tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366493402024-03-13T21:00:11.751+00:00The KNIGHTs SheltiesLianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.comBlogger983125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-20519957564061524002015-01-26T21:07:00.004+00:002015-01-26T21:07:31.431+00:00We've moved!We have a <a href="http://licosateria.weebly.com/blog">Brand New Blog!</a>Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-69739400124593004842014-08-01T11:08:00.001+01:002014-08-01T11:08:49.826+01:00"visiting" July<div style="text-align: justify;">
This July seems to be a visiting month for us. In the beginning of the month, we have Jolanda, Joost, Hidde, little Elin and Skye & Rona from The Netherlands came to spend 10 days with us. It was very good having them as I have someone cooking for me everyday lol. I don't often cook, so I will just eat anything that is available. It's good to start eating healthy as I needed it. Joost had taught me how to cook simple and yet healthy and I have been following his recipes and I really enjoyed it. </div>
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Skye and Rona are Sing's babies, Skye is Sonic's full sister from the first litter of Samber, she is the spitting image of her mama. Rona is Sipzie's baby from her first litter and she is another spitting image of her mama. </div>
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Here are some family pictures, if you have not seen them on Facebook already :)</div>
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maam Sipzie, daughter Rona, Sonic, daddy Sing and Skye</div>
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Sipzie, Rona, Sonic, Sing, Skye</div>
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Rona with mama Sipzie and daddy Sing</div>
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Sipzie, Sing and their daughter Rona</div>
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Sipzie, Sing, Rona</div>
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carbon copy mother and daughter :)</div>
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Then, we have Sally & Paul and their Hobdell doglets pop in for a quick visit on route to Tuffley show. It was good that Skye got to see her mama Samber again before heading back to Holland. </div>
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The wind swipe family :D</div>
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Tig, mama Samber, daddy Sing, Sonic and Skye </div>
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In this family picture, we are missing Sadie from the first litter and Brooke from the 2nd and last litter</div>
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The smiley family, apart from Skye lol</div>
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In this picture, we have some of the dogs, the others are camera shy lol</div>
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Soon after Jolanda's family left. We have some sheltie friends staying :) Frankie's mummy was on holiday, so Frankie and his two sable sisters Milly and Penny came to stay for a week. It was a bit of chaos and but after they settled down, they just blend in with my lots. Such a lovely big sheltie family. </div>
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this is Milly, she is such a pretty little girlie. She does agility with her mummy Annette</div>
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Milly making herself at home :)</div>
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the gorgeous Milly enjoying her afternoon nibble</div>
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this is Penny, she loves me very much :) she's such a funny girl, loving her sleeping posture. How can she gets comfy? </div>
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Penny enjoying her afternoon nibble :)</div>
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Mr handsome, gorgeous, blue eyes Frankie. Love him so much!</div>
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Here are Frankie getting Penny to play tug with him, clever boy :)</div>
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Here are some pictures of Frankie playing with his mama Sipzie:</div>
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Sipzie and her two kids Frankie and Rona</div>
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And here are some pictures of Frankie having fun with his mate Ski:</div>
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After Frankie, Penny and Milly gone home, we have Colin's family coming to stay the next day for a few days. It's lovely to see mum, dad and Vanessa's family. Since we moved, we don't see them very often enough. The only time we travel down south is Christmas; so it's lovely that they now visit us in Summer when the kids are on holidays. I'd love to see them more often. </div>
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my boys on the newly bale hay in the sunset</div>
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Family effort :) We rent a field out to a sheep farmer, his sheep can't graze the grass quick enough. We have such a good year for grass. At the end, he has to move the sheep out to harvest some hay in the field. He got 25 bales of conventional bale of hay in an 8 acres land. There are quite a lot of loose hay after the baling. I got the family to help me to collect as much hay as possible for the chicken bedding. We have hatched some baby chicks and duck, the hay will keep them warmer then the wood shaving and is definitely cheaper :)<br />
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That is one busy month :) Now, my agility month begin! We are off to The Kennel Club International Agility Festival in Rockingham Castle. Will update you, hopefully with good news later on ...</div>
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Phew! Not easy to keep my blog up to date! Can't believe how busy I am, always in and out doing something or just playing with the shelties :) Life is too short to spend time on computer lol.</div>
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The IFCS trip went well. We drove out to Eerbeek, The Netherlands on early Monday morning to catch the earliest EuroTunnel across. From Calais, it was about 4 hours journey but we got caught in the busy traffic in Belgium, so we didn't get to the hotel past 3:30pm local time. The <a href="http://www.fletcherhoteleerbeek.nl/">Hotel</a> set in the beautiful and peaceful countryside surrounded by lots of dog walks. You could walk miles and miles or just a short walk. That's so convenient for us all as everyday after the event, you can just go back to the hotel and take the dogs for a relaxing walk and a night time walk before bed. In front of the hotel, there is plenty of green and you can sit out there with the dogs ...</div>
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We got to meet all Sing's babies who reside in The Netherlands. Mariska came with App (Sing x Skye) on Monday. Thank you very much to Mariska who showed me around the area and took me to the pancake house. People who knows me knew how crazy I am over pancake :)</div>
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I LOVE PANCAKE! And I ate two BIG pancakes :D</div>
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Later on that evening, one of our team-mate Kim arrived with her BC Bubtee and hubby Justin. The rest of the team arrived on Tuesday. Jolanda who has Skye (Sing x Samber, Sonic's full sister from previous litter) and Rona (Sing x Sipzie) came to visit us on Tuesday. We went for a little walk around the hotel and then went for a stroll in the town. </div>
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On Wednesday, it's Team check-in, practice and open ceremony. I absolutely LOVE my Team, every single one of them are so friendly, supportive and cheerful. We have a great team spirit which I missed terribly since I came home. We laugh and cheer for every single one, there is no selfishness in them at all.</div>
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Due to the large number of competitors entered at this championship show, they have to extend the show from 3 days to 4 days event. Originally, Thursday was the Individual competition day but they have cancel and replaced it for the championship classes. Both Sizzle and Sonic work their little legs off in these four days event. It's very tiring, although the hotel it's only 5-10 minutes drive from the venue but it's the waiting and hanging around. We have allocated with a kennel area but it was too sandy and dusty, after day 1, I've only take the dogs out and leave them in the kennel when they are about the run. I think they are more settle and happier in the car, especially Sizzle. He doesn't like to be crated. Sonic in fact loves the crate, this shows you what a "crate game" dog is all about :) I couldn't highly recommend enough the "crate game"!</div>
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The whole event went really well, the only stressful part that I found is I only get my running order of the day in the morning when they posted it out by the kennel area. I like to know my running order early so I can be prepared to warm my dogs. I have two dogs running in this event and I want to be able to space out my time to warm up properly and cool down properly. Sadly, there are a couple of times that Sonic was followed soon after Sizzle. I got really wound up by that. </div>
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With both boys, I attempted 3 x 7 points in the opening and they both did well. Judge Peter Borsje has set out the way to plot the #7, you can only go one direction. If you chose to do the opposite site of the number, then, you must do all 3 obstacles the same way. Sonic ran well until the closing and at #7, he came out of the tunnel. I don't know why! Did I turn my body too quick? He later (next day) did that again, came out from the tunnel again!</div>
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Goodness me, Friday is a very LONG day. Sizzle was the last Team GB member to run and I am not kidding, he ran at 10:20pm! Also, the weather got worst by Friday. It started raining NON-STOP since Wednesday night. Thursday was wet but by Friday, it was flooded in the venue. It was so muddy that they have to open up the bar/cafe so we can all walk through from the carpark/kennel area straight onto the arena. </div>
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There is a new rule this year, handler that has more than one dog in this event, is only allow to run ONE dog. In our Team GB, there were 3 handlers including me that ran 2 dogs; due to this, two of our other team members didn't get to run in the Team event as we weren't able to put another Team in. I chose to run Sizzle over Sonic as Sonic will be too gobby in the Team Relay. </div>
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Saturday evening was rather stressful and eventful for me. Colin has an important work seminar that he HAS TO attend on Monday morning at 9am. This means, no matter what, we MUST get back to England on Sunday night. From the venue to Calais will take 4 hours (no stopping!) and we fear that we might miss the last train to UK. So, we have to pack all our stuff into the car to make sure that we are leaving on time. I was busy packing and sent Colin to walk the dogs; and then to find out he lost the car key in the wood. Our Team agreed me to meet at the hotel lobby to go out for something to eat. Eerbeek is a very small town, everything closed at 6pm and restaurants closed at 8pm! The whole Team helped searching for the car key in the wood (in the rain and darkness!). Anyway, he did found the key. Phew! But, I was too wound up by it. </div>
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This is the most emotional run of all. Colin still wanted to get away early and tried so hard to persuade me to leave the competition. Grr ... I think that is the last thing I want! Our Team is lying 4th and we are in the very good position to get on the podium. Team GB has two teams in the top 4 and we are fighting chance to win a medal. I know Sizzle loves the Relay (he gets excited to see his team mates run and he loves to chase) but I have never run with a baton on my hand before. All new to me!</div>
