A day at the races :D....*With pics*

[cloverfdx]

Flyball races that is ;). Well today was our first Flyball comp back for the season and oh what a day.

The weather started out beautiful and sunny but by mid morning the rain started to come down quite heavily, we had to stop racing for half and hour and have a meeting to see who wanted to continue racing and who did'nt (For the dogs safety) it was decided we would halve the number of races and finish early.

Our gorgeous dogs ran practicly fault free all day, even our 2 first time competitors Maggie (BC mix) and Henry (Black Labby) did exceptionally well and not once did they cross the centre line and get done for interference. :D

We had 3 teams of 5 dogs entered the results were.....

Ballarat*Eureka 1st place division 2.

Ballarat*Eureka Gold Diggers (The team Clover is in), 1st place division 3.

And our green team, Older dogs, Some new dogs and dogs recovering from illness or injury get put into this team. They did great all day i am so proud of them.

Ballarat*Eureka Sovereigns, 2nd place division 4. :D

Photos coming.......

[cloverfdx]

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The ring we were competing in.

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New dog Maggie, not once did she try to take off after any other dogs. :D
(And she is super fast)

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Old reliable Meg, i am not happy with her at the moment she attacked Clover just before we were leaving for home.

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Cuddles for Maddy :D.

A couple more coming....

[cloverfdx]

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Go Pippie Go.

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"Mum i wanna race NOW" ;)

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Posing with her First place ribbon when we got home.

Also Elvis was VERY well behaved today he was so happy to spend the day with his best doggy and human friends, and watch some Flyball (And he wanted to race aswell) ;).

Overall it was great day and i cannot wait untill our next comp which is in about 2-3 weeks at the Adelaide Royal Show (an 8 Hour drive).

Flyball addict ?, Nah ;).

[dappledoxie]

That's great! Thanks for sharing those pics, Flyball looks so fun! :D

[DogLover9501]

I agree, that looks so fun!!! Clover is adorable, as always, that boxer is pretty cute, too ;) :p

[BCBlondie]

Looks like so much fun!!! :D Congrats to Clover for getting first place!! :eek: You go girl! :D

[K9soul]

Great pictures! I love last one of sweet Clover posing with her ribbon. Way to go Clover! :D

[dukedogsmom]

Love the pics! Clover with her ribbon is my favorite as well. Glad Elvis did so well. Congrats!

[captain]

Fantastic!!!!!

Seems like everyone had a ball ............!!!:D

[cloverfdx]

Thankyou to those who replied :D. Yes Flyball is a fun sport, the dogs go crazy for it.

[anna_66]

Wow, that would be so much fun! I'd love to be able to watch them:D

Congrats on your ribbon Clover!

[cloverfdx]

Thankyou for taking the time to reply Anna :D.

BTW, Clover was fine after Meg attacked her if anyone wanted to know/ were concerned. ;)

[captain]

Originally posted by cloverfdx
BTW, Clover was fine after Meg attacked her if anyone wanted to know/ were concerned. ;)

Thanks! I did forget to ask about darling Clover ........

[cloverfdx]

No problems Michelle at least someone cares. :)

[Samantha Puppy]

TOo cool1 I wish they had stuff like that around here. Samantha is so freakin' fast, I know she'd do well!

[cloverfdx]

Jaime, you should give it a go. Does Samantha like tennis balls?

[Samantha Puppy]

Sure. They're toys, so she likes them. There are two things though - one, I don't know of anything like this around here; and two, Samantha can't go off-leash. She'd be in California in the blink of an eye!

[cloverfdx]

Samantha can't go off-leash. She'd be in California in the blink of an eye!
The off leash thing is all in the training, i said the same thing about Clover.

Have you tried the club finder at www.flyball.org that might be a help and the clubs would be able to advise you of any pre training needed. :D

[Samantha Puppy]

No, but I will now! Thanks! :)

[cloverfdx]

Good luck in your search. :D

[RobiLee]

This Flyball sounds like so much fun! I don't think I've ever seen it before. What a great way to spend time with your pups and get some competeing in as well. I would love to see it.

Congrats and Well Done!!

Robin :)

[cloverfdx]

Thanks Robin :). If it was not for Flyball the bond i have with Clover may not have ever formed (We were having canine/ human problems) but once we learnt to work together everything fell into place.

[GoldenRetrieverLover_01]

people, can you go to dog games and post, no one has posted yet;)

[Samantha Puppy]

Anywho, BACK ON TOPIC... :rolleyes:

Thanks for the link, cloverfdx. I am going to do some research and find out what they have in my area. :)

[K9soul]

Rhiannon, when you mentioned the dog attack, you said so little about it I figured it was nothing too serious or that the dog was gotten control of as soon as she started to attack. I certainly did not mean to seem like I didn't care or brushed it off, I guess I just thought if it had been too traumatic an event you would have elaborated more. I am glad Clover is okay, hope she wasn't too traumatized. What exactly happened? I guess I just thought it was one of the normal snarl/snapping incidents that happen at times and not a serious attack.

[Samantha Puppy]

Was it serious? I didn't get that either... :( What happened?

[cloverfdx]

Jessica thats ok, Clover and Elvis were tied up to one of the dog trailers whilst we were packing everything up and Meg and her Mum (Human) were walking past and out of nowhere Meg latched onto Clovers neck luckily Clover did not fight back.

When Meg first started at Flyball she was ALWAYS Challenging and fighting with Clover we allowed them to get it out of their systems (Meg won Clover backed down and no-one was hurt) and had no problems at all up untill a few months ago Meg has started her crap again but Clover always backs down now.