at the moment, we aren’t ready to move up.” Dylan will be 5 in April. I hope he gets to keep running agility for another…
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Hare'n'Hounds Halloween
I love that Hare’n’Hounds are theming all their winter shows, it’s fun and cute and apparently traumatising for Jet, but it’s such a nice touch for already awesome shows. Jet had a very tough course for first thing in the morning with her Grade 3 Agility, lots of flick-flacks and pull-thrus in the smallest ring,…