Quiet week

Not a lot has been happening around here. My dad is digging up the garden to which has brought the inner mud monster out.

Bailey has a really big obsession with anything soil/dirt/mud. While my dad has been digging the new pond she has been literally diving on the spade lol. My dad had tryed to put her on the lead but she just sceamed her head off....like excited swimming/flyball screaming.

You can usually find bailey on her back while queuing at agility as she also likes to dig up little patches of grass and roll on the MUD.. crazy i know

With being out there around 6 hours a day and her extra walks she's shattered at night.

Otley next week, still a grade 3 but it will be quite nice to not have to really work at it.

WF....Nottingham....ect!!

Thanks to Cat for the gorgeous photo. Its my first...yep first agility shot of Bailey so im very excited :)

Waldridge Fell

I really like this show but i hate the drive....I cant really remember the courses inside and out but i was a little disappointed with Baileys overall performance. I took her from the ring twice and only got one pretty ok run from her all weekend. I think she got a 4th in the agility class but out of real placings.


Nottingham

Iv never been to Nottingham before and i loved it and its a massive show. 3 days before i realised i had totally missed a jumping class in the schedual so only had 3 runs..numpty! My Sat-Nav also lost control on the way there meaning i was totally clueless as to where i was going and decided to just follow signs to nottingham and then Newark! My Sat Nav finally found life 7 miles before we got there and i was actually in the right area. After a drive around the houses we got there!

Bailey had a second in ring and it was already baking at 8.45am! I walked her 1-3 Agility and loved it and i actually thought....We can do this!! We ran quite late in the class and Bailey seemed really switched. Her weaves her sllllooowwww but her contacts were good!! Leanne got me a little exctied when she was like "your winning it"...but there was still a good few dogs to run. They just kept getting silly mistakes so we ended up with a 1st so grade 4 here we come :S

Next Agility was graded 3 Agility. Pretty nice course but after a long wait, now being mid-day and boiling i really had to push Bails around. She almost came to a standstill in the weaves they were that slow but somehow managed 2nd!!

Her jumping was last and she set off pretty good but i lost her to a sniff so collected her and took her out..naughty naughty.

All in all a really good day and i will definatly be going next year.

EMDAC

It was EMDAC last sunday annd since it seems like ages ago im not going into too much detail.

The first jumping round was pretty good. She definatly didnt reach a Bailey gear but wasnt half as bad as DV. We got a steady clear in 22.77s but it was a very fast course so didnt get anything.

We then had a huge 4 hour wait until the next classes and i really thought she would switch off. First was up and over. It was a really fast, flowing course and Bailey went and thought about sniffing. I knew we wouldnt get anywhere so i just bombed her down the line of jumps getting us E'd as i just wanted her to RUN this weekend.

Next was agility, again she wanted to sniff but i dragged her around the top corner, but pulled her off a jump too early. There was a tricky tunnel part with a pull through and twice you had to swap sides for taking the tunnel twice. We got E'd which i didnt find suprising.

Double Take agility i really thought we could pull it off. There was just one jump set off at an angle which was harder than it looked and walked. I knew if a set her out to it she would pick it up fine. She nailed the rightly named No.13 jump and bombed her contacts! We picked up 12th and top medium.

We also had a quick go at Cleverdogs. We have only ever done it once years ago, but since we had basically all mid-day free we had a go. Bailey was totally confussed. Not only does she hate running lead dog in flybal, she now had to do that, with no team mates behind her and putting her over an agility course before. She ran the agility course, jumped 2 flyball hurdles and turned around looking at me like WTF is this!!! One or the other please!

Poor girl she clearly cant cope with more than one thing at once....like dog like owner there then :P

Expect new bluebell pictures too....our woods are Blue at the moment! :)

calf poo = dirty bails

Last weekend me and Bails had our first dog vagas comp. Iv never been to that showground as scunthorpe dont do mediums and we are usually flyballing the same weekend as dog vagas. Not a very good weekend for us. We just didnt have it with us that weekend! Im hoping its the whole first outdoor show thing but we shall be proven wrong or right this weekend at emdac.

