The Climber

I forgot to mention in the entires over the weekend about Megan's new climbing trick. When she climbed over the caravn door a few weeks back I thought she was mad but then she did this. We have a stair gate in our hall about a metre and a half from the front door to stop the dogs getting to the mail and tearing it up. Its fixed to the wall so it isn't flat on the floor. Anyway it's pretty high and on Saturday morning I had put Brian through the gate as we were off to agility training and the next thing I knew Megan was there too. I hadn't actually seen her climb it but it had confused me as there was nothing to grip on to or climb up. I moved her anyway back to the other side of the gate and then I saw what she did, she stood on her back legs, rested her front paws on the gate, did a litle jump with her back legs so that she was half over and lowered herself down on her belly. Very clever!

Carshalton MCC Enduro

Today me and Conor went to Carshalton MCC Enduro competition near Gatwick. Conor was supposed to becompeting in it however the garage still haven't sorted the lights on his bike so it wasn't ready in time.

(The picture is of Conor on his old bike, I don't actually have one of him on his new one!) Anyway we went to the race as I was the official photographer for the event too which was quite exciting. I'm just uploading all the photos that I took and getting them ready for sale. (If anyone wants to purchase them they are available on http://www.mcmaniganphotography.co.uk/ under the clients page)
We are really looking forward to next weekend as we are off work on Friday and are going up to Lincolnshire to our house as we have a whole weekend of agility at Dogs on Top in Melton Mowbray and as well as competing all weekend I am the photographer there on both days too so I am quite excited. I perfer to photograph dogs than bikes (not that there is anything wrong with bikes!)

Agility Training

Thursday was agility training for Heidi and Megan. Heidi had a good class, her and Conor did a few small jumping circuits followed by some contact training. Megan took part in practices for the whole hour this week. She is by far the youngest in her group so we only do a minimal amount of work. This week while the ohers were doing jump, tunnel, jump Megan just did the tunnel. She isn't too keen on te flat tunnel (with it held up) she only went through once but its a start. We also did some touch training with her and she picked that up almost instantly. Lastly we did running through the channel weaves but with them opened right up. She seemed to really enjoy herself and take it all in her stride. This morning me and Brian had agility training too. It is the last time he will go on a Saturday as I a have decided to move him to a Tuesday evening (as we don't get to go o a Saturday much anymore). He had a very good class, practicing some jumping sequences and lots of weave practices from different angles. He is very acurate, just really slow! We also worked on the dreaded see-saw as he runs at it, doesn't slow down and flings himself off the end!! Today we practiced it quite a bit and he seems to get that he needs to wait for it to tip in the midde before he can go down it, only problem is he will only do it when i'm right there with him. I'm sure it will come with some practice though.

Splashes and Animal Sounds

The dogs have enjoyed another day of playing in the pool today and so far no leaks in it. The video above is of Brian enjoying himself in there last night.

The video below is one of Megan. I brought the dogs a new ball that makes animal noises when you touch it. Only Megan had seemed to want to play with it but she really likes it. The only problem is it drives you mental after a little while!

Summer is here!

It seems as though summer is here (I hope I haven't spoke too soon!) We have had a lovely weekend of weather which has continued into today. The picture is of Heidi sunbathing in the garden. Even when it is really hot she is quite happy to sit out there.

This evening we decided to cut the grass in the garden and then get the paddling pool out for the dogs. As you can see they seemed to enjoy it. I dont think we got it out at all last year as we didn't have much sun but as it is supposed to be hot all week I think they will get some use out of it. The girls were quite happy to play with Brian in there for a while but then they got bored and came in. Brian is happy to play out there for ages though, he just loves the water.