Category: Agility

  • Training Day

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    We had a lovely training day on Saturday with Natalie Mitchell. I’m increasingly picky with who I train with, but I’ve known Nat for a long time (and Kai is Dylan’s half sister) so I know how she trains and handles. There are some “local” trainers that I avoid, in some cases simply because I…

  • FCI Worlds

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    I’m sat watching the Agility World Championship, thinking “I could do that”. And then I think, you’re an idiot. I could maybe do that. If I had the commitment to compete every weekend and to travel further and work harder and drop all the other things I have fun doing, I could do that. If…

  • Let Go

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    This post can pretty much be summed up into “I like this post by EmmaBC“. I think this is going to be my mission for the winter. Dylan’s first G6 classes are at the end of October, and I would like to go and focus on pretending we’re back in G3, where it’s all about…

  • Neglecting the Blog

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    I haven’t posted in forever, oops! Partly because my External Hard Drive died (after 2 months, I hate you Seagate), so I’ve spent lots of time trying to recover all my photos and so on from all over the internet. Partly because we haven’t really done anything new or interesting! I have a training day…

  • UKA DigItDogs

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    Soo, this was our first UKA show. It was tiny. I understand why; UKA is expensive and if you can only do 1 or 2 shows a year, it’s not worth it. Dylan needed the training in the ring aspect so I decided to shell out in the hope it would improve us elsewhere. However,…

  • Training: Jumping Woes

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    Dogwalk was variable. Check box on independent, because it always has been, and I really did push this to extremes this week running all over the place and in every direction. But independent doesn’t mean it’s the same speed every time. Sometimes it is fast, sometimes it is slow, and this does not seem to…

  • Dog Vegas

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    Dylan Originally uploaded by kayanem Kim first, because she’s special. She was awesome this weekend, she enjoyed every run, even if what she was enjoying was arguing with me. She was silly and noisy and flirted with all the boy dogs, especially Gilbert. Unfortunately we were just outclassed. We ran some great clears but there…

  • Blowing in the Wind

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    Very warm weather all of a sudden, beautiful light for photos! Off to Dog Vegas today, which looks like it will be a very small show. I expected quite big class numbers as it’s in the Midlands and Dog Vegas is usually popular! I thought we’d go for it anyway as I feel like I’ve…

  • Otley

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    Running behind on this one. I’m always in two minds about this show, the show organisers are great and they always schedule good classes, but the venue is one of the worst I’ve been to. It’s really uneven and hilly, and if it rains (and of course, it rained) it gets very muddy and awful.…

  • Training x2

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    Agility = good! Dyl’s seesaw is looking great after our confidence building sessions. I’ve lost the stop on the end but I don’t really care, Dylan isn’t brave enough to fly it and it’s faster. If we need it back later we can work on it, I’m sure. I also worked on 180 pull-thrus, because…