First up we had our brand new dogs running under the 'Power Paws Triers' name for the first time. We knew they probably wouldnt get placed highly as two dogs were at thier first ever show not even having done starters. One of them has only been training with us about 3 months and only turned 18 months 2 days ago. The other has been training with us for about 18 months but was terrified of the box until a few weeks ago. The other two running were Meg and Skye with Maddie as reserve.
They put in a good performance but just coudnt match the times of the other teams in the division and finished 5th. But they all ran well and gained thier first ever flyball points so no one went away disaopinted.
Next up we had 'Power Paws Flyers' consisting on Poppy, Barney, Storm and Campbell. We were feeling positive after some good training sessions over the winter. We had declared faster as our seed time was 23.64 seconds which we knew we would beat even though we were running the same dogs and over 14" as our height dog had moved down to help the Triers. Apart from loosing our first race we won all the rest to finish 2nd gaining a new best time ever of 21.22 seconds.
Last up were the 'Power Paws'. We had gained a new dog Harry over the winter from another team and he fitted in really well with Jess, Alfie and Charlie. Again we won all our races except one to finish 2nd with a new fastest time ever of 20.18 seconds. Im hoping we can sort our changes and starts out and go sub 20 at the next tournament as we are so close now.
Quite a few dogs got certificates today which was a nice end to the day Alfie got his Flyball Dog, Jess got her Flyball Dog, Ben got his Flyball Dog and Barney got his FD Intermediate. All in all a great day spent with lots of great people and dogs.
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