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After all the chaos with Dylan’s box at Selby, I wasn’t entirely looking forward to training again! But (typical dog!) he was absolutely paw-perfect on his turns. Well, almost. 4/5 times he has a perfect swimmers turn, and then on the 5th run he does something entirely new and unexpected. It’s very frustrating!

I now have a box at home and the boy is in for some serious reps for the next month. We have a cracking set of Starters running at Middlesbrough (it’s practically a multi-breed team too!) and I won’t have Dylan letting them down with shoddy boxwork.

First outdoor show of the season next weekend, and it will mainly be training runs with Kim I think. Her Primary classes have 145+ entries, and I know there is some seriously high class competition there; Kim’s nemesis from last year’s winter series (who is now winning KC 1-7 Open Medium classes and is running at Grade 6) is back, plus the normal bunch of super-collies etc. Not expecting huge results! 3/3 Dogwalk and 3/3 Seesaw contacts will be our goal for the weekend.

And of course, all Dylan’s classes will be training runs, unless a super-nice jumping course crops up. We still haven’t mastered the seesaw properly so I’m resigning myself to pulling him from the agility classes. I hate having to do it but we just haven’t the access to a seesaw at the moment, and rushing him through for the sake of next weekend could potentially wreck his seesaw for the future, and I’m determined not to make that mistake! Luckily I know that EMDAC always have a practice ring with all the contact equipment, so I’ll spend a bit of time in there proofing his other contacts and working a little on his seesaw, and so he won’t miss out entirely.

Finally, who watched Britain’s Got Talent last night? How many of you were rooting for the amazing Kate and Gin to go through?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bt4kguLPTU

Not only did they have a fantastic performance, but Gin is part of the Live Wires flyball team that won the BFA Summer Championships last year. Multi-talented flyball dogs for the win!

4 Comments

  • Jessixa

    Omg wasnt she good!!!
    Dylan & Kim will be ace – as usall!!!!
    Dylan was doing great turns on the box with a few over excited runs which threw his box out!! but omg he was fast!!
    Jess
    xxx

  • Katie

    Awwh, I’m glad his box is better! Let’s hope that he keeps it up when the cone is taken out, but he’ll get it with repetition I’m sure :D.

    Chip is very excited to run with his best pal at Middlesbrough!

    xx

  • Leanne

    I did wonder if you might be going Vicki! 😀 I’ll probably spot you (or your dogs!) but will probably be too shy to actually come over and say hello, I find approaching people I don’t know in person terrifying. But if you see me (or hear Kim, as is more likely!) feel free to say hi!