Nearly Christmas?!

I can’t believe it’s nearly Christmas! Just 10 days to go, crazy.

The dogs have not been getting into the festive spirit, yet. Dylan seems intruiged by the baubles on the tree, and equally terrified and fascinated by the Santa ornament that we’ve had forever. It winds up and the base gently swivels whilst it plays a tune (Silent Night, I think!), and Dylan can’t stop watching it. Maybe he’s just horrified.

We didn’t get to flyball on Saturday, everyone is going away for their holidays and there weren’t enough people to make it worthwhile. Plus the weather was horrible! Just one more agility training session too, or at least for Kim there is. Dylan and I are going to train with Natalie and Kai on Sunday in addition to the norm. I haven’t seen Kai work in the flesh for a while so I’m looking forward to that, and I haven’t had chance for a proper catch up with Nat in ages. I think it will do Dylan good to work in a completely new environment and on different equipment too, it’s something I wish I had done more with him earlier in his training but it just wasn’t possible. Much like now really! I wish I had the time and money to go and train with different people, but I’m working to a very tight budget at the moment and with show entries it’s just not feasible.

Dylan’s never actually been on a proper training day. I’ve always been a bit hindered with Kim; training days or evenings don’t usually work well for her. She hates repetitive exercises and she does switch off if we train for longer than 30-45 minutes, and most training days/evenings are much longer than that. It’s usually worth it for me to go and listen to what trainers are advising or explaining, but then again it’s hard to sit and listen when I’m trying to keep Kim focussed and enthused. Swings and roundabouts! I guess the solution would be to go without Kim, but then I always feel a bit of an idiot. Maybe Dylan will be up for some more training days in the future (when I have a bit more cash to hand!)