Category: Kim

  • Agility Training/BAA Promotion

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    The BAA Promotion requirements have changed slightly and Dylan is no longer up for automatic promotion, so he can stay in Introductory for another year! This is very good news, especially considering how naughty he was at training yesterday. We have a lot of work to do before he’s going to be ready for Primary…

  • Yorkshire Bouncers

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    YB is always a small, friendly and local show; lots of flyballers present, which helps! Kim Kim had her last set of Primary classes today. We had a really good day, she was a lot more motivated and enthused than she had been for the rest of the summer season, noisy and tugging and listening.…

  • BAA Promotion

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    As I may have mentioned (once or twice maybe!), I’ve been anxiously awaiting the end of year BAA League Tables to see how Kim and Dylan have fared. I was always pretty confident that Kim would be promoted to Novice Jumping due to those 2nd places at the start of the year, and she has…

  • Wilton (Northern Week)

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    Heh hum, some shows you like and some shows you don’t. I don’t think I’ll be bothering with Wilton again. It’s too far away, the venue is rough, the show feels tiny and slightly “homemade” despite the 6 rings. There’s something about KC shows (not just Wilton) that just feels slightly archaic to me these…

  • BAA Finals Weekend

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    We set off very early on Saturday morning for the BAA Finals Weekend. Kim had qualified for the Grand Prix Primary Jumping Final on Monday, and I wanted to get some last points in for her in the hopes of being promoted in Agility as well as Jumping next season. Dylan was there for the…

  • Traumatic Afternoon Part 2

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    Mollie’s lip was worse than we initially thought. It’s probably a good job she’s not flyballing this weekend as we would have had to pull her now anyway, there’s no way she could have caught a ball with stitches down her lip. After she had stopped bleeding we got to take a closer look and…

  • Traumatic Afternoon

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    I was playing with the dogs this afternoon, and had a vague idea of getting some new photos of them for the website. I got a dozen snaps or so and then I was just throwing their toy for them for a while, especially as it’s a nice day for once! Unfortunately it all went…

  • Contact Training

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    Had another fun session with Dylan on the mini dogwalk today, I’m really pleased with how he’s working. No creeping or stuttering, just driving forward to his 2o2o and then away on the release. Super confident and fast, exactly what I want to see. No self-releases today either! We did work on some quick releases…

  • A Short Update and on to Other Things

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    The dogs are all cough free and have been since Friday morning. Our vet had a long discussion with us this morning and he is of the very strong opinion that a dog is no more or less contagious in 7 days than they will be tomorrow, and that he can see no medical reason…

  • Crazy Dylan

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    Dylan is slowly beginning to go crazy! I’m beginning to get an insight into why people don’t recommend Border Collies to “normal” people, and I also didn’t realise how much like a normal Border Collie Dylan really is. I’ve always thought he was very laid-back and relaxed for a Border Collie, but then again ever…