After all the chaos with Dylan’s box at Selby, I wasn’t entirely looking forward to training again! But (typical dog!) he was absolutely paw-perfect on his turns. Well, almost. 4\/5 times he has a perfect swimmers turn, and then on the 5th run he does something entirely new and unexpected. It’s very frustrating!<\/p>\n
I now have a box at home and the boy is in for some serious reps for the next month. We have a cracking set of Starters running at Middlesbrough (it’s practically a multi-breed team too!) and I won’t have Dylan letting them down with shoddy boxwork.<\/p>\n
First outdoor show of the season next weekend, and it will mainly be training runs with Kim I think. Her Primary classes have 145+ entries, and I know there is some seriously high class competition there; Kim’s nemesis from last year’s winter series (who is now winning KC 1-7 Open Medium classes and is running at Grade 6) is back, plus the normal bunch of super-collies etc. Not expecting huge results! 3\/3 Dogwalk and 3\/3 Seesaw contacts will be our goal for the weekend.<\/p>\n
And of course, all Dylan’s classes will be training runs, unless a super-nice jumping course crops up. We still haven’t mastered the seesaw properly so I’m resigning myself to pulling him from the agility classes. I hate having to do it but we just haven’t the access to a seesaw at the moment, and rushing him through for the sake of next weekend could potentially wreck his seesaw for the future, and I’m determined not to make that mistake! Luckily I know that EMDAC always have a practice ring with all the contact equipment, so I’ll spend a bit of time in there proofing his other contacts and working a little on his seesaw, and so he won’t miss out entirely.<\/p>\n
Finally, who watched Britain’s Got Talent last night? How many of you were rooting for the amazing Kate and Gin to go through?<\/p>\n