The Blog
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Ok, remind me never ever to try and run 3 dogs at one competition again! I have no idea how people do this on a regular basis, they must be completely bonkers. I don’t suppose it would be too bad…
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Training with a Plan
I actually had a plan for training this week. I know that every trainer I admire advocates having a training plan in advance, and that going and messing around on the equipment doesn’t actually achieve anything. I know this, and…
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Search
[singlepic id=329 w=320 h=240 float=none] It’s pretty cold and miserable outside, and I get as bored as the dogs do indoors. So we play games! Search is the absolute favourite game, where I hide treats in the other room. I…
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Gap Farm November
Mollie was running in the second team. I was boxloading so have no idea what their fastest time was, I think something like 21.35? They all ran well; Mollie always loves running with her mini partner-in-crime Bailey, but the team…
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Enter Stage Left
I’ll admit, yesterday’s photo was completely staged. Dylan’s just not smart enough to read a magazine. Actually, (don’t get too excited, Dylan really isn’t that smart!) it was a staged shot. I haven’t done many staged shots of the dogs,…
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Fog
It’s been very foggy today. Being a good dog owner, I looked outside and thought about what a lovely walk we could take, since there would be no golfers playing golf in the fog. The golfers have a hard enough…
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Why We Compete
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in Agility… if you train but never compete, it’s easy to convince yourself that what you’re doing is hard, or hard enough. It’s easy to ease up in training; easy to say “that’s good enough”.1 I’m still not quite sure why…
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Mud
[singlepic id=327 w=320 h=240 float=none] Autumn is so pretty from the waist up, with all the golden trees and blue skies. From the waist down, mud. Flyball in the mud is not as difficult as agility in the mud, so…
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Start Lines
[singlepic id=326 w=320 h=240 float=right]Inspired by HippieDogs, of course, and somewhat by my previous musings on whether to get a collar for Kim’s starts. I haven’t talked about my start lines in a long while. Kim has a running start,…
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Happy Training
Kim was rocking training this week, she was so happy to be back! She’s skipped a few weeks as I’ve had both Jet and Dylan to run, and there just isn’t enough time to let Kim play. But it’s not…