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Wasn't crufts great? I was unlucky enough to get Ill for the whole weekend so I couldn't actually go on Friday like I planned :(, BUT It meant I could spend all weekend watching it and made feeling rubbish not nearly as bad as it could do :). Even Kizzy enjoyed watching it!

So anyways just a couple of videos I meant to put up from before Sheltie Show. He was back to speed which was great, he forgot the seesaw once and has kind of forgotten funny turns since October... but that just a really fun thing to work on a bit more now :D. His dog walk has definitely got better as well

Sheltie Show

So we had our first show of the year over the weekend at sheltie show! It was lots of fun, with some very nice people and LOTS of shelties. With the winter we've had with Rommys injury I wasnt even sure we would make it to there so I was just amazingly pleased just to go and get to run! We only started jumping him on Medium height for the first time 5 days before the show as I wanted to bring him back reasonably slowly, but Rommy being Rommy it wasnt a problem at all and he was looking even better than he did before all his problems. So off we went to sheltie show, this is a picture before the show... he was already tired...

And this was him and his funny tired face after...

So what happened between these two photos I hear you ask?!
WELL he was a very good boy and worked really well, even when we made a few mistakes he carried on and worked through. His brain used to totally turning off if he had to stop for anything was a big problem of his last year. Another thing I was really pleased with he didnt go and visit a judge/ring party even when there was a judge standing right by the weaves! WOO! A couple of not so good things were that he did pop out the ring twice but once i got him back he did work really well so not all bad :). Another great thing was he did get one clear in the 1-3 Steeplechase managing not to go visit his friend Sally who was sitting at the end of a tunnel and he even got 1st place! Clever puppy! 

We had even got to try pairs with Rhoda and Brodie! I got a bit lost on the course but we had great fun anyways they were such good boys! Rommy loved getting to be in the ring with his Toad friend and Auntie Rhoda!

A successful first show of the year I'd say! Very proud of my little man! On other news Rommy got his first sunbathe of the year in today! Maybe the weather will stay and he might get another one tomorrow :). Also Kizzy seems to have grown so much already, she seems to have got very long legs. Maybe this is her Maine Coon-ness starting to appear?! The vet seemed to think shell end up as a normal size cat... personally I'm thinking/hoping she be a bit more like her Maine Coon dad! Good luck to Rommy if she does :D lol.

Byeeeeeeee 

Kizzy!!!

Say Hullo to Miss Kizzy!

Kizzy is a 12 week old Maine coon X tabby we got last week. Shes completely bonkers and full of beans and quite a bit of a diva! Shes a very bossy and confident little girlie, she settled in straight away. She came from a household with 5 collies so she has had no problem getting used to Rommy and he already knows shes the boss!

This was her last night discovering some windchimes and she was getting very angry about not being about to reach them. Sorry about the bad recording the ipad cover is in the way abit but i had to get it out quickly so i didnt miss it, shes just so cute!

Theyve been so much fun watching them today. Kizzy has been having a mad day after recovering from her vaccinations on Friday so theyve been chasing each other around this morning and a lot of this evening. Kizzy thinks its the best game ever, espically getting to pounce on Rommy. Poor boy.

We've all missed Lily so much in the last few weeks, she was such an amazing personality and I know Rommy has been missing her not being here. Its so nice to see that he loves finding a cat that will actually play with him. Lily was much to civalised to do such things after all she was positive she wasnt actually a cat but a actual person. Bless her.

Its going to be my mission in the next few days to try and get some video of the blue and furries zooming around playing its just so funny!

And Rommy news, hes been doing so well at training lately, so happy with how well hes come back after being off for so long. He's got his first show on Sunday at sheltie show! very excited, hes not going to be doing any agilities because we've still got work to do on his running a frame but just very excited to get him back out there again :). Its going to be our first try and pairs aswell with Rhoda and Brodie so fingers crossed he doesnt get too distracted with all the shelties around.



Bye for now :)

Agility

Hello little blogger, I have managed to get alot of videos but haven't posted them... So here we go. Rommy is now back at training only doing baby things but he's absolutely loving, he's a bit wild but Blimey he's got faster.... Hopefully when the jump heights go up again I might be able to keep up abit easier again. I've also started the fun task if retaining his aframe to a running contact. Hes only done a couple of lessons of it but he seems to be getting it really well. He didnt miss any on the low a frame last time.... Clever Rommy. Fingers crossed his awesomeness carries one with it :).  

Here a video or 2 of Rommys first lessons back in the puppy class. 

                                                                                 

One thing I have noticed is that he's paying a lot more attention which is great. I think some of its just his confidence from not doing anything for so long but hopefully some of its from the all the heelwork we did and we can keep it up because he really loves his heelwork now... Bless him.Thinking about having a go at obedience at some point in the future :)

Video from his second puppy class back 

Going to actually remember to take my camera to training next time so i can get some good video of his running a frame hopefully :)

Bye for now :)

Good News

So this week we've actually had some good things out the way and just some general good news. Rommys back is finally better! YAY! The whole thing has been going on since November and he hasnt done any proper training since October! It has been a very long time and I have been working really hard with him and he seems to finally have worked :). Cant wait to get him back out there, with any luck the break will have done his brain good. We've done a lot of heelwork in the meantime which have already really helped his focus so we've definitely got some positives out of such a long injury! The other good thing is I finally got his second measure done. We went with Rhoda and Dolly over the weekend and they both measured medium :). Apart from all that Rommy has absolutely loved all the snow we've had, spends most of his time eating it and trying running around like a crazy thing. We went for some very nice walks with friends even though Rommys legs did snowball really badly he still loved it. 

with all the snow and ice we did some of trick training, I decided to try and teach him to get into a suitcase.He was a bit confused what the hell I was trying to get him to do to begin with but he actually loves getting in or on things so he picked it up really quickly in the end :). Managed to get a video of it thanks to Hazel. 

One other thing I've decided to work on is retraining Rommys A frame to a running contact. With all the back problems hes had over the last few months I felt it would be better for him, so they're should be a few videos to put on here in the next few weeks. Heres a quick video of his second go at running on a plank, the plank isnt very long and Im working on getting a long bit of carpet at the moment :) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3a1ZeHgWVo


And heres just a picture of Rommy enjoying his Burns bag 

CYA!

Horrible weekend

We had pretty horrible weekend to be honest. Our lovely Lily cat passed away saturday evening. We love and miss her very much, the house is not the same without her there. There will never be a cat quite like her.

The good and The bad

Hello, so I hope if anyone's reading this that your having a good 2013 so far and it's bringing lots of good things to you :). So far as far as Mr Rommy is concerned its good and bad. His rib injury is fingers crossed all better now but bad that hes still got a few little tweaks to clear up. Although I am very pleased that he is very nearly there and we've got a lot of fun strengthening things to do. 

I am very excited about this year of shows and training, a lot to look forward to! Lots of work to get him back into agility and also decided it would be best for Rommy to retrain his aframe so fingers crossed that isn't too bad! So hopefully ill have a few training videos to put up in the next few weeks. 

And just because he's very cute here's a picture of rommy having a nap with his fave Christmas toy!