Friday evening I (stupidly) agreed to cover Donnas classes over in Rudham. This meant that I spent most of the day rushing around getting ready for the weekend, washing dogs and packing as I knew I would have to leave at 4.30pm and wouldn't get back until after 10pm.
My arrival home was also hindered by the fact I got pulled over by the police because of a rabbit. Yes, you read that right. I was on my way home and there wasn't a soul in sight. I was approaching a roundabout and there was a rabbit sat in the middle of the road obviously infected with myxy as its eyes were huge. I slowed to make sure I didn't run it over, and then immediately felt guilty as it would have been better off being put out of its misery. There was a police car sat at the slip road of the roundabout. I didn't think twice about it, but it started following me and flashing its lights - panic! Anyway, turns out they thought I was slowing because of them so checked my details etc. I felt soo embarrassed having to explain about the rabbit but thankfully the policeman saw the funny side, apologised (yes you read that right too!) and sent me on my way.
Beachside
Saturday morning we were up early and headed over the Great Yarmouth for the first of the BAA winter series.
Its the start of their new 'season' so Pips first Novice + courses and their new height changes. This means shes no longer eligible to enter their medium classes so I'd entered her into Mini. However, June measured her and she measured into MICRO (albeit just!). I probably should have just left her as mini but as I spent most of last season regretting not moving Inca into medium I decided to go with the flow and enter her into micro. I guess if you're competing against all heights you need to take every advantage going. I was convinced she'd jump too high but she adjusted immediately. This of course means she spends far less time in the air and more time over the ground so she is a lot faster - I just can't keep up, lol. We didn't get off to a good start in her jumping class. Another course that should have been right up her street but she broke her wait and spent most of the class howling at me. In the agility she was doing a cracking run, got her contacts, did her weaves..but near the end she turned on a six pence, back jumped a jump and went off sniffing - I could have killed her. We got it together in steeplechase and she did a good run ending up 5th, although she was still veering in towards me in between jumps rather than focusing on the next obstacle so definitely wasn't running to her full potential. In Power & Speed she was horrid in the power, but a switch went on and she ran the speed bit lovely - really taking advantage of these tiny (pointless) jumps, lol.
As Inca had been promoted to Novice in agility, I really wasnt sure how she'd cope with the Novice + classes so I decided only to enter her in jumping where shes still Primary. I've seen she can cope just fine with Senior classes at UKA so I'll probably enter her in Novice + at future shows. She ran both her classes really well and absolutely flew round. She ended up 2nd in her jumping and ended up WINNING primary steeplechase - I almost died as really didn't expect that!
I really couldn't be any more pleased with Ds performance. He only made a couple very minor mistakes (missed a jump in one class and knocked a pole in another) but ran all his classes really well. I was actually most pleased with his jumping class, despite it being the one where he knocked a pole. I took Wendys advice from last week and so pushed him more and he really responded to it. He was really beginning to drive into the tunnels away from me and looked (and felt) much more confident over the jumps. He had the fastest time out of all the dogs but unfortunately had a pole down. In both his agility and power and speed he came 2nd so I was over the moon. I do have to keep reminding myself hes not quite 19 months yet! I was a little disappointed that none of his classes had weaves in them as I know they're one of his strong points.
As soon as we were finished it was off home to pick up the other two dogs and head up to Preston. I did begin to wonder why on earth I'd entered shows on opposite sides of the country!
NWBCC
Thankfully the dog judging didn't start until 10.30am so we had somewhat of a lie in, especially as the Premier Inn we were staying at was on the same lane as the venue! After a nice breakfast we headed over to the venue.
Diesel was up first in Yearling in a very strong class. He didn't run very well and flew his tail most of the way round the ring (grr!). Admittedly it was probably my fault as I didn't have him out for long enough before he went in. Thankfully he went much better in Novice and ended up 3rd in that.
I entered Inca into Limit, but also Open AOC and the Working Bitch class. I was convinced we were going to get chucked out of limit (16 entries), especially as the judge seemed to think all but one side of the ring was invisible. However, I was delighted when Inca got V.H.C. Inca went on to win the AOC and Working class.
Inca winning Open AOC, next to her full sister (but from different litter) Locheil Violets Are Blue (10 months old)
We decided to leave before the challenge so as to get home at a semi reasonable hour. We were finished by 2.30pm so should have arrived just before 6pm. However, we were just coming towards Manchester when we could hear a ripping sound coming from the back of the van. Mishka had not only ripped open her bandage, she'd also ripped open her foot! I bandaged her up best I could in a service station car park but knew we really needed to see a vet before tomorrow, and we at the very least needed a bigger lampshade so she couldn't reach her foot. I tried getting hold of Nat who was obviously on her way home so started ringing random vets in the area we were in. Several were shut but we eventually got hold of PetMedics and took Mish straight there. Unfortunately theres not enough skin to stitch up but they rebandaged her up and gave us a bigger cone - seriously she gets HD TV with that thing!
