Well it all started with the post Christmas party at Lesley Olden's shed. Lesley has just had surgery on her leg so it was all hands on deck to help out. Dylan however was not playing ball and i had to eventually wake him up at 9.15am so that i could get him ready. Leslie had gone on ahead of me to empty the equipment and roll the floor and by the time Dylan and I turned up things were in full swing.
Games started with 'guess the name?', musical statues (for dogs and people) and soon moved on to the faster relay races which involved tennis balls, potatoes and lots of laughs. After these the dogs were put away and we moved on to the very serious water barrel race. This involves two teams in a relay weaving in and out of jump wings pushing a water barrel in front of you. I'm sure Leslie takes this FAR to seriously but i guess thats just his competitve nature!
Following the barrel race we all tucked in to food provided once again by the wonderful Parkers who never fail to surprise. Managing to produce wonderful hot food on a cold day was exactly what we needed. Unfortunatly for me the rest of the day did not to go quite so smootly and an incendent between me Tig and a Father Christmas hat left me with 2 scratches under my eye and this morning a black eye. But this shall mend and for now make-up is doing a good job of covering it!
On Sunday we had our afternoon lesson in Lesley's shed which was fantastic and once again i was really surprised with what Tig could do. We came away with lots of positives and also some homework to do as both Billy and Tig were a but rusty on their contacts and 'here' commands. I just wish it would stop raining so we could get out in the field.
Dylan was a complete star all weekend, he takes it all in and he LOVES the attention from everyone. I have been really surprised by peoples reactions towards him as I was sure that most people would be of the opinion that children and dogs don't mix but Dylan certainly manages to covice them otherwise. Here he is doing his target training with his clicker.
I am extra impressed with him as tonight in the bath i noticed that he has cut 3 more teeth this weekend which we didn't know anything about. It is very quiet here now that Dot and Loobie have gone home. It makes our pack of 5 look small, but it has been nice to not be constantly hoovering up hair. Saying that all the dogs could definatly do with a bath so perhaps thats my job for tomorrow!
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We love Dylan. Even better that we can play with him and then give him back! :-)
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