Eve's swimming progress

Eve hasn't been out with the big dogs much at all, she is much too young to keep up and we want her to respond to us and not the dogs when we are out and about.  However we have been taking her with them now and again to build her confidence around water.  She started off on the beach exploring rock pools, and progressed on to wading through a shallow river with a few pools where she was temporarily out of depth of a stride or two.  We have now progressed on to the lake where she follows the other dogs in for a retrieve, we will continue to build on this until she can go out on her own for a retrieve.

Bank holiday Monday was spent at the North Somerset Show, where we competed in the agility with the munsters.  This was there first outing of the year at a proper agility show and the first outdoor show since Paington in August last year.  It was incredibly hot, such a change from the weather that we have been used to!  Sadly Maddie was eliminated from the 3 classes that she was entered in, her concerntration wasn't as it should have been and she was very distracted by the gunshot from the clay pigeon shoot area.  Back to some training now before her next outing!  Trio was much better having a clear round but not fast enough for the placings, 5 faults and then eliminated from the last class for back jumping (same thing as Maddie). 

We did have a fab time and it was great to catch up with friends from club and away. Eve came along and got to meet lots of different things, she wasn't keen on the Llama's but I think the feeling was mutual! 

We also took part in the gundog scurry, with Maddie having a time of 9.6 secs, and Trio 10 secs, the winning time was in the region of 8 secs so very pleased with this.  Eve also had a go with Eleanor and she ran out confidently to the dummy, but it was too heavy for her and she was struggling to bring it back even though she was trying ever so hard.  The very kind people let her have another go but with a tennis ball to help build her confidence where she did a lovely retrieve back to Eleanor.