Ok update coming up!

A quick update from right back at Agility Club show where Tig was 2nd in Gr6 jumping i was really grateful to him cause i was half asleep and he got me out of trouble. I need to wake up quicker in the mornings, oops. BUT even better Dot was 3rd in the Senior KC qualifier which means she gets to go to the last day of the semi's. Yippee! She ran brill not only that she did the course almost twice as first time round a dog joined her at the end of the dog walk (#13) so we had to restart FROM SCRATCH. At that point i could have cried as i hadn't expected to get it right and never thought i could do it again. Extra treats for Dot that day!

The following weekend was Burridge and at last some time on our hands to do some video's. We really enjoyed Burridge show, they ordered great weather and sitting around one ring watching was really good and relaxing too. I would only wish that i'd brought my orange fence with me so i could have penned Dylan in, anyone who saw me running up and down the road all day will understand why!

I'm not sure being so relaxed worked for me and Tig as we struggled to get much right but it was a good chance to train his contacts which were brill so i guess we still got something out of it. I also learned that i NEED to work on my tunnel call offs when i'm left behind, but i think a hundred other people might also feel the same.

Dot was good and put in a FANTASTIC clear in Gr7 agility but missed out on the places by 1 place. But i was really pleased with the round it felt really good to me.

And Billy well never thought i'd say this but he was the SLOWEST clear in Gr7 jumping, i like to keep pointing this out to Leslie to wind him up but actually he was one of only two people to go clear so he was very pleased with himself.

At the end of the weekend was the team relay which we entered with Pam and Karen who live in our village. I think it would be fair to say that we entered for fun, so much so that i entered Leslie with Fe not Billy (i wasn't popular for this decision, hehe). Well low and behold we were the only 4 clears which was amazing

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On the Monday after Burridge i took Dylan and the minded children to a farm, i'm sure Dylan though the black calf was Charlie (our rottie) as he climbed on the fence, reached out to touch it and said 'arlie' which was cute and fortunately the calf didn't mind. He also got very jealous of me holding a chicken so the bigger children could stroke it which was very funny, poor Dylan. Here's a picture of him meeting Sweet pea i'm not sure what he made of her!


Here's some other pictures of Dylan enjoying the summer.

Fathers day at Axtaine

Axtaine is such a lovely show everyone is camped close to the rings and the tannoy can be heard from everywhere which is great. Usually its way to hot for the dogs but this year we had a few showers to cool us down. Dot and Tig performed very well with Dot coming 4th in both Grade 6/7 jumping classes and Tig getting a 5th in Gr 6/7 agility. For some reason Tig stopped on the see saw so lost a bit of time there but apart from that it was a nice round.



Dylan as usual had a ball playing in and out of the caravan and with Sophie, Andrew and Keiren who are much older than him but VERY good to him. He has also made a new friend this week and has started to learn to be nice to her, sometimes he is a little too nice but she is very tolerant of him.



With the fence around the garden Dylan is able to wander in and out of the caravan as he wishes although i have started to worry that he will be out there taking something apart to see how it works, just like his Dad. He has such concentration when he's trying to do something and usually he can be found at the jockey wheel trying to figure it out.




Agility didn't quite go Leslie's way but at least he had a nice Fathers Day with Dylan, they both love spending all weekend together. All week long all i hear is Dyl shouting for his Daddy, he knows the sight of his van and when we go to get in the car he will take himself up to the yard shouting for him, he gets quite cross if he can't find him. Weekends in the caravan really are his favorite time.

Cheeky boy!

OK OK as i can hear my Mum shouting at the PC from 600 miles away i thought i better post some Dylan pictures.

Dyl is walking, running and climbing everywhere now. I don't think there is anywhere he can't get to and anything he can't get! Most of the time he knows to go backwards if he needs to get down from anywhere, but sometimes he forgets. Fortunatly he's a tough cookie!




Dylan understands a lot of what we say and responds mainly by running away especially when i say nappy time! If you say you have to go he says "bye" and he is always shouting for his DADDY! I think he is getting so hansom now but he still has such a cheeky grin!

Nine days on the road.

Well for our first week long show the weather wasn't kind to us NOT ONE BIT! We coped quite well though and people all around us were packing up and going home but we stuck it out and finished the week in lovely sunshine. As for the dogs they were real stars all week.

Phoebe had a great week mainly doing juniors with Katie and they came 1st in 2 classes (1 agility and 1 jumping) and 3rd in an agility with Katie putting in a quick save just before Fe disappeared over the wrong jump just before the last fence.

It was Fizzy's first time in the ring and I'm not sure a week long show is very good for an inexperienced dog so she only did one or two classes a day. On day 2 she got a 25th in a Grade 3 agility class and on day 4 she came 2nd in a Grade 1-3 jumping class winning her first ever trophy! Not bad at all!

Dot was a good girl, i trained all her agility rounds and we are starting to get things together, she got a 4th and an 8th in hard Jumping classes and a 9th in an agility. It seems we are good on harder courses, in fact the harder the better.

Billy was his usual self, when hes bad he's very bad and when he's good he is WICKED! But he finished off the week getting his last all important Agility win to put him ADVANCED (Gr7) so he can now compete in Championship classes.

As for Mr Tig well he could do no wrong he won 6 classes and got two second places (and a sneaky 4th and 6th in agility rounds where i trained his contacts).

