Category: Daisy

  • Back

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    The blog is finally back online. Dylan isn’t getting a lot of extra love now he’s officially retired; he isn’t coming to agility training any more, although hopefully I will have some new equipment to play with shortly so perhaps he can come and demo a few things for my outdoor classes. He is still…

  • Rolling On

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    Everything has started again for 2014; we’ve been back to agility training and done two flyball sessions now. Dylan and I also went on a Maintaining the Canine Athlete workshop with Veterinary Physiotherapist Hannah Michael, which was excellent. Would highly recommend! I learned loads and I’m trying to make changes now, which isn’t as easy…

  • A Plan Comes Together

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    I love teaching weaves. There’s always a part where I hate it, right around the bit where it seems like we’ve been working on them forever and nothing is happening. But then it all comes together and I remember why I love it. As you may have guessed, Rio’s weaves have clicked. She has beautiful…

  • A Long Wait

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    I don’t think I’ve ever gone a whole month without blogging before. Technically, I still haven’t, since I blog for The Phantoms and for North K9 as well, but I haven’t blogged here. My thoughts, my dogs, my blog. I spent 12 days dog- and house-sitting in Cambridge for some flyballing friends whilst they were…

  • Daisy September 2013

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    Daisy’s first agility training session featuring actual equipment, and her first flyball photos. Her life would be a lot less documented without Cat.

  • I Only Blog When It's Going Badly

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    I have a tendency to be naturally suspicious of anyone who writes glowing, exciting blog posts when their training, handling, or competing is going perfectly, and skips over anything that isn’t fitting in to that. Especially those who then say things like “It didn’t go well, I’ve learnt a lot” and then utterly fail to…

  • Flyball Training

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    Flyball is a lot of fun at the moment. We’re focusing on individual skills work rather than teams; this is mainly because our dogs all need skills work, but also partly because not all our dogs are team-ready yet, and we haven’t made any decisions regarding lineups for next season. That will happen soon (I…

  • Positive

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    I should probably stop late-night-blogging, I’m not sure it’s that coherent. Since I finally realised that Rio’s issues are threshold related, so I went back and re-read Control Unleashed, and immediately felt better. I formulated a plan, and it’s already in action. We’re worked through the Take a Break exercises and she’s already improving in…

  • Things to Do with Daisy

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    Miss Daisy is definitely finding her feet. She’s such a puppy! I’m getting to know her better and we had our first play session today with just us, no toys or treats. Things I want to do this week with Daisyface: More clicker training! Some offered object interaction would be nice. Ball obsession work (my…

  • Melting Hot

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    There were times when I didn’t think I’d ever say this, but it is nice to be back to flyball! Dylan and Rio have done their first power jumping session at our new venue, and both looked good! I wasn’t sure Rio would be up for 8 jumps but apparently that’s not an issue. And…