Category: Kim
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Mid Week Philosophies
Feels like it’s been a slow week. Training went well on Tuesday, and I continued to try and make a bigger point of properly rewarding Dylan. This is such a basic thing, but because Dylan is always happy to continue after a quick toy-throw or verbal positive reinforcement, I get lazy. Kim would not let…
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October Rotherdrax Flyball
I am already regretting entering anything over the winter. I always forget about the cold, and the dark, and the cold. Kim was running with the second team, Hawk, and after a small series of minor disasters our lovely 5-dog team was down to an equally-lovely but slightly unpredictable 4 dog team. Kim and Brooke…
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Winter Agility Season
I know I’m lucky to have good, competitive shows at KC and BAA within travelling distance all year round. It’s got better and better every year, and this year I’m actually getting to pick and choose which shows we go to! We’re at Hare’n’Hounds next time because I love their shows, they always have a…
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Redcar Flyball
The girls ran well, we broke our seed time again and clocked a 20.15 in the afternoon. Mollie was slightly off her normal form, I think Saturday took her edge away. She gets so excited and then exhausts herself by getting all wound up and silly when she’s not running. She and Kim still ran…
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Quiet Weeks
My computer unexpectedly died late last week, and it doesn’t look like we can get it looked at until the end of the month. I’m hoping that we’ll at least be able to recover the hundreds of photos and videos I had on the hard drive of the dogs, but I’m feeling a little disheartened…
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Bakewell Flyball
Back at Bakewell; for a showground I hadn’t visited before this year, I seem to have spent a lot of time there this summer! It was lovely this weekend, masses and masses of empty space for the exercise area. We had a bit of a disaster leading up to the tournament when two dogs came…
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Jumping
Still struggling on the jumping front. The more I watch, the more I find Dylan’s jumping issues somewhat bizarre. We usually have our jumps at training set at a variety of jump heights, so Dylan will work some sequences on Medium and Large over the evening. We also have some jumps at KC Large (26″)…
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End of Season
The Promotion tables have gone up for the 2010/11 BAA season, and Dylan is happily into Graduate in both Jumping and Agility. This doesn’t bother me since he’s going to be doing Novice Plus classes all winter anyway. He finished 3rd in the Novice Maxi Dog of the Year, which I’m thrilled to bits about,…