Meddling

Oh dear, I've been meddling with the new whizzo blogger layout thingumijig and it's gone all wonky! Will try to dewonkify it later!

Lots been going on. Last week was the BC Club Show at Newark - nice day out, Maisie had OK runs and a clear but no places. She did some ace weaves - her weaves have really come on lately and I'm starting to have the confidence in her to let her get on with them and speed up a bit, good girl.

Today Tim had a play at Delinquent Dogz - really good for him to have a go at running outdoors on that strange green stuff called grass! He did seem a bit unsure about agility al fresco at first but soon settled and enjoyed it. Course were a bit arrrrrg! Way too tempting tunnel traps in both agility and jumping pre-comp courses! So Tim flew into them head-first, of course! With hindsight I feel a bit bad for setting him up to "fail" like that and should've perhaps taken a different line at which we could succeed. Rest of the courses he ran beautifully though, good contacts, some great distance and layering, sending on from behind, out round a pinwheel into a front cross, pick-up into a sharp turn over a jump from a tunnel exit, so some real positives. My aim for the day actually was to get him to run to his tuggy at the finish line to prevent him tugging my arm instead, which was starting to become a bit of an issue, and he did that brilliantly so mission accomplished.
Maisie & Billy had a lovely day out being fussed and played with, so all happy tired dogs at the end of the day. Last NAWS tomorrow ... :o)