Category: Agility

  • UKA Osberton – Judging

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    I judged for Agility Antics at Osberton in October, which turned out to be a gorgeous warm day with no rain at all, perfect! I had a big ring on lovely flat ground, mostly even, and the grass was cut! There were some very very old remnants of cowpats, but not a single dog stopped…

  • Agility Wrap: A Summer of Hope

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    I could have said A Summer of Despair, or A Summer of Frustration. A Summer of Hard Work and Lots of Training. A Summer of Going Nowhere. A Summer of Going Somewhere. We started at Easter. Rio did not like competing. Competing was stressful, overwhelming, and pressurised. She could do a few obstacles at best,…

  • May

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    Rio has the most potential of my agility dogs thus far, and we are going nowhere. And it’s so frustrating! When she is on and focused, she is fast and wonderful and astonishing. When she is not, she is really, really, not. At the moment, environment is playing a huge part in her ability to…

  • A Little Faith

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    I had a plan for training this week and it didn’t quite work out. Not in a negative way, I just had a short list of things to work on and … we worked on other things instead. We worked on weaves in sequences for a while and that was nice! Rio is working for…

  • Goals for 2014?

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    I need goals for 2014. This is for me, because if I don’t, I get lazy. If I’m not improving my handling or training skills, I don’t really even maintain. I slip into bad habits. Lazy lazy lazy. My goal for this year is simple: be as good as Rio needs me to be. That means…

  • February Kind of Day

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    Rio’s beautiful running Aframe has disappeared, and I’m pretty sure it’s because I’ve been rewarding the launches on the dogwalk. Oops! Still, time to test the theory and see if I can put the stop back in. So far so good, we only did a few reps this week at training but she’s getting the…

  • Rio Dig It Feb

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    No video, because I’ve misplaced my video camera. Really do need to find it for next time! There is an option to run both the Agility and Jumping twice, but the format didn’t work for me last time. All the dogs at the jump height ran, and then ran immediately again before the height changed.…

  • This is Where We Are

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    Rio has moved on to Robbins Recalls in flyball, which she finds really tough. We haven’t really got to proper RRs yet, since I can’t run in the opposite direction to her, I can only walk. Running is Rio’s favourite thing, she will always choose running over box turns and definitely over stupid tennis balls.…

  • Wilmslow 2014

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    I am so glad I entered this show. Dylan had a great time; he was so excited and enthusiastic to be running, I can’t imagine a better retirement show for him. G6-7 Agility first thing was a nice course, nothing horribly challenging but some interesting handling options. I tried to flick Dylan away from me…

  • A Lack of Direction

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    Rio and I were a bit hit and miss at training this week. I wasn’t really feeling motivated, and that showed. The only run I felt motivated to do was a sequence where I could try a blind cross. I have been reading a lot recently about blind crosses and decided I needed to at…