{"id":897,"date":"2009-06-23T19:07:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/?p=897"},"modified":"2009-06-23T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T18:07:11","slug":"doncaster-cantley-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Doncaster Cantley Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was such a heartbreaking competition for us last year, and this year was looking increasingly disasterous on the dog front, with 6 dogs coming down injured in the preceeding week. We can’t seem to shake the bad luck at Cantley, and being a suspicious bunch we might make the longer trek over to the Wirral next year instead. Still, Doncaster do throw a good tournament, everything ran like clockwork and the venue is lovely. I just wish every person and dog would stay healthy when we attend!<\/p>\n

Dylan was supposed to be running on Sunday, in one of the lower teams who had a tough draw and needed a faster dog to bring them within touching distance of their seed-time. Mollie was always down for Barking Owlers on Saturday, but slowly her team-mates were falling like flies; Kim out, Lolly out with a cruciate tear, Bailey out when her lift’s dog collapsed on Friday night. So Dylan stepped in (emergency measures!) and we ran a 4-dog team over 13″ all day.<\/p>\n

Now, Mollie was the height dog, and being an older lady we normally limit her to running over 11\/12″ at most. Lucy (Labrador x Spaniel) also normally runs over 10-11″, and she ended up pulling a muscle in the afternoon session. So we were a little down-and-out! I think we finished 5th<\/strong> in the end, way off our seed-time, but we made the other teams work for their wins and Dylan loved<\/em> running with Mollie.<\/p>\n

As we’d technically run all our available dogs on Saturday, we didn’t really have to go back again on Sunday. But Bailey<\/a> needed a handler as Emma was nursing her 21st birthday hangover, and with 4 teams in, a few extra pairs of hands wouldn’t go amiss! Normally I don’t detail exactly what happened at flyball, but I know Emma will be wanting a blow-by-blow account of how fab her little girl was. And Bailey was awesome, she ran her little white socks off! She was happy when she realised I had a tub full of sausages for her, and we won all our morning races. Unfortunately it all went a bit pear-shaped after lunch …<\/p>\n

Bailey was running as normal in the warm-up, but when she set off in the first leg, she did 2 hurdles and then slammed on the breaks. I’m pretty sure the whole team shrieked! She ran in a small circle and then found what had caused the halt: a dropped dog-treat behind the second hurdle*. Despite having eaten it, she slammed on the breaks again<\/em> in the second leg, and we lost that one too. Two down, one last chance … and Bailey ran perfectly, gave the team a good advantage … until our fourth dog got a light for an early change. Oops!<\/p>\n

*I think the dropped treats were from somebody who had run Starters, which had run in the same ring just before our division started.<\/small><\/p>\n

We lost all the afternoon legs, although Bails was back to being a superstar again. I think we finished 5th<\/strong>, so couldn’t send Bailey home with a rosette, sorry Emma!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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