Maidstone Flyball

Power Paws had one team entered today. We ended up in Div 6 on a declared time. I really had no idea how the dogs would do as Charlie had never done starters but had been running with three lanes up in training out of netting for months now with no problems. Poppy had done one starters comp and didn't put a paw wrong all day. Barney has run in open but got badly interfered with at his last open comp and refused to run again and its taken months to build his confidence back up. and then i had both Campbell and Maddie running. Both have done a few starters and Campbell has run in open once with the Dream Team. We had to run under the Dream Team name as we didn't get in but thankfully they had space for us. Well there were some good bits and bad bits! Barney, Campbell and Maddie all ran perfectly. Poppy for some reason decided to run out of the first two jumps on the way back from the box every time. She has never done this in training and hasn't done it in training since so i really dont know if she will do it again. We decided to go NFC so that we could put wings up to stop her as i didn't want this to become a long term problem. Hopefully she wont do it next time out. Charlie really didn't cope well, he got very spooked and wouldn't leave his mum so we couldn't run him all day.

Our best time after going NFC was 20.5 seconds with Campbell, Barney, Poppy & Maddie who Michelle had to run. I was pretty pleased with this as our changes were really wide and barney was pretty much running from the line! They are all more than ready so fingers crossed they get there act together next time out. I don't think ill enter them until the Dream Team show in may though as i don't want to travel miles to find out Poppy is running out again.

Cai was running with the Dream Team as normal. We only ran 4 dogs in the team Cai, Flash, Jasper and Bailey and they managed a best time of 18.08 seconds which wasn't bad but i know we can get to mid 17's with a bit more work. Cai ran some cracking times and managed a 3.95 so his times are still just getting better and better. Id really like to get him fit enough to run under 4 seconds on grass consistantly this summer but ill just have to wait and see if its possible.

TraVal Crystal Challange

Our first agility show of the season. Just two classes for Cai and Campbell and one for Chico. First up Cai had starters (grade 1 - 3) agility. There were two sets of weaves and Cai missed both but did the rest quite nicely. Starters jumping was a nice course and Cai did a lovely round to finish clear. He is losing lots of time on wide turns though so we really need to work on that. Next up Chico had starters agility. I rushed him in the weaves and he didnt complete either set properly and just went off and did his own thing rather than doing the pull through he was ment to be doing. He was quite slow too even for him but seemed happy enough to have his one go. I decided to only enter Campbell in the open classes as he is very good on twisty courses that require more handling but is not so fast on simple flowing courses. He did a cracking round in the open agility (grade 1 - 7) to finish 7th beating lots of dogs that are much higher grade than him. The start was quite tricky with a right hand weave entry but he didnt have any problems. He did a lovely round in open jumping but was obviously not quite right as he had two poles down which is not like him at all.