Sheffield Flyball

I love Sheffield tournaments. The Speeders are a great bunch of flyballers and they always run a good competition, with lovely rosettes and fast results. The venue is great, just a shame about the location. Three cars were broken into in the morning just after we arrived, including one of our ‘Owlers cars, which was the only real problem with the whole day.

Kim was running in Barney Owlers, the top team. The lovely Brooke is still banned from tournaments until she learns to turn properly on the box, and so Kim was taking her place. Unfortunately that meant my little lady had to do 13” jumps all day! She actually did very well, clocking some fantastic 4.7second singles times that I was very pleased about, but towards the end of the morning she was really tiring, I just don’t think she can cope anymore with that height of hurdle all day, so it will be a relief when she goes back to running with Barking over 10”!

Mollie was running in Barking Owlers again, in her favourite spot as lead dog. She ran very consistent singles times at around 5 seconds for most of the day, with a couple of 4.9’s, but we know she runs slower indoors so very pleased with those! I ended up running Jess in the morning as Craig couldn’t make it, but I just could not persuade that little hound to bring her ball right back and over the line. So I ran Meg in the afternoon, which worked out a lot better except when I had to run as lead. I cannot do those lights! Barking did really well, coming 4^th in the end, but obviously without Kim and with poor Jess and Meg suffering me as a handler half the time so a very decent result!

Nights stormed home to win their division, and Lolly ran absolutely brilliantly – she was running the same singles times as Kim! I can’t wait to see how she does this summer; she’s really one of the rising stars at Owlers. Eagles also did well but some of our baby dogs had a few confidence issues this time around, so just a well-deserved 4^th.

Nice to be home before 9pm too!