Category: Agility

  • 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…

  • String Theories

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    Dyl’s weave entries are improving at a rate of knots, so chuffed! It’s so nice to see the hard work paying off. No problems now with 90° angles, either side, and we’re working back to being fairly comfortable at 45° (better on the soft side, at the moment). He’s picking up weaves when flicking back…

  • South Durham

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    One of those days that tried to be a bad day, but was secretly a good day. I only took Dylan, but he made up for being 1 dog by doing the work of 2, as he had seven runs over the course of the day! We started off with Combined 1-7 Jumping, a class…

  • Sad Sick Dogs … and Happy Flyball

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    The collies have both been ill this week, which has meant I haven’t had much time to post on the blog, however much I intended to! Dylan picked something up last week and we thought it was his unfortunate eating habits (a towel, this time!) but since Mollie came down with it too, it seems…

  • 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…

  • BAA Promotion

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    Dylan got his automatic promotion to Primary in Agility and Jumping, finishing 5th* in both the Agility and Jumping Leagues and 4th in the Introductory Maxi Dog of the Year League (661pts). Kim was 7th in the Novice Medium Dog of the Year League (954pts) and has not got promoted in anything, thankfully. She was…

  • BAA Finals (Monday)

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    Kim has always liked to do things in style, and so she came 3rd in the Novice Plus Agility first thing on Monday morning and did a gorgeous running dogwalk contact for me. Dylan and I had a much better start to the day; Dyl came 4th in Introductory Jumping on a very fast blast…

  • BAA Finals Weekend (Sunday)

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    We had a rough start to the day when Dylan blew all his contacts in the Introductory Agility. He did hit them all, but he refused to wait and over-ran on everything. I wouldn’t have been too worried if he’d been going superfast but he wasn’t. Thankfully Emma and Bailey proved that we do actually…

  • Dog Vegas

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    Kim qualified for the Dog Vegas Final at Easter, so we made a bit of a detour to Scunthorpe before going down to the BAA Finals for Dylan and the Trios. Kim and I started the day with a slow clear in the first G1-7 Jumping. It was quite a straightforward course, a flowing loop…