Am trying to decide whether to take on a puppy. A friend has a litter of kelpies. It would work out brilliantly right now, but in 9 months I will be looking for a job. That means leaving a springer, a wsd and a kelpie in the house for most of the day. Sometimes they would be accompanied by my OH, but not all the time.

I have to decide really soon, they are 6 weeks today!

We had a good time at agility nuts. Willow got 10 clear rounds out of 12, one other run was an E due to my incompetence(missed out an obstacle). The other one I missed the class altogether. The let us run on large and she went clear, bless her.

Spike and I were a more random combination, managing to get E'ed from most classes. We went clear in the helter skelter, and won it. We seem to be good at these.

Handling

Was impressed and slightly depressed when my trainer ran Spike a couple of times yesterday. He ran really well for her and it became clear what his big problems is - me!

To be slightly more upbeat we had some pretty good runs and bits of what we did were really nice. I think if we ever go wrong though, it is most likely my fault!

NAWS run

NAWS on Youtube

Doing clicker training in the pet obedience class. Wow! Getting very good attention, and walking by ODs, no problem.

Billy is back next week, so let's see how we cope!

Nomore clear rounds at Scunthorpe Show with Spike. He was a bit giddy. nice contacts, nice wait, missed tyre placed 2nd in line of 5 jumps, weaves poor (out at 11th and going in too fast), nice weave entries, bit lacking in control (straight off dw missing jump and in tunnel). He didn't really concentrate like he can. Good in the queues though relatively speaking.

Willow got 3 clears out of three rounds (spiffing!). She was just inside the course times, but was not exactly in overdrive today. I have not rested her leading up to comp and she loves running about in the woods.