The weekend after the January Agility Nuts show we had the first of the three winter guest trainer sessions organised by NADTC by way of a thank you to all the members that helped out at the show, three hours with Toni Keating. The take up rate for this session was surprisingly poor and meant that our group only consisted of 4 dogs and handlers!!!
Toni managed to set a course that cleverly worked on start-lines, handling, contacts (speed and Independence), weave entries, obstacle discrimination and course analysis!!! She brought loads of energy to the session and 3hrs just whizzed by.
Jan 28th and 29th were the dates of the Kennel Club Judges seminars that I'd booked myself onto.
I thought long and hard about doing this as, although I love judging, I'm not sure if I'm thick skinned enough to face the possible backlash that KC judges tend to get if things don't quite go the way you plan. In the end I resolved not to let a few small minded people spoil what I love to do and I'm now a fully qualified KC Judge eagerly looking forward to my first appointment :-)
The best type, it has to be said, as it came at the weekend giving me plenty of time to play with the boys and then was starting to go by Monday so didn't interfere with work too much:-)
The weekend after was Agility Nuts February show and as the snow gradually disappeared over the week the temperature started to drop!!
On the Saturday before the show friends were reporting being at Dog Vegas in temperatures of -10!! The thought of setting off to Fiskerton at 6am the next morning filled me with dread.
Can you believe the Agility God's were smiling on us again and we woke up the next morning to temperatures some 15 degrees higher? :-)
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