Mini holiday

We have had a fabulous little break. After Crufts my sister and I went on for a few days holiday in the Peak District, which was beautiful. Deece and I also got to do some training with Janita Leinonen & Jaakko Suoknuuti which was fantastic.

Zazzy at Crufts

I was so pleased with Zazzy at Crufts, she was the happiest and most and confident I have ever seen her at a big event, and we had a fabulous time and really enjoyed it. You can see her run on the video at about 26 minutes.

Back to training!

My dogs have had a nice break from agility, and now I have carefully and gradually brought them back into training. They have had lots of walks, swimming and running, plus we have been doing lots of core muscle group strength games. I have started on Zazzys running dog walk training and am pleased with how it is going. Considering I am trying to re-train her at 5 years old, I knew it would take a while, but actually it will probably take longer than I thought. I am keeping a stopped dog walk in training on a different cue, I will need this for Crufts in a few weeks! Here is her running A-frame, extract taken from a Matthew Goodliffe training day I went to over the weekend:

I am pleased with Deece as well here is a video of him on the handling section of the training day:

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End of 2012

Well here comes the end of 2012, time to pause and reflect before the New Year. It has been an immensely busy year for me on many levels. However, the purpose of this blog concerns my dogs, who continue to amaze, inspire and bring great joy into my life, we are having the best time. I feel that there is a probably the biggest surge of evolution on the agility front that I have ever experienced, it may take some time for me to assimulate and perfect all the changes, but I think long term it will be worthwhile, I guess we will see. I am experiencing new (to us) types of handling and training, and both myself and my dogs are loving it. I am looking forward to 2013!

Here is a snippet of the 'European style' handling training day I attended last weekend. This is Zazzy and I learning how to do blind turns.

And this is a bit of training with Deece.

May I take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy and peaceful New Year.

Deece at the Pro-Plan Masters final

Warm up

Final

Many thanks to Bonny Quick for filming! And a huge well done to her for winning the novice final :)