Winning but not winning

Weekend before last we flyballed at Sutton Fields (Cheshire). Same team as the week before but we didn't have our height dog so had to run over full height jumps. So did we do well? Well, we didn't have much hope as our seed time was set with the height dog and we also lost the lovely Flynny as he doesn't do full height. Also, Billy has nearly always run with a height dog before, and when he hasn't he has run out - not that he's physically incapable of full height, and he does it fine in training, but at comps he sussed that he doesn't need to slow hinself down on his way to his precious bally by going over those big jumps, and the box loader is not allowed to nick it out anyway, so has run out up the side instead. He would go back down over the jumps though when the bally was safely in his gob, LOL! Soooo we didn't actually expect to get our four dogs up and down ... but we did!!! Billy never missed a beat all day and he ran so well, as did the rest of the team. However we didn't get into the rosettes :o( Why? Well, even with all the dogs running thier socks off, working well as a team, we were simply up against teams who were physically faster!!.. We did happen to be bottom seed in our division anyway, but this was also based on our faster times set with the height dog, so unless the other teams went into meltdown we just couldn't win. Hmmm, strange sport sometimes! In these circumstances there's kind of nothing to aim for - we couldn't have done any better. So we just had a nice day out with our dogs. Felt a bit flat though.
(Thanks to Iain for the pics)

..............................................What a good boy!

...................................Maisie just goes for the paddling :o)