Performance Coaching & Mentoring
This starts with my latest news and so you don't have to scroll all the way down the page to see what I'm up to
Thought everyone would like to see how I have grown up.
I wanted my picture on every page, but they won't do that, so I'll settled for this.
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Friday Nov 9 2007
My mummy says we are going to Dublin tomorrow, she has all the car all packed up with a picnic and ready to go…..I am getting worried….. when go to Dublin it’s for shows and I get frightened at shows because everyone is soooooo serious!
Well it’s just me and the terrible two-some going, so at least I will have some space in the car so I can sleep.
Sat Nov 10 2007
Well we did go to a show and it was really fun…I got lots of space to sleep in the car and the terrible twosome sat each side of me and behaved themselves…..for once!
Today was really fun, my other human brought my labyrinth and I had a chance to play in it before I played agility and I was told I was a good girl…..that’s a new one…..me being told I am good at shows!
It was very hard because it was raining and very windy and Soda (one
of the terrible twosome) was blown off the dog walk, she told me to
be very careful in case it happened to me, so I was, but I waited
for my mummy and managed to get over it without Mr Windy woo blowing
me away.
Then I looked around and saw that my friends, Kryton and Data had come to the show and brought their mummy and daddy with them, so I tried really hard to be a good girl when I did my jumping course, Kryton thought I was good and wanted to see if he could do it, so he took his daddy and played jumping and he was brilliant and his daddy was very pleased with him.
The best bit of the show is when the human’s go for their dinner afterwards and we dogs get a doggy bag, we got ribs of beef and turkey this time and it was yummy. Oh and Teale (the other part of the terrible twosome) got a 2nd place in agility, she is very clever and my mummy will put her rosette up in the training centre with all the other rosettes.
Sat, 24 November 2007
Me and all my doggy sisters and Dusty went for a run today over the fields, Ka looked for ‘mices’ in the long grass, her mummy says she found one once and now thinks all long grass has ‘mices’ in it.
Dusty had to have a lead on because he runs off to find the Badgers and his mummy has to go and pull him out of the Badgers den.
We ran around and I went for a bath in the water trough because I was hot, but my other human said it was freezing and cold……she should have run around like we do, she wouldn’t be cold then!
Well
off they went with the trailer and came back with some more gravel
from the quarry. I like to go to the quarry, so I can woof at the
big diggers and the men who come too close to MY car, but they
didn’t take me, don’t they realise I NEED to go to look after the
car! I mean anyone could steal it if I’m not there! Then once they
get the gravel they throw it down on the floor ! Why I don’t know?
Then stand back and look at it.......it makes a dog wonder!
Off again, this time without the trailer and back they come with a car full of ‘weeds’, they call them plants, but I can’t tell the difference, they plant them with the other ‘weeds’ give them a drink...... and stand back and look at them!!!!!!!
Off they go again, this time I am going with them (about time) and we go to The Dog House to see Mark, he is a nice man and gives us dinners, which I have to guard all the way home, not sure who will steal it but that’s what my human tells me to do, so I do it! Its a precious cargo and NO ONE will steal it if I am there, then she puts it in the freezer, I ask you, what good is it in the freezer?
Oh no, they are playing at climbing games again, don’t know what they think they are, monkey’s? Off my other human goes and climbs on the training centre roof, throwing leaves down at me, saying she was ‘cleaning out the gutter’ whatever that means, she is crazy there are plenty of leaves on the floor she could play with! Then off she went again to “fit a chimney pipe roof cover”????? there was great excitement when my friend the postman brought a parcel, which turned out to be the “chimney pipe roof cover” it just looked like an old piece of metal with a rubber ring, but my humans thought it was great! Small things amuse small minds! It was much better when they were digging a big hole at the back of the training centre last week and mixing cements and carrying bricks and building, but they did all that work, then plonked a big green box on top, apparently it was an oil tank and I heard them say early next week the man is coming in his lorry and delivering heating oil, so the dog training centre will be nice and warm next week, its about time we dogs need it warm as it has started to get cold training outside.
