Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:07 am Post subject: It's been very quiet in here recently! Any updates?
Just wondered if all the labs had hung up their jumps over the winter!?
Or just haven't been posting.... !
So here's Luna's update to start the ball rolling:
Our training over the winter has totalled doing a bit of weaving in the garden before the ground froze and 2 outdoor training sessions over the past 2 weeks, thanks snow!
We have since the beginning of the Winter season competed at 6 BAA shows and achieved a 1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th and 9 clear round rosettes!
(Has become tradition for me to take pic at the end of each day!)
CONSIDERING Luna had never set foot in an indoor equestrian setting before and CONSIDERING she loves horse poop I have just been chuffed she hasn't veered off to search and find
We stepped up a level in Agility and haven't done so well due to Luna LOVING contact equipment and falling for all the traps set!
She has done superbly well in Intro Jumping classes though and has shown an increased stamina and speed, coping well with 4/5 runs a day without a slow down and beating the collies on a Take Your Own Line class to come 1st!!!
I'm having to learn how to handle a quicker dog who jumps her contacts and beats me out the end of a tunnel!!
The favourite part of Luna's agility comp days is most DEFINITELY heading into the exercise area for a warm up with friendly pals! Maybe she's going faster cos she knows we head back there after a run.... !!!
Hope all you agility labs out there are having fun still - whether training or competiting! Let's have an update!!!
Our group doesn't have classes in January but has had a group walk each week instead, of which I've done 2 but the other 2 have been a long way away. We start back next week so watch this space.
We've also been invited to join a beginners flyball group with the agility club. I'm going to go and have a try but as Coco is the biggest ball thief going it could be quite entertaining/frustrating
Agility training goes very quite for me during the shooting season, with just Oak training once a week to keep him ticking over. But now the shoot season has closed, the boys will have a check up with the Chiropractor to make sure they have no sneaky injuries, and then it's full steam ahead!
Our first show is in fact next weekend, although Ash is only entered over a low height not for competition, as he needs to build up his jumping muscles gradually. We don't have much BAA this way, so it's all full height KC or Maxi UKA for us.
Luna and I did a couple of training sessions.
She barks at the box when the ball is in it! I think she thinks that will get it to throw the ball! She did well collecting the ball from in front of the box and just thinks that retrieving ad jumping with lots of other excited dogs is great!
I haven't carried on training as we haven't time to fit it in around agility and work and rest! And I was a bit worried that with her stress fracture history teaching her to activate the box could risk her hurting herself.
Good fun though and BAA do something called Clever dogs which is a combination of Agility and FLyball so we may have a go at that this summer...
Good luck next weekend Katy! You are sensible to give Ash a warm-up before going full height. I still cringe at the thought of little 19in Luna jumping Large/Maxi - she never will! So lucky we are in the heart of BAA land otherwise everything would be NFC which would be a shame!
Funny you mention Chiropractor. I've been meaning to get Luna checked over now we are regularly doing agility. I've found a fully qualified Physio nearby I was going to call, hadn't considered a Chiro.... Want someone to check out her 'funny walk' more comprehensively as vets just identify she has one without figuring out anymore as she's not in any seeming discomfort from it. Anyhow!
I've really seen Luna LOVING her agility this winter - she knows exactly what a comp day entails now and has learnt to switch off and on at the appropriate points! Really lovely to see! Figuring out whether I can afford to buy big tent for the first weekend show over Easter now!
Oh very well done Luney, how proud does she look next to her rosettes
I know I'm probably extremely outnumbered here on LF, but it's nice to see a lab putting their brain to work on something that doesn't involve dead animals/birds.
Wow well done you and Luna, that's quite a haul of rosettes
He's not a lab obviously (in fact I don't even have a lab anymore since my darling Honey Bear went to the bridge a few months ago ) but Obi and I have just started back at agility training after 3 months off.
He had his first competition of the year last weekend, and managed a second place, which I was proud of. He is great but my timing is even worse than it used to be after our sabbatical. I am hoping to really knuckle down to training and get over to the UK for a couple of shows this year. Anyone doing Thames, KC international or Dogs In Need shows?
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Well, what can I say. Gillie absolutely adores agility but is mad as a box of frogs! I am not nearly fast enough and if he thinks I am going too slowly he barks and tries to trip me up He will jump over the tunnel if it is in his way. Weaves are a work in progress..........
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