Category: Flyball

  • April Showers

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    Nothing but rain at the moment. I wanted to take the dogs out to Digley for a good walk today but I can’t face getting soaked yet again, so they’re having to make do with a chew instead. Despite the weather, flyball training was relatively mud-free! Dylan was excellent, I’ve been making an effort to…

  • Tired Bean

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    Very productive flyball training session today. Although we were working the dogs in each team together, we mainly worked on individual stuff. Dylan did some jump-box-6 jumps back. Which is exhausting for me but really gives him a workout! It also encourages him to chase me back; he has always come back off the box…

  • Drax & a Mollie Update

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    Mollie is much better. We still aren’t sure what is wrong but she’s has been to the vet, got herself some shots and some medication, and she’s improving dramatically. Still on lead walks due to the injury, but so much more herself. Just Dylan and Rio went to Drax, and I took Bailey as well.…

  • Pre-Drax Flyball Training

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    Mollie came back from her walk on Thursday looking a little bit lame, nothing drastically unusual as Mollie has no body awareness or respect for things like walls, trees, solid banks of earth, so she does occasionally come back a little stiff from her walks. Unfortunately, one recall and one run at flyball training this…

  • Muddy Puppies

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    Hate this time of year, our flyball training field isn’t bad for draining but there is only so much time for water to go away! The mud is awful, lots of bathed dogs and very short sessions. Dylan hasn’t flyballed since the beginning of December, so we were a little out of practice. Got some…

  • Flyball Training

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    First of the new year, finally! It was good to be back. Not that I had a dog to run; too cold for Kim’s old bones and as Dylan has 3 weeks of agility competitions in a row I didn’t want to risk overworking him in a flyball session. Rio had fun, she met Chip…

  • Rio Flyball Training (Target)

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    I promised this video a few months ago, and only just got around to converting it. Rio is 14 weeks in this video (I think!) and this was our third target session. The whole session consisted of maybe 2-3 minutes with long breaks, so 3 mins of actual training over 15-20mins. Just because a few…

  • Gap Farm December

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    Rio’s first visit to a flyball competition! That is the most important thing that happened all day, of course. Dylan ran very well, not as well as he could have done simply because he was running with unfamiliar dogs, and so was I. Our changeovers were not consistent! He ran steady 4.8s over 11″. I…

  • Training & Thoughts

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    Fun training session this week. We’ve spent a lot of time this month trying to get everyone to pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses so we have things to work on over the winter. So far everyone has something different to work on! This week was our “test week” on big spacey courses, getting the dogs…

  • Rocket Relay Seminar #2

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    Thoroughly enjoyed this second seminar. Team Fever (http://www.flyballfever.com/) did another awesome job organising, and Kelly and Aaron from Rocket Relay were as good as they were last time they visited the UK in March. Lots of new things to work on, and a lot of new insights for me personally. I know a lot more…