My Week Off Work....

.....started with Agility at Derby. Kiros ran well but I made a few silly mistakes so we only had one clear round all weekend. Surprisingly Kiros got faulted on his Dog Walk up contact in three of his four Agility runs. I don't doubt that he misses some of his up contacts, I've never trained them preferring a natural stride on, but we've never been faulted for so many at one time! Lets see what tomorrow brings?

We've just come back from a few days Holiday in Dorset. Once again the Dogs had lots of fun playing with each other. Dad bought a cheap water sprinkler that Reno had hours of enjoyment with.

Tomorrow we are off to JDA in Lincoln. I'm really looking forward to this show as it has a 4-7 Class. Much as I love being Grade 6 it will be a welcome relief (hopefully!) to run a course that isn't aimed at the highest level.

On Sunday I have entered Reno in the BSDA of GB Champ Show. I've never been to a Breed Show before so have no idea what to expect. I'm really glad Jo will be there to show me the ropes and I'm taking Lynne along for moral support.

Reno is losing his coat like it is going out of fashion at the moment and, despite me grooming him daily, it is still coming out in handfuls. I'm quite confident that he can stand and walk ok but I'm a bit worried that he might bark at the judge as he isn't keen on having his mouth opened.

Wish us luck!!!

Norfolk and Empingham

I always look forward to our Weekend away in Norfolk mainly because of the hospitality offered to us by Gill, the owner of "The Limes" B&B. We were so lucky to have found this the first time we went to Norfolk and have just visited for the 6th time. Gill loves dogs, she has four of her own, and welcomes us like family.

Most of the pics were taken in the Gardens of her beautiful house. The river runs at the bottom.

Kiros and I had a very successful Norfolk, in fact the best yet! We 3 clears, 2 5f and one elimination because Kiros missed his Dog Walk contact so I put him back over it (he only seems to miss one a year so at least I've got that out of the way!).

Much to our surprise we came 2nd in Graded 6-7 Agility on the Saturday. So near to being half way to Advanced!

I only managed one day at Empingham because I was on a work course in Buxton on Saturday. It was really strange to be missing a days Agility but well worth it as I learned a lot.

We weren't so successful Agility-wise at Empingham but thoroughly enjoyed working on Andrew's ring, watching and running the last ABC qualifier that Kiros is entered in this year.

Ade let me borrow his Canon PowerShot Pro so hopefully you can see a difference in the quality of the photo's posted here. I love the one of Reno and Indi.

A Weekend at Home

Just spent my second Agility free (well almost) weekend and I can't wait to get to Norfolk next weekend and competing again.





I spent Saturday catching up with all of the boring gardening and house work type things leaving yesterday free to spend with the Dogs. As the weather was a bit cooler I decided to take them to Paul and Pen's paddock. I just got out a tunnel and 4 jumps to work Kiros and Ronnie over a few sequences and let Reno have a bit of a play with the tunnel.















Here are some photo's that I took of them enjoying themselves playing ball and, in Reno's case, with the hose pipe!