Let Down By The Weather

Our training started off well this week, we have started our 2x2 training and done 2 sessions so far and all 4 dogs are doing it well (I still think Brian is the best at it though!). We have also managed to get in one good session where we worked on waits and recall starts, something which I have not really achieved with Megan this year and Heidi does often break her wait. Brian has really seemed to enjoy doing some training again although the jumps were set at very low height with the poles just resting on the jump feet. Unfortunately though, the weather has made a turn for the worse and we have had some pretty heavy rain so we haven't managed to do any training since!

Last night we went to club but even that was a bit of a disaster. Our main issue at club is that they never peg the weaves in and with some of the slower dogs it doesn't prove to be a problem but when you have a dog that tries to do them as quickly as possible it just doesn't work. Poor Heidi must have had about 15 attempts at the weaves and each time failed because she would do 2 or 3 then the base would move so they were nearly bent back on themselves. There was no way in the world she could possibly complete them and with each failed attempt she became more and more frustrated and wound up so Conor decided not to run her again. Megan had some issues too, mainly the see-saw. It's a much lighter one than we used to have and when the bigger dogs go over it the base moves (needs pegging in really) so she would end up jumping off the side as it moved and missing her contact which isn't great as her see-saw is her only reliable contact!

We have been today to see about hiring a plot of land with storage near to where we live so that we can train on our own with a bit more space than we currently have at York Road and we should know by the end of next week if we can have it so if we do we may stop going to club and just train on our own so fingers crossed.

Brian has been for a check up today with the vet had his booster jab which had been put off due to his illness. Good news is that he has put on 2kg since his last visit so we are really chuffed. He has to go back in another 2 weeks as they were not happy enough yet to wean him off his steroids so he is still on them for the next 2 weeks but they are pleased with his progress.

I'm on lates all weekend so the dogs will be on rest days now with just their daily walks, I'm hoping the weather improves for next week though so we can get on with our training again!