Category: Training

  • Dylan is on form this week!

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    Mollie has clearly been having words with Dylan recently; he’s overcome his fear of the seesaw and flyball is suddenly exciting! He had a fantastic training session last night, he did some perfect swimmer’s turns off the box without any training aids at all. We’re going to start introducing a command word now to remind…

  • Dylan is one brave boy!

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    Finally, we did the seesaw! I was beginning to think we were never going to get there, but at training yesterday I decided just to go for it. Not my normal approach to things! I like to have the groundwork and be confident that we can achieve what we’re aiming for rather than just taking…

  • Training in the Rain

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    The dogs and I had a fun session yesterday evening training in the rain! “Proper” training was cancelled so we lugged two jumps and the flyball box (and hurdle) to the park for a bit of an inpromptu training session with all three dogs. I think it’s good for the dogs to train in wet…

  • An Essay Writing Diversion: Kim and Dylan

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    I really should be writing my essays right now, especially because I entered Shrewsbury this weekend knowing full-well that my essays would be due in next week. Just another 3500 words to go … Dylan and I had a horrible training session yesterday. I was going to post about it in an attempt to try…

  • Swimmers Turn and a Lack of Enthusiasm

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    I thought Dylan might actually be tired today, considering how completely nutty he was at training yesterday, but apparently not. Even more surprising, Kim also was not tired at all, and was throwing toys at my head last night whilst I was trying to sleep. Apparently my dogs are a lot fitter than I am!…

  • Flyball, Agility, youTube Magic

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    After all the chaos with Dylan’s box at Selby, I wasn’t entirely looking forward to training again! But (typical dog!) he was absolutely paw-perfect on his turns. Well, almost. 4/5 times he has a perfect swimmers turn, and then on the 5th run he does something entirely new and unexpected. It’s very frustrating! I now…

  • Hill Reps

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    The amount of exercise our dogs has increased every year we’ve had them, so far. I think we’ve finally found the human saturation point, because there aren’t enough hours in the day, but it’s definitely not the dog saturation point. Dylan still throws his toys about like a lunatic at 9pm. During the week ……

  • Dylan's Blog: Weaves

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    Weaves are the bane of my existence at the moment! I love seeing weaves in classes and they’re one of Kim’s favourite obstacles, but I’d forgotten how much I hate training them! I suppose that’s a bit of an exaggeration. I love training with Dylan, and the small milestones we hit are worth the trouble,…

  • Dylan's Blog: Training Update

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    Just a quick update on Dylan’s blog. It’s been an immensely stressful and exhausting beginning to the month, and all the dogs have had to take a back seat. However, Dylan and I managed to find a half hour to do some training in today, and we had a lovely session. I didn’t have any…

  • Weaves

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    Really made some progress with the weaves today. I took them back to being about 3/4″ apart, and worked on entries first. We finished with a couple of 20ft run-ins, very pleased with that! Clean Run had a useful article in October that I’ve only just got around to reading, I’d never thought about doing…