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Sizzle and I are the last team member to run in our Team Relay. First toy dog Tink ran clear and 2nd Maxi dog Oggy just clipped the last pole. Sizzle was off like a rocket and I thought I am going to lost him in the tunnel and he was so good to save it by coming to my scream! We ran clear and our time was really good. With the added 5 faults onto our time, it's nail biting moment. The 3rd from last to run is South Africa and they all ran clear. Then, our other Team GB1, they had a good time with a drop pole, so 5 faults added onto the time. The last Team to run is the Russian. Their 2nd dog missed the tunnel and then went into wrong end of tunnel! Whaaaaaaaa! I was screaming so loud that I lost my voice! Team GB1 won the GOLD medal. We were waiting to hear if our Team (Team GB3) won a Bronze or Silver. Either one I am happy! I was crying so emotionally, for our Team GB1 (Matt & Brax, Angela & Tiff and Pat & Diva); and for our Team GB3 (Tracy & Tink, Abigail & Oggy and me & Sizzle).<br />
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Team GB3, Bronze medalist!</div>
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Team Shelties and their Italian friend :)</div>
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Bracken, Sonic, Sizzle and his 3/4 bother Brodie</div>
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I can't believe we are ready to hit the road to IFCS in The Netherlands. Both Sonic and Sizzle were good boys to qualified and picked to represent Team GB. I am one very proud mummy. Although I have whole lots of training plan planning for the winter, sadly, it was too wet and windy and I didn't get to train on my own field. Thank God, I have booked The Dog Barn once in January, once in February and once in March, at least we got to do something. </div>
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I have not done much with Sizzle at all, we are very rusty as a Team partnership. He is one good little boy and I am hoping he will run well at the event. I have noticed that he has pulled off jumps very often at training. Although we don't do much which worried me but he's up to date with all the physio, chiro, massage ... finger crossed he will be running well.</div>
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As for Sonic, he is still the gobby ginger monster :) He is always UP for agility. I have done more on the weave and not much on the contact which is a bad thing :) For a DW crazy dog like him, he now will pull off to do tunnel underneath the DW instead of DW. Oops! Do I have time to fix the problem? Probably not. I am just happy that he is part of the Team and we will do our best and that will be a great experienced for him. </div>
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We went to Devon Dogs last weekend to do some training. Friday was the weave and contact workshop. Sonic did some fab contact works, I am very happy with his performance. I think I know what to expect from him and I am ready for the challenge. Our main problem at the moment (always the problem) is we can't run a clear round for a full course. I am always too slow to tell him where to go and he gets frustrated and he barks at me. </div>
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On Saturday and Sunday, it was a handling weekend. The exercises were very basic, so I only work my young dog as I do not want to change and messed up my handling with Sonic and Sizzle. I think that's unfair to change a dog in a week. </div>
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We are travelling out to The Netherlands on Sunday midnight. I now missed Mitcham where it's much closer to the Tunnel crossing. Hopefully, it will be a nice and smooth long journey. I just wanted to get there and settle, stretch the dogs' legs and get used to the surroundings. It's all about me, not the dogs lol.</div>
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Well, I haven't been competing much with the shelties, the boys were rested most of the time throughout the winter, due to the amount of rain we had, we haven't been able to go outside to train either. Our Farm lives up to its name, if there's no rain, it's always windy and I would not risk training them. I've only done only one of the Bitz N Bobz winter series last October, the first show of the series and Sonic won all his classes and he got into the Final of Midlands Master in March. Poor Sizzle was avoiding and measuring some jumps.</div>
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Then, in December, Sonic was in the <a href="http://theknightsmixedbunch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/catching-up-uka-grand-final-with-mai-boy.html">UKA Final</a>. He was in for two events, the CSJ Grand Prix and The Beginners Steeplechase. I've posted the event in my earlier post and I am very proud of mai boy winning the Steeplechase. </div>
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Our first agility competition of the year was about 4 weeks ago at ABAA show where Sonic was in for the Midlands Master Final. I've managed to enter him and Sizzle for a couple of Agility runs as well. At this show, you get to run the same course twice and they will pick your best time. This is my first time doing the show and I find it very funny and different. I rather enjoyed it as I get to tryout both ways to handle the same course. Well, I intend to but my timing was wrong and at the end I have to run it the same way :)</div>
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Sadly, in the Final, I let him down with my poor handling, my timing was out and I drop my arm too early for turn and him being a good honest boy responded to my body too well. I have been thinking and reviewing about my handling skill, I have to admit, it's gone all rusty! Since I started to tryout for ketschker turn and I forgot all about the old pivot turn but I really like the ketschker turn and I would like to handle it better. I think poor Sonic is confused in what I am asking him for. Or, maybe he really does not understand the ketschker turn. He turns more naturally on the left but the right. </div>
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Last Saturday, we went to UKA Easter. I was hoping to give Sonic and Sizzle a couple of runs before IFCS. UKA heights are the same to IFCS, both boys will jump their own heights. According to the running order, we should be finished by mid-day but sadly, things always gone out of its way, so rings were running behind schedule. I've managed to do 4 runs with Sonic but only able to do a Gambling with Sizzle. I so wanted to do the Champ Agility with him but I've asked Emma of Pet Rehab to come and treat the boys at the showground, so I can't keep her waiting forever. Both boys were very tight in various places, they both have been adjusted and also massage by Gemma Dorman of <a href="http://fullstretchcaninemassage.co.uk/">Full Stretch Canine Massage</a> yesterday. Hopefully they are all good to GO now. </div>
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This is Sizzle's Champ Gambler, he didn't do the "Gamble" in time. We are definitely out of sync at the moment as I don't train him as much. At home, he is reluctant to work away from me now which is very unusual for him. I am really worried if he has underlying health issue. After our IFCS trip, he will be semi retired and just do some fun runs every now and then. I rather him enjoy being just a normal pet then doing Agility if that hurts him. It is so sad not to know if he is unwell or if he is not motivated. I personally don't think he is unmotivated but you just don't know :(</div>
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This is Sonic's Novice Gambler, the course is the same, they have not move any of the obstacles but change the Gambling to slightly longer time and sequence. Sonic won that class and presented his daddy with an Easter Egg, Colin is a very happy man :) I didn't like the opening sequence, I don't like how the judge place the DW, the plank (either end or beginning) is so close to the ring with a pole nearby holding up the rope. Not so much of a problem for stop contact dogs but with running, I find it a bit risky. With superb running contact dogs, the dog probably won't travel as far but I am no expert and I know my dogs go all the way. I have to send both Sizzle and Sonic to wrap around the pole to be on the safe side, I am actually very happy that what I've taught them, they put it in used :) "go around" works well here. You can see the ring rope and the pole clearer in Sizzle's video. </div>
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This is Sonic's Novice Agility, I was a little bit disappointed with his weave, not that I want to win the class but I have been working hard on his weave at home getting ready for IFCS and I thought he did so well with all the difficult entries and I have not expect him to look back at me and come out of the weave! Hmm ... more work in progress! Otherwise, I think he ran rather well. </div>
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This is Sonic's Novice Jumping. This was supposed to be a NFC round. I've learned not to carry a toy in my hand as if I have ball in my hand, he will gob all the way around the course and demanding his ball and not even look at where he is going. I placed the ball at the end but we still made a big messed at the course!</div>
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When I ran him, I didn't realised this is The Beginners Steeplechase Heat. Oops! Poor Sonic is still in the Beginners in Steeplechase. The reason is he has not run a clear round last year. He has only two clear rounds (one was eliminated well before he started because I carried a ball into the ring; the other one he won that heat and got into the Final). He is not allow to qualify again. He got 2nd in the class and he was announced to be one of the finalist. I have left by the time they presented the result and was not aware until I saw that on Facebook: </div>
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I've emailed UKA to tell them about it and they are calling the 3rd place to be in the Final. </div>
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Side note: One of Sing x Sunny's babies Savannah, together with her "Shouty Shelties" team-mates Rommy and Brodie have qualified themselves to Dog Central Team Tournament at the UKA Final at the end of the year. Good Luck Savannah, Rommy and Brodie. </div>
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Mama Sipzie is slowly coming back to Agility game :) We still struggling to get her to weave properly at show but she is making progress:</div>
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I am off to <a href="http://www.devondogs.co.uk/">Devon Dogs</a> with the boys and Sipzie tomorrow to have 3 days training before IFCS. WooHoo! I am so excited and I will be watching Tula (a Sonic x Sunny baby) train as well. How proud am I. I need the gorgeous Lauren Langman to push me all the way. She's pretty good to get me "going". I think I am getting very lazy with my handling, especially I've been eaten far too many yummy easter eggs!</div>
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Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-41308394391161327482014-04-05T11:17:00.003+01:002014-04-05T11:17:54.316+01:00Birthday month ... 3rd Birthday - Sizzle<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Happy very Belated Birthday to my little ray of sunshine Sizzle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't believe he is 6 already!</span></div>
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I have been distracted by too many things in life and neglect my blog update again. Sizzle has a wonderful time on his birthday. We went for a very long walk and did some fun thing together. This little boy makes me laugh all the time. He maybe small but mighty :)</div>
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We had a very busy weekend waving good bye to the puppies. It's such a joy in the last few weeks watching these little hooligans grow up and develop into strong little characters. Six of them has gone to their perfect homes and will be doing Agility when they mature. Little Jack is going to a pet home on Friday. I am looking forward to seeing them soon. </div>
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I have never had SO MANY puppies in a litter or even two litters before, having cleaning up after seven puppies is hard work :) They are all good puppies. When we had the two weeks of sunny and dry weather, they spent most of their times outdoor and they pretty much potty outside then. Shamed the weather turns cold, windy and wet again after that. Poor puppies were very angry that they couldn't get out to play. </div>
