Category: Kim

  • EMDAC January

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    Dylan’s first show! I’m very proud of him, he did far better than I expected him to. We were E’d in Power & Speed because they threw 12 weaves in and as Dylan has never done 12 upright weaves, I wasn’t expecting much! He did 8 happily but then was a bit confused, but his…

  • Sheffield Flyball

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    I love Sheffield tournaments. The Speeders are a great bunch of flyballers and they always run a good competition, with lovely rosettes and fast results. The venue is great, just a shame about the location. Three cars were broken into in the morning just after we arrived, including one of our ‘Owlers cars, which was…

  • Agility Nuts

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    Finally back on form with Kim – EMDAC (Oct) and Wyre (Dec) were a bit down, just one 4th in the end despite a couple of good runs – but she decided to start 2008 with a bang. She came 2nd in both jumping classes, missing out on 1st in the Jumping by 0.3 seconds…

  • 2007 Review

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    I know, it’s only December and the New Year is a whole three weeks away, but I’ve finished competing and training for the year so I thought it was an appropriate time to look back over the doggy year. Kim has had an amazing year in agility. We won out of Introductory (BAA) and Grade…

  • Doncaster Flyball Tournament & Wyre Agility

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    Wyre I’m not sure I want to talk about Wyre! We had a nice day but for the first two runs I just didn’t get my head sorted. The courses were fair but erred on the easier side and we missed a weave entry on one (bit of a shock, we haven’t done that for…

  • Friday

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    Friday is my day off from university, so I was able to fit some training in with Kim and Dylan. Actually, there are two things wrong with that sentence! I am supposed to use Fridays for catching up with reading and prep-work, so it’s not really a day off, and when I say “training” ……

  • Barking Dogs

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    There’s a bit of a debate over on the Agility Forum at the moment about dogs barking in queues at competitions. If I have a quiet Kim on my hands, I know we’re not going to have a good run. So I want her to bark. I have a dog who isn’t always hyper-motivated (or…

  • Agility Training

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    It’s been a frustrating couple of days with Dylan. I’ve been really happy with his contact work until now; he has been extremely good with the 2o/2o on the dogwalk, and his 4off for the Aframe has been working really well. I have to admit I had slacked off on practising the 4off touch-target behaviour,…

  • Doncaster Flyball Tournament

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    Our first time at the famous indoor-turf Doncaster tournaments, and we had a fantastic day. Mollie’s team, Night Owlers, ran their socks off and finished a very respectable 3rd in Division 5, setting a new seed time in the process. I was supposed to be boxloading for this team but in the end I boxloaded…

  • EMDAC

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    We were back at EMDAC again this weekend for the first show in their Winter Series. Kim has been promoted this season to Primary in both agility and jumping, so this was our first show where we were running Primary courses. We did not have a good start! Kim was still sulking with me that…