Sunday...a day of rest??

Sorry, am catching up slowly! Well, it's fair to say Sunday was quite a busy one, got up fairly early and took the dogs for a walk up the bridlepath at Joy's then off down to Gatwick with Noah for his flight out to his new home in Bermuda. Since October last year BA will now only fly these dogs as Cargo instead of excess baggage which means they need dropping off at the Cargo depot 3 hours before departure. The BA staff at Gatwick are so nice and helpful, it makes it much easier to leave them. Noah had quite a crowd waiting his arrival at the cargo depot and instead of going into one of the kennels to wait for his flight they took him in the office instead so that he would have company. He was quite happy and relaxed and took it all in his stride bless him, he's such a lovely boy, we're really going to miss him here.

I got an e-mail from Cathy late Sunday evening to say he'd arrived safe and well so hopefully he'll be settled into his new home in a day or two.

Here he is looking a little worried when he first came out of his crate and on his lead having a little look around his new environment...



Sunday afternoon we decided to do some agility training. Faith is slowly starting to get the idea of full height jumps now. It's a case of spacing them so that she can easily jump them all to avoid her going under and then we'll gradually move them in (thanks Joy!), now we just have the weaves to master too! Trying to train Wren and Faith together is not the easiest of tasks. Although they do wind each other up and there is a definite element of competition between them they don't always take their training very seriously and regularly just bomb off round the field together!

We were testing out Joy's new little camera so here's some piccies of them training over the weekend...

and here they are just sitting pretty (they are a pretty pair aren't they??)

We also started doing some work with Teal and Kitten, Kitten was ok but she hasn't got the focus yet so I'm going to concentrate on her flyball training for now and we'll come back to agility when she's up and running in flyball. Teal, having already run a whole season in flyball, was a piece of cake! lol It's so much easier starting with a dog that is used to 'working' and is already driven and Teal is both of those things. Within half an hour she was happily running over a line of full height (which is small for her, i.e. 12") jumps, running over a low dog walk and through a long pipe tunnel so I'll take her training with Faith next time we go and start doing more bits with her and see how we get on. I'm quite excited about starting with her and it will give me another dog to train while Faith is having her litter this winter.