Teal weave training in the garden last week...
starting to close the channels up closer now so she has to 'get a wriggle on' lol We have a group training session with Nigel Staines next week, I'm not sure how much we're going to get out of this as we're not competing yet but I'm sure we'll find some of it useful. Looking forward to it anyway :)
Here's a pic of daughter Rio who made her agility debut at UKA and won her first rosette...2nd in the Steeplechase :)
Radley also made her flyball debut in starters this weekend and she was soooooo good!! The star of the team :) I really wanted some video of her running but as I was running Squirrel in the same team it didn't happen :( It was an 'interesting' day and just about anything that could go wrong did at some point but there were also some very encouraging points too...Squirrel stayed focused all day and proved very consistent on the start (good girl), we just need to work on getting her to take the ball cleanly and come off the box quicker. Helen's litte rescue girl Meg ran reliably but she is still very lacking in confidence, hopefully this will improve with time. Oban had moments of brilliance (very speedy little height dog!) followed my moments of sheer lunacy! lol He has an awful lot of eye and is distracted by the other team dogs very easily. All in all...a work in progress!
We did however get some video of the 'Intermediate' team...
...this was actually 3 of our open sanctioned dogs (Pip, Bailey and Drake) being run by completely novice handlers with Alex and Jeep running anchor dog, Jeep hasn't run for nearly a year and had a lovely day bless him :) Our new handlers were actually my uncle Conrad and two cousins (Amy and Jess) with Auntie Jackie collecting balls and shouting all the dogs back so it was effectively 'Team Holtappel' lol, they did a really fantastic job with some cracking starts and changeovers and came 2nd in the division! :)
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