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First puppy that leave the nest is LICOSATERIA SHADE OF BLUE, aka Mr Blue, now known as FRANKIE, after Frank Sinatra's blue eyes lol. Frankie goes to live with Sam Towe. I am very lucky to be able to see him on a regular basis. Sam and her mum come to train with me weekly, so I will be able to watch him grow :) </div>
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Frankie settled in right away. He has two big sisters Penny and Milly to play with. He is a real crown, he makes everyone that meet him very happy. </div>
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The second puppy that leave is LICOSATERIA ICONIC DREAM, aka Spot, now known as ICON or IKE. Icon gone to live with Karen James who always have shelties. He will have 3 other sheltie brothers to play with . Also, he is not very far from his half brother Chestnut, aka Fat Boy (a Sing x Sipzie puppy). Ike is one very pushy puppy since he was little, he isn't the biggest in the litter but always the first one that explored everything and anything. He probably is the best tugger (well, all of them all) but he really can easily pull your arm off. </div>
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Then, there were four puppies left but yesterday, I have to save good bye to Quey, Quiz and Roy. Quey and Quiz gone to live with Jacqui Wood. Jacqui's daughter Kelsey has a Sing's son Ace bred by the still sadly missed Jayne Bray of Upanova Shelties. </div>
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Madam Quey's posh name is LICOSATERIA BLAZE OF GLORY. Quey (pronounced as "key") is the biggest in the litter, she is a real madam. When she was younger (from the day she opened her eyes and ears until she was 6.5 weeks old), she likes to do her own thing, she occasionally beat her brothers up. When she turned nearly 7 weeks old, she become a very loving girl, she likes all the fuss and attention to herself. She is very agile, she likes to dive from a high point (either on top of a wobble cushion or on the mini DW). She is photogenic like Icon. </div>
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Quiz is the black and white boy LICOSATERIA BI ONIC. He is going to live with his half sister Quey with mummy Jacqui. He has finally come out of himself and being a real bully now. He is a very cheeky boy. He was born the smallest but he soon catches up. He is quite an adventurous little boy. </div>
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The last of the big boys to leave is Roy, LICOSATERIA ROY TO THE WORLD, aka little Mouse. Oh yes, little mouse is not so little anymore. He is one very neat puppy :) He has always been very polite, he plays nicely with his siblings, he was very calm but not until the last week, he became very bouncy, always the first one to get out of the puppy pen and conquer the playground :) He gone to stay with mummy Joy Goh-Mah, I am sure he will give his mummy a lot of fun times. </div>
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Roy in his new home :)</div>
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Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-13199951087186725722014-03-20T11:56:00.004+00:002014-03-20T11:56:42.618+00:00Birthday month ... 2nd Birthday - Super SONIC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-84284594061701667762014-03-17T11:35:00.001+00:002014-03-17T11:35:12.581+00:00Birthdays month ... 1st Birthday ... SING<div style="text-align: justify;">
Happy 12th Birthday to my one in a million Sing. I didn't get a chance to post his birthday yesterday. We spent all day in the sun, either lying down on the grass, playing ball, frisbee, play puppies ...</div>
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As you all know he is one very special dog to me, I know I am a very lucky person to own this little dog. He always gives me his best. All the pictures from the above videos are taken in the last 10 months, as you can see he keeps himself in a tip top condition apart from the poorly paw. </div>
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Sipzie's puppies are 2.5 weeks old now. Didn't time just flew by! Oh, I have done nothing but just sit and watch them grow and of course handle them a lot :) Poor puppies. I don't think they really like being disturbed all the time. They are just too cute, don't you all want a cuddle? </div>
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Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-24754956576871650132014-01-29T13:25:00.001+00:002014-01-29T13:25:48.595+00:00Welcome new Licosateria puppies!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The long waited second litter from our Little Miss Sipzie has finally arrived. She has 3 tri colour boys, 1 tri colour girl and 1 blue merle boy on Sunday 26th Janauary 2014. The daddy of this litter is not one of my boys :) It took me a lot of courage to go out and used an outside dog :) The sire of this litter is <a href="http://www.sheltieworld.co.uk/Jack.html">Ukr/Russ Ch Briggsview Jack Frost of Milesend</a>. A lot of people asking me why I have not use my own dog, the simple reason is that I'd love to breed my own bi colour puppy. Jack is a blue merle that carried the bi gene and he is eye clear which is a bonus. Sadly, this means Sipzie does not carry the bi gene, Oops! But we love her not any less :)</div>
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Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-17388817252225077982014-01-01T20:15:00.001+00:002014-01-01T20:15:31.718+00:002014<div style="text-align: justify;">
Yesterday, everyone was celebrating the end of 2013 and making new year resolutions to welcome 2014. The KNIGHTs household was very calm and quiet. We are still grieving the loss of our beloved Seagull. All I did was hugging my dogs, all of them, we snuggled up onto the big couch, all dogs were lay close next to me and Colin in front of the fire. I have to say, Sing and Sonic were particularly close, they would not leave my side at all. To those who knows Sonic well, he isn't a friendly dog, he likes to have his own space and being independent but since we buried Seagull, he glue to me all the time. He's the only one that have found Seagull's grave in the garden (surprisingly, none of the others find it). Sonic is a very sentimental dog, also very sensitive, he doesn't like any disturbance noises from the other dogs (such as dog whinning or whinging), if any of the others made such a noise, he will come and find me and "tell" me about it. He is a very special dog, just like his daddy Sing.</div>
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I wish to say I would like to do this, do that in the New Year, make some resolutions but my mind is absolute blank at the moment, I can't think of what I want to say or what I want to do. I haven't done much lately apart from walking the dogs and hugging the dogs. Training is totally out of the window at the moment. </div>
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Also, I am looking forward to breed my first bi colour litter in 2014 :)</div>
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Happy New Year everyone! Hope 2014 is a successful and healthy year you all. </div>
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Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-7842353354710678582013-12-30T14:30:00.004+00:002013-12-30T14:30:43.157+00:00Goodbye my faithful friend<div style="text-align: justify;">
I am writing this post with heavy hearted. Today would have been Seagull's 11th Birthday ... </div>
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Sadly, he crossed over to the Rainbow Bridge a bit too soon too early. Seagull has been very poorly for the last couple of months. He started being sick and diarrhea. We got that sorted but it kept coming back. He then lost control of his bowel, it was quite a mess and he kept producing bad smell; sometimes, I didn't know if the bad smell came from his bum or from himself. Numerous trips to the vet and we thought we got it fix but the problem seems to keep coming back again. Just the last 4 weeks, he got weaker, he can't even get out of his bed and hardly keep the food down. I can't remember how many times I have to clean his bed and wash him in a day. Suddenly, just two weeks before he passed away, he was good again. I thought we could have an easy Christmas with him. Then, just a few days before Christmas, he gone back to diarrhea again, poor boy. We just don't know what to do with him. </div>
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We were away at my in law for Christmas, leaving him at home, a friend kindly offer to look after him. She was so good that she spent the day with him (he was sleeping all the time). We got back on Boxing Day and Seagull greeted me briefly and went back to sleep again. It was 10pm when I said good night to him leaving him in front of the fire and I didn't know the "good night" turned into goodbye. I woke up 6am to let the dogs out and went to check on him, he somehow has got out of his bed and slept on the floor and gone peacefully. </div>
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I have never lost a "good friend" before in my life, I was shocked and unsettled for the last three days. I was very grumpy and unfriendly (according to people that came and visited me in the last few days). I am sorry if I have upset you.</div>
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Although Seagull has not done Agility or Obedience with me, but he was mine and Colin's great companion. He was always there unnoticeable. He's our little "German Shepherd", he's always alert and bark at anything and make sure we knew it. I missed that little alert bark. He was still barking on Boxing Day when he saw me coming home to him.</div>
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A lot of my new friends don't know him well but my old friends will know him very well. He wasn't an easy dog but we never give up training him and shower him with our love. He was a sweet little dog to me and Colin, his little crazy antics made us laugh ... such as walked into lamp post or park car while walking on the pavement on the way to Mitcham Common, that happened too many times! He will ran straight into the close French window and still keep coming back to ran into it. Poor boy! He loves sun bathing, the hotter the better. In the hot summer days, he spent most of his times laying on the grass, I was worried that he will get sun stroke but everytime you get him in, he gets out again. He will not want to go out at all when it's wet or snowing.</div>
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Sleep Tight, we will meet one day and I would like you to be my little guard dog again. </div>
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I am sorry I let my blog "slip away" again. I wanted to try to keep it up to date but everytime when I have a spare moment, my Internet Connection speed is slower than the snail crawling around! I don't have the patient sitting here trying to upload a photo, normally it took me at least 20-30 minutes just to upload a 950 x 634 pixels! And, less than one minute's video took nearly overnight to upload onto YouTube! I like to post photos and videos to illustrate what we have been doing and what we have been up to, I think a plain text is very boring. </div>
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We have been very busy since I last post, we have a lot more changes made to the Farm and the Farmhouse; Agility carried on as usual, I have also been teaching in my own Agility field now. I really enjoyed teaching (more about hopefully in my other post).<br />
