Category: Dylan

  • Dylan is on form this week!

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    Mollie has clearly been having words with Dylan recently; he’s overcome his fear of the seesaw and flyball is suddenly exciting! He had a fantastic training session last night, he did some perfect swimmer’s turns off the box without any training aids at all. We’re going to start introducing a command word now to remind…

  • Dylan is one brave boy!

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    Finally, we did the seesaw! I was beginning to think we were never going to get there, but at training yesterday I decided just to go for it. Not my normal approach to things! I like to have the groundwork and be confident that we can achieve what we’re aiming for rather than just taking…

  • Newark Flyball

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    Kim and Mollie were in a scratch team due to some dog complications, so it was mostly the normal Night Owlers with Kim thrown in to bring a bit of speed to the proceedings! Kim ran well all day, but she just wasn’t quick enough to bring down the times under 22secs, as certain dogs…

  • A Walk on the Canal

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    Thanks to Emma for the photos (click to see a larger version). The dogs did not swim in the canal but in the river that runs alongside it for a couple of miles. The river has a lot of iron oxide in the soil, hence the apparent reddish tinge to the water; the water is…

  • Flyball, Congrats, Photos and University

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    The dogs and I had fun playing out in the garden yesterday morning, when it was still sunny. It’s looking a bit nicer now, there is just one patch left that needs weeding as the rest got turned over at the weekend. Kim and I had a bit of a photo shoot as I really…

  • Training in the Rain

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    The dogs and I had a fun session yesterday evening training in the rain! “Proper” training was cancelled so we lugged two jumps and the flyball box (and hurdle) to the park for a bit of an inpromptu training session with all three dogs. I think it’s good for the dogs to train in wet…

  • Empty Weekend

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    We had a nice flyball session this morning! Kim has grazed both her hocks, so I’ll have to start wrapping them up when she’s working on hard ground. I’ve used pad protectors on her front legs for ages but she’s always had a habit of skidding on her hocks and coming home with huge grass-stains.…

  • Creepy Contacts

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    I should have known something would go wrong at some point! Dylan has been so good and so consistent with his contacts until now that I should have been suspicious, nothing is ever that easy. At the weekend at EMDAC he was playing in the practise ring with me and he was abruptly very slow…

  • Still Grade 2 … EMDAC May and Waldridge Fell

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    EMDAC Kim and Dylan at EMDAC this time, but just for one day. Both were entered for 4 runs each but I ended up pulling Dylan from both his agility classes, he’s still not confident on the seesaw. He made up for it by having a decent run in the Helter Skelter (got E’d!) and…

  • Sequences and Dylan

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    Dylan worked really well at training this week, and I feel like we’re seeing some improvement now. The boy can really move when he wants to, just need to get the handler sorted now. I have to be early with my cues and verbals to get the tight lines, otherwise he just picks a jump…