Sunday 19 July 2009

EMDAC Agility Show

This weekend we headed off to Melton Mowbray for the EMDAC agility show. We got there on Thursday evening and the weather was terrible, it continued to be bad on Friday, it was nice Saturday and this morning and then started to rain as we left. We were disappointed with this show to be honest, the main reason we had entered it was that there was supposed to be a splash and fetch event and disc busters but neither were there.

On the other hand though Brian had a very successful weekend in his agility getting 6 clears out of 7 runs. Although they didn't do placement rosettes in his classes he did come 1st in 2, one of which was a really horrible steeplechase course this morning that I didn't think we would even make it around. He also got 2 second places, a 4th and a 5th (I think). They didn't mark refusals in his classes, if they had he would have only managed about 3 clears but I was very happy with him, he was much more focused and motivated to run and we had a brilliant time together. The video clip below is Brian's steeplechase run on Friday (in between rain breaks!)



Conor decided not to run Heidi until today and she did a steeplechase run today which she unfortunately got eliminated in. She knocked down 2 poles and then jumped back over a jump. She was very excited though. Her run is below.


Heidi's second run was jumping but she was so focused on the tunnel she just kept running passed the jump to get to it so Conor took her to the last four jumps and let her run them in.

Yesterday afternoon we headed off to visit Stella and Ambrose and to check on our house and all was well, we had a lovely tea at their house and the dogs played in their garden until it was time to head back to the caravan for the evening.

On Friday at the show we saw Jo with Ronny and Zippy (Megan's dad and brother) and her other dogs too. It was good to see Zippy to see how he has grown, he is a bout the same size as Megan, maybe a little bigger. As it was nearly always raining I didn't get my camera out this time. (I have added a few pictures of them all together when we saw them last in April at the bottom) Conor took a liking to Pudsey too and kept trying to walk off with him! Anyway after our busy weekend I think it's time for a relaxing bath as the dogs are fast asleep.

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