Category: Training

  • Freezing Something Off

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    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…

  • Can't Won't Fail

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    This is what we worked on at training this week. It was fun! It was also not intended to be as difficult as it was; on paper, we thought it was pretty simple, but then we all tried it and suddenly it was not quite so easy. Everybody initially ran it with the handler basically…

  • Issues

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    Dylan has issues. The following is guesswork, and my opinion might have changed tomorrow. I don’t know. This upsets me a lot, because Dylan is normally such a soft-hearted dog, and this isn’t the dog I know. We walk our dogs twice a day on the same patch of woodland, which leads onto the golf…

  • Lazy November

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    Dylan and I had a really lazy training session this week, which was a very bad of me considering we have Wilmslow this weekend, which is our first competition in 6 weeks and we probably should have done some more serious training. I had intended to be good and work on wing wraps and proofing…

  • Maturity

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    Dylan ran fantastically at flyball training this past week. He was thoroughly enjoying himself, performing beautiful box turns and getting excited on the line. (Dylan doesn’t get excited like the girls do, he just huffs quietly and dances a bit). Someone commented on how well he was doing, and I said something to do with…

  • Confession: I can't do Pull Throughs

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    There is a guilty confession I feel I should make, and save my dogs the confusion and embarassment they must often feel, mid-course. I can’t do pull throughs. I can do a single wing wrap pull, and I think I can do it reasonably well. But ask me to do a PT on a line…

  • Agility Training

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    Dylan was a good boy at training this week. I sometimes feel like we’re working on things and we’re making very little progress, but then sometimes it’s like everything clicks and it all makes sense and works. That’s always a good day! He did a beautiful steady-up for a wing wrap, and then nailed a…

  • Surprise

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    New layout for undermybed.co.uk – I like it. Do you? Things we did this weekend. We played training games. We played cage balls. We played football. We also visited Castle Hill, and whilst the dogs were in the car, I took the opportunity to actually go up the Tower. The Tower isn’t open very often…

  • Catch Up

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    A weekend at home! I’ve never been so happy not to be doing anything at all. Kim’s had a bath after rolling in something really unpleasant this morning which meant I had a tan, white and green dog, and Mollie is baking outside. She seems to be enjoying herself though, so I’ll leave her to…

  • Sunny Afternoons

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    The dogs and I have spent the weekend lounging about in the garden and having a lovely sunbathing time. This is our only free weekend until mid-September, as we’ve had a bit of a mix about with some flyball dates that have cancelled my free weekend in July. Providing nothing is cancelled, we’ve got a…