Agility Classes

What fun we had last week. I took Tess to her first agility class. We had a taste at the Christmas Party with a very small course which she loved. As Welsh Springer Spaniels have a mind of their own I thought it would both stimulate her and train her so off we went on Thursday.

The course consisted of a number of jumps about a foot high, an A frame, see saw, walk way, poles to weave and finally, a tyre to jump through.

First go I led her around on the lead. Exhausting for me but a piece of cake for Tess. She cleared every jump with ease. Nothing fazed her, so second go the trainer decided to let her off the lead for the jumps. Well, she whizzed round and before I could catch her, had cleared the A frame and was ready for the see saw! I couldn’t keep up with her! Hopefully a great way to keep fit for both of us! It wasn’t a very controlled exercise by either of us but not bad for a first attempt.

Roll on next week!!!!

TESS AND THE POSTMAN

What is it about dogs and postmen?

We have a lovely man who delivers our post but every morning Tess goes completely mad, barking and running round in circles, then jumps up next to me as if to say ‘its ok - I’ll protect you’.

Once she goes to the front door and sees the post has arrived she calms down. We can even be driving through the village and pass him on his bike and she goes mad. Could it be the uniform or the bike I wonder? Luckily he likes dogs and is quite happy to say hello and give her a stroke, then she’s happy.

We were trying to find a way to stop this then someone pointed out that it is quite a good thing to have a ‘guard dog’ to put off unwanted visitors so now we just grin and bare it. Imagine a Welsh Springer Spaniel as a guard dog!

Just hope the postman (and others visitors) can live with it too!!!!!