Scandal and Beee

I met up with Laura this afternoon and we took my three, and Be, for a walk, Be is about 15 months now and is looking so pretty. Scandal loved having a great play mate to run with, Tia wasn't sure whether to chase them or play with them, and Rix pretended they didn't exist altogether, hehe.
Rix is now 10.5, Tia is 7, and Scandal's 7 months, so it's no wonder Rix doesn't really want to play with the baby, bless him!






Tia about to snap at Scandal for stealing her 'find' (a bottle wrapper)


Scandal concerned she might be missing something that Be is rolling in


I is a sheepdog!

Scandalous and Bex

Just a short clip on Scandal's dog walk contact


Bex at Golden Valley, 1st in the agility and team came 2nd!

7 months

Scandal will be 7 months on Sunday. I keep saying it but time is just going so fast.



Scandal's training

I have taught Scandal left and right, but decided I was going to teach her a right wrap (cik) and left wrap (brake... lol). I did wonder if she'd be able to pick the cik and brake up but she now seems to have got it sussed, what a clever cookie.



Her running contacts are going really well, she is on a low dog walk now, still going from the top plank only... she was going from the top of her cage (28") however i didn't have any way of increasing the height any more, so we're on the actual dog walk now, it's probably just over 3 foot. However within the next month I will be introducing phase 2 of the dog walk, however the behaviour isn't strong enough away from the equipment at present, so I have that to work on first. Once I start doing this, it'll most likely slow our progress of running contacts down anyway, so I don't expect her to be running the full length (still low) until 11-12mths old.



I have also factored in that it will be winter when she is a year old = wet and windy, and as I am not planning on training her when it is wet/windy, I am very aware that this will limit our training time. We are training twice-three times a week at the moment, so not very much compared to most with running contacts.



Last night I roadwalked her and the other 2 to a new field, the ones out the back of our house are very grass seedy, and I'm paranoid about the dogs getting them. Scandal was very well behaved on her gencon, she walks like such an angel, pity that as soon as I take the nose piece of she pulls hard enough to give staffies a run for their money! We then walked through a field and I noticed the young cattle were coming towards us, they weren't running but they have a habit of walking with their heads quite low and it looks like they are about to charge, so we climbed over the wall, well, I had to lift all 3 heffalumps over it, as the other side was concrete and I didnt want them jumping on to that. Then I got Rix to sit on the wall as he's always been fascinated by the cows, he is so funny as they were trying to lick him and he wasn't at all sure what to do. I put Scandal up next to him and she didn't at all know what to make of them, she went from being fascinated, to scared (when they breathed all over her and tried to lick her with their longggg tongues), to fascinated, to wanting to bite them, to being quite chilled. So I guess that went quite well actually. As we were walking home she saw a water ornament type feature, a giant marble ball with water coming out - completely freaked her out she didn't have a clue what it was! Funny little dog, she was fine within a minute, but you could just see her thinking "omgggggggg what the hell is that". At least her recovery time is a lot quicker than T, who remains permanently traumatised!



Only got a couple of days left of work then I'm all finished - yahoooo!

Scandal

Nearly 7 months old! Beautiful little princess!

Golden Valley - Sunday

I don't quite know how Sunday seemed to go in such a blur - I just took Scandal up with me, Lyn let me run Scott as Lee is on 'holiday' in Norway (thanks Lyn :)). This was Scott's 2nd show as a grade 6, and he went clear in the 6-7 jumping, wahoo! The 6-7 agility started well, but I struggle running him as he has different commands to Tia, so remembering my way round the courses (a tad harder than anysize!) was hard enough, let alone the stupid 'this, back, this come, back come' commands so I generally used SCOTT all the way round. I have only included the first part of the agility as it went a bit pear shaped from there :)


Ant and Gass, think she won G3 jumping on Sat. Her runs are looking good, she is working really well.

Imogen and Honey had their first clear - yeahhhhh! Hopefully the first of many :)

Dad won 4-7 (i think) agility, had 2nd in the team and I think a place in jumping too, so a good weekend.

What a day

Well we had a fun but very tiring day today.

Firstly dad and Bex at Golden Valley got their last win to grade 7, and then won 2 more classes to top it off. Bex has hopefully left her hormones behind her now!

I took my three to UKA at Aldon, Tia was good winning casual jumping and being slightly crazy in casual agility. Vid of her below


Rix was great in casual agility and won it by a couple of secs bless him what a good boy.


Jess and Copper had their first clear resulting in a 4th in Beginners Steeplechase, and then got 3rd in jumping. Todd came for the socialisation - he is just so scrummy! And seems to have got plenty of admirers too!

Bandle and Thames

Scandal-Bandle little vid of her doing some obedience at 6 months. We really haven't done a lot so she's a bit behind other dogs but she picks things up very quickly.



Had such a lovely day at Thames yesterday. Saw Sian and Jazz do a cracking round to win the medium CC, also managed to see Elaine Auty's Davey working (i think thats his name?) wow he is stunning. Loved Lee Windeatt's 6-7 Agility Olympia qu although there's no way I would've been able to do any of it! Also saw Sharon's Diesel, and he is very handsome. I wish he could teach Scandal how to get his toy rather than barking, he is a very good boy!

Got this vid of Gass in the Novice Olympia Qu, she missed her aframe (after Ant released too early!), she is now G4 as she won G3 agility on Saturday. I haven't seen her for a month now and she's sped up loads since then.



Bex isn't on great form at the moment, she finished her season about a month ago and had one show at great speed, and then Notts and Hinckley she wasn't interested, Thames she was better, 2 5ths in grade 6, and a 7th in the Crufts Singles, but none at Bex speed. Hopefully dad'll get the old Bex back soon!