We managed to get our first clear round

Saturday we had another lovely, very long, day at an agility event - still takes some getting used to. KT did really well in the three courses we took part in. It was me who let the side down! Oh dear. Not to worry though, we are only learning at the moment so, every step is a step in the right direction.

The first run was a full agility course, although there were no tunnels. KT and I managed to negotiate the see-saw, then the dog walk, yipee, then I got distracted and we missed a jump, arghhh!!!! The second run was a Helter Skelter, jumps and weaves, I got so lost to begin with, but we sort of managed to get round - we continued our agility competition career without a disqualification.

The third run was briliant. I made sure this time that I knew exactly what I was doing, only jumps and tunnels, nowhere to go wrong, and hurray we managed to get our first clear round. Next step is to try and get a point! Watch this space.

Great, we saw two or three other Setters competing this day. The other's were a bit more excitable than KT, they went all the way round barking! One even fell off the dog-walk! Brought back memories of KT and her experience with the dog walk. Luckily the dog brushed itself off and went straight back on! If it was KT that would have been the end of her agility career!

Funny thing with KT, sometimes at training she seems ever so bored - do I really need to do that, so many times she has refused to do a jump, and I think arghhhh!!!!!!!! But at competition she seems to be another animal, here I'm worried she is going to do something silly, and she does exactly what I tell her to do - any mistakes is usually my fault. Oh well.

The weather has been really nice over these last few weeks. February is usually the month when we start walking in the light evenings again, and this year we are incuding an "off piste" route to our usual walk. Some access land that has recently been made available to us off Haresfield Beacon. Not really a footpath, but a really nice hill to do some "extreme" walking, if you can call it that!.

A few weeks ago I had a week off work, and we went for a really nice long walk around the Wye Valley and Symonds Yat in the forest of dean. My intention wasn't to make it that long, but as we walked I decided to turn it into a circular walk, and it took us nearly 4 hours to complete - lovely, I enjoyed it, although KT got quite tired. Two days later at agility training she was still a little stiff! Oh well, she's young and will recover.

KT's 4 years old now. She's slowly turining into a really nice dog, and can start relating more with other people now without me having to stop her. She had a really nice day with my sister and her family the other day. They went for a nice long walk over the hill, and she even got groomed before I came to pick her up in the evening.

We have summer to look forward to now.