Time For Some R & R

For the last few weeks I've been winding down my training with the girls. I entered them in the ADAA trial on Sat (pretty much because I LOVE the courses!!) but now it's over they're going to have a good looong break!

My plan had been to give them a good 6wks off, no training just swimming and fooling around at the park and teaching them some more tricks. But I forgot about having booked a private lesson with Daisy Peel on running contacts at the beginning of Feb! DOH! So it's only 4 weeks off for Liryk......... well that was until her performance at the ADAA trial. Oh My Lord!!!!! I don't know if it was the full moon but she was MENTAL!

AND popped out at number 10 weave pole on nearly EVERY single run!!! And to top it off Epic decided that if number 10 was good enough for her sister then it was definitely good enough for her :-/ So we missed out on a couple of Q's with both girls, due to the new found "weaver" issue :-(  And by the end of the night I had the issue then, with NOT trusting my dogs to do their weavers.... what a cycle!!

So I basically woke up Sunday morning on a mission..... to put my trust back into my dogs because deep down I DO KNOW they can do all 12 weave poles. Seriously if they can do 10 what's another 2?? Nothing right??

And I guess I might have been a little extreme in my proofing with Liryk.....I might have put a tunnel a metre off the third last pole kind of inticing her to come out.....but she got it!! So then I decided to make it soooo basic (I thought, maybe that's the problem, Liryk is thinking there's nothing out there "trying" to lure her out so maybe nows the time she CAN skip a couple at the end!!) Nope she got all her weavers then too :-/  So I've put the weekend's weird antics down to just that.... WEIRD!!!

So we're off to chill out for the next month. And the perfect way to start your doggie holidays is with a birthday so HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY EPIC!!!!!

And Happy New Year everyone!!! :-D