Dylan's Blog – April

It’s been a hot couple of days! I got the shell out for the dogs to chill in, because both the girls love to lounge in it when they’ve been out for a long hot walk. This is the first year that Dylan has really been old enough to play in it, and didn’t he have a whale of a time! Mollie goes completely mad when I get the hose out, so both the collies had a great time playing with that first. Then Dylan realised there was a ready-made bath for him to play in!

He spent all day bouncing in and out and splashing about, so that’s definitely been a huge success. It’s one of the few things that was missing this weekend; usually, at flyball competitions, there are two or three of these big shell-halves out, filled with water so that after their runs, the flyball dogs can cool off a little. They’re such an asset! I know some people don’t like letting their dogs bath in the same water as thirty other dogs, but I don’t know of any dog that’s ever got an illness because of it, and I’d rather have a cool dog than a overheated one that might catch something in a bit of water. Mollie would certainly have appreciated it this weekend, anyway. Hopefully it won’t become a trend for them to be missing at flyball — there are never any at agility competitions, which is a shame too.

Anyway, back to the boy! His lovely girlfriend Jetly is coming around tomorrow to tell him all about her new found flyballing love, and that will hopefully wear him out a little.