Agility update

Three days of competing and unfortunately only three clear rounds, all by Keisha. The dogs have had some fantastic runs but silly mistakes such as an odd pole knocked or a missed contact has led us to not finish clear. Keisha is looking so close to that winning run but has just forgotten what an A-frame contact is, Ronny is looking really good but the wet weather has caused him to slip a few times and take a pole down before he could get his footing, I feel the luck is against us at the moment. Saying that after a long wait for our final agility class yesterday Keisha pulled a fantastic run out of the bag to finish 4th, only being beaten by the grade 5 dogs.

Tomorrow is the last day of competing before the easter weekend is finished, we have done some remedial training of the A-Frame in the garden tonight in the hope of her getting it tomorrow morning. It's quite bizarre really as she has got her contact every time, I'm praying she will remember it for the class tomorrow.

I will update you tomorrow with the outcome of that dreaded A-Frame !!!

Easter weekend agility

Yipee its the weekend again and an extended one at that. Tomorrow we are off to Shrewsbury for the TAG agility show and then for the rest of the weekend we are at Moreton Morrell. Kody will be competing tomorrow only but Ronny and Keisha will be in action for all the four days. Pudsey and Zippy will be out socialising again no doubt getting into mischief.

Zippy has been digging massive holes in my garden, I just caught him doing it again !!

Last night was obedience club, we will only be going to that club for the next week or so as the agility training starts up in a few weeeks on the same night, obviously that comes first. Im going to have to stop teaching for the summer months and sort out a new club for Zippy, Pudsey and Kody so they can still attend obedience.

Anyway seems as I havent had a single easter egg (no pressure MUM) im hoping they might give some out at the agility show for the top three placings, if I spot them as prizes I am defintely going to bribe Ronny and Keisha, i usually bribe Ronny with an ice cream but by the looks of the weather for this weekend I doubt there will be an ice cream van there, I best get thinking, maybe a new toy.

I will update you throughout the weekend, have a nice easter everyone, dont eat too many eggs.

Agility addition

Congratulations to Kathryn and Jess for winning Grade 2 agility on saturday at Shuttleworth. Good luck in Grade 3 im sure you will be brilliant. Well done to Ellen and Hamish too for 10th place in their agility class.

Looking forward to meeting up again at Moreton Morrell at the weekend.

New pictures from the weekend have been added at the bottom of my page. Ronny didn't have a single pole down in that class, god knows how as he doesn't seem to leave much room. Thanks to Jan for taking some brilliant shots.

Shuttleworth update

What a weekend, not much to show for it in rosettes but I was certainly very pleased with how Ronny ran all weekend. He had a clear on saturday but just didn't sight the weaves early enough and waited for me to guide him in, that couple of seconds cost us first place and left him in 12th place. In his last run today he had an awesome round, really tight turns and really listened for directions, last few obstacles from home and I started to push him too much, I forced him to rush and miss the dog walk contact, what a shame otherwise he would have won it by two seconds.

Keisha and me have still not got it together, she didnt have many good rounds over the few days but out of nowhere pulled off a great agility round today to finish a fantastic 5th. Mum video-ed the run but I think the sun has affected the quality of it, have a look it's further down the post.

Kody had his first agility competition this weekend, not at all bad for his first attempt, just got to re-teach the tyre, for some reason he decided he no longer wanted to jump through it, more interesting running under it, bizarre !!!
Still, he was a good boy and tried very hard, I'm sure he will get the hang of it soon. His run is also further down the post

Zippy met Reno for the first time today, Reno is very much like Speedy, he is a very lovely boy with such a sweet character. It wont be long until we see Reno again as he will be going to the WBSDS show at the end of April. It will be nice to see all the puppies grow up through the summer months. In this picture Reno is on the left, Zippy on the right.


Keisha's run


Kody's run

Triathlon triumph

Last night was the club's annual triathlon, 13 teams were entered consisting of 4 people in each. The teams were made up of one person representing each discipline, agility, ring craft, beginners obedience and advanced obedience. The points are scored by how each team member finished against their respective opposition, i.e 13 agility members would be placed in their final position 1st equalling 13 points last 1 point, then the points would be added to the rest of the team and the team with the highest score would win. The teams were chosen by pulling names out of the hat and it was amazing that dad and me were drawn in the same team. Anyway to cut a long story short our team won !!!

Our agility member was first on and didn't have a great run which took the pressure off the rest of our team, dad was incredibly nervous so I think he was secretly glad that he hadn't done that well, he was next up in the beginners obedience and did an absolutely fantastic round, Kody really listened and they worked extremely well as a team. Our ringcraft member also had a great competition and finsihed 3rd. No pressure for Ronny and me then !!! I can admit it now, seems as it's all finished, but Ronny hasn't been to an obedience class for at least a year or so, we hadn't done any preparation for it so I did feel slightly nervous. Anyway in we went, Ronny did great heelwork on and off the lead, he kept his concentration on me and I don't think we lost many marks. His recall was fantastic and his retrieve was equally as good. I'm not sure where we placed overall but I was more than happy with his performance. He always seems to pull it out of the bag for me !!

Dad was chuffed to bits to win, I think that his first ever result couldn't of gone any better, I've heard all day today how good Kody and him are (he has got a big head). We got a rosette for winning which dad has put on top of the fire place and the dogs were rewarded with some goodies and toys, Kody was sharing his toy with Zippy earlier today, unfortunately they no longer exist as between all the dogs they have pulled the legs off them.

This weekend we are at the Shuttleworth agility show, hopefully the dogs will keep their good form and we will have a successful weekend. I will update you all on sunday night.