Golden Valley

To start with i must congratulate a few off the younger members of the club who entered the Banbury District dog show. Results are as follows
Jordan and Marly 1st best condition and 2nd Most appealing eyes and 3rd in Junior handler.
Nicola and Skye got a 1st in Junior handler and 4th best rescue!
Well done guys you are great handlers and very exciting prospects keep up the good work.
Last weekend Julie, Ali, Melanie and Andrew camped with us at Golden Valley, i think they may have been a little shocked at how obsessed the agility lot are. Winni had 2 fab clears in the anysize which is fab shes such a superstar and Harry i was told was alot quicker than what he normally is in training lol and just had a few faults being handler error but the partnership had a fab time. Gunner had a great time checking that everyone was watching him rather than following his Mum around opps i think he may have been rather shocked by it all. Poppy and Andrew had some great bits although she was clerly tierd by the Sunday and Andrew was rather hungover!!! Sunday we did the team, first team was Ali,Me and Diesel, Melanie and my Jess and Julie and Sally. This team went well Gunner just having a look round and Mel did a fab job with Jess especially as we had to do a change over but they were both great and Sally was fab and hopefully giving Julie abit off confidence as she stayed with and was always watching her it was lovely to watch. The second team was Andrew me Lucy and Sarah. Poppy really wasnt interested at all in it on Sunday and i think Andrews hangover was kicking in but she did some fab bits, Lucy went with Milly and it was a course that really suited Milly and they had a fab time round and i cant seem to remember what Sarah did sorry there was so much to think about. So we have taken the positives away and are going to work on negatives especially weaves then tunnel as that seemed to be a big distraction.
We have our club show this Saturday and are hoping to see as many people as possible, i have set some nice courses with 2 rounds with no weaves in!!! Remember to bring your own food and drink and chairs!!

Hello

Apologises for no blogs how rubbish am i. Well the move to Mill barn seems to have settled now and we seem at all be enjoying it although there are a few people not enjoying not having fencing but im very impressed with everyone keeping there dogs under control.
We have alot off new members who are also enjoying the club and hopefully they will be able to join us with our next show which we have moved to a Saturday and are also going to have a bbq so bring your own food and drink, chairs and sunshine please...
Fingers crossed there will be a newsletter out this week to keep everyone up to date hopefully the weather will hold off for us to train.
Last months show results
Agility 1st Ali and Winnie 2nd Rosie and Jess and 3rd Anne and Crafty
Jumping 1st Anne and Crafty and 2nd Sarah and Jess no 3rd im afraid
Steeplecase 1st Sarah and Jess 2nd Anne and crafty 3rd Sue and Holly the collie
Well done to everyone who came along hopefully it gave you abit off an insight to a show and if anybody is interested in cometiting let me know. Ive updated the results table aswell.

Flyball starts this Monday!!!!

Hey guys just a quick reminder about flyball which is starting this Monday at 6pm. We are going to do the classes once every two weeks so not to blow the dogs brains also after flyball as off the 17th of May i am also going to run an obedence class after the flyball again once every two weeks.
I've just heard that Lucy has got a clear round at the show she has gone to so massive congratuations to the both of them hopefully more to come.

Spring at Shuttleworth

This weekend we competed at spring at shuttleworth. Lucy and Milly had some fab bits and we have also realised that she is really not confident working on the right and keeps cutting behind lucy and then making a hash of it. All that obedience on the left lol a few people have the same problem so we will be doing lots off work on the right from now on. The pair managed a couple of rounds with just 10 to 20 fauts so thats fab and progress is being made.

First training session at new paddock!!

Well guys i was so pleased with all the dogs tonight compared there was no fencing up, none off the dogs ran off and all worked really well. I hope everyone was pleased with the new place as we had to move from north newington. Hopefully we have managed to sort everyone lessons out for next week so the classes won't be so full and hectic and matching other dogs abilities.
Congratulations to Ali and Gunna who passed there Gold good citizen test, well done guys i no you worked hard for it and deserved it!

Border Collie utility day!!

Today we towed some agility equipment up to the midland border collie utility day. Melanie and Andrew also joined us. It was a cheap day and free lunch and there was plenty off activities on offer. We all had ago at agility and obedience and flyball. Conker picked up the flyball in 15mins although enjoyed it abit too much and kept running over to the flyball equipment when she was meant to be doing agility. Poppy really enjoyed doing all the activites and many thanks for Melanie and Andrew taking Stiggy and Asta for a walk. We had a great day and i'm really proud off all the doggies and none of them disgraced us!!
We moved all the equipment yesterday many thanks to all the people who helped in there own ways in the pouring rain it was very much appreciated!!

Satudays training!!!

Well wern't all the doggies fab on Saturday. They really picked up the new equipment and were taking them at full speed. Hope you were all pleased with the equipment we've been waiting a while for it.We were increadably lucky with the weather and my face was also abit sun burnt at the end of it, looking forward to the summer training now.
Weekend training has know finished and we are onto week nights and it is official we are moving next weekend once i've found a trailer lol!! We will get you some maps sorted for where the new place is although it is easy and i hope that you all like the new place and the reasons why I started looking around for somewhere new, look forward to seeing you all on Thursday.