Flyball
Epworth/Drax/DruridgeBay/Somewhere Flyball
We were originally entered at Epworth, but then venue changes and tournament changes and we ended up running at Drax. The dogs got to compete and everyone was happy, and our top team actually won their division despite running a…
Rio Recalls
Rio stepped up to two hurdles this week. You can see what a puppy she still is as she runs, but also what a different kind of movement she has anyway compared to the collies. Border collies (like Dyl) run…
Dogs Unleashed 2012
Can’t believe this is our fourth year at this show! The first year we did it, at Newark, it was absolutely baking hot, and every year seems to have got slightly more damp. This year was a complete washout, I’m…
Saturday Flyball
Kim and Mollie’s Starter team is looking so good! We did some team training and a little head-to-head for Diva. Mollie was a Bad Dog because my mother wasn’t there running her, but thankfully she had an experienced handler to…
The Team
Felt a little bit like I had my own personal team of flyball dogs this week at Thursday training. Kim and Mollie are both back to competition next weekend in Starters with another of our older but experienced dogs, Lucy,…
Swallownest
Not a great weekend at Swallownest. Dylan was a little off on Friday evening but nothing dramatic, and I figured he’d just been eating something he shouldn’t (like he usually does). Unfortunately he was a sad man all day Saturday…
Drax European Format
I did not really find this format confusing or tiring like everyone else apparently did. It was fun! Much better for the dogs as well, they had long breaks between racing and could therefore race fresh. It was baking hot…
Swallownest May 2012
We stuck with our original lineup for Dylan’s team and it worked well, we were running more consistent times but not nearly as fast as I would like. Chip and Dylan were running just over 10s as a pair pretty…
Flyball Starter Tournaments
This has sort of been a pet peeve of mine for a long time, but I’m now facing returning to Starter Tournaments with potentially 2 dogs (one young, one old) in the next 12 months. So I thought it was…
Drax May Bank Holiday #1
We did not have a very successful day at Drax. Mollie’s team chose to go NFC rather than withdraw after super height dog Bails got injured this week. Unfortunately this is a problem with a team consisting primarily of Veteran…