Goya
Well-Known Member
I posted a week or so ago about how Skye didn't seem to be settling and didn't seem interested in flyball.
Well we have just been to 2 tournaments one in Anglesey and one on the Wirral and Skye ran in starters at both. :
and got two rosettes (3rd and 4th.
HUGE improvement over the week. She is so excited to go in the ring, it is magnificent.
She is also now mixing better with Beau and jess and they are all getting on so much better.
Mind you, we had such a scare on our first night at Anglesey....................
there were about 8 of us from the same team camping and on the first night we took all the dogs for a walk together.
To this date we hadn't let Skye off her lead but w e thought in our wisdom that with so many of us together we could try it...
Wrong decision!
She spotted a dyke full off water at the bottom of the field and decided to swim across it. It was about 8-10 feet wide and deep and fairly fast flowing.
She then panicked and just ran up and down the bank the opposite side to where we were, gradually heading further and further away from the campsite with myself, husband and others calling her and following.(it looked like something from the keystone cops!)
everyone called their dogs to heel and we decided that husband and I would follow her and call and entice with a toy, but the other people were there nearby if we needed them.
after about 20 minutes and OH having been completely covered in mud after falling down another little ditch (it was raining of course!) Skye then decided to swim back to him.
I can't tell you the relief I felt.
I really thought she would keep going til she reached the sea!!!
Anyway, alls well that ends well and she was safe and Ok. Needless to say she was kept on the long line for the rest of the week and will be kept on it at home for a while yet.
She does come back to us in the flyball ring and in enclosed spaces so hopefully it won't be long.
Thanks for reading this long saga. Any tips on when I will know when it is safe to let her off the lead on walks?
Hot chocolate and welsh cakes for those who have read this.
Well we have just been to 2 tournaments one in Anglesey and one on the Wirral and Skye ran in starters at both. :
HUGE improvement over the week. She is so excited to go in the ring, it is magnificent.
She is also now mixing better with Beau and jess and they are all getting on so much better.
Mind you, we had such a scare on our first night at Anglesey....................
there were about 8 of us from the same team camping and on the first night we took all the dogs for a walk together.
To this date we hadn't let Skye off her lead but w e thought in our wisdom that with so many of us together we could try it...
Wrong decision!
She spotted a dyke full off water at the bottom of the field and decided to swim across it. It was about 8-10 feet wide and deep and fairly fast flowing.
She then panicked and just ran up and down the bank the opposite side to where we were, gradually heading further and further away from the campsite with myself, husband and others calling her and following.(it looked like something from the keystone cops!)
everyone called their dogs to heel and we decided that husband and I would follow her and call and entice with a toy, but the other people were there nearby if we needed them.
after about 20 minutes and OH having been completely covered in mud after falling down another little ditch (it was raining of course!) Skye then decided to swim back to him.
I can't tell you the relief I felt.
I really thought she would keep going til she reached the sea!!!
Anyway, alls well that ends well and she was safe and Ok. Needless to say she was kept on the long line for the rest of the week and will be kept on it at home for a while yet.
She does come back to us in the flyball ring and in enclosed spaces so hopefully it won't be long.
Thanks for reading this long saga. Any tips on when I will know when it is safe to let her off the lead on walks?
Hot chocolate and welsh cakes for those who have read this.
