The sat nav is working hard !

Its been a hectic few weeks with the sat nav being used a lot to navigate us to various venues around the country. We had a brilliant weekend at the Garlic Festival on the Isle of Wight where there was huge crowds. When i did the displays the crowd were four or five deep around the ring and i don't think i ever have had so many children in the ring for the "disco dancing" competition.
A busy week in the grooming salon followed and then a trip to Norfolk to see my good friend Helen and teach two one day freestyle workshops. Helen breeds Novia Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers so the first day was just for this breed which meant i couldn't exactly ask the person with a toller to step forward. Both groups were very enthusiastic in the morning but i think by the afternoon what with the heat and the amount of work i do with the groups they were all needing a bit of rest.
Its no rest for the wicked as over the bank holiday weekend i will be attending the PNM HTM show at Stoneleigh where i will work Whizzy. I don't really need to as she has already gone into advanced but i have had my arm twisted to compete with her for a TV programme, more of that later! Then we will be going on up to Eye in Suffolk for the Eye country show. I have performed displays there many times so i know it will mean a lot of running around as the ring is very large so i have to try and cover as much of it as i can.
A apology to anyone asking me to teach workshops for the rest of this year, I'm afraid i think i don't have that much more time available at weekends, so make sure you get your date for early next year.

New K9 freestyle display videos

Recently i was performing displays at a garden party at Charleston manor where one of the spectators was videoing the event. This event was different from the normal show i do as i often use children from the audience to help me but this was not possible at this event. Also there was no specific ring so the dogs did so well with everyone standing so close while they were working.

Whizzy's double win

Whizzy is just over two now and earlier this year she won both of the novice freestyle classes that i had entered her in. At the end of July we made our way down to the HTM show in Cornwall as i had entered Whizzy in her first intermediate freestyle classes. Luckily for me this is a double show with the same classes being run both days so i was able to enter intermediate twice.
On the Saturday Whizzy worked ok but i think i might of done a tiny bit too much warm up with her plus i felt i rushed things a bit, so i had plenty to work on for the Sunday. I was pleased that she won on the Saturday but knew she could do better so gave myself a talking to and tried to relax before going in on the Sunday. I decided to change a small piece of the routine as Whizzy didn't seem switched on at one section which i think is done to her having done a lot of displays recently. The routine went much better from my point of view and she scored just over 28 points out of 30. So it was a good weekend as these two wins mean that Whizzy now is advanced in freestyle.