Me and Fly

I got sent some lovely pics of Me and Fly after getting our Blue award. So I thought I'd post them on here. I'm still over the moon about it!! lol! Also found a picture of us from 2003!

Us in the olden days!! This is the original Mad 4 Mutts team

Me with my gob open as usual ha ha!!

Us with our Ice Blue Moon award

Kisses mmmmm! lol

On a totally different note, Barley chased a ball and picked it up. I was rather pleased!! :^)

Fly and her Ice Blue Moon

Fly with her bits from her Ice Blue Moon Award

Chilterns Show

I had the clever idea to go and see the new Harry Potter film (brilliant) on friday night. We went for a chinese and then went to see the film after. This resulted in me finally getting to bed at 2am as I had to quickly pack for the weekend. I then had to get up at 4.30am urgh!! I blearily drove to Katies to pick her up as she was staying with me and then we set off for the show. Made it to the show ground in just over an hour from Katie's house and quickly set the caravan up. We were in the second div on with the Muttleys and did really well although nearly every race went to five legs. We came second and achieved a cracking new seed time of 20 secs dead. This was especially good as Tyler and Lily were not being run by Dave and Kate (they are both now sacked!! :) lol). The Running 4 Mutts also got a stunning new seed time of 17.57 but ended coming seventh!! lol!! Poor Fly was so tired by the end of her racing that she could barely keep her head up to see where she was going bless her! At presentation I was awarded with Fly's Ice Blue Moon award and the team brought me a beautiful engraved glass frame with a picture of Fly in it and a bottle of rose cava (very nice). I will post some photos of her with her goodies soon. We then had a celebratory chinese (diet did not go well this weekend lol). On the sunday the Fun 4 Mutts ran but it was raining most of the day and it was very slippery. They did well and got a third (i think) but the times were not great. It was a lovely show and it was very nice to be back at a country show where there is quite a bit to do. As ever the Barkshire Bandits hosted a very slick and well run show and you would never have guessed that on saturday there was only six of them running it!!

Puppy Reunion

We had a bit of a reunion at Millets Farm as Christine from the Wolf Pack brought Becky down. First of all we tried to get some pictures of us cuddling the puppies........

Hmmmmm

Squirmy

Kisses


So we thought we'd a picture of them standing.....

Look who has the naughty puppy!!

We then gave up and let them all play :)

All four of them

Henry watching the girls play

Becky and Fraggle

Barley and Henry at the back

Becky and Fraggle at the front

All four of them

Fly sulking after being told off for telling puppies off!!!

Go Fox Go!!!

Well I think the pictures speak for themselves!! Fox actually did it!!!! He ran in Starters with a dog in the other lane!! Woo Hoo

On the box

Actually looking at the ball and not the dog in the other lane!!

(you can see how tense I was in the background! lol)

(photos courtesy of doggieportraits.co.uk)

We were at our show, Milletts Farm, this weekend and Sam put Fox into the starters team as fifth dog. I wasn't going to run him as I had been focusing him on the box but he was still very easily distracted. I put him in the practice of the first leg and then put him away. I only tend to run him if there are not enough dogs as I always feel I'm letting the team down. He generally just runs up and down the lane, chasing the dog in the other lane and ignoring the ball. The team had four dogs that were pretty reliable so I didn't bother. On the first run Bronwyn, Sam's JRT, decided she didn't want to play so Tasha persuaded me to put him in. I put him in and ran him when I thought the other team had finished on the first two legs but they hadn't finished and were trying to catch their dog that went wrong to run it again so we won the race (it was best of three) We were running all three legs so as we had already won, Fiona and Tasha persuaded me to try and run him when the other team was still running which, I have to say, scared the life out of me as he has a tendency to run across. I let him go and the other team let their dog go. Fox stopped in the lane, the dog in the other lane stopped and they just stared at each other. My heart was in my mouth as the last thing Fox needs is another fight but I shouted 'GO GET YOUR BALLIE!!!' and to my and my teams utter astonishment he turned away from the dog, got his ball out of the box and ran back toward me!! I was so shocked that I forgot to run and then when I finally did I shouted 'FLY!!' LOL! We were in the blue lane first which makes it easier to focus the dog as you have your back to the other team. In the red lane it was a little more tricky as he could see the dogs in the other lane more easily and he turns that way on the box. I had to chase him up the lane the first two times as he was threatening to run back after the dog but he got his ball and ran back to me. I had to run like hell to get out of the lane before he bowled me over. The third time he looked and slowed but then ran to the box. I was so thrilled!!! The thing that helped was that I had an army of Fox catchers down the middle of the runback area to stop him going across. This gave me the courage to run at full pelt to the back of the lane. This meant that on the way back he didn't look at the other dog at all and his focus was excellent. We ended up with a second so I was rather chuffed!! The only really annoying thing was that I had to admit my sister was right!!! Grrrr! She loved that and I know I'll never live it down!!! LOL!!