We've just got back into the house after a VERY long day. we set of at 6am this morning and after a 2hour drive arrived at the Rotherham venue. even though Ronny and Maisy are seasoned flyball dogs, Dylan and Keisha are onlyjust beginning and today was the first time we had competed with the four dogs together.
In the first set of races Dylan and Keisha really suprised us and we had a perfect score winning 3 out of 3 races and a new time of 20.57. In the next set of races it all went to pot and the greeness of the dogs showed through, it was a set back and we lost that set of races. we then broke for lunch and took the time to evaluate the dogs and decided we just needed to give them a bit more space to build on their confidence.
This tac tic seemed to work and our fabulous dogs went on to work their socks off and won the remaining 3 races with a new fastest time of 20.38.
I must add that we had the services of a brilliant new boxloader -Sheila, and a very special ball girl and video technician Tully, without who's help we would not have achieved such a brilliant place - we were joint 1st with 2 other teams, in that situation it goes down to fastes overall time, we came 2nd overall!! what a fantastic day with great dogs and great company.
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