Tag: contacts

  • Lincoln Agility

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    Started the weekend with a nice course for the Grade 3 Jumping, a little bit straightforward for my taste so I chose to take Dylan the long way around the pull thru, which gave me a chance to test his weave entry. He flicked out to it beautifully, nailed it, and then I steadied him…

  • Training Days

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    Tough day for fatman Dylan today! Flyball training in the morning and then an agility training afternoon over in York. Ideally I would have skipped flyball, but we have Drax coming up and I really want him fit and ready. We’re making an effort to do more two lane training at the moment, and it’s…

  • Hare 'n' Hounds Easter Show

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    Imagine a sea of mud, stretching as far as the eye can see … Well, it started ok on Friday. A little cold, a little damp, but nice. The weekend didn’t start all that fortuitously when I ran the Combined 1-3 Jumping, Dyl popped the last 2 weave poles (setting a trend for the weekend…

  • Timing Notes

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    It’s been a long while since I’ve looked at Dylan’s obstacle times. A whole year, in fact! As always, brutally honest times taken from the moment of first contact with the obstacle to the moment the front paw(s) hit the ground. Averages in bold, all times taken from competition runs within the last three months…

  • Wyre Agility

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    This is my traditional end-of-year show now, I think! We’ve done it since 2004, it was the first show that Kim properly behaved at and I felt relaxed and we just had fun. The year after, we came 4th in the Starters Agility Challenge, her best ever placing as a Large Dog. The year after…

  • Wilmslow Agility

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    For the first time at a competition, I had my crazy little man with me! Combined 3-5 Agility was a lovely course, challenging enough but flowed really nicely. I was a bit worried about Dylan because he’s only ever done one show at Myerscough before, when he found the whole atmosphere very stressful. This weekend…

  • Contact Training

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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 I want to see. No self-releases today either! We did work on some quick releases…

  • Crazy Dylan

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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 thought he was very laid-back and relaxed for a Border Collie, but then again ever…

  • Dylan is one brave boy!

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    Finally, we did the seesaw! I was beginning to think we were never going to get there, but at training yesterday I decided just to go for it. Not my normal approach to things! I like to have the groundwork and be confident that we can achieve what we’re aiming for rather than just taking…

  • Creepy Contacts

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    I should have known something would go wrong at some point! Dylan has been so good and so consistent with his contacts until now that I should have been suspicious, nothing is ever that easy. At the weekend at EMDAC he was playing in the practise ring with me and he was abruptly very slow…