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Well what an exciting few weeks Rupert has had, Amy and Steve took him off bright and early to the breed show at Builth Wells, where they met up with Sheila and Hills who were also showing. Rupes was first in the ring and although he was "flying" his tail managed to qualify for Crufts 2011, Summer and Ruperts Mum Folly were in the ring next and Folly qualified but Summer just missed out by one place! so mother and son had a great day.
On the training front we have been away camping at shows for much of August so not much to write about, his agility training seems to be comming along nicely and I have just started to put one side of the poles up onto the smallest height which hasn't phased him at all, he can string a sequence of jumps with turns and going on into the tunnel quite nicely and his contacts are still very nice although he isn't really sure he likes the big dog walk so I have decided to keep it at medium height for a few more sessions. I still haven't looked at the see saw and A frame as there is plenty of time for that, but Jo and I were teaching him the "Box" whilst at Dashing dogs which we are going to use on the A frame in the future.
Whilst we were away we took 9 dogs to the beach, luckily we had the whole place to ourselves and managed to have a lovely walk, it was funny to watch the two packs playing so nicely together, Rupert slept very well that night.