• Agility,  Rio,  Training

    Rio's Agility Update

    A selection of brief notes based on training in the past 2 weeks. Rio is relaxing and enjoying training again. Her focus is great, and I’m using a mixture of food and tug, and regularly scheduled breaks. Doing some single-jump…

  • Agility,  Dylan

    UKA Sutton Weavers

    This show was really for Rio, who obviously sliced her pad and therefore couldn’t go. Next year, she’s wrapped in cotton wool pre-Champs. Very very nice show, great setup at one of my favourite flyball venues, Sutton Fields. The ring…

  • Agility,  Courses,  Rio

    Judging

    I judged at Dig It’s club competition this Friday, my first “judging appointment”! It was actually a lot of fun, but also exhausting, and it was only a 2hr stint. Judges, I have a new found appreciation for your skills.…

  • Agility,  Courses,  Dylan

    Lincoln 2013

    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…

  • Agility,  Diva,  Dylan,  Photos

    Hare'n'Hounds Easter 2013

    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…

  • Agility,  Dylan,  Health,  Rio

    Shut Up and Drive

    Dylan is sound as a bell now, although I didn’t push our luck by taking him training. He is still being lead walked and if he continues to remain sound, he’ll return to normal life on Friday. Now I’m feeling…

  • Agility,  Rio,  Training,  Videos

    Rio Contact Training

    This was Rio’s third time on the board, and this is her whole session. She’s maybe done 10-15minutes total, at this stage? No luring, no targeting, no physical placement from me. I’m happy! I added a lot more movement in…

  • Agility,  Dylan,  Photos,  Rio,  Videos

    Easter at Duncombe Park

    Five runs a day on not-so-flat ground has killed me, I am going to have to get my running shoes on and do some training this summer as well. When I am not flailing around behind Dylan, I can actually…

  • Agility,  Rio,  Training

    Rio's First Class

    Rio attended her first Foundation Agility Skills class yesterday! She has been through a puppy-tunnel a few times, but has never seen the proper heavy duty pipe tunnel. She thought it was pretty easy though! We did a few recalls…

  • Agility,  Dylan,  Rio

    Tailwaggers February

    This was 300x better than Hare’n’Hounds last week. Novice Plus Tunnel Troubles was a straightforward course, but I’d already decided to train Dylan’s run. We played tuggy a few times and he seemed to enjoy himself, his jumping was miles…