Category: Flyball
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Dogs Unleashed
Saturday was flyball day, as per usual for this weekend. We only had two teams in but both were 6-dog teams, which I hate, but as we had some dogs coming back from injury etc it was really the only option. Kim and Mollie both ran very well, Kim back to her usual self and…
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Flyball Training
I love Wednesday training at the moment. Only a handful of us can make it mid-week but it gives us chance to work on things that we don’t have time for otherwise. Dylan looks amazing at the moment, I’m so relieved that he has remained happy and positive about flyball. His boxturns were great this…
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Swallownest June
Restless Energy Originally uploaded by kayanem This tournament didn’t go to plan. There was an incident in our first leg of our first race of the day brought about by another dog. Dylan was unharmed (which I still can’t believe, I have to go and keep checking him over even now) and my mum badly…
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Switch
Flyball training last night went well, we do a bit less on Wednesdays and just focus on running the dogs together as a team. We have Dylan and Kim in the same team this weekend again. Mum has been running Kim and I’ve been running Dyl up until now because Dylan wouldn’t run for anyone…
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Pontefract Flyball
The girls’ team wasn’t quite on form, it still feels like a very new lineup and we aren’t all on the same page a lot of the time. Kim was much better this week, lots of comments on her improvement. Many thanks to Kath for that! Dylan’s team was … weird. We had a 4-dog…
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Midweek
Gentle introduction back to Wednesday night flyball training this week, Kim did five minutes of teacher-dog work with the starters and then Dylan did five minutes of boxwork. He is getting better and he is trying very hard, and hopefully if we can secure an upright/flat fronted box in the next few months we can…
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May Swallownest
New tournament, and I think we all really wanted this weekend off, especially as we had scratch teams and bottom seedings. Turned out to be a beautiful venue and it was actually a really lovely weekend’s racing. I also got to see Extreme Racers get the new British Record – down to 16.42 – and…
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May Drax
Didn’t enjoy this tournament – the weather was good and the Rotherham hosts were as wonderful as ever, but I couldn’t get my head in the game. The most fun we had was sitting and chatting as a team, racing never really seemed to happen. The girls ran well but not brilliantly, but that’s about…
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Sunny Day Training
Photos from our Saturday training session. I only had 10mins to sit down and take some photos, so not very many and not a wide variety. I actually don’t mind being busy at flyball, it’s more productive when we are constantly working, the dogs and handlers get more from it and I walk away happier.…
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Acceptable Risk
I have been thinking on this for a while, after a bit of a twitter debate with friends. Two horses very sadly died this year in the Grand National, leading to a whole bunch of people to say the race is too dangerous and should immediately cease. I ought to begin by saying I don’t…