Tuesday, May 06, 2008

May Bank holiday agility

We went to Newbury on Saturday to do the UKA Show. Both boys were doing pretty well, they all have been placed in all classes. We have Sunday off doing much needed gardening! Then, set off about 2:30pm to Somerset to stay with Helen. I've entered the Severnside show on Monday. On the way to Weston Super Mare, we stopped by at Glastonbury so Colin can take the boys to the Tor, so by the time we got to Weston Super Mare, it was quite late and we struggled to find fish and chips!! (Didn't I know fish & chips don't open on Sunday?), we then ended up a long wait Indian!! We got to stop by the beach so the boys and Helen's girlies can run around in the beach for 15 minutes!! It was windy and cold and we were starving!!
Back to agility, I didn't realised the Severnside show is in the country show and Jezz, the crowds and the gunshot ... there were a lot of dogs totally frightened from the gunshot and the kids!! They have 4 rings and they put up the orange plastic netting all around and there is only ONE entrace to the four rings!! By 10am, the four rings were surrounded by crowds!! Colin told me Saturn was worried about the gunshot while they were waiting in the carpark. I then decided to take him to the fields where they do the shooting to do some obedience training with him. He was normal and didn't react to the gunshot at all.
The medium classes were always afer the small and it took them forever to run a class! We didn't get to run our first run until 11:50! Severnside is definitely not Sing's day, he missed the weave (not the entry) in both agility and jumping!! Saturn nearly missed the weave in agility too but he recovered well from the 2nd pole. Both agility and jumping courses were long way round!! I was exhasuted running with two dogs!
Saturn got a 2nd in the Agility and 3rd in Jumping. I have noticed his weave is much slower for the last few weeks, I need to sort this problem out soon!

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