Category: Dylan’s Blog

  • Weaving Video

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    Finally managed to get some decent video of Dylan weaving today! Took the jump and the weaves down to the park for 15 mins. Or for those of you who are able to view the videos via Windows Media Player (or equivalent), there’s a much more clean version here: http://www.undermybed.co.uk/images/dylanweaving001.wmv As always, Dylan is always…

  • A Mid-Life Crisis on Behalf of Kim

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    I’m finally getting organised with all my show entries for the next couple of months. Shrewsbury entry went in a few weeks ago, and then this weekend I also sent in my EMDAC April and May entries, and my Waldridge Fell entry. The EMDAC July is almost ready to go, just debating on how long…

  • Flyball Training & Crufts

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    Had a great session with all the dogs this morning! We were working over 6 jumps at the full 14″ for Mollie & Dylan, 12″ for Kim as she has to be awkward and be one of only 2 dogs who measure at 13″, and I don’t like running her over 14″, so she mixed…

  • Dogs on Top, March 1st

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    Yesterday was definitely a day of extremes! I had six classes, four with Kim and two with Dylan. All the courses were reasonable – the Open Tunnel Vision was really tough and I’m so glad I didn’t enter Dyl! – but I thought all the others were either lovely or at least do-able. How wrong…

  • Trick Training – Crawl

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    Ruffdogs (http://www.ruffdogs.co.uk/) have a “Trick of the Month” where a challenge is set and everyone can give it a go and swap training advice etc. This month it’s “crawl”; getting the dogs to crawl on their bellies commando-style. Kim can do this independently but it’s not something I’ve worked on with Dylan before, so we’ve…

  • Dylan & Jet at Sunday Training

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    Bit of a late update about Sunday! Dylan and Jet both worked really well. The course was the Combined 1-3 Tuffstuff Qualifier [eta: I stand corrected, it’s either the Small and/or Medium Combined 1-3 Agility] from Newton Heath, which we didn’t go to but some of the people in our class had. I’ve drawn it…

  • Flyball Training 2

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    Another good training session this morning! Last week Dylan’s boxwork completely disintegrated. We had one of the boxes at home and I’ve been doing 5-10 minutes a day with him (and Mollie, because she loves anything flyball related and it certainly won’t make her box any worse!) which has been going really well. When we…

  • Training at the Park

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    Dylan and I are finally clicking! We had such a good training session today, even with minimal equipment! I managed to take 1 jump and 6 weaves to the park, and the boy was flying. He’s got crazy-fast weaves, and we’re able to read each other better so he understands what I want him to…

  • Flyball Training

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    We had a pretty good session this morning, and the weather was fantastic for once! None of our dogs have flyballed since Sheffield, and Dylan hasn’t done anything since Dec 29th. Unfortunately it really showed today, for our first session all his boxwork just went completely out of the window. He did one nice turn…

  • Dylan's Blog – Weaves, again

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    Finally got a day suitable for practising on the weaves, and the boy did good! He definitely seems to understand weaving, and if anything he’s a little overenthusiastic! The only problems I’ve encountered are when I leave him in a wait and move on ahead. But this is a problem I have with other obstacles,…