Archive for category: Agility

England 2012 ~ Part 8

Categories:Agility, Travels

Could not have asked for better weather here at the show.The courses are proving to be very typical British courses – twisty, bactracky, and super naggy. They are crazy mean courses. They run an agility and a jumping course each day and the combination of the 4 runs are tallied and a certain percentage of […]

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England 2012 ~ Part 7

Categories:Agility, Travels

We traveled to the next show which is Dogs In Need. It is a large show with 13 rings held at an agricultural facility. It is sort of like our Fairgrounds but mainly used for animal events.There is a grocery store less tan a mile from this venue and seems that everyone hit it before […]

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England 2012 ~ Part 6

Categories:Agility, Travels

The weather has been perfect and today was equally beautiful. All 15 rings were going strong until late in the day. The British Open final , which is a Cruft's qualifier, was held today. Since Daneen and Masher are in grade 6 it was the only chance this trip for them to get qualified for […]

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England 2012 ~ Part 5

Categories:Agility, Travels

So due to very bad weather we did not go back to the SWAT shows and packed up the caravan to head out to do a training day then off to the KC Festival.The food this time around has been better but still no taco's- sorry Daneen 🙁  Daneen and Masher got to join in […]

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England 2012 ~ Day Four

Categories:Agility, Travels

The weather was  much better today. We got a few sprinkles but all in all a really nice day. They said it rained until about 7:00 p.m. at the show site yesterday. There are 2 classes – agility and jumping. There are 7 grades. Classes can bejudged either by divided by grade or combined with […]

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England 2012 ~ Day Three

Categories:Agility, Travels

 The weather gods were not so nice today. It poured pretty much all day. The locals say it was just showers and that it never actually rained. Well it was coming down in buckets!!! We were miserable and soaked to the bone. Thanks to Sharon for lending us rain coats… without those we would have […]

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England 2012 ~ Day Two

Categories:Agility, Travels

 So the weather was just lovely again today. Got some more training in. Worked on pull throughs, threadles and serps. Mashy looked good. We are heading off for the first day of showing at 6:00 a.m. The forcast shows showers where we are heading. Hope the weather men are more like the weathermen in CA […]

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England 2012 ~ Day One

Categories:Agility, Travels

 The weather has been wonderful since we have arrived. We were a bit worried as it had pretty much been raining nonstop here in England since May!! We headed out to the training field to work the dogs and the words just can not describe how beautiful and lush the countryside looks! Daneen was a […]

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The Road to Crufts…….

Categories:Agility, Travels

Starts with a fast little dog a goal and a dream and an 11 1/2 hour flight :)    I have always wanted to experience Crufts and we are one tiny step closer to that dream…. Hopefully at the end of three weeks we will be a huge step closer…. either way we are on […]

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Ella STD June 2012

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