After several traffic jams we eventually got home at 8pm. What an up and down exhausting weekend!!
My arrival home was also hindered by the fact I got pulled over by the police because of a rabbit. Yes, you read that right. I was on my way home and there wasn't a soul in sight. I was approaching a roundabout and there was a rabbit sat in the middle of the road obviously infected with myxy as its eyes were huge. I slowed to make sure I didn't run it over, and then immediately felt guilty as it would have been better off being put out of its misery. There was a police car sat at the slip road of the roundabout. I didn't think twice about it, but it started following me and flashing its lights - panic! Anyway, turns out they thought I was slowing because of them so checked my details etc. I felt soo embarrassed having to explain about the rabbit but thankfully the policeman saw the funny side, apologised (yes you read that right too!) and sent me on my way.
Beachside
Saturday morning we were up early and headed over the Great Yarmouth for the first of the BAA winter series.
Its the start of their new 'season' so Pips first Novice + courses and their new height changes. This means shes no longer eligible to enter their medium classes so I'd entered her into Mini. However, June measured her and she measured into MICRO (albeit just!). I probably should have just left her as mini but as I spent most of last season regretting not moving Inca into medium I decided to go with the flow and enter her into micro. I guess if you're competing against all heights you need to take every advantage going. I was convinced she'd jump too high but she adjusted immediately. This of course means she spends far less time in the air and more time over the ground so she is a lot faster - I just can't keep up, lol. We didn't get off to a good start in her jumping class. Another course that should have been right up her street but she broke her wait and spent most of the class howling at me. In the agility she was doing a cracking run, got her contacts, did her weaves..but near the end she turned on a six pence, back jumped a jump and went off sniffing - I could have killed her. We got it together in steeplechase and she did a good run ending up 5th, although she was still veering in towards me in between jumps rather than focusing on the next obstacle so definitely wasn't running to her full potential. In Power & Speed she was horrid in the power, but a switch went on and she ran the speed bit lovely - really taking advantage of these tiny (pointless) jumps, lol.
As Inca had been promoted to Novice in agility, I really wasnt sure how she'd cope with the Novice + classes so I decided only to enter her in jumping where shes still Primary. I've seen she can cope just fine with Senior classes at UKA so I'll probably enter her in Novice + at future shows. She ran both her classes really well and absolutely flew round. She ended up 2nd in her jumping and ended up WINNING primary steeplechase - I almost died as really didn't expect that!
I really couldn't be any more pleased with Ds performance. He only made a couple very minor mistakes (missed a jump in one class and knocked a pole in another) but ran all his classes really well. I was actually most pleased with his jumping class, despite it being the one where he knocked a pole. I took Wendys advice from last week and so pushed him more and he really responded to it. He was really beginning to drive into the tunnels away from me and looked (and felt) much more confident over the jumps. He had the fastest time out of all the dogs but unfortunately had a pole down. In both his agility and power and speed he came 2nd so I was over the moon. I do have to keep reminding myself hes not quite 19 months yet! I was a little disappointed that none of his classes had weaves in them as I know they're one of his strong points.
As soon as we were finished it was off home to pick up the other two dogs and head up to Preston. I did begin to wonder why on earth I'd entered shows on opposite sides of the country!
NWBCC
Thankfully the dog judging didn't start until 10.30am so we had somewhat of a lie in, especially as the Premier Inn we were staying at was on the same lane as the venue! After a nice breakfast we headed over to the venue.
Diesel was up first in Yearling in a very strong class. He didn't run very well and flew his tail most of the way round the ring (grr!). Admittedly it was probably my fault as I didn't have him out for long enough before he went in. Thankfully he went much better in Novice and ended up 3rd in that.
I entered Inca into Limit, but also Open AOC and the Working Bitch class. I was convinced we were going to get chucked out of limit (16 entries), especially as the judge seemed to think all but one side of the ring was invisible. However, I was delighted when Inca got V.H.C. Inca went on to win the AOC and Working class.
Inca winning Open AOC, next to her full sister (but from different litter) Locheil Violets Are Blue (10 months old)
We decided to leave before the challenge so as to get home at a semi reasonable hour. We were finished by 2.30pm so should have arrived just before 6pm. However, we were just coming towards Manchester when we could hear a ripping sound coming from the back of the van. Mishka had not only ripped open her bandage, she'd also ripped open her foot! I bandaged her up best I could in a service station car park but knew we really needed to see a vet before tomorrow, and we at the very least needed a bigger lampshade so she couldn't reach her foot. I tried getting hold of Nat who was obviously on her way home so started ringing random vets in the area we were in. Several were shut but we eventually got hold of PetMedics and took Mish straight there. Unfortunately theres not enough skin to stitch up but they rebandaged her up and gave us a bigger cone - seriously she gets HD TV with that thing!
After several traffic jams we eventually got home at 8pm. What an up and down exhausting weekend!!
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