Background info for those who don’t know Ella. Ella will be 15 years young next March 2021. She finished her agility career in Grade 7 (highest level in UK), and went to the World Agility Open with two Australian handlers as a borrowed dog in 2014 (Spain) and 2015 (Belgium). The photo above is her …
Ella Wins Gold at the World Champs in Claverham, UK! Read More »
It’s been a busy few days. On Tuesday afternoon I set off with my Australian friends Tracey Wansbrough & Frank Fitzpatrick for the ferry at Portsmouth along with our two wonderful dogs, Ella & Spud. They are borrowing our two special dogs to compete with at the World Agility Open in Oviedo, Spain – an …
Journey to the World Agility Open, Oviedo, Spain 2013 Read More »
When I started dog agility around 10 years ago now, little did I know the adventures it had in store for me. In particular, the journey that I have been on with my gorgeous and talented collie Ella, who has taken me to places and had me meet people I otherwise would never have met. …
Last week was an incredible week for Sue and I. We were fortunate enough to play host to the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand teams in their lead up to the World Agility Championships, at the Hand Equestrian Centre in Clevedon. In fact we also had a short visit from Marilyn Adams and Tia from …
IFCS World Agility Championships – an amazing week! Read More »
Now I’ve been a bit slack in getting the clips onto the computer to share, with the result that I’m not sure of the order we did them in any more! However they have been useful to me as I’ve been looking at them back and working out our success percentage after each session. Just …
At our 6th session on the 2×2’s we were training at Martin Tait’s venue, and I forgot to bring my video camera away with us! So I was back to record keeping as we went along rather than the luxury of watching the footage back and recording from that. It’s going really, really well and …
Too many shows have gone by now where we’ve had weave problems, and I’m just not prepared to carry on as we are. To give you a percentage, from the shows we’ve entered this year we only have a 40% success rate for the weaves – that’s showing me that we need to re-think. So …
