Category: Mollie
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Start Lines
[singlepic id=326 w=320 h=240 float=right]Inspired by HippieDogs, of course, and somewhat by my previous musings on whether to get a collar for Kim’s starts. I haven’t talked about my start lines in a long while. Kim has a running start, because she loves to race and run and waiting is boring and stressful for her.…
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Misdiagnosis?
After arming the household with honey, contacting all relevant parties to warn them of our quarantine and then resigning myself to a boring month ahead, all my dogs have resolutely NOT coughed, hacked, spluttered, snorted or sneezed for two days straight. Dylan was hacking up spit on Tuesday morning, I checked his throat and tried…
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Where we are now
I should have known that trying to lay any kind of plans for the next 6 months would end in disaster! It appears that Dylan has come down with Kennel Cough** which means we won’t be competing again until after Christmas. The girls are both currently fine — in fact, Mollie is high as a…
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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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BAA Finals Weekend
Saturday was a little weird. Dylan wasn’t running at his best, stuttering a little through certain jump sequences and just generally floating around and distracted. We were E’d in the Jumping Qualifier, and then came 3rd in everything else. I’m still not quite sure what was going on! Kim finished out of the placings in…