She didnt really have bailey courses, most were twisty starts, or contact traps which means she started off slow and me bieng over causious! I need to trust her more! We did however pull off a 2nd in 3-5agility! I wasnt even expecting a place never mind a 2nd. It was a money class to so bails made me £5 lol.

The sun has finally started shining, but it means the cows are back >( I dont mind cows at all but Bailesy has a thing for calf poo!! I have no idea why but on nearly every walk this week she has rolled!! eerhh scruffy thing. And i dont mean just rolled she has been covered!

Emdac this week, im not holding any hopes at all but it would be nice to get a few points. I can take her ball in her classes this sunday though so it might just be a training/blasting weekend. :)

Rotherham

We were at Rotherham for our first flyball comp of the year on grass. It was still "indoors" in the marquee, but its always nice to be on grass!!

Bailey was on fire, i was so pleased with her. I kept getting really close change overs as she was just soo much faster than in training. She ran perfectly all day apart from the last leg where she fumbled and lost the ball just before the line. She then decided she must bring it all the way back so turned around to get it, crashing with poor Sam!!

We Finished with a 1st which i think we deserve as Baileys team always end up 2nd! ;)

Dog vagas next weekend sunday and monday!!

Not much to say

Well it hasnt been quiet around here, infact really busy but not had much blogging material! Im really busy at the moment, college are putting so much pressure on us as its the last push to the end now. Im just starting to see a tiny light at the end of a very long tunnel. I currently have 9 assignments on the go!! Yep 9!! So much for them promising not to pile things on us!

My diary is getting full with show entrys on both agility and Flyball. We have Rotherham next weekend and then DV which im really looking forward to.

Last week we has Sheffield Flyball comp. I was really pleased with Bails, she ran really well with just a ball fumble. Came home with 2nd, i think we have a theme developing with the 2nds in flyball.

Bailey was seen by Kath the chiro on saturday morning with the Owlers gang. I knew her back was tight again as she had been scrunching her gait and her right shoulder seems to turn out slightly. (my parents think im paranoid, but when you know what your looking for its easy to see) Kath give her the once over, she said her back was tight but not as bad as last time, and it was only the top of her back and not all the way down. So was a bit relieved with that! Everything else was fine.

I should be enjoying the sun but im stuck in working :( the parents are away and Bailey has been really good with all my friends decending on us. They just think shes potty, and i think she likes showing off infront of them! lol

Spring!

Not updated for a while again! oopps.

Me and Bailey have been getting back into training again after having a few bad agility sessions. She had a 2 week break from training as i was stopping at a friends one night straight after training and the other i was away for the week.

On tuesday i really got her concentrating more and not standing for any running off, sniffing ect. She was doing a pretty tough grade 6/7 course but i was really pleased with her and she worked really nicely and getting her Dogwalk entry instead of the dreaded tunnel traps. I then did an extra ten mins working on some of the garden sequences we have done. She was doing really well and her commands are still strong. This has ment i could hang back a bit more of flick flacks and turns with only strong worded commands instead of working her around using hand/arm signals which she tends to ignore anyway lol.

Jersey
I went to Jersey last week with Uni for five days. Sadly it was in tents and was the worst weather they had seen in a while, which was basically our normal wind and rain. Apparently it was an "educational" trip but i think we only did one day enrichment and workshops at the famous Durrell zoo. The rest of the time was spent in bars, pubs, pub crawls and bowling lol

Here are some pics at the zoo. mostly frogs and reptiles as i love them!! :)

Rare breeding group of Lemur


Frogs (mainly species of poisonous dart frogs)







They are large so it does crop some of the picture off but dont have time to re-scale them

i shall post hydro pics another night :)