Category: Agility
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Appreciation
I left the dogs at home for a long weekend in London, and I didn’t miss them at all. I had a fab time doing touristy things and catching up with friends, and appreciated the time away from the dogs. And then I came home, and was grateful for the joyous greeting I got from…
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Dogs Unleashed 2010
Dogs Unleashed 2010 Originally uploaded by kayanem It was baking last year at Newark, and Bakewell didn’t want to let us down so the weather was beautiful but boiling. We were flyballing on Saturday and entered agility on Sunday, which worked really well last year, not so well this year. Sheffield were hosting the flyball…
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BAA Stuff
Sooooo … apparently Dylan has qualified for EMDAC’s British Open Championship class in July! I didn’t realise but MCCS was one of the qualifying shows. The top scoring dogs from the show qualify, and Dylan was obviously one of the top scorers. That is slightly terrifying, I’ll have to do some proper training. I think…
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Midland Counties
mollie04 Originally uploaded by kayanem Dylan worked his socks off on Saturday. His Primary Tunnel Teaser run was genuinely really fab on a very difficult course, he did some awesome tight turns and although we went a bit messy at the end, I was quite pleased just to get round! We came 1st, which was…
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Northern Festival of Agility: Part Three
Waldridge Fell. The KC Novice Olympia Qualifier was a tricky little course, but being a Combined 3-5 I wasn’t expecting easy. I walked it and quite liked it – Julie Buchanan was judging and she always includes a wall and a brush fence, which I love. The only thing I wasn’t so keen on was…
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Northern Festival of Agility: Part One
Most perfect agility holiday ever. Redcar is a fantastic venue; I’ve raved about it before, but it’s a huge rugby club/football club training ground, so perfectly flat mowed lawns, nice big exercise areas, and 400m away is the Stray, a beautiful and huge dog friendly beach. What could possibly be better?! Hare’n’Hounds ran the first…
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Jumping
Dylan was really rocking his jumping this week, I was a very happy bunny! Lovely and smooth, confident, and extended. I don’t think his take off points are right so we do have to do more work on that. Only one minor issue when he nearly backflipped over a jump, and I have genuinely no…
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Bailey (and Lincoln Agility Photos)
[nggallery id=9] m45jumping03 Originally uploaded by kayanem Because I was taking photos of Bailey and Sammy, I also got a few photos from some of the other dogs in the Medium 4/5 and 1-3 classes. Check out the set on Flickr for more, and let me know if you recognise any of the dogs and…
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Lincoln Agility
Started the weekend with a nice course for the Grade 3 Jumping, a little bit straightforward for my taste so I chose to take Dylan the long way around the pull thru, which gave me a chance to test his weave entry. He flicked out to it beautifully, nailed it, and then I steadied him…
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Training Days
Tough day for fatman Dylan today! Flyball training in the morning and then an agility training afternoon over in York. Ideally I would have skipped flyball, but we have Drax coming up and I really want him fit and ready. We’re making an effort to do more two lane training at the moment, and it’s…