Tyler arrived on 20th March and it was as if he'd always lived here, he's settled in so well and although the other two took a while they now play with him all the time and toys fly in all directions.
So much has happened so I'll just post pictures :)
The first time I saw him - typical man didn't do much other than eat, sleep and poo!
The day he came home - straight on Dad's chair.
Half the size of Suzi! - they are now the same size.
These were all taken in the first week.
He's been camping three times which he loves and will be able to walk round the rings at BATS where he'll be able to watch the agility.
the patter of tiny pawsteps will be heard in the Kingswood household soon :)
Jeanette Tandy's Border Terrier Billie gave birth to 8 puppies yesterday and all being well one of the little boys will be coming home to join the clan towards the beginning of April. I'm so excited but have no other info other than that she had 6 girls and 2 boys and that everything was going well last night when Jeanette phoned me but I know that it's still very early so I'm not buying anything yet.
I didn't get Tom's first run on video but I wish I had as it was great and he would have come 7th but they only placed to 6th and that was against all the large dogs. I think he was also the fastest small/medium in that class.
His next agility run wouldn't have been bad either if I hadn't put him in the wronng end of the tunnel as you can plainly see below. If it wasn't on film I would have been convinced that I hadn't flung my arm out. The bit after the dog walk was him going to have a look at the number for some reason which was straight in front of him.
This is a good walk but really muddy in the winter so not one we do much between November and February unless the ground is really frozen. I don't park in the public carpark but in the layby at the top of Polhill by the now closed Polhill Arms pub and take the bridleway around the back of the pub and across the M25 via the really high footbridge. It takes about an hour and once you are through the woods the views across Shoreham and back towards Sevenoaks are lovely. Once across the bridge I turn left and walk through the woods until it opens up and there is a field with a stile in the corner and follow the path diagonally across admiring the views on the way down plus trying to prevent Suzi from rolling in the sheep poo that always seems really fresh but I've never actually seen any sheep in the field ever. Unfortunatley today was not a good day for stopping her and this is what she looked like after I had taken the picture above. In the far corner of the field there is another stile and a path that follows the valley and overlooks the village of Shoreham and eventually passes just above the white cross carved into the hill in honour of villagers lost in WW1. If you follow this path until you get to a gate you can turn left just after it and follow the path back to the motorway bridge and back to the car. The trees are taking ages to change colour so hopefully we'll get some frost soon which may encourage them a bit as I would love to take some pictures across the valley showing all the gorgeous colours. Took a few piccies of Tom looking as handsome as ever. Plus one quenching his thirst after eating some horse poo (what lovely dogs I have)
Went to a training session with Mac & Wendy Card yesterday, it was just for small dogs and was great fun, everyone enjoyed themselves enormously and even more so when the home made cakes came out at half time.
To start with Mac and Wendy wanted us to run a complete course so they could get some idea of how we and our dogs ran. The video below is our first run and ignoring the obviously crap handling out of the tunnel see if you can see the other glaring mistake.
Tom is really creeping his dog walk at the moment so at a suggestion from Wendy I have started using his target lid again but it's now placed further away from the contact to encourage him to run through before stopping. I know it was only one session but it really seemed to work so I will be using it all this winter and we will see where we go into next season.
This was my first DIN as I've never been able to bare the thought of spending a week in my old campervan but now I have my super dooper caravan so I thought why not.
I have to say I loved the show and just two runs a day suited me as it meant I had time to just chill out with my dogs and read loads of books and drink a few G&Ts.
I didn't have any places but Tom only sniffed once in the ring and got 2 clear rounds the other rounds were things I did wrong as he worked really hard for me and Suzi was clear and in time in all her jumping rounds.
I've also come to a decision about my next dog!
I also promised myself that I would update my blog more.
Here are a few pictures that I took during the week.
