Category: Kim
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Horizon: Can my dogs be as clever as Betsy?
The short answer is no. The long answer is … kind of. Betsy is a Border Collie. She knows over 340 words, and when shown a toy, can go and fetch an identical toy from another room. What really blew my mind was that she could look at a picture of a toy, and then…
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Twelve Days of Christmas
The dogs had a good Christmas. The dogs always have a good Christmas, but they had an especially good one this year. They got some lovely new toys, lots of chews, and Kim got some ultra fashionable leg warmers from Accessorize. Unfortunately she has skinny hind legs so they only fit on her front paws,…
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2009 Review: Kim
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My goals for 2009 with Kim were: Kim to win out of Grade 4 (not on points) Kim to get her Agility Warrant Silver award Kim to win out of either Novice Jumping or Novice Agility under the BAA Kim to get her 15,000pts (Gold Award) in BFA Flyball I thought the Silver Warrant and…
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Freezing Something Off
I was stood in a field at 9:10am this morning, setting up flyball jumps and holding a tape measure on the snow covered ground. The weak winter sun was just coming up over the bare frozen trees, and all the sensible people in England were in bed, warm and snuggley and not losing touch with…
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Butterley, Blakeley & Wessenden
No flyball training, no competitions, but we have to do something on a weekend. So we hit a section of the Kirklees Way which is very familiar to me and dad, but not so much to the dogs. We used to walk it a lot with the extended family when I was little; it’s nice…
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Doncaster Flyball
Doncaster hold their winter tournament at the Northern Racing College, and I’ve been to this venue plenty of times, but I’ve never seen any Thoroughbreds until this weekend. They didn’t seem all that bothered with us, to be honest. Bit of a disasterous start to the day, when we arrived at 8:15 and found out…