We only had 6 dogs at training this week, which was a shame as we really needed to work with Swift Flight for next weekend. Ah well, never mind.
Those that were there worked hard and we recorded some good times with the team we will be running at the Mutts Oxford show at the end of May. The times were very consistant, so our stamina work is paying off.
Box and stamina work at the end of the session showed that Jet, who will only ever put 2 feet on the box, can do a beautiful swimmers turn, but only with a cone in front of the box!! He is faster then too!!!!
Hopefully, Poppy has done her messing areound bit and will get her head in gear for the weekend, and, fingers crossed that Ice has done his "oooh it's outside I can't cope" bit at Easter, and, as we train outside, will run properly next weekend!!!! Time will tell.
Monday, 27 April 2009
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
FAIR VIEW FARM, HANTS. Easter 2009
The weekends racing was full of ups and downs!
On Sunday The Swifts were racing. We had Ollie, Kes, Loki, Ice and Lottie in the team and were seeded 6th in division 4.
It was Ices’ first tournament outside and being very young still, he was a bit overwhelmed by it all and kept putting his “stupid” head on!! It didn’t help matters that poor Rita who was running Kes was at her first tournament and got completely overtaken by nerves, which Kes picked up on and used this to wind Ice up – which made things even worse!!
The weather wasn’t that nice and drizzled all morning, which upset Lottie as she does not like wet mud to run on. The lights used had screens which showed the individual dogs times and Lottie was running 6.9s all day – which is very slow!!! We did a 19.88 and I wonder what time we would have posted if Lottie had been running the times she did the next day on dry ground!!!!
Despite all the problems, Ice got his act together in the afternoon and we ended up in 3rd place, which was a nice surprise.
On Sunday we had a team in the Multibreed which consisted of Jake (BC), Merlin (ESS), Grace (POINTER), Lottie (JRT) and Loki (BC) as reserve in case Jake, who was at his first show, got overwhelmed.
A phone call on Saturday to say that Merlin wasn’t well meant that Sunday was spent trying to find another dog. Which we got in the shape of a lab cross collie called Kelpi from the Bassett Allsorts.
By Monday, Merlin was much better, so we ran him for the first leg of each race, which worked well for him. Jake wouldn’t come back over the first jump from the box until we discovered his agility jump command, which Kim (who was boxloading) practiced till she sounded just like Pennie. This made the difference and in the last race of the day, Jake got it right.
Lottie was much happier as the weather was much better and the ground was drier and every time I remembered to look at the times, she was running 6.09!!
The team came 4th from 6th seed. So, it was in all, a fantastic weekend. Our next show is in three weeks at the same venue.
On Sunday The Swifts were racing. We had Ollie, Kes, Loki, Ice and Lottie in the team and were seeded 6th in division 4.
It was Ices’ first tournament outside and being very young still, he was a bit overwhelmed by it all and kept putting his “stupid” head on!! It didn’t help matters that poor Rita who was running Kes was at her first tournament and got completely overtaken by nerves, which Kes picked up on and used this to wind Ice up – which made things even worse!!
The weather wasn’t that nice and drizzled all morning, which upset Lottie as she does not like wet mud to run on. The lights used had screens which showed the individual dogs times and Lottie was running 6.9s all day – which is very slow!!! We did a 19.88 and I wonder what time we would have posted if Lottie had been running the times she did the next day on dry ground!!!!
Despite all the problems, Ice got his act together in the afternoon and we ended up in 3rd place, which was a nice surprise.
On Sunday we had a team in the Multibreed which consisted of Jake (BC), Merlin (ESS), Grace (POINTER), Lottie (JRT) and Loki (BC) as reserve in case Jake, who was at his first show, got overwhelmed.
A phone call on Saturday to say that Merlin wasn’t well meant that Sunday was spent trying to find another dog. Which we got in the shape of a lab cross collie called Kelpi from the Bassett Allsorts.
By Monday, Merlin was much better, so we ran him for the first leg of each race, which worked well for him. Jake wouldn’t come back over the first jump from the box until we discovered his agility jump command, which Kim (who was boxloading) practiced till she sounded just like Pennie. This made the difference and in the last race of the day, Jake got it right.
Lottie was much happier as the weather was much better and the ground was drier and every time I remembered to look at the times, she was running 6.09!!
The team came 4th from 6th seed. So, it was in all, a fantastic weekend. Our next show is in three weeks at the same venue.
Saturday, 11 April 2009
Fairview Farm Easter Weekend
Tomorrow (12th April) we are racing at the Maple Leafs tournament. Hopefully all the dos will be running well and Ice has fully recovered from his illness the week before last!
On monday we are runnng a team in the multibreed so that Lottie could run as height dog for both teams as Poppy isn't available.
Today I got a phone call to say that Merlin isn't very well, so unless I can find another dog to run with the team...... we will be able to field only three dogs. Hopefully there will be someone who wants to give their dog a few more runs!!! I'm not holding my breath.
On monday we are runnng a team in the multibreed so that Lottie could run as height dog for both teams as Poppy isn't available.
Today I got a phone call to say that Merlin isn't very well, so unless I can find another dog to run with the team...... we will be able to field only three dogs. Hopefully there will be someone who wants to give their dog a few more runs!!! I'm not holding my breath.
Friday, 3 April 2009
Mad Mutts Show
Earlier this evening I had to pull the team out of the Mad Mutts show on Sunday because Ice is ill. The vet thinks it's Gastritis. All the tests they ran came back clear, but the poor little mite is not happy, wont eat and only started drinking today. Not wanting the possibility of passing anything on, even though the other dogs he lives with are fine, I decided that it would be safer not to go. I was really looking forward to going too!!!!
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