Bootylicious boxers and Jess and Stig!!!: Tiring weekend!!

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Tiring weekend!!

Last weekend we packed the car and left for Scotland, we arrived about 11.30pm. We had a quick drink with our friends and then decided to find our cottage in the dark. We found it easily due to knowing the area well and had a quick explore before going to bed at 1am. The alarm went off at 5.30 am so not much sleep and we were back in the car travelling to a show. We arrived and it was minus 1 but i walked the course and it was quite a nice course not to hard not to easy. Then we walked the dogs who didn't notice how cold it was. Jess did a lovely run and she was very excited about being back in the ring and she went clear. She was the fastest in her class so she should have won but the show had decided to put all the dogs in together so we were competing against all the large and small dogs as well so we didn't win!!! She went on to have 3 clears and and a round with 5 faults due to her sniffing in the weaves so that's her best ever so i am very pleased!!

We travelled back to the cottage with the temperature know at 0 it was very chilly. We had chance to explore the cottage and its massive garden which had a stream at the bottom. The dogs loved it and me and Katy took them for another walk so they were very tired. We went to our friends for tea and the dogs happily had a nap. We woke on Sunday to 2 inches of snow and due to the windows in the cottage being very low the dogs could see the snow and where very excited about it and couldn't wait for us to get ready. We spent an hour playing in the garden and taking photos until the camera ran out of battery. We spent so long playing we were late vacating our cottage!! We then drove to a walk we had spotted and fancied doing and spent another hour walking in the snow the dogs especially loved the golf course in the snow. Back in the car and to the village where our friends live, we were due to have dinner in there restaurant at 12.30 so we took the dogs for another walk that we love next to the river where in the summer Gemma normally has a swim. We had a lovely dinner (roast beef) perfect for the temperature we were braving. Me and Katy went and rode her ponies before it got dark and had a good old chin wag. Then back to the dogs they had a little play in Katy's garden but were very tired apart from Diesel playing with an apple in the snow that she had found all by herself on the petanque course. We decided that it wasn't going to snow anymore and we wouldn't get stuck so we'd have to start the drive home. We left at 5.30 pm and got home about 10.30pm and went to bed.

Monday mourning we were up early to go for a walk with my grandparents dogs and my uncles dogs so we had 8 dogs altogether. They had a lovely time although Jess couldn't give a monkeys about it aslong as she can go off sniffing.

Training was abit of a disaster last night Gemma just refused to jump so she went back in the car as she couldn't be persuaded at all so that was fine and Diesel was very very slow although Diesel did do some jumps single poled for the first time and she went straight over so i was chuffed with that. Jess on the other had was fine and flew round. I think Gemma is a sore from the travelling as we went to put her in the car and she cried out and she doesn't run up the stairs like she normally would so there having a couple of days of chilling and glucose powder in there water although Jess keeps drinking it so she'll be as high as a kite!!

I was very lucky that at the end of the training session Emma let me run Maisy (Manic Maisy) who is super quick and off her head. Good God did i have to run but she went really well for me and i was really pleased and it was so much fun running something that works ahead of you. I was buzzing all the way home in the car trying to persuade Ian to let me have a collie, i think i need more time to work on him. Thanks Emma for letting me run her it was really good to run a different dog as you can learn different things from different dogs!!

Also thanks to Katy and Brian for a great weekend! P.S I am very proud to say i didn't get totally pi**ed which is a first a bit merry but still in control, i know its hard to believe!!

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Jess's achievements!!!

Qualified for crufts in YKC agility
1st in an agility round winning out of Grade 1!!!!!!
1st in an agility round winning out of Grade 2!!!!!
1st in an agility round winning out of grade 3!!!!!!
1st in an jump and go
1st in an agility round at a limited show
2nd in agility
2nd in a jumping round
3 2nd in a Jumping rounds
4 3rd in Jumping round
4th in an aglity round
4th in steeplechase
5th in a jumping round
6th in an agility round
6th in a Jumping round
Qualified for The Agility Club medium starters agility challenge!!
2nd in the Brickyard boomerangs flyball team
Silver Good citizen
So far.....................

Doggie calender!!!

March 13th Crufts
Jess - senior agility
March 14th Crufts
Diesel- Dogstable
March 20th RVA
Diesel
March 21st Border Collie club
Jess, Diesel and Gemma
March 28th Barking mad
Jess, Diesel and Gemma
April 3rd Midlands border collie club utility day
Jess, Diesel, Gemma and Stig
April 4th and 5th Easter egg gility
Jess, Diesel and Gemma
April 10th and 11th Spring at Shuttleworth camping
Jess, Diesel and Gemma
April 24th and 25th WBSDS camping
Jess, Diesel and Gemma
May 21st Training with Alistair Bray
Gemma
May 22nd and 23rd Belvoir Steam Castle camping
Jess, Diesel and Gemma
May 29th 30th and 31st Dog vegas camping
Jess, Diesel and Gemma
June 5th and 6th PADS Camping
Jess, Diesel and gemma
June 12th and 13th North Derbyshire camping
Jess, Diesel ad Gemma

My story!!!!!!!

