K9 freestyle dancing dogs

Little Tikka is now 14 weeks old and is growing up fast. She has been in the displays since i got her at 7 weeks and i am very pleased with how she has worked. At many of the events the...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2011/06/tikkas-growing-up.html

Life has been so hectic recently as my house sale went through and that meant i had to get packing pretty quickly as they wanted to be in by the end of May. As i have been grooming at home ...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-need-holiday.html

In the last entry i mentioned i was on the move well.......it all was going well 8 weeks into the sale and then the buyers pulled out grrrrrr. I suppose it has to be expected as the reason they p...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2011/04/life-since-crufts.html

Apologies for not updating the blog recently but life has been rather hectic, as of course the start of March is always Crufts dog show. This year it seemed to have come round too quickly for my ...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2011/03/crufts.html

Since the semi finals life for the dogs has been fairly quiet as i always like to give them a good rest after the build up to a competition. That doesn't mean i have had a rest as Feb has seen th...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2011/02/busy-time.html

The semi finals for Crufts took place on the 29th January at the KC building at Stoneleigh. As the semis got closer i was beginning to regret having to perform three routines all on one day. Life...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2011/01/pogo-and-whizzy-qualify-for-crufts.html

Not long now until the Crufts semi finals on the 29th January at the Kennel Club building. I keep thinking i should be doing more training but practise seems to have gone OK and a lot of things t...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2011/01/not-long-now-until-crufts-semi-finals.html

Well luckily last night it rained so all the snow has gone which is great on one hand but a pain on the other as i took the dogs for their walk first thing and they came back very muddy. Hopefull...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/12/at-last-snow-has-gone.html

Well if you are in the UK you probably have had some of the white stuff around the place. The snow arrived overnight for us and it was quite deep, so i had to clear some grass for little Betty as...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-snow-joke.html

At the end of November i had entered Whizzy at the PNM Guilford show in advanced freestyle as this was the first show she could compete at this level. This advanced class was also the last Crufts...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/11/whizzy-qualifies.html

On the 20th of November i was teaching a day workshop for a group in Somerset. As i often do i followed this with one of the cabaret evenings where i show some of the training behind the dogs and...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/11/cracking-demo-night.html

Although we should really be practising our freestyle ready for the semis, i still find time to practice Pogos sheepdog work and go for lessons. The last few lessons Pogo has been doing well and ...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/11/three-steps-forwardone-back.html

On the last weekend in October i made my way to Belguim to teach a two day workshop. The first day was for advanced handlers and i was very privileged to have top handlers from a few countries at...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/11/back-to-training.html

Today was the first time i have been out and worked the potential HTM routine for Pogo. To be honest i have been doing more practise for her freestyle routine so i suddenly felt i should just tak...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/10/errrrrwe-need-to-do-some-more-practice.html

Well today i went and did my first real serious practice session with Pogo ready for January. I had recently taken delivery of a couple of props so there was not much room in the van. Although i ...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/10/first-real-practice.html

Last weekend saw me teaching in Sweden where i was made very welcome and had a lovely time. Many of the handlers had progressed their dogs moves well with the "in" move being the dog walking side...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/09/back-from-sweden.html

Well I'm not sure where the summer has gone as it only feels like a few weeks ago we started doing the outside demos again but actually it was back in May when i started the arena shows. I have j...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-do-you-do-on-weekend-off.html

In the last week i have been getting into Pogos two routines a bit more as i think i am panicking a bit that i haven't done as much as i normally do by now. It all started with the HTM routine wh...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/09/routine-panic.html

As i mentioned in the last post the bank holiday weekend was going to be busy. At the PNM competition i was glad that Whizzy won her intermediate class especially as it was being filmed for a doc...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/09/quick-update.html

Its been a hectic few weeks with the sat nav being used a lot to navigate us to various venues around the country. We had a brilliant weekend at the Garlic Festival on the Isle of Wight where the...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/08/sat-nav-is-working-hard.html

Recently i was performing displays at a garden party at Charleston manor where one of the spectators was videoing the event. This event was different from the normal show i do as i often use chil...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-k9-freestyle-display-videos.html

Whizzy is just over two now and earlier this year she won both of the novice freestyle classes that i had entered her in. At the end of July we made our way down to the HTM show in Cornwall as i ...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/08/whizzys-double-win.html

The last couple of months has seen me really not be as enthused as normal about freestyle. Normally by now i have all the props and routines worked out for next year but for various reasons i hav...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-my-freestyle-mojo-back.html

Recently i have been contemplating what freestyle should be and what i think it might be turning into. When i first came into the sport there were routines where the moves were all relevant to th...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/07/is-it-freestyle-or-trick-show.html

Well no matter what dog training discipline you do you must have had one of those sessions where you find yourself saying"why do i bother". Then following that you wonder why you are doing this a...

http://k9freestyle.blogspot.com/2010/07/not-good-lesson.html