Im sorry!!

Im so sorry to everyone that keeps moaning on at me for updating my blog (cough cough..).. I have been leading an extra busy life recently!!

As some of you will know for the last 3 weeks, I have been taken over by more little puppies, who from hours old I have hand raised, some who have been very strong fighters and a couple who have been a big fight to keep going. My little girl who is now called gift, broke her leg or what I think her other bruiser sibblings did, and from then on it has been a nightmare to keep a secure splint, support on her. One of my other girls also has a mystery deformety of what our vet thinks is a fungal infection to her nose, but with the medication she is now on we hope this will improve. Here

re are some pictures of, Gift, Goose, Gander, Gosh, Giddy and Gamble

This is my little girl, Gift!

This is my little white girl with the mystery nose, gamble!

This is the bruiser boy, once called Barry now called Goose.. specially for a certain someone! ;)

This is the little boy, who is now called Gosh!

This is our bruiser girl, now called Gander!

The girl to the right is our little pink spot girl, now called Giddy!


So there you go, they are the reason of my lack of postings recently.

Our agility season has finally come to the end bar the couple of winter day shows, Hex is now grade 6 and working really well, just a few things to work on over winter, Herbs has Olympia to train towards, and Linky ended the season with two grade 6 wins! wohoooo!!

I am up at Mums at the moment, whilst she is on holiday in America. The rescue is always a busy but VERY enjoyable place!!

I have Natalie up keeping me company and helping me with puppies and the rescue at the moment, and we have been playing agility so here are a couple of random pics we caught.

Good boy weave entries...

Kai and her crazzzzzy ears!!

We have been working on Hex's dog walk this week, and seeing different things that he enjoys using these to try imporve his speed over the dog walk especially the down plank, we have used stride regulators which has been helping to break his stride alot... and Also we have been trying to get him to play tuggy in his 2on2off position which previously he has found very difficult to do and hold his position, but we are getting there and just with this week, and dropping the dogwalk height down it has helped lots.

Barry came down to visit us for a lesson on Friday, and after his lesson very kindly as he stated 'coached' myself, Natalie and Liza for a good hour, which we all thoroughly enjoyed and it was so nice to finally have someone tell us what, how and why whilst we are up here!!

At the last show, whilst running herbie twisted his pelvis out, and after a very worrying time and been seen by Kate who did a brilliant job and Thank You soooo much Kate, he has had a 3 week rest and we brought him back out to work this week.. Natalie gave him a good run whilst I was running Hexy and he seems back right and fit. We have been doing general training with him but as Olympia bells ring, all focus is on the build up to olympia!

Wont leave it as long next time I promise!!!

Leah xxx

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Mammoth catch up!!!

Right the mammoth catch up...............................

OMG, what a bad blogger........so much to catch up on.
Right starting at Nottingham (it's as far back as I remember!!! lol) Herbie and I got reserve Champion there for the second year running. I have to say I so want to get a championship now, and to get another 2nd as well as a load of 3rds now it is feeling a bit more like we could achieve it. The only problem is that now it's a bit more realistic I'm so nervous when I get in the Championship Que, so I'm going to have to find away to settle my nerves. Any way somewhere there is a video of this but I've got to find which tape it went on to!

Next to Hinckley....New venue this year. It was nice except half way through Sat they started a lot of shooting. My dogs are normally fine with shooting as living in the country side there seems to be a lot, but this was in such quick succession that it was like fire works! Herbie went to pieces in the Champ Que, and I had to work really hard at keeping him with me, but still some how we made it to the final again. This was a big fast flowing course, not ideally suited to Herb, but we had a good crack at it and Stuart who was judging it later told me that I came 3rd (again!), but actually I was dead pleased with that as it was such a fast course.
Hexy was also a good boy coming second in a 3-5 Dog Vegas Agility (which is a qualifier for the dog vegas final in August), the top two qualify so that earnt us a place there, which I'm really pleased about as it was quite a tricky course, having to pull off tunnels and even having a "go round" to a flat weave entry. Any way here is the video of Hinckley......



Next on to Boot Camp:

I've had this idea banging around in my head for ages, it was some thing that I really wanted to do, so one day I approached Nancy about it and it took off from there!

We wanted everybody to go home tiered, for filled and happy and hopefully they did! Everybody told us how much they loved it and in fact everybody re-booked for next year (which is really nice!)
We were really lucky with the venue as it had showers, toilets, a club house and fantastic walking (for those who could still move at the end of the day!) see link below for pictures........

http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff84/anjuagility/?action=view&current=26666eda.pbw


Thames was a weekend of nearlys! First I screwed up the champ cutting poor Herbie up so badly that he had no where to go but round the jump!!! Then Hex did a storming round in the Novice qualifier, the third to last obstacle was the see saw which he hearded..... it was gutting as I knew it was a great round. Hex did get a 5th in the 4-5 jumping which was quite a technical course....what a good boy! Then Kai and Hex did two stonking rounds in the pedigree pairs to come 2nd! Whoopie

On to the rescue dog finals 2009:
Herbie won this last year, which I'm really proud of as I work so hard to help the rescue dogs.....so here is what happened this year..........



