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.