Walking in the rain today.

Cruz loves to roll in the wet grass. :-)

If you listen carefully the birds are having a lovely time singing, who needs an Ipod.

Cash qualifies Crufts breed 2011

Well done Cash and Denise :-) xx

Boot camp

Is this a normal stride pattern?

Meme powering out the weaves.

For those who where unable to get a place at this years Boot camp with Nancy and Leah. It was horrible don't bother applying next year. ;-)

At 5 o clock the crows start squawking, as the sun rises up across the valley hills, time to get up to feed the dogs, allowing plenty of time before 2 1/2 hours of mind blowing training, with the sun beating your white skin brown.

If you were not on the clinics you had some time off to walk the dogs through the cross country course, bluebells whipping your now brown legs, if that's not enough to put you off, my dogs found the water jump and had great pleasure in cooling themselves off running backwards and forwards in the muddy water. lol

If not to knackered from five hours of training, dinner and games night in the club house :-)

The training was so bad Grace with Kiah went out and won grade 5 jumping at BATs, not sure a pivot was executed thou LOL, all mine got a clear round or place in their classes.

So there you have it.

I really hope to try and go again next year, just to see if they improve. ;-) hehe

A really big thanks to Leah, Nancy, Jay and Andy.

Thanks Grace and Alex for pics.

Wish agility show results

Thank you Alex for this stunning picture of my little girlie.

Sorry to all who have been checking in to see how Wish has done at her first show, I have been so busy the blog got a little neglected.

Any way back to Wish, she really has lived up to her name and has been a star.

All my concerns about not entering Mid-downs because it is a big show, indoors, very loud maybe hard for her to for cope with, well Easter show was moved into the same building due to ground conditions. I chose to run and see how she got on. I was sooooo excited to find out she came 4th in agility and 4th in jumping, totally focused and ran a dream.

The next few show where outside, to my shock this is where she came a little unsure, slowing up, looking about but still gaining clear rounds. Maybe because the shear size of the courses (somebody told me courses where built for smalls, how wrong that information was) :-)

This weekend she seems to be back on form, at Colchester show she got

2nd in com 1-3 agility her first trophy in pride of place, Vyne 5th in com 3-4 agility the top four places where grade 4 dogs. She has now got her 50 Agility points towards her bronze warrant. I really would like her to stay in grade 3 for a while as we are learning alot together in the rings.

Chi wins grade 3 jumping

Hi Lisa,

Time has passed, not so much agility training due to the bad winter, but here we go again for a new season. Chi started the way he finished a total idiot at the Easter show. This weekend he started the Saturday with one pole down during a good round. On the next course he had a major spin but ended up 7th.

Grade 3 jumping he won the class!

Today he had two good runs but poles came down, we could definitely see a big difference in his attitude except for one course when he got a bit high and I removed him from the ring much to his disgust.

He is a wonderful dog to have in our home, so full of character and willing to please, the long journey down to fetch him was more than worth the effort.

We hope you are all well and ready for lots of agility.

Margaret & David

Wish, count down to her first KC show :-)

My little girlie has her first show coming up, I'm really excited but feel so incredible nervous!

I have had a small dog (Lowchen) before but health problems meant he was unable to train in agility.

Wish could have done Mid-Downs as she is over 18 months but I felt its such a noisy venue I'll wait till the shows go outside.

I must now get my head around listening for small class announcement's as well as grade 4 and grade 6 large classes. I'm glad Meme won into G4 as that would have been another course lol!

Here is Wish weaving.

Warning

"Best played with the sound on mute" lol!!

Crufts 2010

Inca and I where invited to take part in the Rescue Dog agility again, He was brilliant, coped really well with the surface. This is a picture of the Woodgreen Rescue dogs team.

This picture is all Rescue dogs from the same training club,

Sunniday Agility Club.

Four members have Valgrays Rescue dogs, one from Battersea and Inca from Woodgreen.
Thank you G. Rockey for the pictures.

We had the rest of the day at the Discover dogs stand, I took Wish along for company. Heidi came with Klaus (wish brother) and her Groen Nina. They were all extremely well behaved and very tired at the end of the day.
I did manage to get my friend Angela's shopping, after breaking her ankle for the second time in only a few months missing Crufts. Get fixed soon X