Category: Mollie
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Long Summer
Excellent flyball training this past weekend, all the dogs worked extremely hard. Dylan still isn’t comfortable running with Norah but she’s not in his team this weekend so I am hopeful that he’ll be relaxed and happy about being in the ring. Our official complaint to the BFA regarding the incident at Swallownest has been…
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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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Training
I have really unimaginative post titles at the moment. It’s hard to come up with stuff like that! Patience on rebuilding seesaw confidence has paid off, we had no run-bys this week and it was actually a faster seesaw than before (albeit without a stop, but I’m not worried about that). Didn’t push and do…
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Summer?!
Suddenly become very warm, with long light evenings. We’ve started going back up to Digley for longer walks, it’s lovely. Feels very much like summer, which means I feel like we should be at agility. For all the issues Dylan and I are suddenly having I can’t wait to get back to competitions. It’s a…
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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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Faster vs. Fun
I’ve read a lot this week about how flyball “needs to go back to being fun” (yes, that’s a quote), by which people mean “not running fast” (a paraphrase of a quote). I can’t write my actual opinion of this, because it would include a lot of swearing, but I’ll try and write a reasoned…