We couldn't do much in the way of "team" training as quite a few people were not able to come training because it was Mothering Sunday!!! However, we still got a lot of work done - and made an interesting discovery!!!
The dogs we had were Ollie, Kes. Loki, Ice, Lottie, Jake, Jet arrived later.
We started with the big dogs doing their recalls over 14", then went onto getting time for all the dogs over 14" then over 7". Inspite of working the dogs over full height all over the winter, the difference in speed means that they are still faster running over 7" with a 6 second height dog than if we ran the 4 faster dogs over 14"!!!! This has shocked me greatly as we were all convinced that we would be way faster without little Lottie!!!!! I think that part of the problem is that all the dogs look to Lottie as pack leader and she has always beeen there on the start line with them, and it is her mouth that winds them all up.... we need to go to a tournament with all 5 top team dogs so we can put my theory into practice!!!!
We also discovered that all Kims hard work with Ice has paid off and as long as Kes runs first, Ice can run on the same team with her, so we can go to the Mad Mutts tournament and have a good chance of completing the whole division!!
We also have a nice groups of starter dogs on our new course, so next year we could have some nice teams running - but I must not count my tennis balls before they're marked!!
2009 is not looking too bad after all. I thought it was a major disaster when I had to retire my Grace after her collapse, but the new dogs are looking good.
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