Well I finally managed to get hold of Dave Ray this week ref. having the same handler throughout for Olympia qualifiers. He confirmed what I suspected in that ONE handler must run the dog from qualifier to semi to Olympia.
Baby Hanekoms due date is the 08.08.08 which means Hoax semis which are at KC Festival on 08.08.08 are OFF for me... boo hoo hoo. So that means Nic gets to run my princess in her first season for Olympia Qs. I must try not to be too harsh on him!!! LOL.
There is no point in him running Boo as he just can't work the way Boo needs to be run. I will just have to hope that at least Large dog semis are on varying dates so hoping bump isn't too big!
Boo is back after his two month break over December and January and is so happy. He spends his lessons woofing and wagging and is flying at the moment. I so enjoy working him, his enthusiasm, and drive at agility make working him a dream!
Hoax is also continuing to improve. I am now happy enough with her seesaw to run her in the ring and she is finally feeling happy straight line weaving. We went onto the V Weaves for her so she could learn to stretch her stride for single pacing. I have not by any means trained her for single strides as I always thought her stride length too short for it, but she has chosen to single pace and it is my job to help her with that. We seem to be mostly there now although she still makes mistakes. I think I will keep having to pop back onto Vs for the next few weeks to keep her stride correct.
Lots of Agility booked for this weekend- Yay! I have a lesson with Mum on Saturday which I share with Heather and Una and Sophie and Jinx. All three dogs started in the same puppy class with Nic so it really is a fantastic group. I love training with Mum. She is so positive, and unlike a lot of trainers is adaptive to yours and your dogs capabilities and comfort zones. Boo I know how to run, I know that he is much tighter and faster with me working in front and turning him into me. Hoax I am just not sure yet. She does some extremly neat wraps away from me and then lovely turns towards!
The I have Corton Ltd on Sunday- I will make sure Boos contacts are bombproof in competition aswell as at Training and work Hoaxeys contacts etc aswell. It's a fab show to start pups off at so we will wait and see how she does!
8 comments:
Hi Gemma,
Nice to see you with a blog at last!
Congratulations on Baby Hanekom! Wow!
And how lucky is Nic to get to run Hoax. Now make sure he doesn't ruin her.
Your blog has made me laugh.... Gem, it's nothing to do with not being confident.... we all do the same with our baby dogs. I could find you an entire club of people, that this time last year were sick to death of me asking the same questions of Twix!!!!!!!
One of my friends thought we had had a eureka moment last Monday when I was actually heard to comment that Twix is "just about getting there now"!!!!
Thanks Mand- Its very exciting and very scary!
Aw well cheers for that- I guess worrying about your baby dog is common and at least I know we are all in the same boat.
I remember you worrying about Twix and I was like- Huh? She is FAB! xxx
Congrat's Gemma and Nic!!!!!!
That's Jay's birthday : 08/08 not quite 2008 though!
Leah and Jay xxx
Mega congratulations to you and Nic and your little girl is brilliant I am sure Gemma, cant wait to see her work this year. Baby dogs are mega scarry you just want to do every thing righ :0)
Hey Leah
Well 080808 is apparently lucky is China??? so thats good! LOL
Thanks Karen- they really are! so much PRESSURE! I know she will be just fine- just nice to natter on about it all! LOL
Megga congrats to you and Nic. Hoax will be wonderful! You must have loads on your mind right now, what an exciting year!
Thanks Nancy! Yes it is going to be a mad year! But I do hate boring... tee hee. Oh well- I will be kept busy that's for sure! x
Congratulations Nic & Gemma, can see you now pushing a buggy at the shows!
really happy for you both.
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