The Blog
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Really inspiring weekend at the Rocket Relay seminar, yet again. Kelly and Aaron are great teachers and it’s been 18months since their last seminar in the UK, so there was a lot to be reminded of. I sort of wish…
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Forwards and backwards all at once
Not even sure that’s possible, but it feels like what’s happening! Ri is definitely back to her super-sassy self. She got some extra training today as well as her usual session. She’s working really well, her forward drive is great,…
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DABAD: Internationalisation
Yep, I get to say “internationalisation” with an s instead of a z, since I think I’m one of the few blogging on this from outside North America. I think there are lots of ways to approach this topic, and…
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Product Review: Canagan Follow Up
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Rio and Dylan have been eating Canagan for the month as part of a product review I agreed to do. The 12kg bag lasted for nearly 4 weeks feeding two 20kg active dogs. Both dogs loved the food, it definitely…
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Flyball Training
What’s this? Flyball? I still haven’t joined another team and I’m still not really intending to get back into the sport in the immediate future. But a flyball taster session at North K9 came up, and I do quite want…
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Extra Bits
I managed to get the arena for a little while this week and do some extra work with Rio. My main aim was to introduce her to the dogwalk again, which we did, and perhaps do a bit of sequencing.…
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Rally Trials
The girls and I crashed and burned at our Rally trial. I feel like I ought to say that the trial itself was awesome, really well organised and friendly people. The venue was good, but the ring was in a…
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Shut Up and Drive
Dylan is sound as a bell now, although I didn’t push our luck by taking him training. He is still being lead walked and if he continues to remain sound, he’ll return to normal life on Friday. Now I’m feeling…
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Unexpected Weekends
Dylan and I were supposed to spend this weekend at Ribble, getting back into our competitive groove and admiring all the excellent partnerships who had travelled north (and south) for the G6-7 Olympia Qualifier. However, Dyl came up very lame…
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Quiet
Rio is still being unnaturally quiet. She was very flat at agility training and then very distracted at rally this week. Agility was just a bit odd, she tecnically worked very well, did all the sequences etc, but just seemed…