Muddy Puppies
Hate this time of year, our flyball training field isn’t bad for draining but there is only so much time for water to go away! The mud is awful, lots of bathed dogs and very short sessions.
Dylan hasn’t flyballed since the beginning of December, so we were a little out of practice. Got some boxwork warmups done before running at least. He’s running without a height dog in our next tournament at Drax, which is just one of those things we can’t do much about at the moment as my height dog (Kim!) is retired, and the other two are being used by the other two teams. One of those things, eh. We are in a different team again, but here I can run Dylan anchor for the most part, and he’s running with dogs who have impeccable temperaments and that we are both utterly comfortable with. Unfortunately I only have two more training sessions to get my changeovers perfect despite the competition being at the end of March, but I think Dylan will feel confident about running with these dogs.
I’m also running Bailey at Drax so we had a practise, not that it’s hard to run Bailey – a small, noisy, terrier-esque bitch with strong opinions, I wonder why it’s easy?! – and as I’m changing into Mollie I think we’ll be ok.
It was nice to be at flyball and actually running a dog again!
2 Comments
Crystal
Do you guys ever get a chance to practice indoors? We get so much rain in my area that you HAVE to practice indoors if you want to do flyball year round.
Leanne
We never train indoors. We’d love to! But there are very few suitably sized venues in this area, and those that are suitably sized tend to be either Sports Halls (which require the purchase of very expensive matting, which is also very heavy and needs to be stored — I’ve run with a club who did that in the past, it was a nightmare!) or equestrian arenas where the surface is worse than mud. š
We are always looking for somewhere! It’s very unusual for flyballers in the US to run outdoors at all, isn’t it?