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In this post, I would like to talk about Sonic and his <b><i>UKA Grand Final on 30th November and 1st December</i></b>. Sonic has qualified in CSJ and Beginners Steeplechase events. I have been trying very hard to get him to qualify for Beginners Steeplechase this year. We went to all the heats and everytime, we got eliminated! Sonic isn't a tunnel dog. I really have to work hard and go with him when there is a tunnel involved. He probably is the only of my dog (so far) that doesn't like tunnel! So, heat after heat, elimination after elimination! I thought our chance is slipping away. In the 2nd last heat, we finally ran clear, a fast, clean and smooth run BUT we got eliminated! WTH! Judge Bob Perks came to me after I gave him a puzzle look at the finish line, he told me I brought toy in the ring! I nearly screamed and wanted to punch him! That day, my Volvo went dead, so we have to rush to Dowtys in the Covertible. The weather was ok, so I roll the window down for Sizzle waiting in the car and off we went with Sonic joining the queue. There was about 5 dogs before us, I heard the tannoy called out ... <i>we have a very nice tri colour sheltie boy, very friendly, if you have lost your dog, can you please come and see us</i> ... I said to Colin "you better go and collect Sizzle!". He asked me how do I know that is Sizzle and I told him, I just knew! Off he went to collect him and back to the queue with him. He asked me to give him Sonic's lead so he can film me and Sizzle can stay with him. I gave him Sonic's lead but Sonic still wearing his harness and I have him holee ball to keep his attention on me. Normally, the ring party will take his toy and harness/lead from me but there wasn't a ring party there and I just walked straight in the ring with his harness still on and the holee ball on my hand. I took his harness off and the ball, but no one took it off me, so I throw it out to the ring to Colin. So, this is how I got eliminated even before I started! Hmm ... I know rule is rule and we stick to rule of the game but I have to moan about this! I don't read the rules and to be quite honest, I don't even remember all the rules! It said NO TOY is allow in the ring for all UKA classes (for competition). If I remembered it right, this is not the first time I actually have a toy in my hand and handed it to the ring party when I set up dog up in front of the start jump. If they want to stick to the rule, they should have eliminate me everytime I bring the toy into the ring! Obviously, after that, I will remember not to have a toy in my hand before entering the ring. </div>
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It's a tricky start, we surely struggled the #3 & #4 and these two jumps caught so many dogs in action too! Now that I have set up this course in my Agility field, I will handle it differently from they way I ran Sonic in the course. I will definitely do a ketschker at #2 to give me plenty of time to be in the right position to handle #3 and #4. I think doing a push through at #2, I was stuck in there and no matter how fast I move, Sonic will beat me to it and he isn't a slow dog. He got a refusal for not taking #3 and then my flick over at #14, he didn't read my body language, another refusal there and then 5 on the DW. I think the DW is purely my fault as I didn't cue it in time and I feel like I didn't do enough to support him to understand where he should go next. Poor boy. With 15 faults in total, I will never thought I will be in the Final but a lot of dogs got eliminated due to #3 and #4, so we were still in the game. </div>
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I wanted to stay for the prize giving to support the fellow competitors but it was very late and cold and I have a puppy (more about that later) in the car, so I decided to go to the hotel at 7:20pm. We arrived at Bridge Inn and I sent Colin to check in while I fed the dogs and walked them before we settled in the hotel room for the evening. After 15 minutes later, Colin came back to the car with all the belonging he took with him earlier. I wasn't impress when I saw him walking up to the car park. He told me the hotel reception told him there was a leak in the hotel and they have to close a couple of rooms down and they sent us to a B&B hotel by the sea front. Knowing me, I went in there to argue with the woman on the counter. I was very angry and annoyed as I complaint that I booked in so far in advanced in August, how could she turned me away? After 10 minutes, Colin needs to come and fetch me away before I made a big mess to the hotel. Oh yes, I can be a nasty bit of work if things don't go my way. We drove to the hotel they sent us to. First, it's an off street parking, no grass area for the dogs to go toilet. I felt even more annoyed when I have a puppy with me! Again, I made a big deal out of it at the hotel reception again. They won't let him take 5 dogs in the room and I argued I am not leaving any of my dogs in the car in the off street car park. Not only that, the room was nearly £20 expensive to the one I booked in August. This hotel wanted to charged £7.50/dog too! We were given a tiny basement room. After a lot of argument (from me!) and Bridge Inn won't even pay the extra, we have got no choice but to take it. So, you could guess that we had a rough night at the sea front B&B hotel. There were a few hotels in the same street and very obvious is a tourist area. I was worried the car got broken in and other small little things that keep flashing through my mind. The boys were sleeping well though, even the little puppy, until I woke him up at 4am to go to toilet and he won't back to bed again! Bad move!</div>
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Well, lying 3rd in the Semi means we will be 3rd from last to run in our height. After judge Bob Perks "cruelly" eliminated me in the heat qualifier, I feel unlucky whenever I am in his class. I actually prefer the Semi Final course than the Final course. I think the Semi Final course will suit us better. We are up and we run the course like I normally would do with Mr Gobby. I noticed he nearly clip the first pole after watching the video. I meant to do a front cross at #12 but I just couldn't make it. I knew my cross behind with him is a risk as I seems to fail everytime but I have learned to trust your dog and I am glad I did trust him and let him do his job and he did that beautifully. I wasn't sure if we ran clear but I hope we did as when you are in the arena running, everything is a blur, to me anyway. And I just wanted to run out there as fast as I can to reward my dog. I was hoping Colin will come out to tell me if we ran clear but he didn't come out right away. He was too busy watching the others running. Oh man! When you need him!<br />
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Few minutes were like a few hours waiting to hear the result. Finally, he came out and so do others. He told me he thinks we have won it. I hate it when he said he <b>thinks</b>! I rather he tells me we ran clear and now he got me more nervous, wanting to know the result. I passed by a few people and they came to congrats me but I want to see the official result before I will jump up and down to celebrate.<br />
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Now Sonic and Sizzle are on the rest until New Year. They are both not in the top condition. Poor Sonic got blown off the Dog Walk 5 times since June. His front chest and shoulder are very tight and he have received some treatment and manipulation. He will be rest until New Year and then will see the physio again before starting to go back to training. </div>
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I left the blog for too long and I don't know how to catch up anymore :) I struggle to keep up this blog not because I am lazy, with the new country life style, the outdoor is far more tempting than sitting in front of the computer, especially when your Internet connection is so slow! I get very frustrated watching the Agility Livestream, the video keeps buffering all the time and by the time I watch a run (a 35 seconds run in 5 minutes!), I was so close to slam my computer out of the window! Grr ... oh what make it worst? We paid the fastest broadband! Hmm ...</div>
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All well here, boys and girls. I can't believe I have not have my camera out when we have the most glorious weather for the last two months. I think because it's OUR land and I don't think I need to take the camera out and also when I am out doing little job here and there, I definitely would not like to carry a big heavy camera. So, not much of photos to go with this post. </div>
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Sorry, no photos of the girls because they are on the lead walk (not easy to take photo with the lead on). They get a little naughty off the lead as they just would not come back when call :( I think they need to go on the extended lead a bit longer. Oops! Trying to get a group photo is impossible. Sing, Seagull, Saturn, Sizzle, Sipzie and Sonic will pose nicely where Seren and Spie were like two wild child. They definitely don't do a wait for a start! I have tried so hard to teach them to sit wait and soon they are out, they are like escape prisoner! Oh dear, I've never have such difficult shelties to train :) I am not looking forward to Seren's puppy training starting next weekend! I think we will have a lot of "catch that puppy" session!</div>
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I love her very much though, she is one very funny girl. Full of energy and very crazy and clever. I am hoping that she is going through a funny stage at the moment and she will soon settle down and learn to be with me is a good thing than run away!</div>
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So, our first Agility of the month is the 3-day Kennel Club International Agility Festival. I have not been to the KC Festival for a few years. My very first KC Festival appearance was in 2007 with Sing. Sing did ever so well that year, we have a few podium places and he was in the Novice Cup Final. We didn't make it to Crufts because we got eliminated in the Final. I really enjoyed the Festival, there were so many overseas competitors and it was definitely a big eye-opener for me. I went back again next year with Sing and Saturn. Both boys did good and have a few podium placings. Saturn got into the Novice Cup Final but again, we got eliminated and didn't make it to Crufts but Sing got invited to compete at Crufts in the British Open. It was another great Festival for me. Again, I went back the following year but they moved the venue from Peterborough to Kelmarsh Hall. Sadly, the venue wasn't great and I was very disappointed with so many things. I can't even remember if the boys did well at all. Since then, I delete KC Festival from my list. Last year, when most shows were cancelled due to the amount of rain and flood we had, KC Festival had to move from Kelmarsh Hall to Rockingham Castle and I heard the venue is far more better. I got tempted and also hoping to see my puppies from Netherlands, I've decided to enter KC Festival one more time. </div>
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I've entered Sizzle and Sonic but only got to run Sonic as Sizzle was very poorly, his right shoulder and left hind leg were very sore and struggled to walk properly (he is better now!). I am actually very happy that I only have one dog to run this year as Colin can't take time off and I am on my own most of the time, so no video when he is not with me. </div>
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I so wanted to get Sonic into the Novice Cup Final but I over cooked it. I knew he always have a weaker flat weave entry. Just before the Festival, I spent Tuesday and Wednesday to try to teach him the flat entry in a "short cut" way. I am so regret I have done it as I can see how much damage I have done to the poor dog! Over the years, I have learned no matter how the dog missed the entry or skip the pole, just carry on and never pull the dog out but what did I do to poor Sonic? Everytime he missed the entry, I pulled him out from carry on (to save time and being too tired, that's my thought then). At the Festival, on the Friday, we can't do a weave properly! This is a terrible damage that I have created for him (I am an idiot trainer and handler!)! Before the KC Festival, he was a good weaver, he can do most difficult entries, although he sometimes made baby mistake but hey ho, he's only young and I am happy he made mistake because I can train from the mistake. Anyway, from KC Festival onwards, weave has become an issue!</div>
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Sonic got 4 x 2nd placings at KC Festival weekend which I was very happy with. I was worry that he may win out. He is not ready to be up there with the big boys yet, beside the weave problem, he is still gobby at times, when he started to bark (I think he must be frustrated because I didn't cue him early enough), he will lose his concentration and will refuse a jump or mostly tunnel! I am hoping with so many shows this month, he will get to learn to pay attention more on the course than gobbing at me :)</div>
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We also have other Licosateria puppies competing at KC Festival this year, the little star at the show was Savannah (Sing x Sunny puppy), she won a couple of classes and also have many top placings. This puppy has suddenly come on and do so well. Breaking News from yesterday, Savannah won into Grade 5 yesterday at Burnham show. Well done Savvy and her clever pilot Chantal!</div>
