Training Day and competition

Tomorrow Emma, Amy and me are all on a training day in Leicestershire practicing how to become judges and what each ring party duty involves. We have an input in the morning and then we get to practice our skills in the afternoon on the starters competition. It's a great thing to participate in and the BFA are running the course for free, which only leads to good things as there will be more of us out there able and willing to help.

Kody (pictured right as a puppy) will be running in the afternoon with dad in the Brickyard Bullets team along with Smartie another hopeful for our Bandits team. It looks like they are only putting wings up on this show instead of full netting which means it will be harder, however Kody and Smartie are more than ready to compete without any helping aids so it shouldn't be a problem.
Obedience went really well on wednesday, Zippy was a little star and has already completed all of his puppy book, he has got so much drive to work it's unbelievable, it's almost like working his dad but on a smaller scale.

Pudsey was brilliant, he was really switched on and worked like a curly super star. His obedience has improved so much and we have been given extra homework to learn new skills. The only mistake dad and Kody made in the class was their holt, instead of Kody sitting at the side he ended up taking an extra pace and then sitting ahead, dad has already identified the problem in not giving him time to hear the command before making him do the action, more training for dad required !!!