Results first obedience competition

All heelwork courses were made by Pat Nichols. Today's judges were Roger and Margaret Reed.
Class 1 - Judge Margaret Reed

1. Sandra with Skye 98.5% Best in Show (promotion to level 2)
2. Jo with Gus 98.5% Reserve Best in Show(promotion to level 2)
3. Steve with Sam 98%(promotion to level 2)
4. Cassie with Dillon 96.5% (promotion to level 2)
5. Lynn with Rosie 95% (promotion to level 2)
6. Emma with Lulu 86% & (promotion to level 2)
7. Nina with Lily 37%

Class 2- Judge Roger Reed

1. Megan with Rogie 94% 
2. Trish with Daddy 89.5%
3. Jo with Grace 69%
4. Gillian with Honey 65%

All dogs worked really well! Well done everyone for a lovely afternoon and congratulations with all your rosettes and great results.

Results after first club agility competition

Agility

1. Sally with Molly (clear round)
2. Gillian with Honey (clear round)
3. Steve with Sam
4. Sharron with Gracie
5. Peter with Ben
6. Laurel with Paddy
7. Cassie with Dillon
8. Lily with Bailey
9. Jo with Grace
10. Trish with Daddy
11. Tina with Lexie
12. Jill with Grace

Jumping

1. Sally with Molly (clear round)
2. Gillian with Honey (clear round)
3. Lily with Bailey (clear round)
4. Laurel with Paddy (clear round)
5. Jo with Grace (clear round)
6. Sharron with Grace
7. Tina with Lexie
8. Cassie with Dillon
9. Steve with Sam
10. Trish with Daddy

Pete with Ben and Jill with Grace ended up doing a training round

Gambling

1. Jo with Grace
2. Sharron with Gracie
3. Gillian with Honey
4. Lily with Bailey
5. Cassie with Dillon
6. Tina with Lexie
7. Laurel with Paddy
8. Steve with Sam
9. Jill with Grace
10. Pete with Ben
11. Trish with Daddy

No placing for Sally with Molly as they did not get in the box in time and lost all their points

Promoted to level 2 are:

Sally with Molly

Gillian with Honey

Nearly promoted:

And Lily with Bailey, Laurel with Paddy and Jo with Grace only need a clear round in the agility course to be promoted to level 2. Well done all of you!!! The rest of the handlers just missed out on clear rounds due to tiny little mistakes of their own, all dogs worked really well.

Points gathered for the championship title:

20 points Sally with Molly
16 points Gillian with Honey

11 points Jo with Grace

 8 points Sharron with Gracie

 6 points Lily with Bailey

 4 points Steve with Sam

 2 points Laurel with Paddy

 1 point Peter with Ben and Cassie with Dylan

Well done everyone!!!!!

Big dogs and tunnels

 Digby is a big boy! No way he will fit into that tunnel, or will he????

  Looking at mummy

 And there he goes!

Been there, done that! Did you get it on camera?????

Obedience show in Spalding

Entry form Spalding obedience show:

http://obedienceuk.com/schedules/attachments/20120610_ent_spalding.pdf

Schedule Spalding obedience show:

http://obedienceuk.com/schedules/attachments/20120610_spalding.pdf

Unfortunately I'll be teaching in Germany that day, but I hope many of our members will take part in the competition.

Pictures of obedience lesson last Sunday by Stuart Mitchell

All the dogs in this group have recently moved up from a puppy & beginners class to form a new novice class.

 Alex & Fen, Barbara & Whisper

 Wendy and Digby

 Wendy running away while Digby does his stay

 Barbara & Whisper

 Sammy moved up from another novice class into this group so she and her 'brother' labrador Oscar would not be in the same group any more. It has really helped Sammy focus a bit more on her mum and dad and not be so jealous if Oscar looks at other dogs :-)

 Whisper doing the box

 Digby has never done the box before so Hetty helps him.

 Socialisation exercise: ignoring livestock

 Merlin was rehomed at 11 months, he had not been trained at all and was a bit out of control. He has now developed into a lovely dog that is really trying to be a good boy (we still have our moments though, but he is getting there!) and he adores his new mum!

 Merlin and Jane

 Michael and Sammy

 Wendy and Digby

 Heelwork

 Digby

 Digby can run really fast with his long legs!

 Stay

Barbara returning to Whisper

Devastating news

Angela Gillespie, the grandma of  Toffee, Gyp, Phoenix, Delight, Zima, Violet, Wizz, Rogie and Koda (or the breeder of my doggies) passed over the rainbow bridge yesterday. We will so miss her in our lives, words can not express how sad we all are. Our thoughts go to Tony, Laura, Samantha & Adrian, David, Antony, Nichol and the rest of the family.

Findon Downs HtM competition

Last year I sadly could not compete or train for competitions with my dogs due to a car accident resulting in a whip lash injury. In December I had my last physiotherapy and in January I started training a bit again with Wizz and Koda. Koda himself had been ill the year before so had not had any training for 2 years, bless him. Even though I did not feel like we were ready for it, I decided to enter Wizz for a competition again (as it is good for him to get some ring experience) and when I filled out the entry form I also put Koda's name down as I was going anyway. I decided I would use an old music of Violet for him as Koko is similar in his movements to her so it would hopefully fit to the music. This was a month before the show and even though I started working with the boys again, I could still not do so every day, but managed to do a training session 2 to 3 times a week.

Last weekend I still was not sure if we would go or not, but as my friend Gillian said she wanted to come with me, I decided to go after all. And we do not regret this! First of all as it was nice to go with someone else and had a super fun chat all the way down (we left at 4 am) and second of all my boys did me proud! Koda was first in novice heelwork to music, where he got a second place out of 13 entries:-) He was not as confident as he normally is, but did quite well so we had a pleasant time in the ring. He hardly has ring experience (2 years ago he did his first competition and this was his second time in the ring). The dog winning the class has learned heelwork in our club, so we felt like we won a little bit as well :-))) Wizz was in intermediate heelwork to music and did his routine well, without any noises and he paid attention and apart from some minor mistakes I was really really pleased with him. We both enjoyed our time in the ring. He got a 3rd place outof 10 entries with only 0.2 points in between him and the dog that got placed second, so not bad at all :-))))

Congratulations to everyone who took part and got placed :-) hope to see you all again next time!!!