Dylan's First Competition
Well, I might be completely mad but I’ve entered Dylan in his first proper agility competition today. I didn’t really want to be entering this early but it is the competition I’d always said I’d like to do as his…
Dylan's Blog – EMDAC
We had a lovely, long 4 days at EMDAC last week, and Kim was a superstar and won another agility class and got a handful of placings in some others, I was thrilled to bits! She’s now top of the…
Dylan's Blog – Grown Up!
This isn’t really a training post but I couldn’t resist posting this pic. (Click for larger version). I can’t believe how much he’s grown from looking at these pics. His ears have changed to be all stuck-up, those naughty spots…
May/June
June: June was an amazing month for Kim. We’ve never been got a top-3 placing before and then suddenly she went and got 6! Her total haul of trophies and rosettes was fantastic, and eventually totalled 1x1st, 1x2nd, 4x3rd, and…
June Update
I just wanted to mention what an absolute star Kim was last weekend at the Yorkshire Bouncers show. We had four classes and I was hoping for a couple of top-10 placings to bump us up the League Tables, but…
Dylan's Blog
I’ve been really working with Dylan and his target training at the moment. We spend a couple of 10 minutes sessions a day working on his target with a variety of distractions. (I did lose his clicker yesterday which is…
Dylan's Blog – May
Puppy has been having a busy few weeks! He spent the first weekend in May in kennels with Mollie, due to a whole crop of unforseen circumstances. Kim and I were competing (badly!) at Shrewsbury and the rest of the…
Dylan's Blog – April
Dylan had an introduction to some proper agility equipment this week when the opportunity came up to go training at a friend’s house. She has a full-sized dog walk, amongst other things, so I let Dylan walk over it a…
Dylan's Blog – April
The weather has cooled down a bit so Dylan and I have been topping up on our training outdoors. We’ve cracked target training — he runs to the target and downs on it whilst touching it with his nose, which…
Clever Dogs
Kim is top of the CleverDogs 2007 Championship Multimix Seedings list! She ran a cracking time at Selby of 22.50 and is currently ahead of her nearest competitor, Poppy, by 4 seconds. We’ll have a couple more chances to improve…