I was just thinking tonight about the different breeds I have tried Agility with...either in a very informal way at training or just mucking around or that I have run in trials with..let's see;Sheltie - Rumour, who I am currently trialling with, who has moments of such drivey brilliance I can see why they are …
The WA Team for 2007
Inspired by the NZ blog about their team The Pawblacks I have decided to do a little post about the 2007 WA Team representing our State at the ANKC Agility Nationals in Adelaide in around 3 to 4 weeks time. They are called Western Power. Made up of the following members; Gina and Indie, a …
First Day Trial 2007
Cloverdale Canine Companions held the first day trial for the year today and I think my brain overheated with the hot weather and the humidity! Sadly we only had one Q out of 10 runs and I managed one other Q with one of the other dog’s I ran. I also learnt a lesson about …
Training
Here's a couple of courses I've come up with in the last week or so.With the one above I was aiming for challenges in obstacle discrimination (Tunnel/Dogwalk), difficult angle broad jump, and also wanting to work Raven's weakness in collecting, rounding over a jump whilst I'm doing a front cross very close to an upright …
Dogs’ Perspective Part 2
Just realised after a comment left on my last post that I didn't finish the photo below, I left the other end of the seesaw contact uncoloured and therefore not a true representation of the seesaw. So here is the photo version 2. Is this picture different enough? Maybe I should have another play with …
Dogs’ Perspective
The photo below was taken this morning of a friend's backyard equipment. It is the seesaw and dogwalk side by side taken from the angle of the dog's eye level as it comes out of a tunnel. Now my friend wisely elected to have her dogwalk and seesaw contact areas painted in different colours (the …
The Dog Walk Debacle
It really is tedious sometimes, attempting to elicit a straight answer from debates on email lists. When the issue of the slats being removed came up at the last ANKC rules review I really had no feelings one way or the other. I figured if they were off or on, it really didn't matter to …
Getting Ready for Nationals
Took some photos today of some of the conditioning work I do with Raven and Cypher to get them at their peak fitness for the Nationals coming up in Adelaide, May 4th,5th and 6th.Raven can't swim quite as fast as Cypher but she gets a head start by doing a launch off the edge rather …
Spryte at 8 Months
Spryte is growing up, albeit at her own pace, she is still quite small and is very possibly going to be a 400 height class agility dog. The photos below taken today after a bath, in the backyard.From this at 11.5 weeks old to...this at 8 months! Now I know where all that food went....Starting …
Gozzy Trial March 2007
It was a good night all round for us with only one frustrating 3 seconds out of my 6 runs with my two BCs. I ran another Rhonabwy BC tonight, a boy called Dexter for his first time in Excellent Jumping and he ran beautifully for me right up until I got lost! We lost …
Sprytelee Agility Training 