Other news

Jay has decided to re-name the other kittens.....
So the ginger and white boy is now Sebastian, the twins are now Nugget and Cuddles. I will up date their pictures soon.


This weekend....

Jay and Stihl came 3rd in the Olympia qualifier, sadly only the top two get through, oh well here's to the next time.

I didn't really have my head on agility, which may explain my runs! But I believe that Herb and I got a Chum day (here's hoping).

A hard weekend

Well it's been a tough one. On Sunday I sadly lost Keith the kitten, she fought really hard, and we for her, but it wasn't to be. It felt like I had my heart pulled out and stomped on! It's really hard to loose your hand raises, as you spend so much time with them.

When I told my friend what had happened she text me back and said.......

"Please try not to cry, she was so special that god needed her back!" I thought that this was a very sweet way to put it.
I would like to say a special thank you to Jay, Jan, Nancy and Karren who spent a lot of time helping and comforting me this weekend, I really appreciate how special you all are!



Rest in peace my sweet girl.......(second from the left)

Catch up time......

Well it's been a busy week, I've been at my mum's rescue helping.......Needless to say I didn't come away empty handed! So without any further a do let me introduce "The Prodigy" AKA Keith, Liam, Leeroy and Maxim (only problem being that we now think that the three completely ginger ones are GIRLS!!!!!) oh, well.
Left to right.... Liam, Leeroy, Keith and Maxim

So anyway the "band" have me up every two hours feeding, so to say I'm tiered is an understatement! They were between 6-12 hours old when they were brought into the rescue, and are now 6 days old. They were found on a builders merchants, under a pile of bricks they were moving. One was dead and the others were very cold! Sadly I don't know what happened to mum.

Next...

An enormous well done to Jay and Stihl who BLITZED grade 5 agility, and won by 2.5 seconds!! So into Grade 6 they go! xxx well done xxx

And just because I hadn't got a group shot of the dogs, I took one today.......

(Note the two naughties who have to be tied in position!! he he Hex and Stihl!)

This weeks Hex video

My little mate Riot....

Sadly still no home for Riot, not even much interest.....

He is a really nice dog, but has quite a few quirks at the mo, but even with these I would be really sad to see him go! Anyway to try and help find him the right person I have made him a video.......

The Europeans and last week...

Oh my god, what a week! Well last Sat' I went to Scunthorpe, drove for hours only to blow out at obstacle number 6 in the Champ! But I did get to run Jay's Kelpie, "Stihl", who was very good and got a 3rd in 5 Agility, and Herbie pulled off a nice 2nd in 7 Jumping, so not a totally bad day! The next day Nancy, Andy and Jan came over to the school and we tried out some FCI style courses (as I had the Europeans try outs this weekend), these were very hard, but we all got some great stuff, and it was good training for me. I had a great morning and it was really good fun. I then spent some time with them teaching push throughs (as I love doing them!). Monday I had a great training session with Herbie, and Tuesday he was even better. Thursday was Hex's lesson. He is coming on really well! I have a video that I need to upload, and will try and do later...... The contacts (truthfully are only about 75% accurate at the mo', but have made a few discoveries with him, IE DON'T SAY GO!!! as he just extends his stride too much!) Then to

Saturday.......

We got up early (4am) and left by 5am as I wanted time to relax and do all the necessary paper work etc. When we arrived the sun was shinning, BUT it was bitterly cold. The course plans were up on a wall, so i had a look (then wished hadn't, as they were suttley trappy!) I love a good twisty course, and just hoped I could hold it together for four rounds?
I have asked Nancy to e-mail me to courses so I can put them on here......

Well first was the jumping, it was quite a small ring so you came up against the next obstacle quite quickly (including the wrong one!). Herbie produced a lovely clear.

Round 1-Jumping

The next three classes were agility, and only if you were in the top 30 dogs after 3 rounds (on points), could you do the last round.

Round 2-Agility

Round 3-Agility

Round 4-Agility

Herbie did two more great agility rounds and at the end of the third round we were in 6th over all.

The last round I just desperately wanted to do with another clear, and we did. Herbie was absolutely fantastic all day, despite his mum's nerves! In the end we qualified 2nd over all as one of the few dogs to do 4/4 clear rounds.

They are taking the top ten dogs (in the large) and an extra 5 wild cards, so we were picked!! YIPPIE!!!!!!!! I am so proud!

This is our team......


Big dogs:
Sarah Osbourne
Leah Gardner
Lee Gibson
Lee Windeatt (Bold)
Greg Derrett
Marc Saunders
Anthony Clarke
Nigel Staines
Alan Bray (Skylar)
Nic and Caleb

Medium:
Gary Cumming
Andrew Sandercock
A lady with a schnauzer (sorry, forgot your name)

Little:
Wendy Fairlamb
Bernadette Bay
Helen Davey-Smith

I also know a couple of the wild cards.....
Dave and Dobby
Katie mitchell
Lisa and Chi

Well done to everybody, I think we're sending some great dogs (but I would say that!)

Any way, this all finished at 6.30pm, and I was meant to be in Carmarthen (for my Grans surprise birthday party, at 7pm!!! NOT A CHANCE!!!!!)At 9.15pm we rolled in to dinner, very hungry (not good at eating when I'm competing!), and tiered.

The next day Jay took some lovely photo's of Herbie (as my mum wanted some on her site) So here they are......

A long awaited Hex Vid!!!!