...just to fool my mum...

Jette: "I won the jumpies at H&H! Clever me :-)"

...a weekend in 3 parts

Wow! The 21 KC day rule is finally over and we're free, really free!!!
So Friday we went to hydro for a real play-out, Willow stayed at home for this one coz it's been a bit cold this week and her toe hurts but Flynn and Jette really had a great time and Wills got a special walk all to herself for being a 'ickle darling :-)
Saturday was the Gundog show, there were no ifs and buts with this one, we were going and we did!!!
We got there, had four runs and we got home, massive achievement! Jette was just mega-giddy to be back out and was sooo fast, sending onto tunnels and letting me get ahead so I just went with her and let her work it herself. The A-frame nemesis reared it's head (twice) and she was so giddy she couldn't make her weave entrance and went sailing over the last jump all by herself (although it was the wrong jump) if I could have captured her smile as she can running back saying 'look mum I did it myself' it would have been just great, you couldn't help but laugh. Nice to be back to it with my giddy black girl!
Others got fab results, Bella-super-speedy-lab got well placed in both the agility and the jumping, my goodness that girl can jump!!! Well done to them :-)
Today we had a dog-day-out at Cannon Hall, I love going there, you meet all sorts of dogs and owners, fascinating to talk to them as everyone chats, the weather was just beautifully Autumnal and the dogs played ball and had a real blast, they sooooo needed it. Flynn got to practice his social skills with mini-people and then took him to meet my sister at her house to try and help him become less scared. The clicker is working well, keep up the good work mate :-)
All dogs curled up at home while tea cooks, what an ace weekend!!

...out and about in scary places....

Flynn:
Well mum seems to think I've become scared of stuff over the last month or so, so today (finally let out after KC) we went to the Sculpture Park to see some arty-stuff for a change.
I saw a huuuuuge rabbit (they don't look like that in the field) and lots of things that looked like alien pooh, plus the scariest men with white faces you have ever seen. I was having none of it and despite mum clicking with an handful of sausages, I barked and barked and barked! Nasty, nasty men!! Plus what i want to know is how come they get to keep their wibblie-wobbleness when I have to lose mine.... :(
Then there was this tunnel thing you walked through that made a noise when your foot went down on the floor and this little human person with a yellow hat was jumping up and down making tunes... I thought he was VERY scary...
So I'm very tired now after all that culture, I saw some very famous Henry Moore things with holes in and some big black volcanic looking lumps by David Nash...all too much for me, I've gone to sleep....ahhhhh!

PS would like to say special mega thanks to super curly-girlie Pickle for my lurve pressie, makes the world a little less scary ;-)

...how long?...

...and we're grounded...

Mum:
Sad to say we're out of action with a mild dose of Kennel Cough until 22nd October, but the main thing is Willow-old-but-wise-one has stopped coughing after only two days, and doesn't seem to have had any of the ill effects that accompanied last years' bout. She woke me up Wednesday/Thursday early hours with her cough and it was THAT cough. For those of you whose dogs have been unlucky enough to had kennel cough, you know the one, your heart just sinks for your dog! Have just treated it with Manuka Honey and she's done really well thank goodness.
Jette and I are both gutted as Jette's been working so well with her jumpies and really enjoying her training. Flynn has decided that last week's dogwalk was a fluke and he's not doing it anymore with all four legs as he can manage perfectly well thank you very much with just two!!!
Flynn and Jette seem to be fine, no coughing at all and I don't think Willow's been anywhere to infect other dogs so that's a huge relief. We'll just have to find some indoor activities until we're let back out again :-)