Category: Dylan
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Freezing Something Off
I was stood in a field at 9:10am this morning, setting up flyball jumps and holding a tape measure on the snow covered ground. The weak winter sun was just coming up over the bare frozen trees, and all the sensible people in England were in bed, warm and snuggley and not losing touch with…
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Butterley, Blakeley & Wessenden
No flyball training, no competitions, but we have to do something on a weekend. So we hit a section of the Kirklees Way which is very familiar to me and dad, but not so much to the dogs. We used to walk it a lot with the extended family when I was little; it’s nice…
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Can't Won't Fail
This is what we worked on at training this week. It was fun! It was also not intended to be as difficult as it was; on paper, we thought it was pretty simple, but then we all tried it and suddenly it was not quite so easy. Everybody initially ran it with the handler basically…
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Doncaster Flyball
Doncaster hold their winter tournament at the Northern Racing College, and I’ve been to this venue plenty of times, but I’ve never seen any Thoroughbreds until this weekend. They didn’t seem all that bothered with us, to be honest. Bit of a disasterous start to the day, when we arrived at 8:15 and found out…
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Wyre Agility
This is my traditional end-of-year show now, I think! We’ve done it since 2004, it was the first show that Kim properly behaved at and I felt relaxed and we just had fun. The year after, we came 4th in the Starters Agility Challenge, her best ever placing as a Large Dog. The year after…
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Snuggley Warm (Pentax K-x First Impressions)
I’m in love with this camera, it’s amazing. I am trying to remain objective and thoroughly test drive it this week, but I love it too much already! For those who don’t know, I eventually bought the Pentax K-x, and all of the photos in this post were taken with the kit lens (18-55mm). The…
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Issues
Dylan has issues. The following is guesswork, and my opinion might have changed tomorrow. I don’t know. This upsets me a lot, because Dylan is normally such a soft-hearted dog, and this isn’t the dog I know. We walk our dogs twice a day on the same patch of woodland, which leads onto the golf…
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Stocksbridge Flyball (November)
Love the Sheffield tournaments, they’re a friendly bunch. Kim and Mollie were both in the same team, and they were storming all day. Mollie’s haircut apparently made a difference, she was particularly crazy! Kim was running anchor and she gets hilariously competitive. You’ve not seen a competitive dog until you’ve seen Kim coming over the…