Cooo-eeee! Minimu :-)

[BellasSparklyBaubles]

Minimu - can you give me some advice please? I've been thinking for a while that I may ask Santa to bring me some agility equipment to set up at home (exciting gal that I am!!!) - what would you recommend I start off with, please?

Thanks

Nooo we'd already done our 20 min puppy walk before they arrived

I did take a leisurely stroll around the (very wet) garden. They're bloody lovely

Will report back in the morning. Can't decide whether to wear them in bed . DH thought I looked like a polo player. Not sure if that is a compliment??

Back to your boozing girls...

Listen, AW, keep your damn kinky wellies-in-bed behaviour to yourself, okay?

Something is sadly amiss in my life when I can get this excited by A Pair of Wellies.

AW I hate to say this but you do need to get out more!

Link to tunnel it is a very sturdy one and can be left outside (although it did spend some time in my kitchen when I first got it!)
tunnel

Just been out. Never has so much fun been had in rubber, leather and neoprene.

Well not at 9 o'clock in the morning.

The moral tone of this thread is heading decidedly downhill

Am just about to don my rubber and neoprene too

Minimu - that tunnel looks fab. Thank you - and your OH - for looking that out for me. Weatherproof is a big consideration where I live!

Now I am all of a quandary though - didn't realise teaching weaving was so complex! Should I do 2x2 or channel?! I guess it depends on which club I go to next year, but there's a place at Club A and am on waiting list for Club B which is slightly closer (I live in the sticks).

Angst!

WWYD?!

Neoprene and rubber off for the moment!

I usually do channel weaves but have just done 2x2 with my new dog and he picked it up so quickly. He never gets a wrong entry and loves it. I guess it does depend on the dog but I find the clicker works well on 2 x2 method.

Interesting to see what the club does. The ones I go to do a mixture of V weaves for the drive and speed and channel for the weave entry.

AW your walks sound more exciting than mine

2x2, channel or weave???

I'm only lowering the tone of the thread 'cos I have no idea what you are both talking about

• I hadn't heard of weave either

2x2 is using a clicker to teach a dog to do 2 poles at a time, I think. Channel is using nets etc either side. Am sure that is totally wrong....

Have just cut the ribbon on Phase 1 of my Dedicated Doggy Digging Area. Remembered it was on my 'to do ' list when I saw the feckers darlings hard at work in one of my raised beds

Few turns of the spade, a few biccies artfully buried and away they go....Sadly pup has decided best way to get the biccies out is to bark at them

Oh well...you can take a dog to a digging area but you can't make it....

Oops - I meant hadn't heard of 'V' either - it's all weaving, afaik.

Oh, the lingo...

Update on Digging Area - old girl half way to Auckland.

Puppy bored and has wandered off

Bella your dogs had me in hysterics! go old girl go!

V weaves are the normal weaves but at an angle so instead of being a line of straight weaves they look like v. So the dogs just run in a straight line through the weaves. Then eventually they are straightened up a bit until the dog has to "bend" to get through them
v weaves

You could use your stick in the ground poles for this and don't need to spen £135!!

Ah - I see, Minimu. Thank you for clearing that up. AW - are you following this? Or just gazing at your wellies?

Will try 2x2 I think - clickers are popular here. Old girl inadvertently learned to poo on command when I kept clicking the pup's efforts

Old girl came back in with the muddiest paws you have ever seen, but so, so pleased with herself They are all crashed out now.