The Blog
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Still struggling on the jumping front. The more I watch, the more I find Dylan’s jumping issues somewhat bizarre. We usually have our jumps at training set at a variety of jump heights, so Dylan will work some sequences on…
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End of Season
The Promotion tables have gone up for the 2010/11 BAA season, and Dylan is happily into Graduate in both Jumping and Agility. This doesn’t bother me since he’s going to be doing Novice Plus classes all winter anyway. He finished…
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Sunlit Stiles
[singlepic id=286 w=320 h=240 float=none] I want to have an enormous and beautiful framed version of this shot. These two pictures sum up Dylan and Kim’s personalities so well. They’re such different dogs. [singlepic id=287 w=320 h=240 float=none]
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BAA Finals Weekend
Saturday was a little weird. Dylan wasn’t running at his best, stuttering a little through certain jump sequences and just generally floating around and distracted. We were E’d in the Jumping Qualifier, and then came 3rd in everything else. I’m…
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Booster
Annual booster time! Our dogs all get a general examination at the same time as their boosters, so it’s a good chance for them all to weigh-in and compare health notes. This is one of the highlight’s of Mollie’s year,…
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A Mixture of Things
The dogs are all still flying about at flyball, but I’m looking forward to finally getting back to agility this weekend. After a nailbiting couple of weeks, Dylan has qualified for the Agility and Jumping Finals, and I’ve purposely kept…
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7 Things …
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From, of course, Bernadette and the Obay Shelties. Seven Things you may not know about me: I hate tomatoes. I used to ride horses, and the best horse I rode was a chestnut Thoroughbred called Jim. I live in an…
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Rother… Tyne?
Tournament at the usual Rotherham venue, but run by Tyne Tailwaggers. Out to confuse me from the start. Kim and Mollie’s team was a bit of a mix, and we lost pretty much everything, apart from the one race against…
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British Flyball Championships 2010
Thunderstorms and shooting stars, pouring rain and sunshine … The girls did good. We were in a bit of a weird position, in that we had three dogs who had suddenly gone back to being sub-5s dogs, and then one…
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Smug
Kim is smug about her trophies. She knows she’s better than me.