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Wooo! Thats awesome, hey Tiggy you can train your pup to do it, with Tonka as a dad she'll be a good one for dog sports!

Gamby, I saw you guys wont be there, a pity but you are right, good on the handler for putting their dog first

Less than 2 weeks to go! Eeeeek!

Good point, I think Im not gonna be able to do either!

Yeah I reckon, its huge! 46 teams I think

We're not gonna be able to walk on Monday!

2 weeks today!!!!! :D :D

Will do tiggy!

Agility dogs and yarrowfell I'll keep an eye out!

We were talking about minpin's the other saying saying we thought they'd make a cool height dog!

You can start training before 12 months, you just cant compete until 12 months

You can start teaching things like recalling to the tug/reward, and sending them to a stationary ball and have them return and swap ball for tug/reward

I used to set up a ball on an unturned pot plant or bucket, and hold them back and rev them up to go get the ball, then get them coming back as quick as I could

You can also start teaching the turn on a board resting against a wall (about the size of a door mat will do) to get them used to turns and turning on an angled surface similar to the box, and then once they will turn on that you can attach a piece of velcro and get them turning and grabbing the ball from the board

This site has great info

http://bcsportdogs.com/Turns.html

Valley, they are trying to get it going arent they?

Can always start training them in anticipation, easy to start the basics, let me know if you want any info

Oh what a shame Terra! We should be at 2011 too, I'll have to make sure we meet then

Tassie, I will definitely look out for them, we're glad they are coming over for it!

So everyone, the 2010 Supercoat Australian Flyball Championships are coming up fast

November 13 & 14 at the Dandenong Show

Who's gonna be there competing? Who's gonna come down to watch the biggest Nationals so far?

I'll be there with my 2 staffords, Eddie and Molly, they are looking forward to it, and so am I

After changing my babies nappy I took him out to the lounge, walked back into his room, to find eddie on top of the change table eating the poo :D

We have a midwife in our team, so I figured I'd be ok!

At 39 weeks pregnant my husband had to work on a saturday (he'd been handling for me as my 2 are completely mental) so I ran both my dogs at flyball training

Yep they do all the tome, if there are 2 beds they will usually snuggle on the one

They also Snuggle With the cats and us too!

Im glad to hear he's on the improve, it sounds similar to my stafford boy, who was in emergency last year with a bloated stomach and refusing food, after a few xrays they couldnt see any blockages but he had pockets of gas in his intestines that werent moving, they opened him up straightened everything out but they still werent sure exactly what was wrong or why it had happened, he was ona drip for a while to rehydrate and he didnt come out of the anaethetic well, it was very scary, but he's all good now and it hasnt happened since (touch wood)

Just thinking, Ive been lucky with molly cos she scented my track pretty quickly, I think Ed will be a different story when he learns

Havent done much obedience for a while, been a slacker, but I took this vid this morn of Ed's newest trick

Tiggy, looking good! I wouldnt say too fast, you have a fast pace but the dogs arent struggling with it, and alot of people walk far too slow and make it difficult for themselves in slow pace

I watched a friend of mine strip down and get in the dam at kcc to get the wubba back!

I also lost the material bit of one in the same dam, and 6 months later in summer when the water level was lower we were walking around the other side and all dried up in the mud we found it

Yeah I started with heeling, but Id heel forward, drop it without her seeing after 2 or 3 steps and then take another 2 or 3 and send her to find it

At home with hide and seek Id make her wait in a different room to me so she was used to waiting and not seeing me with the article and where it was put

Once she was reliably finding it with a short heel, I would put one turn in, say 6 steps drop, 3 steps turn 3 steps send, I kept it really short and built it up slowly

Talking about it now I need to get back into it!

ETA same as TSD, wanted her to know that find means use your nose too, so used that at home and out

I'm no expert at all, but Mollys started doing hers, and we started (after the hide n seek games at home) on grass, with a few steps at a time, getting longer as she got the picture, making sure she was using her nose, and we've gotten up to a bit of a heel pattern with some turns with success

Sometimes I get someone else to drop the article, but other times I just drop it down my leg as we heel

How did you do it with Leo?

Molly loves her food bag tug (tug it) from clean run, with a chicken wing in it http://www.cleanrun.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...mp;ParentCat=29

For Ed its his french linen tug from k9 pro, weve got the 1 handled one, but am gonna get the 2 handle soon for easier grip for the humans http://www.k9pro.com.au/categories.php?cat...gle-Handle-Tugs

:D Well done to both you and Gambit!

It looks like it'd be nice to bite!