Monday 2 June 2008

Phew...another hectic weekend over!

Another hectic weekend away at Tabley Game and Country Fair in Cheshire. The flyball was only a small part of a much larger show so it was nice to spend some time watching the pony club mounted games and gundog demonstrations between divisions and do a bit of shopping (spent far too much money!! lol)

Teal wouldn't run unfortuntely, we were right next to the clay pigeon shooting and she was just a very worried little cocker (yes, she would be the world's worst gundog!! lol) but Drake wasn't bothered and actually had a go at the gundog scurry; it was a very professional affair and something he's never done before but I was really pleased with him, there were two long ground retrieve's and while he got to hear the shot and 'mark' the dummy they were hidden once landed but he went out and found the first easily doing a lovely present on his return. The second was a really long way out and he stopped short and got his nose down but got totally distracted by another scent so I had to call him back. He was FANTASTIC on the water retrieve though and scored 10/10...it was quite a long retrieve out in the lake and again he came straight back and did a lovely present...clever lad. I 'may' do a bit of work with him and attempt some more scurries at other country shows we do as he obviously has quite an aptitude for it.

Squirrel was a very big hit on her excursions round the show, she is just such an easy little dog and so happy and sociable, I did end up buying a lovely limited edition print of a parson sat in a window, signed by the artist, which just reminded me of 'Squirt'.
It's called 'Terrier at Window' by Gill Evans



She also came to the airport with me on Saturday morning (fortunately Tabley is only 15 mins from Manchester airport) as we went to pick Carine up, she flew in from Belgium for the day to collect her Quinn puppy. Squirrel was impeccabley behaved in the airport too, she is fazed by nothing...she really is a lovely little dog, I'm so pleased I have her.

Anyway, not much to write home about in terms of flyball. Bailey, who had been lame last Monday and pulled from the multibreed team, was still not on top form and it showed in our times with the Rebels, we only managed an 18.14 and finsihed up 2nd in div 1...those pesky Live Wires regaining the crown (sure we'll have it back off them again soon! lol). The Renegades did ok on Saturday with Fi and Ethan both running well. I think that's pretty much it. All focus is now on our show this weekend at Penny Farm. This will be the last time we all run together so it will be rather sad...Gemma, Paul, Alison and I will be running with Red Rose at Eastham the following weekend and Trish will be at Cantley the weekend after then we will no longer be part of the Red Rose team and will be starting out on our own (ooh scary!)...we will be making our debut as the 'Demon Dogz' at Rotherham on 12th/13th July, I'm actually quite looking forward to having a month off though.

p.s. Hazell B was taking lots of pics over the weekend so hopefully she'll send me some and I'll post them later

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