My oldest sister, Lace went out to the toilet before bedtime, she is 16 and I am only 3 and I went to look after her, well that’s what my mummy tells me to do, you would think with her being older she should look after me, strange house I live in, with strange humans, but I had to ‘go’ myself and then I couldn’t find Lace, now I’m in trouble! She had fallen off the wall from the grass, which is a very big wall, she is an old lady and mummy was very upset, she gave her some pain killer and Lace went upstairs to bed with my mummy. I like going to bed with my mummy as well, but she just took Lace.
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Friday 21
My humans are being busy bunnies, finishing off the steps to the arena, cutting the grass, painting MY agility equipment, something must be going on. It is great when the humans cut the grass as we get to play on the arena and chase the lawn mower, well Poppy does and the terrible two some join in.
Saturday, 22 
Hey I think we are going to have a show on the arena because it just looks like a show, Sammy and Vicky have come with their dune buggies and are flattening out the sand ménage and putting out MY agility equipment and an agility course is being set up on the grass arena. Vicky has come to get me so we can play agility and we get to eat pizza and chips at lunchtime that my mummy cooked. My other human says there is going to be a Members Show tomorrow and we have to go to sleep and if I am a good girl, Vicky can play agility with me tomorrow at the show................I’m always a good girl!
Sunday
morning....all the cars are coming in and my humans, Sammy and Vicky
have been working very hard. Sammy is in charge of the food and
Vicky is in charge of the shop.....and she is going to play agility
with me because I have been a good girl. I even got a hot dog, but
don’t tell my mummy! At the end we get to play FlyBall. It has been
a long day and I am very tired, I played agility with Vicky and I
just want to go to bed zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Thursday 27
Oh they are packing the caravan up with food and putting clothes in it, so I expect we are going on holiday, can’t wait! The last time we went it rained and rained and we were stuck in the middle of a pond, well it wasn’t a pond it was just that it had rained so much, that when we got up in the morning the water was as high as the caravan steps. You would think they would know better than to park in a dip!
Even the car is being cleaned out, must be important! Think I will wait by the gate to make sure they don’t forget to take us.
There is lots of activity, a big trailer full of MY agility equipment tied to it and my mummy is nowhere to be found and I have looked everywhere. Off my other human goes, leaving us dogs to guard the house, I mean who is going to steal the house?
When I wake up I can hear my mummy’s car, no one has stolen the house, so she will be pleased with me. Then my other human comes back, but the trailer is no on her car, someone must have stolen it, if she had taken me with her, I would have guarded it!
We must be going in the morning as we all have to go to bed, I’m too excited to sleep because I am going on holiday!
Jadie and Lace are put in the car and my friend Sam arrives, but he hasn’t come to play agility with me, he gets in the car with the other humans, I am told to guard the house AGAIN......and off they all go...........again. I wish they would tell us dogs what they are up to!
Saturday 29
They are gone all day, then I hear the car and I can see the trailer with MY agility equipment, so they must have found the thief and got it back. Lace tells me they have been to a show in Belfast , the Belfast Championship Show and they forgot to take me!
The trailer is taken off, caravan is put on and all us dogs are packed, Weyhey... we are going on holiday! Now I have to find a comfy place next to Lace and go to sleep until we get there. Oh we have stopped! We are at the big swimming pool and the big boat where we drive into its tummy and have to go to sleep until we can get off in England....did I tell you we are seasoned travellers, us dogs?
Sunday
30
Another drive and we arrive at Tilley farm for a week of Ttouch, where they are all crazy, wrapping dogs up and doing lots of strange things, like playing with scorpions, mere-cats, skunks and snakes, my humans must like coming here, but I would rather go and run in the water at the seaside like normal dogs do! I wonder if we are going to see my Nan?
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Sunday 5
Caravan all packed up, must be another show great, I can go and mess about again, I have to do it properly at home, but when I get to a show i get to mess about, which is much more fun. The terrible two won rosettes, I didn't, I don't know why, cause I had great fun, despite all the rain, there was even a swimming pool all round the caravan, we were supposed to be going to another show but I heard them say it was cancelled because of the weather. What's wrong with the weather, its great, baths everywhere, I can really keep cool. Instead we go home and get to lie in front of the fire. Its a dog's life!
