Easter Bunnies

It was last easter that Tim joined the family so it's almost a year (easter being a little earlier) he has been here. And what a smashing young man he's grown into:

He had a couple of runs at Dog Vegas this weekend. I knew he wasn't really ready so it was just to dip a toe in the deep waters of KC shows!!! The boy did OK in a way ... Ran under a lot of jumps, had a brief snog with someone ringside, and picked up an obstacle number in his gob! But he also did some great startline waits, solid contacts and, most amusingly, got a perfect weave entry and did 12 fabby weaves in a course where he otherwise ran under all but 2 jumps, lol! Not a disaster by any means - he's only just done a bit of jumping at full height in training, so we just need to do more work on that before trying it again in the exciting atmosphere of an open show, and nothing more entered for a few weeks anyway. He's doing ever so well generally and he mostly went in the right direction horizontally, if not quite vertically! Most importantly, he's a lovely, funny, cheeky, happy, sweet, young ginger man, and I'm very proud of him.
So it was up to the super Mouse to bring home the rosettes again! She got an 8th in an agility class - rewarded with another ace rosette with a spaceship on it, yay!!! Plus another couple of lovely clears on challenging courses, and another with just a pole down in a really nice run. Unfortunately a certain Judge judged contacts in a rather interfering way, leaning in right next to us on the A-frame, spooking Maisie off and potentially undoing lots of work on making her feel OK about Other People being at a reasonable distance from her on her contacts. Ho hum, what a thoughtless Elf.
She's a fluffy superstar and generally she really enjoyed this weekend and was back to joyful jumping after a couple of ever so slightly "off" weeks. Sticking to just one or two runs per day seems to be the way to go with her, to keep her happyfluffyzoomy levels up through a show :o)

& Billy, well, he was the bestest agility groupie and tent-warmer and general company as usual :0)
At a worrying time for the human members of our family, there's no better therapy than the company of three super-fit, deliriously happy dogs. xxx