Bad blogger!

Quick update before the season ends for us! Molly won into Grade 2 in spectacular fashion at Thames (yes, I know that was quite a while ago!). She won both agility runs that weekend, beating the grade 2 times in the graded class on the Sunday! So I felt confident it was not just a fluke! Since then she has continued to improve. I cannot describe how much I love this wonderful little Labrador, despite the frustrations of often poor handling and sometimes naughty Labrador antics which can make our runs so inconsistent, I really feel that she has improved in leaps and bounds this season. She qualified for the Starters Final at the KC International Festival, our 1st ever final! She took off like a rocket and hit the dog walk at such speed she lost her footing. Honest little dog that she is, she held on with 3 paws for as long as she could but lost her balance halfway across. Thankfully she wasn't hurt and in typical Moose style she started wagging her tail as soon as all 4 paws hit terra firma! At DINAS she won a very handley jumping course of Andrew Dicker's. I really had to use my brain which everyone knows can be challenging!! I do not believe we could have worked it any better, cross-behind after cross-behind she achieved beautifully. I was very proud of us both!

Mr. Fin remains a challenge but is showing great improvement, occasionally doing what is asked of him! He ran a few times at DINAS sometimes achieving one or two obstacles, other times visiting the photographer, judge, the fencing! I am confident (with great encouragement from Leah and Sian) that we will get it together but he is along way off right now. I must remember how far he has come in the last year and what a horrible start in life my little Irish boy had!

Fingers crossed for Stour this weekend. xxx

Snowy Meerkat!

Finlay's yoga class!

I have been trying some balance exercises with Fin to improve his leg awareness!

He isn't quite confident enough to sit on the ball, but that is our ultimate aim!

There's a moose, loose...

All action shots, thanks to Grace. xx

Beautiful as my labrador is normally, she definitely loses some of her looks in agility! xx

Fin likes to be beside the seaside....

Fin and Molly came with us to Charmouth for a week. The Irish terror has clearly not seen the sea before and was slightly alarmed but by the end of the week he was happy paddling. No swimming out to sea like the labrador-seal though!

A restful week, but 4 days home and it feels as though we never went away! Always have to work twice as hard before going on holiday and when I get back so feels like no holiday at all!