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Sunday, Grade 4 Agility, 2nd place. There was only one clear round that won the class and she was 7 seconds out of time. Sonic was the fastest with 5 faults!<br />
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I was having doubt whether to carry on to DiNAS from KC Festival. The reason I entered KC Festival and DiNAS is because I wanted to see my little App that I sold to Netherlands but sadly due to family bereavement, Mariska cannot come. My Volvo is getting absolutely knackered and we had a leak. I didn't even realised that was the problem before going to KC Festival. The Monday before KC Festival, I took Sizzle and Sonic to see our physio <a href="http://www.vipvetphysio.co.uk/">Sally</a> and on our way back, the warning light came on. I drove straight to Richard's yard (he rent the yard from me to repair horse boxes and vehicles) for him to have a look. The coolant tank was empty so we filled that up and didn't think much further. I didn't use the car until Wednesday to do a quick shopping before KC Festival. Off we go on Thursday late morning to Rockingham Castle. After 10 minutes' drive, the warning light came on again but I didn't take any notice of it because I thought we only just filled the tank up, so it shouldn't be a problem. After I got station at the KC Festival, I was too busy concentrate on Agility and didn't think more about the car, not until I went to pick Colin up from Corby Station on Friday night and mentioned that to him. You know what man likes? He shouted at me: Pull Over NOW! I was like what? What are you talking about? Well, he was quite right! The tank was empty again! Now, we thought there might be a leak in the pipe. We filled the tank with water and drove back to Rockingham Castle. </div>
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Although I've entered Friday, the Small Champ Day but I wasn't going to run Sizzle, so I started to packing up while waiting for Sonic's runs. Unfortunately, the rain got heavier and constant, so I've decided not to run. I left the showground about 11ish, thinking I should be home around 2pm but as I was about 60 miles from home, the warning light came on again. Thank God I was stuck on A14 and just after the light came on, the service station (the only service station) was about half a mile. I have to pull in and OMG, the service station was full and I have never seen so many caravan/motorhome in a service station before. I managed to find the only empty parking to pull the car/caravan in. I was given instruction by my Dutch/Belgian friends how to fix the problem temporarily, so I have to wait for the engine to cool down before I can perform. At that point, I was so close to break down, I just wanted to go home safely!</div>
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If you think I have have enough of Agility by then? I actually rush to UKA Teejay to try to qualify Sonic for the Beginners Steeplechase on the Sunday after I came back from DiNAS. Hmm ... I just don't know how to explain this but Sonic did a cracking clear in the Beginners Steeplechase heat but we got eliminated before we even started!</div>
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Well, we took Sizzle and Sonic in the convertible. Sizzle was in the convertible and Colin and I took Sonic to join the queue. As it got hot in the afternoon, I roll the window down and Sizzle escaped! We were about 3 dogs to run. The tannoy called out ... <b><i>we have a very nice little tri colour sheltie boy here looking a bit nervous, he's wearing a collar without a tag or telephone number</i></b> ... I said to Colin to go and collect Sizzle, he asked me how do I know that is Sizzle. I told him just go and get him and he did and he came back with Sizzle wagging his tail happily to see us. </div>
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So, after the disaster elimination from Teejay, I was hoping to give Sonic one last go to try to qualify for the Beginners Steeplechase at Hawbridge. I am so used to the smooth ground at Dowty Sport Club, I find it a bit difficult to find my footing right at this pasture ground. </div>
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From Hawbridge, I drove to Motcombe to compete in the last IFCS qualifier. I left booking the hotel a bit too late. I was in between to go or not to go due to the distance. If Sonic has qualified the Beginners Steeplechase at Teejay, I probably will not go as I hate to drive more than 2 hours now. Actually, having a break from Hawbridge to Motcome, it wasn't too bad. I found the Best Western Hotel a few days before the show and I was rather happy as it's only 3 miles from the showground but they rang me back to say they made a mistake to have received a double booking! Hmm ... so I have to look somewhere and decided I have no choice but to go to Travel Lodge which is about 10 miles away. I don't really like Travel Lodge, they are quite dirty and charge £20/dog per night. Thank God this is a new Travel Lodge, it was so new that they have no grass (yet) and Sizzle refused to walk on the pebbles for toilet! Inside, everything was clean and tidy with new technology put in and I only paid £20 for the dogs for 2 nights. I am a happy girl :)</div>
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It wasn't much of a rest after the IFCS qualifier to continue to Letchworth. I wasn't going to do Letchworth this year but after much persuading, I went a long ... It was a 3-day show. It was about 40 minutes drive from home, so it wasn't too bad. Sonic has 3 individual classes plus a Team run. He was a little naughty in the Jumping, too busy gobbing, Oops!</div>
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Unfortunately, he won the Agility and now Grade 5 :( He also ran clear in the Team but one of our Team mate got 5 faults so we weren't placed. I was very happy with his Team performance as he had to sit wait and watch the dog took the last jump towards him, that's a big progress for him. I am very proud. </div>
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At this show, they did all the IFCS classes (4 classes - Agility, Jumping, Gamblers and Snooker) in one day. At some shows, they split them into two days. Poor Sonic has FIVE run yesterday including the Final. I was rather worried that by the end of it, he will be too tired to run in the Final. The Final didn't start until all normal classes have finished. Unfortunately, Sonic has to run in the Final soon after he ran his IFCS Jumping. There's not much break in between for him. </div>
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Overall, Sonic ran much better in this IFCS than the previous qualifiers. I was really stupid not to trust him to find the weave entry in the IFCS Agility and vote to run him differently to Sizzle. It was a challenging entry with the A Frame so close to it. I knew I will be behind him and I can't trust him not to go up the AF. I was trying to be clever and wanted to do a ketscher so I have a better position to direct him into the weave and of course my ketscher failed and I was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was a good boy to got the entry on his own but I rushed ahead and he double up the pole. When I swing him back to catch up in time and I made the whole thing worst and he failed the entry 3 times! Oops! BAD mummy!</div>
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Apart from this great Agility run from Sizzle, the rest of his runs were a disaster :( He's my best Gambling boy but in the last two qualifiers, we failed to gamble. He insist he will take his own line, hahaha ... I love him really. He made me laugh so much. I can't blame my best boy. We have not been training (due to his injury) and I can seriously said we are not quite a Team this year. He was a very good boy to try so hard for me though. </div>
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None of the boys did well in the Snooker :( Sizzle was great until the closing 5 points (see-saw), he insist he will take the red jump instead of the 6. Silly dog! Sonic didn't even go that far, Bless him! He failed at the 3rd red jump. I, again try to do a ketscher and I failed and he back jump the red. I think we need to polish our ketscher over the winter! I know I am new to this new handling technique. I was reluctant to try it to start with but I know if I do it well, Sonic and Sipzie wrap the wing so tight to save a lot of time! I never use to "throw" my run and try new things but this year, it's totally a whole new ball game for me. I willing to try new thing at a real competition; and I work harder when I got eliminated. </div>
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The IFCS Jumping was a real challenging course, a lot of obstacle discrimination. I have to force myself to jump in front of my boys to stop them going into the weave but Sizzle was so head strong that after a few twiddle, he still want to take the weave. LOL! I know it's such a bad idea to suddenly do a front cross eventhough I was way behind the dog, I collided into both of them and I am sure Sizzle and Sonic were hating me for doing that! I meant to do two ketschers in this Jumping course but I chicken out at the end :(<br />
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The most exciting run of the day is this Grand Prix Final. If you have a win in any class, you will get a chane to run in the Final. Sonic hardly has any clear round but he did win a Grand Prix a few weeks ago. We are very prvileged to be in a Final. This is Sonic's very first final and I hope we have many more Finals to come. I chose to run Sonic in a lower height in FAB shows. Sonic is a very small medium, I'd like my dogs to be able to jump in a more comfortable height, that not only encourage speed but less injury. The only disadvantage is the dog will be faster than jumping their usual height. I think it's good for me to also handle it when he is fast :) Sonic did made me run like bat out of hell. </div>
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I am over the moon with his achievement in this Final. He ran clear and in a very good time. If combined overall result of all height, he would have come 2nd, half a second behind a fast Maxi Border Collie. I felt good after we ran clear. I know I have to leg it and handle well with AF and tunnel trap. He loves the AF more than the tunnel and you can see he did look at the AF before going into the tunnel. I am so happy that Mr Gobby and Mr Refuser actually LISTEN for one good time :) So very proud of our achievement together. </div>
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My first successful hatched happened on Saturday while I was away at the UKA doing agility. All my chicken were unsuccessful, a couple of them tried to hatch but died inside the shell. The others died inside without hatching. Very upsetting and sad. The chicken took 21 days to hatch but the very first one actually tried to hatch at Day 20 and the second one tried to hatch at Day 21. After a terrible start of eggs hatching. I was kinda don't want to know about the duck eggs. I was really heart breaking and upset after seeing the little chicks died. This is one of the reason I chose to go to UKA that day. Duck took 28 days to hatch. I have friend who is keeping an eye on the incubator for me. </div>
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While I was in the middle doing the Agility, I've got a text message to say I have a little duckling that made a lot of noise. I was really excited but after reading that his legs are not out yet, I was holding back my excitement. I know anything can go wrong ... Part of me wanted to come home straightaway and part of me don't want to go home! By the time we got home, I rushed to the incubator to meet my little Daffy. </div>
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Following all the instruction from the Internet, we are keeping Daffy in the incubator to dry up but the humidity dropped a lot and I need to increase that to get the others to hatch. I've decided to add some warm water and that's went thing go wrong :( Although I got Daffy out before adding the warm water but he went absolutely crazy in the incubator knocking himself all over the place. He just couldn't settle. I was very worried that I have done something to harm him. Although everyone said leaving him in for 24 hours to dry up, I just can't seeing him running around like headless chicken. I've decided to take him out into the brooder early. I have to set it up at the last minute and kept cuddle him (wrap him in a towel) to calm him down. When he was wrapped in the towel, he was ok but soon he was free, he just can't stop scratching his head, both side. Weird and worrying! It went on until past midnight and I was really tired. Colin against me taking him to bed with us, so I just have to hop he will be alright when I wake up the next morning.<br />
