had the most wonderful day yesterday, flynn my baby boy pulled his naughty school boy socks up ,came 2nd in A then went & won B!!!!!!! wot a star!!!!!!
that takes him out of A as hes won two already!!!! yikes B & C  now!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Well done Flynn!! Big hugs from Lisa, Ron and Rose!

WOW......congratulations Michelle, thought it must be you when I saw it on obedience UK. 

Fantastic start to the season, enjoy the rest of it.

Bet Flynn is a spoilt boy today :)

Sandra

thanks guys....he is a tired boy today!
hes been a RIGHT sod lately so he owed me a good day!!!!

sandrah,are you doing newham or rugby

Big congratulations to you and Flynn :)

Lindsay
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lindsay,alot of top handlers seem to have young malnios <sp?> at the moment, be really interesting to see how popular they become if they start doing well. gorgoeus looking dogs,

I am doing Newham Michelle, will I see you there?

yes,hopefully.ive entered,but find london abit scary!! should be there though...especailly if im on a roll!!!!!you look out for me & i will look out for you?

I don't know what you look like......for me, just look out for the prettist bitch on the obediience circult ;)  (That is the dog by the way not me LOL)

I am only doing Novice for the first few shows, after my stay problem last year I want to know she is solid in novice stays before I try an out of sight.  My first A is South London (gulp) if I pluck up enough courage.

Big congratulations :-)
Could you explain the obedience points/winning system to me I have no idea what A, B and C's are, only as letters of course!

in obedience the classes are lowest first highest last

pre-beginners,beginners,novice, A,B,C,CH C

Thanks for that Michelle, you learn something everyday! :-)

in B,the exercises are,
heelfree,Heelwork off the lead in slow ,normal & fast pace, left turns right turns about turns left about turns. no extra commands-so you can command when you set off & when you change pace,but thats it. also no extra body signals (its really hard to keep your head still & your hand in the same place etc) the dog should stay  perfectly by your side,wides ,the dog going forward or lagging or swinging its bum out would be marked
sendaway. send dog away to area ,drop, then does a recall on command & joins up into Hw
retrieve,jugdes article
stays, out of sight, 2min sit 5min down
scent, blank cloths decoy cloths & dog haS TO FIND HANDLERS  cloth

Wow, sounds pretty dawn complicated to me, but must be so much fun! You are doing well then to get where you are, keep it up. Don't think my stubborn bulldog Dozer will be very good at obedience :-D :-D :-D

its more complicated than that but didnt want to bore everyone!!!
it is fun,but sometimes very frustrating. but half the fun is working on what went wrong & trying to put it right. its good just spending a day with other doggy people too.

flynn is very handsome!
im 30 dark hair (may have red steaks in it by then)longish bout 5ft 71/2 8 ish, fattish ,
look out to see if each other is drawn ?????

I'm a bit late, but well done both of you :D

double post

true sadly

fattish thats not a nice description!! be nice to yourself
Say well done to flynn from me lol

Well done Mish

Mr Flynn can be seen here

I was judging yesterday as an emergency replacement for a friend who has a very poorly baby puppy Yorkie I'm recovering from the ordeal ;) my feet are killing, but I did get my reports off to the two Obedience magazines & ObedienceUK before I fell asleep at the PC :D Dedication or what !

did sheffield have big entries? poor planning to have two midlands shows on the same day.it would have been good to do one onthe sat & go on to the other on sunday.

1 pre bee, 2 beginners, 3 novices, 3 A's, 2 B's 2  C's

The wind was terrible the poor dogs had some problems in scent with the wind drifting the scent across the blanks & it started off sunny then cloudy & brief rain shower then sunny again & the wind dried out the surface it was a mixture of grass & soil on the footie pitch & the wind dried the soil & we had clouds of dust when the dumbells landed Hey ho what fun eh

I've seen pictures, she is beautiful!!! Not fattish at all silly Michelle!

lol i thought fattish was been kind....much better than fat after all!!!!

Well done Michelle!!!!  and Flynn

You have every right to brag! I saw him working in B and he looked amazing!

Oh my god I didn't realise you were B&C now! yikes!!!!! wowee though well done!

And there is me and poor little Hen can't even win a pre! ha ha 

Love Em

i think it was good that we didnt end up at the same time in adjoining rings,cos he just loves Hen & can spot him now.
thanks though,im STILL dead chuffed!
yes hes alkready won two As so the B takes him out....scary!

Are you gonna do Rhyl Michelle?  I prob wont see you for ages now to congratulate you in person!

If I were you I would still be chuffed too!  You are up there with the best of them now and you deserve it.  He is a lovely boy.

Any tips?! ha ha

PS - I got a write up on the obuk site, have you seen it?  My first one on there!  I'm well chuffed!

i will enter for rhyl & then TRY to get the day off!!!

you are doing great you dont need any tips,i know sod all about labs anyway. will go & look for your write up now. my A one is there,steve wilsons