Lincoln Show

I love Lincoln show, its nice and close to home, a massive exercise area to run the dogs and this year the sun was shinning :)

I had only entered Saturday but I actually wish I had entered more. Kody had 2 runs 1 Agility, 1 jumping. The jumping course I decided to take my own line as I really couldn't get my head around a bit in the middle but he did everything I asked. The agility class had a very tight weave entry out of a tunnel, lots of dogs missed it including Kody and he had a refusal somewhere in there but generally a very good run.

Heidi was lovely to run this weekend. Very calm, only 1 E which was my fault, in her other classes she had 2 with 5f and one with 20f. She is running so well though at the moment considering the lack of training we have done. Maybe the break is doing her good.

Brian and Brenda had a good day of socialising, they love to say hello to people and make new friends. As planned I kept Chaos away from the rings, I took him into the exercise area and into Jackie's garden in the camping area and he was OK with that. He even went for an off lead walk with 9 other doggies and was very well behaved and came back. 

Brian and chaos have been swimming this morning so are both pretty shattered now.

We had some great news about Heidi's nose, her lump began to shrink quite quickly and on her last trip to the vets the vet was more than happy that it will go on its own with no need for an operation so we were so pleased about that. Now she just has a small mark where it had been which I think will be gone in a week or so.

Next weekend we are at Dog Vegas in Scunthorpe, just on Sunday. I only have Kody running though as Heidi has come into season 2 months early, typical! Still it gives me plenty of time to just concentrate on running him well.

Scunthorpe Show

On Saturday I judged at Scunthorpe Show. For a change the weather was lovely and sunny, a little bit windy but nothing too bad. I had Anyzise Jumping and then Small, Medium and Large C1-4 Jumping. 

I am finding judging quite interesting, some people take very different lines with their dogs compared to the more 'obvious' routes. I have also found that in the classes I have judged there have been very few collie's that have gone clear and I haven't purposely set courses more suited to ABC dogs they just seem to have worked out that way.

Below are my courses from the weekend.

I didn't use a flat tunnel in the C1-4, I used a rigid tunnel instead as it was already in place so saved time on the course change.

I took Chaos with me as it was a long day for him to be left at home. He was OK at first and trotted around, still wouldn't say hi to anyone. At lunch time it was a bit windy and the wind flapping one of the tents freaked him out and he really wasn't happy after that. I got him out of the van a few more times at the end of the day and took him to about 20metres in front of the van and got him to do his tricks, that was about as far as he was happy with. Next weekend we are at Lincoln show, I plan to keep him away from the rings and work on his confidence around the parking area, exercise area and camping and we will go from there. Lincoln is a big show so don't want to spook him even more!

Heidi Update

We took Heidi back to the vets on Wednesday and although her lump hasn't got any smaller the vet was happy that it isn't any bigger so we are going to continue to monitor it for another couple of weeks in the hope that it begins to shrink. I was quite relieved, didn't really want to have it operated on unless it was necessary and it doesn't generally seem to be bothering her.

I was really hoping by now we would have some more spring like weather, the fact that the clocks have changed is nice, at least we can walk the dogs in the evenings now but its just so cold still. The dogs are enjoying the fact that its dry though and are spending much more time outside which they seem to prefer.

No shows now for us for a few weeks, I'm judging at Scunthorpe next weekend and have some nice classes to judge so I'm looking forward to that.