• Agility,  Daisy,  Dylan,  Rio,  Training

    Rolling On

    Everything has started again for 2014; we’ve been back to agility training and done two flyball sessions now. Dylan and I also went on a Maintaining the Canine Athlete workshop with Veterinary Physiotherapist Hannah Michael, which was excellent. Would highly…

  • Adventures!,  Personal

    2014

    2013 was a year of Change. Some changes were embraced, some changes were not, some changes I still struggle with. Some I love and some I am frustrated with, often within the space of 5mins (I’m talking about you, Daisy…

  • Rio,  Training

    We Can/We Can't

    Rio did her first set of 12 weaves last week. I can confidentally say that even if I can’t train anything else, I can train awesome weaves. All my dogs have great weaves, and Rio is no exception. Her drive…

  • Kim,  Photos

    Teenage Dreams

    Kim is thirteen this month. Thirteen years is a long time to spend with a little dog, but it’s not long enough. We need at least another ten or so, I think. Kim went in for a checkup in September,…

  • Agility,  Dylan,  Rio

    December Flurries

    I wrote my last post in haiku, and I make no apologies. Dyl and I had a good time at Wyre, we always do. I said Wyre would be the last one, but I’m going to enter Wilmslow as well.…

  • Agility,  Dylan

    Wyre 2013

    Dull motorway rain I’m worried about the tyres Car pulls to the right   Small arena Combined 5-7 Jumping I suppose it’s ok   A pull-through start Nine weaves into nowhere I got lost   Looking forward Graded 6-7 Agility…

  • Agility,  Personal,  Rio

    Shiny Rio

    I don’t post very often about me; my blog is about the dogs, and I try to keep the non-dog stuff away. However, sometimes it falls together. Last week was very tough for me. Lots of things have been piling…

  • Agility,  Daisy,  Rio

    A Plan Comes Together

    I love teaching weaves. There’s always a part where I hate it, right around the bit where it seems like we’ve been working on them forever and nothing is happening. But then it all comes together and I remember why…

  • Agility,  Dylan

    Wilmslow Nov 2013: Unexpected Results

    I always forget how much Dylan really loves running at Myerscough. It certainly helped that we were running on Adams equipment, so no aluminium contacts for him to worry about (just heavy seesaws, but the tipping point is standardised in…

  • Agility,  Dylan,  Rio

    Time Well Spent

    Dylan came to training and did some training, for once. It was nice. He’s so easy to run, even if he can’t turn or jump nicely. Comfy pair of socks, well washed and groomed this week, with his paws trimmed…