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Little Miss Frizzle is very little. OMG, I am actually worry that if a hawk is hovering above might be able to take her away! Well, even a crow will be able to do that! I like her frizzle feather though :) A lot of friends came around to "admire" her but not all like her. Some said she looks like she has been plug into a main! Hahaha ... oh well, she's my little frizzle :D</div>
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I also bought two little 4 weeks old chicks to mix with the ducklings and also to give her some company. I have got a Lavender Frizzle Pekin cockerel. I know I have said no more cockerel but he is so cute, I can't resist not to have him. He is very similar to Frizzle but is all grey, they call him Lavender. You can't quite see him in the photo below. He and his friend are rather timid, they have not been man handled before :(</div>
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By the time we got back from Hoar Park on Sunday afternoon, our second Indian Runner was hatching. Poor little duckling struggled to come out and I have to give her a hand to get her out. She is rather loud (I hope she is a duck), she has a very calm nature compared to Daffy. Daffy is a little hooligan. Whenever I try to handle him, he's everywhere trying to fly off. I sadly has drop him many times, thank God only very low :)</div>
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second hatched Indian Runner, hopefully she is Daisy not Donald :)</div>
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We went to UKA National on Saturday. As Sizzle is now semi-retired, I have more time concentrate on Sonic and hopefully encourage Sipzie to come back to Agility. Poor Sipzie has gone through a funny stage that she thinks Agility is torture to her :( She ran very slowly, unmotivated and she would not play with her tuggy and ball anymore. How sad! Away from agility, she will play fetch the ball and tug. Funny girl!</div>
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I've entered two classes with her, the Agility and a Steeplechase. She didn't do too badly on the Agility, still unsure about the stop DW, she mixed it all up with the running AF and stop DW. She is very often pop out of 10th pole as well in the competition. I don't really mind her go wrong so long she is happy to run around in a ring. </div>
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Sonic ran over the same course in the Novice level, this is a Tug E Nuff qualifier. Sonic won the class over 5 seconds and he was the 3rd fastest dogs among all heights. I am very happy with that as I know at a couple of places that I have to let him turn wide as I do not want to make a mistake but sadly, we didn't qualify because I tried to go careful in the Jumping round and how many times I reminded myself that Sonic only has ONE speed, there is no steady round from him, the minute he take off, he is off like a bullet and there is no way I can play safe with him. We got 10 refusal over the tunnels in the Jumping!</div>
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On Monday, I travel down to UKA again to attend their Level 2 Judging Seminar. This is my very first Agility seminar and I am loving it. Level 2 is a Game Judging Seminar and I love the Games, especially Gamblers. It's very exciting to learn all about it and also to discuss some course design. The best part of it was how to judge and there are so many angles to look at things ... I can't wait for my next Seminar!</div>
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You thought I have enough driving on Saturday and Monday (it's 1.5 hours each way, 83 miles each way); but yesterday morning, I suddenly decided I want to go and do some Agility, so off I went with the dogs. Another 166 miles! I entered Sipzie in the Beginners Agility and she won the class! WooHoo! She got all her contacts beautifully, she didn't messed it up, she ran her AF and stop on her DW and the best part yet to come ... she did her 12 weave! How good is that? I was over the moon with her. I was thinking to do a steeplechase but I thought I want it to end good and that's the only class she ran in, sadly no video, Colin was not with me. </div>
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I've also ran Sonic yesterday in the Novice Agility and Jumping. Well, I used the Jumping round for NFC and he did some very good work and we managed 3 x ketschker turns and he did that very well. I am so happy and the best thing was to send him to the toy at the finish jump. I love to see him driving the finishing jump to his toy. I was losing that since I started competing with him. I am glad to see that is back again. We didn't do to well in the Agility. It was a good weave entry so I praise him "good boy", every single time I said "good boy", he came out. I said that 3 times and he pop out three times! When I shut up, he finished the weave beautifully! I've also noticed one thing, not just on the weave but if he does something good in the course and I said "good boy", he will come to me and refuse something! I find it very difficult not to say "good boy" as I like to praise him when he does something good. I've been saying "good boy" at training and at home and most of the time he stays in the weave. Any suggestion? </div>
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I've also entered him in the National yesterday. It's an Agility run and I'd like to be able to do something like that. It was a very nice course with some tricky trappy bits but I don't see why we can't managed :) The ran the Maxi dogs follow by Standard, Midi then Toy. 90% of the Maxi knocked the spread after the DW. It was in an angle. I think after stopping on the DW, the dog don't spread out very well? I am not sure why big dogs do that? In the Standard, some dogs knocked the spread too. It actually got me worried as I have never thought about the spread being a problem. Sonic was 2nd in the Midi to run, everyone that entered has to stick with the strict running order. We started off well and Sonic was so fast over the DW and his powerful speed coming down made him miss the spread. It was in an angle, I supposed I should give him a right command or a name call? I didn't do that and he ran around the spread, I was hoping to put him back but he back jump so we got eliminated. The other part that most dogs went wrong is the cloth tunnel to weave and the 2nd last jump to finish but Sonic managed that all beautifully. In fact, he ran a breath taking course after the elimination :) This is the first time I felt really good eventhough a elimination. My confident is sky high when we took the finish jump. Shamed no video. I really wish that was being filmed. </div>
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Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-42129042718834816522013-07-26T14:20:00.000+01:002013-07-26T14:20:01.941+01:00new toy<div style="text-align: justify;">
My new toy arrived yesterday! WooHoo! I have been waiting impatiently for it :) As you can see my boys approved it too :) I have been "racing" up and down the farm yesterday and the boys were racing me too. That tired them out very quickly. Oops!</div>
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I can't believe we are here nearly 10 months now! Absolutely no regret moving to this beautiful country side, although we started with a lot of stress but hey, didn't life full of stress, up and down? I am Bless with what I have now, my lovely husband Colin, my wonderful pack of shelties, each and everyone of them have their own unique personality; and some most amazing friends that stand by me when I need you. </div>
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You probably have noticed that I am blogging more often these days :) Well, the weather is too hot for me to go out and do jobs around the farm. I try to keep the dogs in as well to stop them from over heating. Poor Sonic just don't understand why he is not allow out. He is a farm dog, he loves the outdoor space wehave. He normally sit on The Ridge and watching the world goes by ... the Farm is rather secure with good fencing and hedges, honestly, the boys will not escape. If they take themselves out (normally to chase rabbit), they quite happily return when called. I am more worry about the girls, especially Sipzie and Seren. These two are just pure hooligan. Once they are off, THEY ARE OFF! You won't believe that until this point, I still need to keep them on the lead most of the time. They have the instinct to CHASE! Sigh ~ my girls are keeping very busy LOL. Thank God Spie has been really good, most of the time! </div>
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We are taking this year to improve all our grassland. We have a lot of thistle growing in some of the fields, especially one of them is full of it! We have been spraying them and hopefully, they will die off soon and would not return for the next few years. This farm has not been work or properly look after for a long period of time before we bought it, so there's a lot to do to maintain the farm to good level. </div>
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A lot of farmers are cutting hays at the moment. It's a dusty, dirty, messy job. It's not bad if you have a new tractor with air-conditioning. You will be dust free and cool inside while working. Don't think we can afford one! These tractors are so expensive!</div>
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All our land are out for sheep and horse grazing at the moment. They are good eater but they are fussy eater too. There are some (a lot acturally!) very annoying grass that is so tall and sticky, whenever I took the dogs out to our fields, they all came back with sticky fur and lots of grass seed on them. Yuk! I don't know how to get rid of them apart from brushing off. I have to sprinkle some talcum powder, not so bad on sable dogs but the black ones turn white! I managed to get the sticky bit off on their body but I can't get the sticky bit off their feet and underneath their stomach. It's such a messy job everyday! Brushing 8 shelties everytime we came back from a walk :(</div>
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Lately, me and Maureen (our lovely horse lady) been taking the dogs out for country walks or canal walk every evening. It's lovely to give the dogs a new scenery and they love to be OUT again! Sometimes, we walk miles and miles and miles ... we forgot poor Sing was struggling and we ended up carrying him home :)</div>
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Oh, my new adventure ... eggs hatching! I fancy some Indian Runner Ducks to practice some domestic herding with the shelties. I know it's easier to go and buy already sexed ducklings but Colin thought it will be more fun if we can hatch our own :) He bought me this incubator for my birthday. I bought some hatching eggs from eBay. </div>
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I have 18 Indian Runner Duck eggs from 2 different people and so far, 4 eggs are not fertile. They still have another 10-15 days before hatching. I've also got some chicken as well. I don't really know much about chicken as I am far more interested in duck :) While browsing through eBay, I chose Brahma and Silkie. I bought 6 Lemon Pye Brahma and 6 White Silkie and it turn out to be that they are the best mothers :) Again, not all eggs are fertile. I've picked up the non-fertile eggs and fed them to the foxes :( So far, we hope 2 silkies and 4 Brahma will be peeking soon. </div>
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Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-4876806135234914672013-07-15T12:23:00.001+01:002013-07-15T12:58:35.196+01:00Mr Refuser!<div style="text-align: justify;">
We were at Rugby Championship show this weekend. This is a new venue at Cotton Hall, Derbyshire. The old venue is only 3 miles from home (BooHoo!) I originally booked camping, as our Club now took over to organise the Rugby Championship show and all club members are down to help at the ring. The weather is seriously too hot (for me) to camp. Even with shade and shelter, I don't think the shelties will get very comfy expose to the heat all day. The organiser was great. There were paddling pool in every single ring and some extra ones everywhere. Dogs can hoop in and out to get cool. What a great thinking from these great people!</div>