Newton Heath: well I can honestly say I've never been more worried as Jay had his ABC semi finals in the evening. Sadly Stihl missed her weave entry meaning no ABC this year! They'll have to go for the senior instead!
Any way Charley was judging the champ, so i knew it would be fast and flowing (which it was), I, well Herbie and me both prefer twisty courses, they are much more up our street! But any way we produced 3 out of 3 clears and ended up 4th which I was really pleased with!

Hexy was amazing he came 2nd in the novice Olympia qualifier, which qualifies us for the semi in august/sept, and then he got 3rd in the 4-5 jumping and then won the 4-5 agility!!!!! What a good boy!!!!!





So until all the rest uploads here you go!

Naughty Blogger!!!!!!

Well it has been quite a while.........

The babies have all grown up and flown the nest as such. I cried, no actually I sobbed when Alice left (quite uncontrollably!!!!! USELESS!!!!) They have all gone to amazing homes, and Ham and Alice I will see regularly, in fact I saw them both this weekend.

Ham has the most beautiful video that Nat made him......



and here are some updated picture of Alice...... Sadly I don't yet have an updated picture of Vixen.


Agility wise we're all ticking along....... Jay qualified Stihl for the ABC Olympia semi finals..... I can't tell you how proud of him I am. I know how much he wanted it, and they both did the most phenomenal round, beating two agility champions!!!!!

Herbie has now qualified for two days at the Olympia semi's as well, so that's great.

Hexy got a 2nd in 4 jumping and a 6th in 4-5 agility last week, which was brill, especially as he worked soooooo well (well on Sat any way).
On Sunday we had a slight melt down day, they still come! The grade 4 jumping was a series of horrible angles, and as soon as you put your dog over one thing you were fighting them off another, well needless to say this blew the little mans head (as it did quite a few!) after that his confidence was lost, so we worked on keeping him happy the rest of the day.

Other than this poor Wendy fell and smashed the cartilage i n her knee and is in a lot of pain. Therefore all our classes are off for the next few weeks. We all wish Wendy a speedy recovery!

Well done to all my friends who had an amazing weekend..... too many to remember, but especially, Karen and Todd, Bernadette and Zen, Andy and Kizzy, Elspeth and Jack, Dan and Tigg and not to mention the amazing Nat who not only got 4th in 7 jumping with Herbie, but also got Link round the most impossible 6-7 agility ever!!!! You go girl!!!!!!!

The kids.......

From one to three!

Well Halo (Alice) is now extremely busy with her TWO new friends, Ham and Vixen. Vixen is apparently a pedigree GSD. Any way what ever she is she is extremely under weight and under sized. She is 5 weeks (Alice and Ham are 4 weeks) and she is the smallest! When I bathed her today she muck that came off her was amazing.........a bath and 1 hours grooming latter and she is looking and smelling a lot better. (Sorry the pics aren't great but they are from my phone!)

What a great weekend!

Halo is turning into a little dog now, and on Tuesday we will be getting a friend for her. He is the brother of my sweet little boy I lost. He is a swimmer pup which means his legs splay at the momenet. It can come right, but will need a lot of work. Any way he is the same age as halo, so that will be nice as she is starting to try and play.

This is Ham, Halo's new friend

This weekend we went to our first UKA show. I have to say I really enjoyed it!!!!! It was one of the nicest atmospheres at a show that I have ever been to.
All our dogs were really good this weekend.....I don't often mention Link and Shy as they are 9 1/2 years old, and we are slowly winding them down, but linky was a star, having a lot of fun on his terms he he he. Shy won senoir agility, so not so bad for an old girl! Sadly on the second day she hit a wing very hard and is still a bit sore on her hind leg. Stihl pulled off a second in a jumping class.
Herbie had a good weekend....1 st champ agility, 1st gamblers, 2nd champ steeplecahse, 3rd Snnoker and 4th champ steeplechase, and little old Hex won Begginers jumping (which I thought was really hard!) and came 4th in the steeplechase. He had stonking rounds on every round, but he seems to have found a new gear, which ment he hit a pole most rounds (I think it just was mis judging rather than lazyness!)
Below is the video of all Hexy's runs and some amazing photos that Dennis kindly took!!!!! xxxx Thank you !

The Video...........

Hellish night

What a horrendous night!!!!!
Halo (as she is now named, although is affectionately called Alice!!!don't ask) decided to crash on me. She started to take a turn for the worse at about 12pm and then did a big plummet DOWN! By 3 we were in the vets, who felt we needed to just ride it out. At 6 she was extremely lifeless and her third eyelids had come across (for anybody with puppy experience you'll know this is BAD!!!!) We both kept fighting on, and I syringed fluids into her every 30 Min's all through the night. This morning she is looking a little brighter.

She did't move all night until she heard Jay come in, when she sat up and whinned, made a fuss of him then layed down again......She did the same when he left for work this morning, sitting up (at 5am I might add) then screaming from the moment he left!!! I think somebody has a crush!!!

So here comes the reason for Halo........(which we named her last Friday)

Halo arrived with my mum at a time of deep dispare for her. She was at a major low....she was my mums guardian angel of sorts, helping her to focus again!
She then came to me where her and her adopted brother bumped my life back into focus. She has fought hard to be here with us, and must have somebody watching over her, therefor Halo seemed fitting.

Today mum is picking up another of the same litter, apparently s/he has a front leg that doesn't look right.
It is a sad world, and sometimes the smallest thing can bring happiness! I guess don't over look the little things in life!!!!