Category: Flyball
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Doncaster Flyball (Cantley Park)
It’s really hard to write about how the dogs did this weekend and focus on their positive points and make a record for myself of how they did. Julie was helping/captaining one of our teams (I can’t remember which team it was) and within minutes of leaving the ring was rushed to Doncaster A&E. Although…
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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…
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Newark Flyball
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…
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Tabley Flyball
I hate flyballing in the rain. Remind me not to do it again! Our dogs worked hard all day, and the ground conditions weren’t perfect by any means. The grass was a couple of inches high, the ground was rough and the dogs were racing uphill. The ring was situated right next to the clay…
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Flyball, Congrats, Photos and University
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…
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Training in the Rain
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…
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Empty Weekend
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.…
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Middlesbrough Flyball
The Crazy Cannons always put on a good tournament but we’re not usually very successful! Kim has a 2nd rosette from about 2 years ago and that’s it, which is a shame because the pink and black rosettes look very swish! We got our act together this year and the Owlers had a fantastic day.…
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My dogs are Melting
It’s really very hot here right now. I hope it cools down a bit for the weekend, but the BBC are cheerfully informing us of all the nice sunny weather we have to look forward to. Really not great for Mollie! The weather seems to have induced all the dogs to blow their coats, so…
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Sodding Dog!
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Well, after all my frustration with Dylan earlier this week, the bloody dog turns out to be a genius! Ok, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. But it’s amazing how a good training session can turn everything around again. We finally got around to doing a bit more boxwork this week, and I…