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We ended up travel each day. Sonic has 3 runs each day and I've entered Sizzle in the Champ on Saturday and Team & KC Olympia on Sunday. Sonic finished all his runs by 10:30 on Saturday! I've got Sizzle eliminated in the Champ Jumping, so I voted not to run in the Champ Agility. He didn't run well in the Champ Jumping, it was very hot and he was unwilling to run :( So, we were home by 12:30 noon! All dogs and human were lying down on the tile floor to cool off. Thank God we have quite a big area of tile flooring. Oh dear! It was hot!</div>
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Sonic earned a new title on Saturday, MR REFUSER! In every single class, he refused a jump or two or even three! Hmm ... I've been doing a lot of practising sending him on to a jump from different angle and through tunnel and he was getting better before the weekend. I knew this is his weakest link. He did some lovely work but ALWAYS, there is a jump he refused! Sometimes, I get a big frustrated. I tried so hard to train him to take any obstacle in front of him or sending him to the next obstacle without me near the obstacle. He is getting better at training but when come to competition, we fail :(</div>
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Our second class was the graded 4-5 Agility. Again, another refuser to the jump after the tunnel :( The other problem we have this weekend was the weave. We had two very difficult weave entry on the Agility course this weekend. He got both the entry the first time and I praise him "good boy" and he came off the weave! In this class, there was the long jump lying very close to the weave (you can't really see that in the video but the long jump is a trap). I was very pleased with his effort of getting the weave entry. He amazed me :) And, of course after the weave, I forgot where we were going! I was probably thinking I am running a different course. Oops!</div>
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This was his last run of the day, again, another refuser here! Sigh ~ I thought the weave entry is rather challenging for Grade 1 and 2. The angle is pretty bad, unless you did a front cross. I didn't want to do a front cross after the jump #4, then have to cross behind the weave again (lazy me!) I know pulling him into the weave will create quite an issue :) but this will become our homework this week :)</div>
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Sizzle didn't run well in the Champ Jumping, I wasn't sure if the heat bother him or he is not well (again). The Champ Jumping was quite an interesting course. When I first walked it, it looked like a difficult course but after I walked it a few times, it becomes flowy. There is a lot of running there and the dog needs to extend but poor Sizzle isn't extending at all. He took a lot of short striding and when I saw him weaving, I knew he wasn't right. We got eliminated anyway, so I voted not to run him in the Champ Agility. We packed and go home. </div>
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I saw our physio Sally was there too and she was kindly to look at him for me, his back was pretty poor. I told Sally I need to run him in the Team (as there is no reserve). I pulled him out from the KC Olympia run. Sally worked on him for 45 minutes, he was much better and he definitely WALK better after the treatment. I was holding my breath whether he will <b><i>"run"</i></b> in the Team. His run was the last class of the day, so he has plenty of time to rest and recover. </div>
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Mr Refuser was a bit slow on Sunday, not sure if the heat or tire or what but I definitely noticed he isn't as fast as his normal self. In the Combined 1-7 KC Olympia, I hadn't realised he missed the jump after the DW. The jump was a slight angle and I didn't want to tell him "right" just in case I pulled him off the DW too early and also, I've noticed he put extra 1.5 stride on the DW, this is why I said I have noticed he's slower. There is a difficult weave entry to this course. Tyre to the weave. Sonic got it the first time and I thought I praise him a bit later and he pop out soon he heard me saying "good boy". Duh! I've edited the part where I resend him to weave and he cause a bit of scene, taking too long! Yuk! His gobby self was back again :)</div>
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We ran straight from the KC Olympia to this Combined 1-4 Jumping. I didn't really like this course in particular, I thought the spacing was a bit tight for my liking. I like spacey course where I can run and my dog can run that I don't have to bump into any obstacle (knowing how clumsy I am!) But, watching the video, I thought we ran pretty smoothly :), no gobbiness, no refuser, what a treat!</div>
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Later, he ran in the Graded 1-4 Jumping, although not very smooth when he has to run out to an off angle jump, we managed to scrap a clear round. Hehehe ... 2 clear rounds in a day, bonus of the day, 2 x 2nd place :) that gives me hope again :)</div>
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After a good treatment, Sizzle is a totally a different dog again! He ran so well, he was so fast in the Team that he doubled up in the weave that cost him 5 faults but I was really happy to know that it's not the heat but he wasn't well. I so wish I can take my lovely physio Sally to me to everywhere show!</div>
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Sizzle with Team Little Bitz, as you can see he ran differently to Saturday :)</div>
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This HOT weather continues to be hot! YUK! I really is suffering, my nose just can't stop sneezing when I step outside, I am pretty sure is hayfever! I am not looking forward to compete this weekend as the temperature is rising! Apparently tomorrow will be the hottest day (so far) in the year :( Last weekend was bad enough. </div>
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Last two weeks, I have my Malaysian friends came over to visit. They are <a href="http://sheltiebeauties.blogspot.co.uk/">princess Eva</a>'s mummy and daddy. They are also Rosie's (who did all my beautiful banners) parents. They came over to attend Rosie's concert, this will be Rosie's last year studying in England, the clever girl has earned herself a place in Hannover, so she will be starting her academy at Hannover after this summer holiday! I sure missing seeing her (not that I see her very often but knowing she is in England feel closer :))</div>
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Rosie's daddy KK took some cracking photos of my shelties as well as some photos around the farm and the animals. They stayed for a couple of nights and then went visiting the beautiful Scotland and Lake District and then came to stay for another 3 nights before heading home. </div>
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It was so good to catch up with Priscila, she's closer to me than my family back home. We could talk about everything and understand each other. She kindly cook me some Malaysian food that I missed; and she brought me some Malaysian snack that me and shelties enjoyed, BTW, they are human graded LOL, My shelties are a bit spoilt by their Auntie Priscilla :) No wonder they love Auntie Priscilla so much :)</div>
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Here are some random photos taken by KK, courtesy of KK:</div>
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my two very handsome and gorgeous boys Sing and Saturn</div>
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Boys in the meadow ... Sonic, Saturn, Sing and Sizzle</div>
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As the Farmer is spraying the fields (weed killer to kill the thistle and stingy nettle), I have not been able to walk the dogs in our land (I try not to walk for at least 2 weeks!). I have been taking the girls out in the morning and the boys out in the evening to some country walk. I am really spoilt by living in the country side. Just outside our drive/track, there is this beautiful blissful country walk that you can walk for miles and miles through fields of crops and meadow and leading all the way to the Oxford Canal. </div>
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Sing's poorly paw is getting very limpy, not sure if the heat affected that as well but poor Sing is very lame at the moment but he still want to go for a long walk with us. We all ended up take turn to carry him, such a spoilt boy but we love him really.</div>
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My new Yamaha Grizzly is arriving soon. I don't like green but I am not prepare to pay £500-800 to get my favourite blue one. Sing doesn't mind the colour but this will be his walking aid in the very near future. I can't leave him at home, that is not fair on him. He still want to know what the other boys up to. I think the best way to ignore this green is to keep telling myself it's blue. Hahaha ... I know I am an idiot!</div>
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elderflower everywhere makes such a refreshing drink!</div>
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Sizzle always be Sing's shadow :)</div>
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kung fu Sonic :)</div>
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just lately, Sizzle is very interested in the sheep and he indeed make a good sheepdog :)</div>
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I love this photo of Saturn going into the entry. I have not done any agility with him for 3 years and he never forget. Weave is still his best!</div>
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I started to do a little bit of training and baby agility with Spie and Seren ...</div>
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I am so happy on how Spie comes along. She is more confident now and is very happy. She is very keen to learn as you can see from the video below that she is rather enthusiastic :) I have not teach her a lot but spent more time in socialising her.</div>
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And these two Sing's puppies turn ONE tomorrow. Happy FIRST Birthday to Flint and Tease!</div>
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Oh Boy! It's hot and sticky! I know almost everyone of you like this weather but I honestly hate it! I have to hide myself indoor most of the day. If I have to get out there to do a job, I basically crawl slower than a snail :(</div>
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Shelties hate it too because they can't understand why their mummy is so lazy and does not want to do anything exciting like she usually do. Mai puppy Sonic keeps growling at me, he wanted to go out so badly. I have to put a cool coat on him and ask him to take himself for a walk :) He is an outdoor dog. He probably is the only one that loves this space. He could spend 24/7 just sitting on the Ridge watching the animals go by ... funny little boy but I love him dearly! No matter what he does, he always bring smile to my face. </div>
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We went to Wellingborough on Saturday. I don't fancy camping in this heat, so I have to drag myself to the show in the morning. Don't get me wrong. I still enjoy agility and I am still competitive but in different manners now :) Unfortunately, the heat beat me! I was over heated before 10am. I lost my concentration and I don't know if I really have a Hay Fever or what? Everytime when I get outdoor, my eyes were itching, I can't stop rubbing my eyes and then I started sneezing continuously! Poor Sing gone mad as he can't find a tissue box to bring it to me! He can get very upset if he thinks he can't do his job properly. Bless his old heart! I can never have another dog like him! If I were outdoor most day, I get sore throat and headache. I really think is that Hay Fever on top of a Cold? </div>