My doggie story started when i was young. My gran got a beautiful dog called Brandy. She was my first dog love and believe me i loved that dog like nothing else. She had abit of collie in her and god knows what else. My Gran got her from a puppy and she was £25 you may say bargain but she had her problems, we were just glad she came to a home where she was going to be looked after and loved. I would spend every weekend at my grans and all my holidays. I can't remember a great deal just sat in my grans garden playing with her. We took her puppy training and she hid under the chair and shook, to be fair she didn't get any better even though she was very well socialised. Grandmas garden was about 3/4 acre and she was very proud of it. I started dabbling at getting Brandy doing abit of jumping probaly because i loved ponies and was pretending she was one, but soon realsied she was really good. My gramp made me a little dog walk and seesaw and some weaves and jumps. We spent hours playing and she really enjoyed it and just wanted to learn more. I didn't have a clue what i was doing but it was so much fun!! Unfortunately she had epilepsy and she got to the stage where it was too much and she was put down at home at the age of 3. She had a short life but she was the most loving dog and she was my best friend and i have tears in my eyes as i am writing this. Her fits were getting closer together and they where awful to watch as she was such a happy dog and was starting to suffer. I will never forget her or the day the phone call came, but that was when i know that was it, i wanted dogs, just had to persuade the parents!!!!!!!

My Gran went a while before getting another dog and it was horrible, i felt really empty, i'd lost my best friend and going to Grandmas was hard!! She had always had dogs and generally got a couple (wonder where i get that from). At that time they had all passed away so it was very queit but we all felt that we could never replace Brandy and where scared off buying a puppy with the same problems as i don't think any of us could go through that again. Eventually my uncle put my Gran in the car and said hes found some labrador puppies which she'd always wanted. He'd done his research so the puppies where from a good breeder. So the puppy was named Sammy. She was cool and completely the opposite to Brandy. Brandy followed me everywhere and Sammy as you can imagine went anywhere and everywhere. I took her puppy training and we did really well but she was never going to be Brandy and was so different. Sammy is quite lazy so i never did anything else with her as she was very happy to potter around the garden. She is know 8 and all seems like it was yesterday she was a puppy.

I'd met Ian and we'd been going out for a year or so and a mate of mine that id seen at the pub had mentioned he'd got some puppies if i knew of anyone that wanted them. They where springer spaniel puppies and he showed me photos on my phone and a little spark went off, i wanted one!! Thinking about it know a spaniel is not your first dog especially when we were still living with parents but he ho. We had managed to persuade Ians parents and my parents were splitting up at the time which is probably why i wanted a puppy something else to think about. I think know if we didn't have Jess i don't know how i would have coped with the situations that where facing me and Ian. We went to see the puppies and fel in love with Jess, there was 3 left 2 girls and a boy. I wanted a little girl and picked the one with matching markings on both sides, aparently my friend wanted to keep her but breeders always say that!!! My Dad flipped and said i'm not getting a dog but when have i ever listened to him. My brother wouldn't believe me, we were all going through such a difficult time that no one knew how to react but i knew it was right. I showed him a picure of the puppy on my phone and he named her Jess there and then. Jess was a very interesting puppy with bags off energy. Everyone loved her which is why shes such a brat know as she was spoilt. She got alot of people through a difficult time but the most i remember was her and my grans jack russel puppy chasing each other round and round Grandmas gardens and making tracks everywhere.

We had got our own house and id been at Mitches for a couple of years. I wasn't keen on boxers at the start as id never known a boxer and they were all mad!!! But over the years i'd got the boxer bug as puppies came and went. I decided that i wanted another dog, mainly something that when i went for a walk it would want to be with me as you never see Jess in the field. As we had our own house Jess was going to peoples houses lesser so i thought she may want a friend. Ian agreed, well it probably took me a couple of weeks of nagging but i got there. Mitch had 2 litters of puppies due so i was very excited. The first litter came from Asha who was once Mitches and had gone out to a home on terms. 2 white and 1 brindle. The brindle puppy was beautiful and dark and it was Diesel. Mitch had said that the girl who had Asha wanted one of her puppies so we thought she won't the brindle puppy so didn't think anymore about her and waited for the next lot. The other litter was really light and i do love the dark brindles. Then Ashas mum had made a decision she wanted the white boy so i jumped in and had Diesel. She was a wickard puppy and she hasnt really changed that much. She was in the top kennel so when she was in the run i could see her from the yard and she'd sit there for hours staring, i should have taken that as a hint really. She was nick named the little rhino. She grew pefectly and never looked lanky or scrany. She was a perfect puppy, never messed in the house and was house trained in a matter of weeks. I took her to puppy classes and she was brilliant and everyone was impressed with her. She is perfect!!

I always knew i wanted a boxer with all the correct markings and i defiantely had the boxer bug and wanted a boxer friend for Diesel so she can play boxer games. I mentioned to Mitch i wanted another, and he was moaning about Gemma one of his year old puppies and i said she was my favorite out of his lot. Mitch said why don't i have her and i've always said to Ian if Mitch gets rid of Gemma i'm having her. Again she is a dark brindle and i will always remember her running around the yard tail between legs with loads of dogs on her heels, she was so cute and has a beautiful head. I took my dogs up the yard to meet Gemma and we took them all for a walk. Gemma was fine with Diesel but with Jess she was abit more of a challenge for her to get her head round although Jess coudn't give a monkeys. I brought her home that night and she was very quiet and slept on a blanket downstairs, she was really nervous and had no idea what was going on. She hadn't really seen the world so everything was new. It took her a long time to settle but she is defently settled know. She is my little princess and shes come a very very long way and is able to cope alot better with different situations.

Sorry for rambling on but thats the story so far until my next............