Isn't this fun!

Well what can I say, KT is now only a few days away of becoming three years old! That means that she has been with me for nearly three years now! Doesn't time fly. Slowly she is becoming a really nice dog - there are just a few things that need sorting out, but with time I'm sure that we'll manage to sort them out.

We are now training agility at a different place than last year - one of the instructors, Rachel, quit from Whitminster and started a training club of her own - Colliewobbles Agility. We are now at an intermediate stage - KT knows about all the obstacles - still hates and refuses to do the dog walk - doesn't like doing the see-saw, but apart from that she can do the rest - apart from the table!

Every six weeks or so, we have a little competition among the people we train with. This does make it more fun - nothing like a little competition to heat things up. We had our first friendly competition a couple of weeks ago, and KT came tops! Imagine that - an Irish Setter winning an agility competion! Well, that's the simple story - one of the dogs we train with is a collie, and the handler was unfortunately standing out as he had hurt his knee playing football! There are six of us, so one down four to go. I went first, and KT was so slow - she'd run up to a jump and refuse to jump, I had to back track and make her jump. We did cheat on the see-saw, I had to grab her by the collar to do it, should really have been disqualified for doing that, but Rachel the trainer said we'd overlook that. Anyhow, we did a clean run - no obstacles were knocked over and KT did do the course as it should have been done.

As for the other dogs, a couple of alsations, a speedy spaniel and a labrador, they were all disqualified, too keen to jump they were, a tricky course and they were all led astray. KT was slow but was the only one to do the course as intended, apart from the see-saw!

Oh, well. The others will eventually improve and do what they are supposed to do, but will KT do? She'll probably do what she wants to - "What jump that jump? I don't feel like it today!"