Category: Dylan

  • Dogs Unleashed 2012

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    Can’t believe this is our fourth year at this show! The first year we did it, at Newark, it was absolutely baking hot, and every year seems to have got slightly more damp. This year was a complete washout, I’m still amazed that they were able to go ahead with the show. Flyball ran on…

  • Saturday Flyball

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    Kim and Mollie’s Starter team is looking so good! We did some team training and a little head-to-head for Diva. Mollie was a Bad Dog because my mother wasn’t there running her, but thankfully she had an experienced handler to keep her in line! Kim is thrilled to be back at training, and I’m so…

  • The Team

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    Felt a little bit like I had my own personal team of flyball dogs this week at Thursday training. Kim and Mollie are both back to competition next weekend in Starters with another of our older but experienced dogs, Lucy, and two of our proper Starter dogs. Mollie was so excited to be back, she…

  • Sneaky Beans

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    Turns out Rio is an evil genius, who knew? She was flawlessly perfect at agility training this week. Crazy enthusiastic but uber focused and keen, choosing tuggy over distractions (even in the form of that mistress of temptation, Fly!) and working like a super puppy. We started with some recalls through tunnels, which is always…

  • Extra Agility, a Rio Special

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    Rio got some special Ri-only agility today. We had hired the arena for some extra training with the competition dogs this morning, but Dylan is still ill. He had lost some weight this month anyway (Dylan always does this at the start of the summer season when we go back to competing every weekend) but…

  • Swallownest

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    Not a great weekend at Swallownest. Dylan was a little off on Friday evening but nothing dramatic, and I figured he’d just been eating something he shouldn’t (like he usually does). Unfortunately he was a sad man all day Saturday and I nearly pulled him completely from racing. He went onto a reduced racing schedule…

  • Agility Training

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    Could I get Dylan to pop his weaves? No, I could not. I set up the same scenario as the weekend, weaves to long jump (to tunnel, for added temptation), and he weaved like a superstar. The only thing I could not replicate was the hill, we were going uphill at the weekend and I…

  • Attitude: We're a Team

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    It’s an Dog Agility Blog Action Day for Attitude. I wasn’t going to write anything for this because I was stumped on the topic, but after our weekend at Wigton I had the glimmer of an idea. I am competitive, stubborn, and determined. Those are sometimes good personality traits, and sometimes very bad traits, but…

  • Retirement Party (Wigton 2012)

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    Important things first: this was Kim’s last show. She was awesome, all happy and springy and running like an idiot and doing whatever she wanted. She had 2 clear rounds, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, and was just out of the placings in each. I really wanted her final win to get her…

  • Same Training

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    I am determined to keep a record of how Rio does each week at training until she’s 12months at least, but I can’t honestly think of much to say about this week. She was very well behaved, very very tuggy focused, and generally a superstar. We did some tunnel sends and some kips at 8″.…