Lincoln Agility
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…
Training Days
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.…
Hare 'n' Hounds Easter Show
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…
Timing Notes
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…
Wyre Agility
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…
Wilmslow Agility
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…
Contact Training
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…
Crazy Dylan
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…
Dylan is one brave boy!
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…
Creepy Contacts
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…