Sunny Afternoons

The dogs and I have spent the weekend lounging about in the garden and having a lovely sunbathing time. This is our only free weekend until mid-September, as we’ve had a bit of a mix about with some flyball dates that have cancelled my free weekend in July. Providing nothing is cancelled, we’ve got a busy couple of months, alternating between agility and flyball (sometimes in the same weekend!).

Flyball training was fun this weekend, if a little bit warm! The dogs will have to compete in temperatures like this though if the summer goes as promised, so it’s better to get them acclimatised now. Mollie ran surprisingly well, she didn’t lose too much speed as the morning went on. Kim did slow up for her second session, but I wasn’t willing to push her. Her placements in the teams this summer will basically depend on the weather. She’s in demand as a height dog at the moment, especially for some of our older dogs *cough*Mollie*cough*, which will also affect where she runs.

Dylan ran very well! He was in a bit of a funny mood, being particularly cheeky and excitable. He’s running with Barney’s next weekend (on a declared time, thankfully!), but we clocked our time easily at training with no racing involved. That’s promising at least, although who knows what will happen on the day! I think he likes running with his girlfriend Jet, even if he does annoy George.

Website news: I am working on retrieving the UMB layout, and reinstating Katie’s blog at http://www.jetpops.co.uk/ (I’m not actually quite sure why it’s not working, but I am hoping to fix that soon!) Hopefully the site(s) will be back online soon!