Category: Flyball

  • Flyball Training, a blog post too late!

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    The blog post isn’t really too late, but I just forgot to post it yesterday! The girls ran well at flyball, although they were both very tired girlies when we got home. Mollie must have a secret drug store somewhere, she’s been off her head with loopyness this week and it showed at training. She…

  • Swimmers Turn and a Lack of Enthusiasm

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    I thought Dylan might actually be tired today, considering how completely nutty he was at training yesterday, but apparently not. Even more surprising, Kim also was not tired at all, and was throwing toys at my head last night whilst I was trying to sleep. Apparently my dogs are a lot fitter than I am!…

  • Flyball, Agility, youTube Magic

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    After all the chaos with Dylan’s box at Selby, I wasn’t entirely looking forward to training again! But (typical dog!) he was absolutely paw-perfect on his turns. Well, almost. 4/5 times he has a perfect swimmers turn, and then on the 5th run he does something entirely new and unexpected. It’s very frustrating! I now…

  • Hill Reps

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    The amount of exercise our dogs has increased every year we’ve had them, so far. I think we’ve finally found the human saturation point, because there aren’t enough hours in the day, but it’s definitely not the dog saturation point. Dylan still throws his toys about like a lunatic at 9pm. During the week ……

  • Go Team!

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    It seems whilst we had an average weekend, everyone else went off and won things! My biggest congratulations to Alice and her gorgeous Cocker/Springer Spaniel Sammy who won the NAWS Class B Medium/Small Championship. Sammy is not the easiest dog in the world, he’s very all-or-nothing, but he finished up this weekend by winning the…

  • Carlton Towers Flyball

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    Well, I’ve never flyballed in the snow before. Barking Owlers came 2nd in their Division, although to be honest we really didn’t expect to. The Beardies came into season this week and had to drop out, so we were left with four competitive dogs, plus Chewy. On the day, we also lost one of our…

  • Carlton Towers Starters

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    The boy did good … ish! Our lovely team the Little Owlers were in Division A, and we won two of six heats so not too shabby! We weren’t the fastest team in the world as we weren’t really bothering with changeovers, but all our dogs ran brilliantly Dylan handled the pressure fantastically, he took…

  • Selby

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    Just two days to go until Dylan’s big flyball debut! It’s going to be really odd doing Starters again, Kim moved up to Sanctioned tournaments in 2005. Hopefully it will be a good experience for him. I’m confident that he knows what he’s doing and won’t be phased by the atmosphere, as he’s been going…

  • 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…

  • 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…