Clear round "Blackhole"

I'm having a bit of trouble with Agility at the moment. Went to Agility Nuts last weekend and managed to get Kiros eliminated in everything. I put this down to spending to much time helping on the rings. Then we suffered the same fate at Newton Heath yesterday! No excuses this time. On the positive side Kiros stopped on all his contacts (practicing for Olympia!) and the last time I had an unlucky run like this it finished in Kiros winning Grade 6 Agility so I'll put up with it if this is the outcome.

The best run I've had over the last 2 weeks was with Ronnie at Nuts. Only one pole down in veteran jumping and a very reasonable time.

Country Elves.......Staring Kiros, Ronnie, Ruby, Bart and Ollie!!!

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The best thing about living in Nottingham is.......

being just 20 min's away from this!

I only had one hours work booked in today so decided to take the boys on my favourite walk along the River Trent between Burton Joyce and Gunthorpe. You really can't believe how close you are to the City here but if you look closely you can see the skyline glistening through the trees.

The weather was dull to start of with but brightened up as we went along. Kiros and Ronnie had a lovely time chasing the ball and saying "Hi" to fishermen.

It seemed like an appropriate time to see if Kiros could swim by himself? After all he has had 6 lessons now and thoroughly enjoys it at Canine Academy so I tossed the ball into the river to see if he would retrieve it. The answer was "No!" so we finished the walk minus one ball.

To make up for the loss Ronnie decided to take home the biggest stick he could find. Bless him!

Discover Dogs

Kiros and I went to Discover Dogs yesterday. Wow! What an experience. It was the first time I have taken a Dog to this type of event and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The drive to London was interesting with the M1 closed but we managed to get there on the M40. Thank God for Sat Nav!

By the time we got into Earls Court and settled on the bench I was in serious need of some Rescue Remedy.

Our first run was at 11.20am and by that time the little arena was packed with spectators. The course was nice but compact and I walked it worrying about how Kiros would cope running on the carpet. I really needn't have been worried as he didn't have a problem at all. He used his claws to grip (I could hear them) and ran round every bit as fast as he does on grass. Two obstacles to go and we were clear then "shock horror" Kiros missed his Dog Walk contact. How could this have happened? He has only missed two in our last 3 years of competing?!! Seriously, I think I may have released him a tad early! Never mind. We finished 5th and I was so proud of him.

I spend the next few hours wondering around and trying to shop when I could drag Kiros away from all the people trying to fuss him. He's a real tart.

Our second run was scheduled for 3pm. The arena was now full with people queueing to get in. I was determined not to make a mistake with the contacts again so stopped him on every one. We were clear with one jump to go when Kiros spotted the timing wire and, thinking it was his lead, made a beeline for it! You should have heard the crowd? So another 5f, 5th place and an exceptionally proud mum.