December 2008

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and have a good new year
Well December has been quite quiet, training has been cancelled a few times due to bad weather but we have still managed to get a bit done. Dre is still making a good recovery. He is even back jumping again, he still needs quite a bit of work to build him back up to what he was, and we need to start him back at training as we have lost some technical ability (mainly our contact stays) but overall we can't believe he is jumping again. We even had a competition to go to, not that many happen over the winter months, which gave us chance to meet up with lots of our friends and we all did very well winning lots of rosettes.

The painting of Dre I received for Xmas
The painting of Snoop we received as a wedding present
Santa brought the boys loads of pressies, the best was from grandma and grandad and of course mummy and daddy. Santa also brought me a lovely painting of Dre, which matched the one we got as a wedding present from LDTC. The painting of Dre was done the week Dre was first sick with his current condition and before any of the side effects of the drugs took place so looking how he originally did

Snoop's Rosettes

Snoop attended cool agility Ltd show and gained a 3rd and two 5ths in grade 4-6 classes and then a 6th, a 9th and a clear round in grade 1-7 classes. Such a good boy and is really picking up some speed. we still need to do a bit of work on speeding up his contacts but out of seven classes this week end, only one did he make an error which was my fault for moving too quickly.

Dre's Rosette

Dre also attended cool agility Ltd show and did very well, although we made a couple of errors, mainly due to the lack of training he has been able to do or attend, he did manage a clear round, giving him a 5th place in a grade 1-3 class. Things are really looking up for him, fingers (and paws) crossed this continues well into next year (but only time will tell) Dre as always has so much energy and is really so keen to complete the course in as fast as time his little legs will take him.