December

In December we (Cal, Mika, me) had a chance to take our swimming skills ' on the road'

We met some friends (and lots of dog friends) at one of our local rivers for a beach outing :) 

We had SO much fun and I was SO impressed with my two black and whites. Two little swimming champs!! With no coaxing needed .... 

Above is Cal enjoying the water ....aka Cal Le Clos ... Has always been an otter :) 

This is Mika.... A dog I thought would NEVER swim.... At the age of four is now luving the water. Thank you Amanda at Millbrook Hydro... We would not have got this far without you :) 

Quick update

WOW! Have been so slack at keeping blog up to date!!  Christmas has come and gone we are deep in February.... Now is as good a time as any!!

... Stay tuned . . December and Jan updates, posting soon 

Poles refresh

We have not been able to train weaves for about 10 days .... Today was our first day back at it. Two missed entries but not too bad otherwise :) 

Boland rt - day 2

Arrived at the RT thinking I was prepared for all weather: gazebo, , side nets, side sheets, gumboots, rain suit... Waterproof this and that etc!! But today the gazebo stayed at half mast, I could not use the side sheets as the wind got hold of them and it was either gonna be a broken gazebo pole or a broken side sheet....so I took them down! Eventually the four of us sat shivering in the middle of the gazebo, the wind blew the rain in so hard a puddle formed, so the Jack russel was eventually on top of the crates!! 

Anyway we had a fun day :)) 

Spy had another iffy day.... To her credit two of her runs where in the middle of a DownpouR!!!

Mika had a very balanced weekend: two contact qualifications and two jumping dqs....

We are now exhausted .... :) last day tomorow 

Boland RT - day 1

It was a beautiful day in Somerset west.... First on the schedule were the games - Gamblers and Snooker :) 

Mika had a brilliant day: in the gamblers we missed the gamble sequence time by 0,6sec!! Can you believe - think it was my fault, I took forever to get her to the start of the gamble!!!! In the snooker we qualified and got a first

Spy had an iffy day :) terrible gamblers round ... !! Qualified and won her snooker round

The 'real' stuff starts tomorow :) 

MILLBROOK HYDRO

I am very excited about a new aspect of our training.... Swimming!! There are a number of reasons why I decided that all 3 of my dogs are going to learn to swim confidently, the main ones are 1: muscle tone (we all know swimming has long been known for being great for the muscles); 2: they need to learn to swim and not be scared of the water :)) 

Our first session at Millbrook Hydro with Amanda Young was this past saturday :) Spy, Mika and Cal did SO well! Each was fitted with a life jacket and then into the water :) both Spy and Mika were not so sure of the water but I think they will get over that pretty quick in this safe environment..... My little champ Cal didn't have any such worry... After a while he swam by himself!

Thanks Amanda, thanks Nadine for pics 

My Mika .... Getting her massage (above)

And swimming :) (below) 

Mika telling Cal how it's done! 

6 + 6

Ok... So the boy (ie Cal) is really luving his weave pole training and has progressed to 6 + 6!!!! No video yet... Will film and load by next week