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I decided not to go on Sunday, the forecast was hotter than Saturday, I thought it's no point going if I can't put myself together in one piece :) We spent all day sitting under the gazebo, soak our feet in the paddling pool (it was supposed to be the duck pond!), we managed to get Seren and Spie to jump in the water with us, Sipzie decided she will run a mile. Silly girl! I gave the boys a full bath, so they can get dry naturally. I prefer them to dry naturally if I can but the weather has been not great in the last two years so they have to blow dry everytime, so yesterday, they rather enjoying their bath :) I guess they hate blow dry :)</div>
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At long last, I got to see my little "Scampi" TYE. Tye is Sing x Sunny puppy that went to a fantastic home in Cornwall with young Chloe. They adore each other. I am so happy that Tye is making Chloe very happy. This pairs is doing very well, Tye only just old enough to compete around Easter time and is now winning his way up and qualified with Chloe for Crufts 2014. We wish this little pairs the very best of luck!</div>
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Gosh! I am so busy! I don't know why, I seems to go in and out and do jobs here and there in the farm ... there's always "something" to do. I am not complaining as I really enjoy my farm life. The country fresh air and all the space the shelties have freedom to run around and I do not have to worry about dogs attacking them.</div>
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I am very lucky to have so many people helping me to improve the house/farm all the time. At the moment, I am trying to improve the front garden. It used to look untidy, overgrown grass, weed, stingy nettle everywhere. I spent last week mowing the law, cut in right down and strimming it, it looks so tidy now. Today, I plant some sunflowers and other little plants ... it looks lovely!</div>
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My other important project is to build an enclosed garden for the chicken and duck. All the foundation is nearly done and we have some post up ready to put the netting up. The chicken will be very angry once they have their new area but I hate to see my chicken down one by one :( Hopefully, we will have some Indian Runners soon :) Colin bought me an incubator for birthday, he determined I should hatch my own ducklings :) I hope the boys will enjoy herding them.</div>
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All the animals are well, Smasher is looking very handsome with his new summer coat. He is nearly 13 months now. He has a lovely temperament, nothing like what other describe a shetland pony to "shitland". I just loved him. I may be a very lucky person to have such a nice little shetland pony. Funnily enough, he still doesn't like Sipzie though!</div>
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This is Sonic running over Small height on the Grand Prix. I chose to run Small because I think it is better for a smaller medium dog to run on a more comfortable height, this will encourage the speed as well (my personal thought). I managed to cross behind the weave and he stay in all the way that made me very happy. He didn't even twitch or look back for me, I think we have done something good there :) I was worried that he is going to take the AF, so I pulled a bit too much that he missed the tunnel underneath the AF. He listened and responded turning right after the 2nd tunnel. Majority of dogs got eliminated as the dog took the jump in front of the tunnel. I am really happy with this run as we did some very good work.</div>
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Sonic did a superb round in this Gambler. I can't run fast enough for him so I have to recall him through the weave after the tunnel and he was great. I was half way in the weave and he stay in and finished the 12 poles both time. I am very very happy! Having problem with him before popping out weave and this really make me feel proud. Although he was twirling before going into the tunnel but he did go into the tunnel. You won't believe he is the dog that dislike tunnel. You can see we have been working hard on our little problems :) Love this boy!</div>
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Lianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15337118333645258941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36649340.post-21263078387472074122013-06-21T11:26:00.000+01:002013-06-21T11:26:25.332+01:00here and there, this and that ...<div style="text-align: justify;">
We had a weekend at home last weekend, Sing and Skye's puppy <a href="http://cocosheltie.com/?p=9194">Silky</a> and her family came to stay. I didn't realised it was Father's Day on Sunday, so it made it extra special for Sing to have two of his children with him on a glorious day. </div>
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We were so lucky to have two glorious sunny breezy day on Saturday and Sunday, that made Silky's visit a pleasant one. It was very good to have Silky and Coco around. They were so good and happy to join our pack. Coco used to be nervous around with our shelties but she is getting better each time I see her. I think she is slowly getting used to them, knowing that they will not hurt her. She is a very sweet nature dog, very good with people (Coco is a PAT dog). </div>
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We also have a bit Agility fun with Silky and Coco during their stay. Silky is very enthusiastic about agility. She is nicely build and she has amazing speed. For me, the most impressive skill she has is the way she catch her frisbee and ball, she is truly Sing's junior is a different colour and different sex lol!</div>
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It has been rather busy over here at the moment, we have a very handsome boy Jack staying for a little while. His mummy is on holiday. Jack is a loving boy, he loves all the human contact and attention. I have fun teaching him some tricks, he is a fast learner and it's amazing to see how quickly a dog learns, eventhough he is not a puppy :)</div>
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Introducing this gorgeous black & white (bi-black) Miss Pie "SPIE". Spie has been with me for two weeks now. She is absolutely delightful little character. She is settling in well and she loves to keep the boys on their toes. She is so busy chasing them but she loves having cuddles. </div>
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Also, introduce little Seren, she is just over 16 weeks now. She is Silky's cousin, Skye's litter sister's puppy. I have Seren since she was just under 8 weeks. She is with me for 10 weeks now and she has a very happy temperament, very outgoing, pushy, playful ... a real bundle of joy!</div>
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Unfortunately, I had a terribly day competing. I woke up too early (4am!) to travel down to Gloucestershire and I was too tired to concentrate. My first run with Sizzle was a disaster. I wasn't sure if his back twitch again or motivation problem but he wasn't running at all. After the 5th obstacle in IFCS Agility run, I have to carry him out :( I felt demotivated myself and nearly sank into depression :(</div>
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IFCS Gamblers was next, Sizzle ran before Sonic. Sizzle is a real gambler dog and I always feel good running him in the Gamblers. Although after our Spain trip, I still haven't work it out what exactly is wrong with him, so we still have an issue of whether he is "running" or not. Pretty much of pot luck with him :( Also, he wasn't running in the IFCS Agility made me feel uneasy, I do not want to run him if he is not well ... After asking the judge if I can take him out if he is not running, I decided to give him another go. Well, Mr Gambler did well to Q :) I have to plan a different route for him to gain more opening points. If he is normal, I will run the course differently but I am very happy we Q.</div>
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Sonic wasn't so lucky in his Gamblers run. He was doing what I asked for in the opening but in the Gambler part, the pole of the last jump drop (due to high wind) just before he coming up to it and he decided he is not taking the jump :( Later, judge Daneen Fox came to me and offered us a second chance to do the Gambler part again. I was rather nervous as I don't know what Sonic will do? Will he still miss the jump out? No, he was a very good boy and we Q!</div>
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Next up IFCS Snooker. I have been unlucky in the past, I have no Snooker Q with either of the boys. I don't seems to be able to change my luck, Sonic didn't Q this time either! He missed the #7, otherwise, he did lovely! Poor Sizzle, see-saw has been a BIG problem in our IFCS qualifier! Hmm ...</div>
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2 weekends ago, we went to our annual Sheltie Camp. The venue was closed to our previous home but a fair distance to travel now since we moved. I travel down on Friday afternoon. It should be a 2.5 hours journey but it took us 5 hours! We got stuck on M25 solid for 2.5 hours! It was a hot day, me and the dogs were exhausted in the hot car although we have the air conditioning full blast! After we left M25, we still got stuck in Guildford for 30 minutes! By the time I got to the Camp, I was very grumpy! Then, I went to fetch Colin from the station and I was stuck in the traffic once again. To top the worst day, I parked the car on the roadside (parking bay) to get a take away and came out with a hit and run case. Some IDIOT smashed my side mirror! Grrr ...</div>
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Apart from that, Sheltie Camp was an enjoyable one. I always love Sheltie Camp, lovely sunny weather surrounding by shelties. Sonic's puppies Tula was camp next to us, so we have fun catching up and played. Then, on Sunday, Rae came and we have more fun!</div>
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Rae, Sonic, Sing and Tula</div>
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3 generations</div>
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Of course, we didn't miss Brooke bean out. Her daddy and mummy were teaching at the Camp and this is her watching. She is such a clever bean!</div>
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Also, we have Silky and her big sister Coco joining the Camp too :)</div>
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Auntie Roz has an important role at the Camp, entertaining the puppies!</div>
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WooHoo! Camp over!!</div>
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Almost there ... Last weekend, we have two local shows, Bitz N Bobz and Chipping Norton, only 6 miles from home! I have entered both shows but only made it to Saturday's Bitz N Bobz. Such a shamed that I can't do Chipping Norton but family does come first. My brother in law Russell and sister in law Kyung came to celebrate my birthday. </div>
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We were so casual and lazy, woke up at 6:30am, fed the dogs, fed the animals around the farm and left home at 7:40am. We got there plenty of time for me to walk my first class! It's a Graded 4-5 Jumping. I have entered Sipzie and Sonic in this class. Sipzie has to run first according to running order. Sadly, Colin wasn't quite awake and miss video her run. Sipzie did well but she was too busy barking at me and didn't look ahead and went under jump and knocked some poles! Because I handled Sipzie so badly, I nearly messed up my run with Sonic as they were two pull through (my favourite, NOT!), I wasn't plan to do the 1st pull through like what I did in the video but good Sonic save me by winning the class over 7 seconds!</div>
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Next up was Sizzle in the Graded 6-7 Jumping. He started it off a bit slow but he speed up, as you can hear my audience said "oh ... bad luck!" but he was a very good boy and ran well. </div>
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Next, Sonic in Graded 4-5 Agility. This show is all about pull through. I don't remembered there is NO pull through in the classes I ran on Saturday. Almost every single class has at least one pull through! Well, it looks like pull through is still my weakest link!</div>
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Next, Sizzle in the Graded 6-7 Agility. This is not an easy course. There is only one clear round in the Medium height. The judge set a very tight course time! I am so glad Sizzle ran clear and in the course time! Phew! We came 2nd in this class, just behind Sizzle's mate Keanne the pocket rocket :)</div>
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