finally megan...

well she has left it as long as possible, but meg decided to come into season this weekend!! about time too i hear you shout!

with the timing beign only 3 months to the wedding though, i wont be breeding from her on this season, it will be a case of waiting until her season after the wedding is done and dusted, as it wouldnt be fair not to spend all my time possible rearing a litter and looking after meggie too

apologies to those waiting, but its out of myhands im afraid! plus it gives me time to decide on which dog for definate!

Ive really enjoyed watching the videos of Rib & Quest on facebook, they are coming along so well!! Wren is looking fab too!! Daizy is still struggling with focus, and not gobbing at every other dog she doesnt know, when in a class with flynn, quest and wren, she is fine ( still a bully) but bring in a new dog and everything is out the pram! this friday she was in my friday group, i ended up getting lydia to take her out to chill back out, we bought her back in at the end, we managed some straight lines, but she didnt like woody the big soft goldie...he wasnt bothered by her, so i tried to let her get it out of system and walk away, but she was only getting herself worked up, so again, took her away. Im hoping im rewarding the positive bits, and not re-enforcing the barking, cos its a pain!

Carn Brea

1st open show of the year for me... the Harrjaks did me proud!
managed to hang about and watch a few runs, such a nice relaxing show! Murran had a fantastic clear in the agility and won the class, (i dont think we caught that on video, but did get her steeplechase run.)
Linda and missie had a 7th in the 4-7 steeplechase

Tigger and lolly had some lovely runs, clear in the jumping and only 5 in both of the other classes, on their first grade 6 courses

meg had some nice runs, her agility was a bit nuts, but thats meg all over! Due to my knee being funny, i chose not to run all of her 3 classes, claire ran her s/chase and agility, i ran the jumping ( and fluffed it due to baaad handling!)

puppy power!

well the pups are coming along lurvley... seen a video of Rib via facebook learning to weave - he's doing really well, wren, daizy and quest have a little training weekly with each other, with flynn and lolly too - here is a video of them doing one 3 jump exercise



Daiz is officially LARGE!! only by about 3 hairs, but hey who cares! I know which height she will have to train up to now, so no problem for us, just have to work harder!!
going to let her join in on friday classes with her now the course has finished, so she will have more training on a weekly basis, fingers crossed she'll be ready to compete next year!

All doomed!!

Well according to some well known trainers all of us with Harrjaks are doomed to faliure cos we cant keep poles up and lack drive!!! hows that to fill you all with confidence!!!??

But hey ho if your like me and think they just have a lot to be very worried about then let them think it!!! but to demoralize someone with a baby dog in your class is just LOW!:-(

People in agility seem to be very bitchy about different dogs and who they are bred by and which dogs they are out of! my fist litter was out of an elementary level dog with 1 clear round in a limit show, with an obedience dog, who hadnt seen a days agility in his life! but we had the best litter i could dream for!!! so picking out dogs for jumping style etc etc, i think is down to how they have been trained, with a small amount of natural style in there too for good measure.

At the end of the day, my dogs are my life and are not machines, you have a dog as part of your family, wether they can compete or not, and win or come 25th in every class, who cares as long as they are happy and healthy and enjoying what they do!!

well the pic here shows my good and my crap agility dogs....but all my babies!!!

Meg & Zig

well for a change, megan and ziggy will domiate this post!!!
Zigs was 7 on friday, i forgot to pubicly wish her a happy birthday, but she had a nice meaty tea as her treat, and a de-knot!! lucky her! 7 years has gone really quickly with her, she is such a lovely girly!

Megan - well, wow, she did me proud yesterday at the UKA show in Bugle, and won the steeplechase in a fab 16.6!! she worked so well, i love days when we work so well together!! just have everything else to sort out now, got 3 weeks til my 1st kc show, my aims for the year with them both is to have a clear with each in a jumping and agility, and i would love a place with megan!! we are training on fridays, and have a few saturdays coming up so hopefully we'll have at least one rossette to our names this season!

yay - full house at Thames!

Just had a call from Phil to say they are coming to Thames!!!! so we'll see them on the saturday!

lapse in 'blogging'!!

well it seems ive had a slight lapse in writing!!! i aim for every week! oops, oh well! bit of a sad update, a club member and friend died last week, Margaret, she was a lovely lady, you couldnt of asked to meet a nicer person. her world revolved around her pets, her dogs and her cat. she will be sadly missed by us all :-(

on a lighter note, meg and zig have been doing well at training, ziggy is still hit and miss with right hand entry, and staying in all the way thru, megan is much much better, but not quite 100% reliable so im still staying alongside her, but starting on different entries ( not something i have eve done withmeg since i have been running her)
daizy is being good! not too ott most of the time now, she enjoys outings with the oldies, and is MUCH calmer! sometimes, something is just TOO much for her, and she loses all self control, but she is much improved!
I still havent found any classes i can afford to join in with, but im still looking and hoping!!!

really looking forward to the show season, fingers crossed daizy wont have a bad reputation before she even starts!! went to crufts and bought a very apt mutley crew t-shirt....says born to be wild, with a pic of a mad looking bc braking thru the word wild...she definatley suits that one! Thames is the main one im looking forward too! massive meg & boo pup meet up!! Every pup from the 2nd litter will be there, all but possibly one (woody) from the first litter! woody lives a fair trek away and competes in obedience rather than agility, so an agility show miles away isnt the best place to meet them! :-( never mind, we'll catch up at some point!
Harry is ever so excited, he cant wait to see them all again, mac bob java and rave are the ones he says he misses the most!! he gets to see quest and wren quite often!

crufts was good, spent more money than i should have, lots of vet bed, but didnt spot any rubber matting, so thats my quest for the day!!

jumping back a day to wedding stuff!
went and chose my veil after having my hair done - curly!!
also now have my tiara, necklace and ear-rings its lovely, my hair was tight curls early on, then dropped in the evening, i preferred the dropped look, which i think we'll try next time!