Adams & Derby Update

Me and the doggies have had an enjoyable 9 days away, both shows were lovely and it was a nice venue but I am now glad to be back. Still no clears from either of the girls but considerably less eliminations so that's a good improvement. I think Heidi's best run was on Friday in jumping, she had 2 poles but I went to get her time and she was over 7 seconds quicker than the winning dog! Megan had a really good jumping run at Adams too, she was 4 jumps from the finish and I really thought 'this is the one, she'll go clear', Unfortunately the photographer was lying on the floor next to the jump so instead of taking the jump Meg went to say hi!

On Tuesday they had some fun activities for the dogs to do, they had a fastest recall which I did with Heidi & Bri, Brian would have won the slowest recall! They also had a game where they had to retrieve 6 tennis balls out of a bucket of water in a minute, Megan didn't understand it and got 1, Heidi got them all but took 49 secs and Brian did then in 21secs coming second. They had a teddy bear retrieve too, they had to go out collect 9 bears one at a time and bring them back. Being a lover of teddy bears I thought Meg would do it, but she only got 4. Bri was even worse and got 2! Heidi didn't let the side down, she managed all 9 in exactly a minute.

Our week wasn't without injury though, on Sunday night Heidi cut her pad on a walk on Cannock Chase, it wasn't deep and didn't bother her so i didn't think too much of it. By Tuesday evening she was really badly limping and when I looked she had chewed off half of the skin from her pad. It meant she couldn't do the Toni Dawkin's training on Wednesday so I did it with Megan. Megan really seemed to enjoy it and I was so looking forward to being able to put what we had learnt together into practice this weekend but then...she came into season on Thursday so that was the end of that! Heidi had plenty of rest and had recovered by Friday so I still had her to run for the weekend.

All in all it has been a good week, we met lots of people and caught up with Reno & Zippy (Meg's brothers) had some good runs, nice courses and some mental moments too (including Heidi falling off the dog walk, snapping a weave pole and breaking the tunnel fixings as she went through with such force!)