Tag: agility

  • Northern Festival of Agility: Part One

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    Most perfect agility holiday ever. Redcar is a fantastic venue; I’ve raved about it before, but it’s a huge rugby club/football club training ground, so perfectly flat mowed lawns, nice big exercise areas, and 400m away is the Stray, a beautiful and huge dog friendly beach. What could possibly be better?! Hare’n’Hounds ran the first…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Training

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    I’m struggling a bit with training at the moment, so I’m actually kind of glad flyball training was rained off this morning. Dyl and I had a bad training session on Tuesday, I guess like everyone we have our off-weeks. I had some things I wanted to focus on, but Dyl just lazed around and…

  • Crufts 2010

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    I don’t even know where to start! I’d always said I’d love to do the whole four days and it was definitely worth it, but I’m not sure I could do it again for at least another 5 years! Got up very early for the trip down on Thursday morning. Andrea and Buffy (Bethlyntee Rhythm…

  • Tailwaggers #3

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    What a weird experience – no rain, no snow, no ice! Just a cool but bright day, and standing outside in the sun was lovely. Please can all the future Tailwaggers shows be like this? Power and Speed first, Dylan’s favourite class. The Jumping section was a little too Helter Skelter for me, and true…

  • Tailwaggers #2

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    Tailwaggers #1 was all about the ice, Tailwaggers #2 was all about the snow. Bob suggested that #3 would be all about the flooding, but we remain optimistic for bright and cheerful sunshine all day. Primary Agility was a fairly straightforward course, but with a tempting little dogwalk/seesaw discrimination at the start. What I really…

  • Newton Heath

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    Let’s gloss over Dylan’s first run, except to say that if you are queuing, have your damn dog with you, especially if the queue is only three people long and you are two of those people. Congrats to Julie and Winnie for winning it though, go the Beardie/Lurchers! The Graded 1-3 Agility was a really…

  • Hare'n'Hounds

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    Lovely show, but South Durham always put on a good competition. No weaves in any of the classes though, but apparently they couldn’t peg them down. Some of the rings were a bit … oddly shaped, but I don’t really mind that. Anyone with a bit of imagination can put up an interesting course in…

  • Waldridge Fell (Holmside)

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    This is such a long drive. Thankfully it’s worth it, because I love the proper Northern shows. Everyone is so friendly! I had a borrowed dog for this show in Katie’s Jet. Jet is a complete maniac and I haven’t run her competitively since her first KC show at South Durham, since when she’s become…