I took Pepper to our second KC show today, run by Nedlo for medium dogs!  For good measure I took my Mum who was visiting for Christmas - nothing like getting up at 6am during the Christmas holiday!

I was really nervous but we met up with some Paws at Play friends who were there to offer advice and support, and the whole event was extremely friendly and well organised.  I'd like to thank Sally, Emma, June and Martin for their support on the day, and also my Mum for videoing our runs and keeping me supplied with coffee and bacon rolls.

Congratulations to June and Kola for their second place in G1-3 Agility (G1) and G1-2 Jumping - well deserved for great runs - I honestly thought I had got rid of you into Grade 2 but am sure that it won't be long!

Well done also to Sally and Taya for their first G6 win in G1-4 Agility - I'm sure it won't be long before you get the 3 more you need for G7!

And finally to Emma for a G1-7 (G7) win with the lovley George!

So here is how the day unfolded for me and Pepper (we'll try not to le:

G1-3 Agility

The course was quite nice and I planned how I was going to run it.  I was quite worried how Pepper would be after 3 weeks off training for the Christmas holiday but she did me proud - good wait, hit all of her contacts and 12 good weaves.  Unfortunately I had underestimated the draw of a jump towards the end and didn't give a good enough instruction so she ended up taking the wrong course - eliminated -I'll continue to beat myself up for the mistake but I'm generally happy with the rest of the run:

We had a lovely Christmas morning walk around a very muddy Farnham Park this morning!

We met up with Pip, Stu, Cameron and Phoebe with Kipper, and Julie and Darron with Charlie so Ruby and Pepper had a ball running through the muddy puddles and ditches with their friends.

We were extremely lucky to have some sunshine for our walk as it rained pretty much for the rest of the day.

Here are a few pictures of our walk:

We have just come back from our first ever camping agility weekend in Tubby - the Kelluki UKA show in Cranleigh.

Mandy and Karen were lucky enough to go on Thursday night and start their competition on Friday - Ian and I went and joined them on Friday night!  I was green with envy when I arrived and they announced that they had both had first places during the day and had been awarded their first trophies!  I was very pleased for them really, but I couldn't help wanting to be in the trophy club too!!

This was Ruby's first show since her injury so I wanted to use it as an opportunity to build her confidence and be happy in a show ring so I planned to run her 'not for competition' (NFC).  This meant that I could take her tug toy into the ring and reward her with some play after small sections of the course.  She seemed a little apprehensive at first, I even struggled to get her off the start line, and she stopped half way round one course!  But each time her confidence seemed to be building.

In the meantime Pepper was faithfully doing everything I asked of her and picked up a 2nd place in Steeplechase I and then got 1st place for Steeplechase II - our first trophy!  Yay!  She also had enough points to move from Beginner into Novice for the Steeplechase runs on Sunday.

Sunday was another fantastic day.  Pepper ran her little socks off in the two Novice Steeplechase runs picking up first place in both and finished the day with first place in Beginners Jumping. 

The final run of the day for Ruby was a Steeplechase so I decided to run it for competition to see what she did without the lure of her toy.  She was slower than usual, but I was delighted to get her round the course clear.  Better than that, she was announced as the winner of the class so took home her first ever 1st place rosette and trophy! 

I really couldn't be more proud of our two little Cockapoos!  Here they are with their collection of rosettes and trophies:

And here is Pepper's first run in the Novice Steeplechase:

Had a great walk with Pip, Stu and Kipper at Farnham Park! The girls always have so much fun running around together and I think they went in every muddy puddle! Thank goodness for the Equafleece coats!

No walk would be complete without a trip to the Oat Sheaf for a well earned drink! 

A nice way to finish off the weekend!

We had a lovely Christmas with my Mum! Our Christmas Day was quite busy beginning with present opening, then a lovely, but very wet walk in Farnham Park with Pip, Stu and Kipper. After a quick bath for Ruby and Pepper it was a visit to the Oat Sheaf for a few festive drinks before returning home to get started on the dinner! Needless to say, we started eating at 5pm but it was all worth the wait! 

Looking forward to lots more walks before going back to work in January!

We met up with Pip, Stu & Kipper, Darron, Julie & Charlie, Suzi & Roxie, and Julia, John and Bailey at Bark in the Park in Fleet today!  It was a fun dog event that had been organised to raise money for charity!

We entered all of the fun competition events and took part in the 'have a go at agility' which was a good opportunity to see what Ruby & Pepper do in a different environment!  I also badgered all of the others to have a go too!

It was a really fun day - beautiful weather and great company!  Ian even managed to win a rosette for 3rd place in the Best Six Legs Competition that he entered with Ruby!  Darron & Charlie came first!

Here are some pictures of our day in the sun:

I love this one!  Adam took a great picture of Ruby jumping and then photoshopped it into this: