The Blog

  • Hi! I’m Dylan. My mum has been calling me 22″-at-the-withers-Dylan-arg today in a despairing voice, and this is why. Here’s a picture of me. I can’t remember what I was looking at but it must have been interesting! I was…

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  • Towards the end of last week I thought I should really work on reminding Dylan about his box turn, especially because he hadn’t flyballed for some time. It also occurs to me that I’ve talked about wanting Dylan to have…

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  • New layout! Hopefully this explains why the site was down all day Monday. I loved my green layout but I wanted to try a different colour and some new techniques for the pages. I know it doesn’t quite work in…

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  • I’m just sat watching the Olympic Showjumping, and we’re doing pretty well! Two riders left to go. It’s the nearest thing to agility in the Olympics and it’s interesting to see all the beautiful fences and the way the course is…

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  • Mollie’s lip was worse than we initially thought. It’s probably a good job she’s not flyballing this weekend as we would have had to pull her now anyway, there’s no way she could have caught a ball with stitches down…

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  • I was playing with the dogs this afternoon, and had a vague idea of getting some new photos of them for the website. I got a dozen snaps or so and then I was just throwing their toy for them…

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  • I thought Jet was due a birthday post all of her own, because she is to Katie what Kim is to me so I know what a special girl she is for her mum. When Jet was a couple of…

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  • Had another fun session with Dylan on the mini dogwalk today, I’m really pleased with how he’s working. No creeping or stuttering, just driving forward to his 2o2o and then away on the release. Super confident and fast, exactly what…

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  • The dogs are all cough free and have been since Friday morning. Our vet had a long discussion with us this morning and he is of the very strong opinion that a dog is no more or less contagious in…

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  • Dylan is slowly beginning to go crazy! I’m beginning to get an insight into why people don’t recommend Border Collies to “normal” people, and I also didn’t realise how much like a normal Border Collie Dylan really is. I’ve always…

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