Wet weather flyball training!

Have had the usual busy sort of week with one thing and another. Thursday evening we all went down to the Wirral to do some flyball training with Steve and Bridget Leek from the Dolphins Flyball teams. They have the same boxes as the one we’d ordered from Pete Cave and a fancy set of lights and the time and patience to put up with us lot! lol (Thanks guys…it is appreciated!). It absolutely lashed it down all the way down the M6 but we persisted and the rain stopped and the sun came out so we did get some useful work done. The first run up with the first team of dogs was hilarious though as they were all running on this style of box for the first time and it totally threw them with dogs fumbling balls and running out like a bunch of starter dogs!! The look on Steve’s face was a picture! Lol (‘What the hell have we got here?!’) but they soon got themselves together and actually ran really well, especially considering the wet grass and slightly uneven ground (perfect training conditions really since this is what they’re most likely to meet in competition! lol). Mac got so excited (like a wound up spring) that he jumped up and head butted me, splitting my cheek open and giving me a lovely black eye that I have been sporting for the rest of the week (god knows what my work colleagues must think…oops!). We got some times for all the dogs and have a good idea of what dogs will run in each team and in what order so we’re very grateful to Steve and B for the opportunity and hope to meet up again in the future to do some training with the rest of the Dolphins too.

I forgot to mention earlier too that all the ‘human flyball’ photos from the Dolphins tournament at Eastham earlier this month are now online at Sunnyside Photography…

Just so you can ‘put names to faces’… here’s

Gemma, Paul, Alison and me!!…

Oh…and here’s Steve and Bridget too!! lol

There are lots more pics of us and the dogs running throughout the weekend in the divisional categories , running in divs 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7.