• Agility,  Daisy,  Rio

    Seesaw

    I have been dabbling with the theory that Rio is just weird when it comes to her seesaw issues, and thankfully I have good friends to observe and clarify those theories with me. Her biggest issue is that the seesaw…

  • Adventures!,  Daisy,  Dylan,  Kim,  Rio

    Waiting on Winter

    Dylan has been lame. No particular reason for his lameness, he just came up sore one day. Left fore, I think carpal, hence a slow recovery. He is bored. Tough cookies, old man, you rest. I miss having him around.…

  • Agility,  Daisy,  Dylan,  Rio

    UKA Osberton – Competing (etc)

    I elected to go NFC in Beginners Jumping just so I could reward Rio’s weaves, which have been awesome recently. We have no weave problems, but I thought it would be nice to let her know how good she is.…

  • Agility,  Courses

    UKA Osberton – Judging

    I judged for Agility Antics at Osberton in October, which turned out to be a gorgeous warm day with no rain at all, perfect! I had a big ring on lovely flat ground, mostly even, and the grass was cut!…

  • Agility,  Dylan,  Rio

    Agility Wrap: A Summer of Hope

    I could have said A Summer of Despair, or A Summer of Frustration. A Summer of Hard Work and Lots of Training. A Summer of Going Nowhere. A Summer of Going Somewhere. We started at Easter. Rio did not like…

  • Adventures!

    Hello Again

    The all-new shiny-woofs Those Noisy Dogs blog. I finally got my act in gear and sorted out my hosting. Old hosting = gone, new hosting = currently working. It is nice to be blogging publically again. I’ve missed it! I…

  • Uncategorised

    Hare’n’Hounds September

    My wild child is finally starting to get her confidence in the ring! There isn’t a suitable word for the joy that comes after months of worry. I get to just love on her for this post. First run was…

  • Agility,  Rio

    May

    Rio has the most potential of my agility dogs thus far, and we are going nowhere. And it’s so frustrating! When she is on and focused, she is fast and wonderful and astonishing. When she is not, she is really,…

  • Agility,  Rio,  Training

    A Little Faith

    I had a plan for training this week and it didn’t quite work out. Not in a negative way, I just had a short list of things to work on and … we worked on other things instead. We worked…