Dog Dancing Show - Angel !!

This morning me and Angel headed off to the 'Royal Jersey Showground' to take part in a doggy dancing competion! It is held once every 2years ... So i thought i would give it a go, and i am pleased i did.

I was entered in 'Starters Freestyle' The song i performed to was 'Grease - We go together' It is a nice up-beat song =)

The result ........ 1st!! I was the only Jersey competitor all the other's mostly being from Belgium which was great so meet new people, who were all really nice. I am over the moon that Angel won because we have been doing it for many years now and she deserves it :)

We also took part in the evening show which is open to the public (this was very nerve racking!!) But it wasn't to bad in the end.

I love these photo's of Angel with her trophie (just look at the faces she pulls haha) ...

Angel doing her Elvis impression (which she does very well )

Tired Angel waving lol

Her lovely trophie

Paws Agility Show

Today i had Angel entered into 5 classes at the paws show. She ran well in the first class (helter skelter) But i felt as if she was struggling when jumping near the top of the course it was if she was stuff, but later in the day this seemed to dissapear.

Angel does NOT like running in the rain, and there was quite a few showers during the day but luckly the weather was on our side and we just managed to dodge the rain during our runs woo =)

One problem that was occuring was her .... Weaves!!!! I think it is because i don't trust her to get her entry in the ring but in training i will let her find the entry independenatly (I must stop getting in her way) She can do the weaves perfectly as long as i let her find the entry instead of me using my hands to guide her in! On a more positive note her speed has really improved in the weaves so i am very pleased =)



Overall it was a really good day Angel was running well so i am very pleased! She is shattered now though and we have a Heelwork to music competition tomorrow so plently of rest for her tonight unfortunately it means missing agility tomorrow but the Heelwork to music competion is only once every 2years over here so i can't really miss it! I will post tomorrow on how the competition went.


I have got 2 of her runs on video, unfortuantely i didn't get the last class on video which was pairs which she got a 1st in.



It won't let me upload the video yet - I will try and get them on asap

Happy 6th Birthday Angel

Today is Angel's 6th birthday the past 5 and a bit years seem to have flown by........

I was looking back at some photo's of her when i first got her at 8months old (how shes changed!) Unfortunately i don't have any of these photo's on my laptop :(

For her birthday Angel got one of her favourite treats which are these sausages joined together, and for her tea she will get her favourite ... "bolied fish" and of course Jazz will have that to otherwise she will be sooo jealous haha!

Here are Angel's birthday cards =) ..

Jazz - Obedience Update

Well Jazz adores her obedience more then agility i think. When ever im on a walk with her or she is at agility training she always starts doing heelwork!! I havent actually done any obedience training with her for a couple of months, i have just been working on her obedience.

Last wednesday at agility training Lynn ran her around a course and Jazz doesnt do the weaves yet so Lynn just walked past them with her and guess what Jazz decided to do!?!? Heelwork lol she just can't resist (well we know what Jazz wants hear sport to be haha)


Here is a really short video of Jazz doing her heelwork with Lynn ..

Angel and her winnings!!

This morning i took all her trophies/crystals of the the display shlef and took them into the kitchen with a few of her rosettes. I wanted to get a nice pic of her with her prizes she has won, so here it is ...

New Photo's

Just thought i would post some photo's of Angel & Jazz, which Tina a lady from agility kindly took! She takes superb photo's here are a few ...

The gorgeous Angel

Angel running (Wind swept)

Jazz, Me, Angel

Jazz - Agility Training 13months old

Tonight i took Angel & Jazz to 'Paws' for training. Jazz was first up at 7.30 - We were working on snakes and pullthroughs on the first section. I really need to get used to handling Jazz different from how i handle Angel because she is a collie she rely's heavily on my body movement! Tonight taught me i really need to use my shoulders and arms even more because i was giving her the wrong signals!!

I was happy on how she was running, she seemed to really enjoy herself which is the main thing.

On the second section we had the A-Frame (which needs lots more work on getting her targets) She is faster on more open courses. I find she seems to work alot better when the jumps are well spread out, or it could be because i need to do more grid work her! She was faster on this course as it was more open!

All in all i am very pleased with how she was at training tonight! I need to work on my body language and hand signals.

Angel was such a little star!! She was like a little rocket i can't even begin to explain how pleased i am with her, she was motoring through all the courses. Her weaves were amazing (she ran in to a pole though bless her, she couldn't stop herself)

I had a problem with Angel's weaves she would jump out of the last 2 poles!! When i was training with Jane James she told me to add an extra 4 weave poles onto the normal 12 so it will teach Angel to weave no matter how many weaves are out. Which i think is a really good idea!

Here is a video of Jazz at training tonight...