Wye Valley Agility and Munster Catch Ups!

Finally managed to get the caravan out for a show!  We took the girls along with Maddie and Tilly down to Monmouth for the Wye Valley Agility show for the weekend.  This is the usual weekend for the LM Champ Show, one of our favourite shows of the year.  We did make the difficult decision to not enter this year as it was so far to go with only one dog who could enter.  We have decided not to take Trio out to any more shows and to give her a well earned rest prior to the arrival of puppies at the end of the month.  Wow, the end of the month - not too long to go now.

As it was the school holidays we were able to leave home at lunch time with the aim of arriving around 3.00pm, the earliest we were able to arrive to make the most of the time away.  We had a terrible journey and left glorious sunshine to be met with heavy rain showers, not what we expected.  We finally arrived and found a very wet field (we had been warned that the ground conditions weren't too good) and tried hard to find a spot that wasn't too boggy.  After one failed attempt at a suitable spot, my reversing does need to improve we managed to find somewhere suitable.  Quickly set up and spent the evening in some good company, friends who were also staying over.

Saturday started with a little mist and the promise of a bright day, it was quite warm but not burning sunshine which was perfect for agility.  Maddie managed two clear unplaced clear rounds in the agility but wasn't running as well as normal.  Tilly ran quite well with Tasha and picked up a few faults in each of her classes.  Julie visited with Uma (Trio's sister) and it was so lovely to see her with her mum Maddie.  She is such a lovely girl and has Maddie's lovely fun personality, love her loads.

Tasha with Maddie & Uma

We also took the opportunity to visit Ruth with Fae (Maddie's daughter from her mating with Darcy) whilst we were in the area.  She has grown up so much since we last saw her, maturing beautifully, another lovely girl.

Fae not forgetting that she did this whilst a puppy!  What a good girl.

On Sunday we woke to bright glorious sunshine and had some early runs and no clear rounds for any of us.  Maddie still wasn't quite right, but nothing obviously wrong and only a few faults picked up.  Tilly on the other hand would have rather sun bathed as she wasn't interested in doing agility at all.  Not even for a new rabbit skin tuggy toy!!

We managed attend the SMART clinic with both of the dogs, as they were running a clinic at the show.  Really pleased that we managed to with Maddie not being 100% right.  She was found to have some heat in one of her hocks, but with no lameness or pain evident something they were surprised about.  She also had some tightness in her back, which could be connected or it might not.  She has a list of treatments to be carried out each day for the next few weeks and we hope that she'll be back to full fitness again.  Tilly on the other hand was given a A1, no excuses now Tilly for not getting clear rounds at agility!!

With the good weather the ground had dried up and we had no problems at all getting out, thankfully.