3 weeks...

Sizzle
Spark

Scorch and Tottie

Inferno

Tottie

Blaze

Scandal's puppies at 18 days...

The pups are doing well, Scandal is being a great mum to them :-)

Blaze

Inferno... the people's favourite ;-)

Scorch

Sizzle

Spark

Tottie

6 little Scandalytes!

Scandal had 6 lovely pups born on 10th October, a couple of days earlier than expected but she made it all seem very easy and has been a brilliant mum.
We have 6 puppies - 1 girl and 5 boys. One boy is red and white, the others are black white or black tri.

Planned Litter - Scandal x Kyte

Very excited to say that Scandal has been mated to Brentmoor Skylark (Kyte) and puppies are due mid October.

Kyte is 9.5 years old and Grade 7 Agility. He comes from a line I have long admired, his sire producing 3 agility champions and 1 obedience champion. I have loved Kyte (and his brothers Ouzel and Fig) ever since I first saw them about 5 or 6 years ago. I wanted a Kyte pup at the time I was looking for my 3rd dog, but then Scandal came along and I just couldn’t refuse. I’d always hoped if I did ever breed from her, I would be able to use Kyte, so I’m very grateful to Michelle for making this a reality.

Kyte is a fabulous boy, and has sired some amazing pups. I think he’s produced some of the best litters of agility collies ever (IMO!), the Darleyfalls dogs - Linda’s Ag Ch Kizzy, Ian’s Bobbie, Ian’s Bess, Lindsey’s Wish, Sandra’s Pip and Lauren’s Reef to name a few.
Scandal is 3 years old and is out of Ant Clarke’s Ag Ch Ruby, and John Wykes’ WT CH Jaff. Jaff sired the 2011 Olympia winner Tiff, and has also sired Ant’s Gass and Lesley’s Toot. Jaff is brother to the dam of the Darleyfalls dogs, Flo.

Colours expected are black/white, black tri, red/white, red tri.
I’m very excited about this litter – we have a waiting list but happy to take enquiries.

For more info please have a look on my website ... Scandal x Kyte

UKA Hawbridge

Last month I went to UKA Hawbridge with Imi, so Imi could try and qualify for the Junior Finals at the Hand Stadium. I'd kind of decided it'd be Tia's last show, as she's 10 now, and with all the problems she had a few years ago, it's amazing that she's still able to do it. She has only done the odd run here and there at KC shows with me this year, and hasn't run with Imi since last summer. The Junior Final works on consistency, so you need a good agility and jumping to get in the top 4 with the results combined. First up the agility, and Honey and Tia were both clear, Honey was 2nd in this class. Then the jumping, again Honey was clear and Tia had a pole. This put Honey 2nd overall, and Tia 4th, so she's qualified both dogs for the finals :-) and it will be a lovely way for Tia to retire! Then... I decided to run Jed. I'd been thinking about it for a few weeks, but then the week before decided I wouldn't. Then got to the show, and it was nice and relaxed, rings not too close together, and Jed was on his best behaviour. So I entered him in the casual jumping - he's still not completely confident at full height, and I wanted him to do a different set of weaves. He was such a good boy, loved doing agility, and gave me 100% attention. He's come such a long way... still a long way to go but this is a big step in the right direction :-)

KC Festival

I didn’t go to KC Festival this year, however two friends did rather well, so I thought they deserved their own post on here.

First of all super thrilled for Lee and Todd. I went up to Scotland with Lee and Jess to choose Toddy when he was about 6 weeks old... have always loved him (Todd that is :-)) right from when Lisa first sent me the photos of him. Jess and Lee have had a busy year or so... getting married last year and then having a beautiful baby boy a few months ago, and of course in between that fitting in a few agility shows too. Lee and Todd got a G1 Jumping win at the KC Festival 2011, and then Todd has had ‘5 faultitis’ at most shows since then. They got their 2nd Jumping win in the Spring, and then Todd decided to pull out all the stops at the KC Festival 2012. On the Friday they won Starters Cup Jumping and Starters Cup Agility. On the Saturday they won 1-3 jumping and the Starters Cup Semi Final (by 10 seconds). And then on the Sunday they won G1 Jumping and 3rd in 1-3 Agility with held contacts. FAB-U-LOUS!!!



Jess, not to be outdone, did a beautiful clear round with her 18 month old Cocker spaniel Stig and won G3 Agility (by 4 seconds). So G4 for them... WOW! I am super proud :-) although Jess will be holding all seesaws properly in future ;-) ;-)

Summer Shows

Not going to bore you with a show by show account so this is just a summary of the last month or so...



Scandal’s done some really, really awesome rounds and I’m soooo proud of her! Some ‘nearlies’ and ‘if onlys’ as well as ‘brain (mine) just needs to work faster’. Her runs tend to be either clears or Es, and the Es are completely down to pilot error (mainly the ‘brain needs to work faster’ reason). Such an amazing dog to work, she is trying so hard and I love every minute of running her.

Honey’s been Little Miss Consistent – 5 champs, 2 CCs, 3 resCCs. We are getting there, and I am still determined that one day I will work out what to do to get her to run in the ring like she does in training...

Ricky’s looking fabulous and seems to be loving life – he still manages our 8 mile walks and does the odd piece of agility equipment (still as enthusiastic as ever). Tia is also her usual happy bouncy smiley self, although she does seem to think she’s moved into the neighbours house, and invites herself in (much to the bemusement of their 2 dogs) whenever she fancies.

Jed’s amazing, when he wants to be. He’s a very exhuberant boy and gives 100% for everything (even if it really doesn’t require it, like jumping a 15” jump on set point – really doesn’t require soaring off into the distance with such joy). He loves life, loves free running, lovesss Scandal (not reciprocated), loves training, loves biking/canix. He just has such a zest for life. We recently went on a gridwork day with Gemma and I was really pleased that Jed managed to concentrate for 2 hours, work offlead and pretty much ignore the other dogs. Very slow progress but we are getting there. I’m hoping to do a couple of non-KC shows this year, then aim to bring him out properly next Spring. Out on our walk last week and a lady’s 2 GSDs kept running up to us and wouldn’t leave us alone, in the end I let Jed say hi, and then they had the best game he’s ever had while he’s been with us, they played and played, ran round loads, and completely wore Jed out (a near impossible feat). Jed was Mr HAPPY! Hopefully we will keep making these small steps in the right direction.



Haven’t got many shows for the rest of the year... Am very much enjoying just doing ‘normal’ things on our weekends. Scandal spends most of it herding the chickens, a job which she takes very seriously.