I get such a kick out of running with Kim, we miss all our contacts and get everything wrong but it’s just fab, I love it.<\/p>\n
She has freaked herself out badly on our seesaw though, she had a crazy fly-off last week on her first run and then was a little cautious for the rest of the session but nothing I was too concerned about. She’s had fly-offs before (they used to be a regular occurance when she was younger) and they’ve never bothered her too much. However, she obviously remembered this time because this week she was really worried about it, if I wasn’t right next to her she refused every time. That improved towards the end of the evening, and thankfully Dylan seems to have got over his super-scary see-saw mindset so at least I only have one dog to worry about.<\/p>\n
Our next competition is EMDAC at the end of November so we have plenty of time. We’ve sorted Dylan on the dogwalk and the seesaw, just the creeping Aframe to tackle now. We did a bit of work on it but then the various other issues surfaced, and so I’ve held off working on the Aframe until the other contact stuff was improved. It’s definitely something we need to work on before EMDAC though … plus weave entries, my timing for cues (especially tight turns), and a list of other stuff.<\/p>\n
The weird thing is that although Dylan has this whole bunch of stuff to work on, it’s nothing compared to all the things that Kim can’t do. Kim and I get by because we have a great partnership and a lot of ring experience, but Dylan has 18 months of foundation work behind him which makes such a difference. He can do much more complicated sequences and courses; he can do perfect flick-flacks and we haven’t even trained them specifically, he just has great directional commands, whereas Kim still has issues with flick-flacks if I’m not stood in the right spot. I’m very pleased all the work we did paid off, and that my training has improved in that I could see what Kim was lacking and did everything I could to combat that. But I am kind of sad that Kim didn’t get the foundation, because with it she would have been twice as awesome as she is now. In some ways I wish I had got Kim 10 years into the future, but I know if I had, I wouldn’t have learnt all the things I have and am doing with her.<\/p>\n
We still have a lot of fun, and she’s still awesome.<\/p>\n
P.S. Thanks for the vetrap help guys! I think I’ve found somewhere relatively cheap so hopefully Kim will be all wrapped up for Rotherham in 2 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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