Agility
Agility Nuts
Finally back on form with Kim – EMDAC (Oct) and Wyre (Dec) were a bit down, just one 4th in the end despite a couple of good runs – but she decided to start 2008 with a bang. She came…
2007 Review
I know, it’s only December and the New Year is a whole three weeks away, but I’ve finished competing and training for the year so I thought it was an appropriate time to look back over the doggy year. Kim…
Dylan's Blog: Weaves
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.…
Dylan's Blog: Training Update
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…
Doncaster Flyball Tournament & Wyre Agility
Wyre I’m not sure I want to talk about Wyre! We had a nice day but for the first two runs I just didn’t get my head sorted. The courses were fair but erred on the easier side and we…
Weaves
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…
Dylan's See Saw
Dylan went to Wakefield this weekend on his own, which was a very enlightening experience! He definitely doesn’t get as worked up when he’s training on his own, but he still finds the whole thing quite exciting. It was definitely…
Friday
Friday is my day off from university, so I was able to fit some training in with Kim and Dylan. Actually, there are two things wrong with that sentence! I am supposed to use Fridays for catching up with reading…
Barking Dogs
There’s a bit of a debate over on the Agility Forum at the moment about dogs barking in queues at competitions. If I have a quiet Kim on my hands, I know we’re not going to have a good run.…
Agility Training
It’s been a frustrating couple of days with Dylan. I’ve been really happy with his contact work until now; he has been extremely good with the 2o/2o on the dogwalk, and his 4off for the Aframe has been working really…