The Blog
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Could I get Dylan to pop his weaves? No, I could not. I set up the same scenario as the weekend, weaves to long jump (to tunnel, for added temptation), and he weaved like a superstar. The only thing I…
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Attitude: We're a Team
It’s an Dog Agility Blog Action Day for Attitude. I wasn’t going to write anything for this because I was stumped on the topic, but after our weekend at Wigton I had the glimmer of an idea. I am competitive,…
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Retirement Party (Wigton 2012)
Important things first: this was Kim’s last show. She was awesome, all happy and springy and running like an idiot and doing whatever she wanted. She had 2 clear rounds, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, and was just…
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Same Training
I am determined to keep a record of how Rio does each week at training until she’s 12months at least, but I can’t honestly think of much to say about this week. She was very well behaved, very very tuggy…
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Drax European Format
I did not really find this format confusing or tiring like everyone else apparently did. It was fun! Much better for the dogs as well, they had long breaks between racing and could therefore race fresh. It was baking hot…
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Hot
Bit hot, Ri?
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Digley May 2012
Emma and I took Bailey, Dylan, Diva and Rio around Digley this afternoon, since the nice weather is continuing and the dogs could do with the swim! So much of the path is in dappled shade that we didn’t have…
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Summer Days
It has been too hot to walk the dogs during the day over the past week. They aren’t at all acclimatised to the heat, especially since last weekend I had a coat on Dylan between racing so he didn’t get…
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Summer Training
Trained without being swamped by 300 layers of clothing this week, it was great. Forgot what naughty dogs I have though, both Dylan and Rio jump up at me all the time. My arms were streaked with sand by the…
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Swallownest May 2012
We stuck with our original lineup for Dylan’s team and it worked well, we were running more consistent times but not nearly as fast as I would like. Chip and Dylan were running just over 10s as a pair pretty…