Showing 29 posts from June 2009
I was so much looking forward to Landsdown Agility Show. This show was held at the Landsdown Racecourse, the view is always so beautiful from the top of the hill and the camping is always good, we have plenty of space and the people are so friendly. We have some lovely walking spaces for the dogs and there is no restriction on how many dogs are allow off the lead as long as you can control your dogs.
Unfortunately, I have two cripple dogs who were supposed to compete at Landsdown. Saturn's broken dewclaw was still bad, Kevin only removed his bandage on Friday morning but he needs to wear a sock to protect the bare skin for a little while. Saturn was not happy with my baby sock + terrible bandage work, he keeps chewing it off! Arrrggghhh ...
You can see from the above picture that eventhough his dewclaw was clean but it still need protection, this means he shouldn't be running for the next week or so.
Sing was slightly lame from last week's tumbled tunnel. To be honest, with two dogs cannot run, I shouldn't have gone to Landsdown but both boys were on the Crufts Team, so I HAVE to go, at least to run Sing in the Team. I did gave him a warm up run in the Jumping as first thing of Saturday. When I first walked the Jumping course, I cannot register the course in my mind. We got there late on Friday night and didn't settle until nearly 12 o'clock, so an early start is not the thing I want. The course was challenging, it was a graded class too, I thought if I can pull through the hard bit, I would like to win the class. I actually did the hard bit smoothly but got eliminated on the tunnel! Arrrggghhh ... it was my fault really, I was meant to do a front cross after the weave, so Sing is on my right hand side, so I can send him in the grey tunnel, then tell him left tunnel and of course I didn't do my switches and Sing didn't know where I want him to go, he ended up go in the same tunnel, Bless my little boy. I was actually pleased with him doing the hard bit alright. There weren't many clear rounds in this Jumping course!
After that, we have the Medium Crufts Team. I ran Saturn at the first qualifier and I know Saturn is not fit for agility so I asked to run Sing for the rest of the qualifiers. Sing was the first one to go and he was a good boy, he was the only dog in the Team to go clear. Two of our mates got fault and one got eliminated, so no qualified again this time. We must try harder next time but it was very good to run in the Team.
this is not a successful weekend but I thought I would post the runs I did with Sing, so some of you may like to try the course, especially the Jumping course:
This is the first time of the year we were away in the caravan. We have a compact little caravan, enough to fit in the two of us and our SIX shelties! We took all the boys with us plus Samber. This is the first time Samber camping with us and she was a good girl. She didn't attempt to run away or do anything naughty. She really is a sweetheart.
this is our little caravan
Saturday evening rain after we came back from our long walk, so Saturn decided he will watch his daddy cooking BBQ from the window
... then Samber joined him, isn't she cute?
she is daddy's girl
... and these are my boys! Can you imagine I woke up ache and pain next morning?
since Sing and Saturn are not fit to run on Sunday, we chilled out to enjoy a bit of relaxing day ... it was VERY HOT on Sunday, this is Sing's favourite cool spot, underneath the caravan!
these two planets were quite happy to stay under our awning
this little girl likes sunbathing!
this is my job when we go caravaning ... groom the dog!
just recently, these two like to stick together
Sizzle and Samber enjoyed their run in the racecourse
I hope you like this series of photo of Sizzle trying to escape from the garden. Yes, he is a naughty boy, he tried to escape to find me everytime I wander to see what happened in the ring, funny thing is Colin didn't even aware he has gone! I actually caught him by the ringside, to be precise, he FOUND me by the ringside and he was so pleased with himself when he sees me! You either hate him or like him!
I was away at Landsdown having a "cripple" agility weekend! More about that later. I missed little Blessy! While I left him on Friday evening, one of his ears already open, so I left a radio on for him.
He becomes very cute now, when he is awake, he gets to come out from the puppy pen to wander in the lounge. He loves to explore the surroundings, I leave some stuff on the floor for him to see. It is extremely hot today, really muggy and he got to wander on the patio for a little while and he was walking so fast and everywhere!! I need to be fast to be able to catch him!
smile a little smile for me
so cute
can you find the puppy?
Bless likes to use his paw
I really thought he is a left handed as I can see he always use his left paw to hit something ...
... including giving me his left paw! Sorry folks, I didn't teach him the trick, maybe he is a natural? 
until I see this, sorry the photo is a bit blur but you can see him using his right paw too!
the real family
I am such a bad mum! How can I forget Titan's birthday? He turns FOUR on Thursday (25th June). I did made up his birthday for a long walk at Landsdown Racecourse this weekend and some yummy food!
Happy 4th Birthday to my "evil" boy!!
I have received emails asking me how is Sizzle's running dog walk.
life is not just for agility, this is Sizzle's playtime!
you gotto like his running dog walk, look at the speed he is coming from
Sizzle: I am what "get it" means!
he is a stunner!!
I am very happy with his progress. I haven't done much with him for the last 8 weeks but we did a couple of training with him for the last two weeks. His running dog walk is good, eventhough not 100% but we are getting there. We just need a lot of reputations. I would not do much with him due to the hot weather, I will take it easy and slowly. No pressure at all. He is so much fun to train. As we are rusty at training, he started to get distracted easily, so we will work on that!
life is not just for agility, this is Sizzle's playtime!
you gotto like his running dog walk, look at the speed he is coming from
Sizzle: I am what "get it" means!he is a stunner!!Sorry I forgot to post a photo of Sing and his grand Thames trophy. Well, it is not easy to take a "happy" photo of Sing with his trophy anymore. He was alright before until we started to take a group photos including Samber. Samber has not been trained at all, I can never get her to sit let alone a wait, so with a lot of hassle, we managed a group photo but that put Sing off when I started to line them up for a photo session.
at last a happy Sing with his grand Thames trophy! I was so lucky to win one of these grand trophies, especially with my special boy.
we started with this one, a fed-up looking boy thinking NOT ANOTHER PHOTO? 
Bless said: nevermind daddy, I'll be the poser!
I can't believe how fast a puppy grows. This morning, Bless was still struggling to walk but this late afternoon, he is so much better already! I am going caravaning this weekend for another agility weekend, I wonder by the time I come back will he up on his feet and start running already? Hahaha ...
Saturn is always a poser, a happy poser. Due to his broken nail, he is not allow to go out walking so we got stuck indoor for some tricks. This is his "cross your paw" trick. He is such a handsome cutie with the bandage on. I need to keep thinking something for him to do to distract him from tearing the bandage!