The finals
For once we wolk up to wonderful sunshine which helped the trophies sparkle and boy was there trophies!


Phoebe and Kate qualified for the under 12 Juniors final and Tig and i qualified for the Gr3-5 (NOVICE) so nerves were on a high comefriday morning.

Juniors were first to go and i have to say for UNDER 12's this was not an easy course but Kate did well almost losing Fe in a tunnel but managing to get her back, however it wasn't to be and turning too tight after the weaves got them eliminated at number 18. They were in fact the best of the eliminated dogs so they went in to round 2 in 4th place so it was still all to play for, but i think this all got a bit too much for Katie as she forgot the course. I have decided that Junior classes are quite cruel as you end up with one happy kid and a lot of tears, but Kate has recovered from the trauma and she's ready for the next time so roll on KC Festival!

Apparently Mr Tig and i looked very relaxed i have to say this was all an act, i couldn't watch the dogs going in front of me and Eleanor kept Leslie and i apart for the last 10 mins or so. The Jumping course was quite naggy and i felt like i was going round in circles like a robot going "Tig, Tig, Tig, Tig, Tig, Tig" but it worked and he was a very good boy. This round put us in pole for the agility as well so once again we had the agonising wait that comes with it. No need to worry as Tig steered me round the agility course in his usual at ease way, as you will see by the video i didn't even push him over his contacts as i didn't want to blow it, also after the Dog walk there was a long jump and i didn't want him to tip it. So finishing off Grade 5 in style Tig won the Supadogs Novice Final.



As you can see by the picture Bernadette and Zen won the medium final, i saw their jumping round which was amazing to watch but i missed their agility as i was walking my course but i know they would have won it in style!

Here are some pictures of all our tropies and rosetts from Supadogs, WOW they do the best trophies EVER!





After Supadogs we went up to Hinckley to the most wonderful weekend show which is small and friendly but has some of the most important classes. I think Tigs luck was almost out and he was grade 6 now after all. He go a 2nd in Gr 5-7 jumping but nothing else we did was quite right. Leslie and billy put in a really nice jumping round in Gr6-7 Jumping in fact i think its the smoothest I've ever seen the pair of them run they went in to the lead but were pushed down to 3rd before the end. To end our stay away Leslie and Billy won the senior Olimpia qualifier (again!) which was fantastic and very exciting. This qualified him for day 4 of the semi finals so with days 3 and 4 all i can say is "Watch this space!"

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Bad Blogger

Well i'm officially a bad blogger when my Mum is telling me to update it! Trying to do anything whilst Dylan is up is way too difficult and i'm getting worn out watching him as he just doesn't stop, but here goes...

Wine glasses, puppies, spots and flat packed furniture!

Wow what a hectic couple of weeks its been!

At Tunbridge Wells agility show Billy Qualified for day 3 of the Senior Semi's for Olympia. Top ten in each qualifier go through, but no not Billy he just goes and win's the class. Didn't put a foot wrong! I guess I'll have to admit that Leslie didn't handle him badly either! So Billy is only looking for one more agility win to put him advanced (grade 7), they went for it in the Grade 6 agility the next day but it wasn't to be and they were beaten in to 2nd place. Roll on Supadogs and fingers crossed they find that last win.

Tig had no problems running clear in 5 out of his 6 classes (and that was me being rubbish in the rain that resulted in him taking a pole). He was a superstar as these 5 clears resulted in FIVE 1st places and FIVE lovely wine glasses, shame about the pole as six glasses would have made a set! I have discussed with my husband that he has the last one for my set but he is not the sharing type! It was such a good weekend and I'm sure there won't be many like it, even Phoebe got an 8th in Grade 6 jumping! I wish i had taken some cheesy pictures of the dogs and their trophies.

We went to Lesley Oldens for our lesson on Tuesday and then went in to play with the puppies. They are getting big now and are a handful but very sweet!




Our other news is that FINALLY Dylan has chicken pox! On Wednesday i Front Lined the dogs, they were due but Dyl had little 'bites' on him so i thought they must need doing. On Thursday night when i put him in the bath i realised that they were not bites and he had about 10 spots. Friday was an OK day for him, i left him with Lizzie most of the day so he can't have been feeling too poorly, Friday night we didn't get much sleep and by Saturday morning he was COVERED in spots! So we decided that we would potter round the house and let him do what he wanted and hopefully he wouldn't be too poorly. I'm not sure this was a good idea as i think he was bored and was such a grump all weekend. Anyway one of the things we attempted to do was to build the two cupboards that i have bought, one for next to the PC and one for the playroom. Dylan wanted to help so he got a spoon ad a bowl from the kitchen and came and made a table.

needless to say the instructions were the only thing that came out of the box! They said it would take two people an hour and as well as a screwdriver you needed a hammer. So they quickly found their way to the spare room until such time as Leslie is able to take them up to his workshop and bring them back made. I thought it would be easy!

Big boy hair cut!

I know this was long over due however I didn't want him to have his hair cut and i managed to put it off as long as possible! We were in Chichester last week and i saw that Crowns wasn't busy so we went and asked if they could do it. So Dylan's first hair cut was in the poshest hair dresser in town and it cost £3! He was a very good boy and didn't cry but he did keep moving his head away and laughing, little monster. Here's the piccies as usual he's eating!