Good Lil Girlie, To Show Or Not To Show?????

So off to training classes i went on wed, as always there are lots of puppies, more now as the weather starts to improve. Once i had taught the puppies in my puppy group it was roxxi's turn to come and socialize. Roxxi started her puppy classes on the 27th Jan and has come on in leaps and bounds, she is, like most pups very playful and interacts with people and other dogs great, the one thing i love about her though is the fact that when i actually train her she is nearly 100% focused on me (wherever we are.) Like all puppies she has her moments, but then she is only a puppy, but in most cases she is all about me. At training classes we have been doing The Kennel Club Good Citizen Puppy booklet. This week was roxxi's 4th week at puppy classes and my clever little girlie PASSED her puppy training!!!! To most this may not be a big thing, after all the booklets they do are made up of simple tasks such as Sit, Down, 10 sec stay, Play with puppy etc. But to me it is a big thing it means that the bits of training i have done with her she is taking on board and that although these are only simple tasks, she can do these with other 1st time puppies around that are barking, whining and playing, other people around, and people coming in and out of doors within the training hall, so, to me she's coming on in leaps and bounds. :)
We got a little purple and white Kennel Club Puppy certificate and also a lovely purple puppy test rosette!

On another note i have been contemplating whether or not to do a bit of breed showing with roxxi, although at the moment in my mind I'd only be doing it until she starts to do agility....this may change depending on how we do i guess.
I'm not really in to breed showing to be honest but i just think it would be a good experience for me and roxxi and also it'll be nice to try a bit of everything.

I've been talking to someone else who does breed showing with her collies, but also does agility so i don't think it'll hurt to try it.

I will update when i enter her first show (I'm still looking to enter one as of yet) and we'll see how it goes.

Demon and I have a private lesson with Lucy on Monday so will blog what happens after that.

New Year, New Start. . . .

Well, I really don't know how I've not got round to updating my blog.... So much has happened yet i couldn't find any spare time.

Finally got my car although not the one mentioned in the last post, got myself a little 1.4 blue corsa. I looovethis car and i love the freedom i have now I've got it :)


Since my last post De has had his 1st birthday!!! I think it was around this time we started proper agility training with Lucy Osborne near Lincoln. Demon has come on so much since being there and I'm soooo happy to be doing agility again. We have just started his weave training using channel weaves, I've not trained weaves this way before so its a learning curve for me and demon. So hopefully, now we're doing some training where other's can help with any probs i have, along with the training i do on my own during the week, we may just about get somewhere ;0)






And now for another positive note.....Over the new year i was very, very fortunate to be given another opportunity to own a "Jaff" pup. "Jaff" a.k.a WT Ch Flynntastic Red Jaff of Tarnforce was the dad of one of the dog's i used to own. So to get the chance to have another puppy from him is a dream come true and also a chance i wondered at times if I'd ever have again.


So it is with a very happy heart i introduce to you...... ROXXI.