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  • We did lots of dogwalk work at training this week! I had three things to work on in our classes; dogwalk, weaves, and long-jump. For our dogwalk training, I planned a similar set up to his very bad run at…

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  • Haven’t done this show in a while. Kim won out of G1 here back in 2007, and last time we competed there Dylan was G3. It’s still nice, such a lovely showground, and it was the EO qualifying weekend which…

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  • Happy 7th Birthday Dylan! It might have taken me seven years to get here, but I suddenly see my strange little Border Collie. I haven’t always had the best relationship with Dylan; althought I’ve always loved him, because he’s endearing…

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  • Amazing, yes?

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  • Rio is still bored and still full of herself. She had her stitches out 10 days ago and she’s in full coat-blowing mode; seems to be her stress response to anesthetic/being left at the vet, since she did this after…

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  • I say this every time, but I really hate Winterton Showground. It’s beautiful and flat and has such nice well kept grounds to run on, but it’s always blowing a gale. ALWAYS. I seriously considered pulling Dylan from a couple…

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  • I don’t have a gundog breed (have you noticed?) and much as I like Labradors and Spaniels, I don’t think I’d ever consider owning one. Just not my cup of tea! But the opportunity came up to go on a…

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  • For Rio, anyway. Rio was spayed on the 28th March. Her stitches are due out on the 9th April. She will probably go back to agility training on 4th June. This is mainly because I am very over-cautious and K…

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  • Coldest weekend ever. Possibly even colder than the Cold Easter of ’10, and that was also really damn cold. I could have entered 7 runs per day, but I chose to limit myself to 5. I am not fit enough…

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  • SNOW! Thankfully this was a quiet weekend; I didn’t enter Wyre Champ at Myerscough as I thought doing 5 days of agility in the space of a week was a bit much after 3 months off. Not sure we would…

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