Monday 27
One of my humans is repainting MY agility equipment and the other is organising and cleaning the caravan, they are both very busy......us dogs, well we are lying in the sunshine and barking at every car which stops at the corner.............driving the humans mad.........serves them right for not letting us go into the fields to play!
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Both my humans have been very sad this week, I haven’t done anything, I ‘m sure I haven’t...... I have tried very hard to be a good girl. All my doggie sisters have been good and none of us know how to make them happy.
Then yesterday Jazz came to stay for a holiday while his humans go to the seaside (he is Poppy poodles daddy) and he told us that my other humans’ sister had died and gone to collect all her dogs at Rainbow Bridge , I don't know why they have cried and cried, cause all her dogs will be happy now. ... I will give my human a big kiss and ask her to tell her sister to speak to my cat friend ‘Kick’ when she gets to Rainbow Bridge.
Saturday 14
Show day at
Castlewellan, its great sheep, cows goats everywhere I get to walk
around and see them all, I also get to play agility, my other human
runs with me, she gets to close too me, so I run around the jumps so
she can't get too close. For some reason she isn't happy when I do
that, but I guess she'll learn. We leave early as its starting to
rain and I hear the humans say it will take longer after the rain to
get out than the hour it took to get in. so I don't get to play
again
Its Wednesday now and its still raining all the roads are flooded, cant get anywhere in the car, just as well we are nice and snug in the house. Everyone still makes it to classes so I have friends to play with
Sunday 22
We went down to the Sunday Market at Nutts Corner, I don’t like it there because there is too many people, but I went to please my humans and I tried to be a good girl, I must have been good because they bought some pigs ears, one for me and one each for my sisters and Dusty........he’s a boy..... Oh and my humans also bought a pigs ear for Jazz, but he gave it away to Soda, either that or Soda pinched it off him, which is normally my job! While Jazz was here I took him to see my ‘treasure’ which I hide in the bushes at the top of the garden............my humans throw bottles and cans away into a black bin and if I don’t get them out and hide them....... a big lorry comes and steals them all..... so I hide as many as I can, just in case they need them again!
Jazz is going home, his daddy has come to get him.............he is really fun to play with and flirts with me, but he likes Soda best! Jazz told me one of his humans is going to go and live in Scotland and go to the University...........I told him that’s a big school and dogs aren’t allowed to go to big school............
18 May 2007
I was allowed to go with my mummy to the post office to post a parcel for Kirsty, she is my mummy’s niece and I play with her in the orchard and the field when I go to see my Nan in England. We went out and my mummy bought her a personal CD player and carry case, don’t know what that is, it was just a silver shiny flat box but the humans thought it was great, so I better look impressed. I wonder if Kirsty and I will play with it in the orchard when I see her, our favourite toy that we usually play with is a chewed up rope ball.
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Fox, my big sister has burst a blood vessel in her ear so my mummy has to take her to the vet for him to make her better, she has also got two lumps on her side and I heard my mummy say she will have to have an operation, poor Fox, I think I might tell her what my humans are planning.
Monday
There was lots of noise yesterday from the training centre and I now know my humans were floor tiling in the training centre kitchen, because my mummy said her neck and arms are sore this morning, Oh and because I ran into see her yesterday and she shouted at ME for walking on the tiles. What did she put them down for if we can’t walk on them, that’s just silly? Humans who understands them?
Wednesday
I heard my humans planning to go to Dublin on Friday evening to a show and said they would see Diana Ross, I am really looking forward to it, I love shows, you can play agility at them and the best thing is you can ignore your human and do what you want to, I have never been to a show in the evening and I am not sure who Diana Ross is, as long as she has treats for me I don’t really care!
Fox has just come back from the vet’s, she is all drunk, falling all over the place and has been given a lovely soft quilt to sleep on, in MY cage and we have to leave her alone, my mummy says she doesn’t want kisses from us. She has had the lumps taken off her side and her ear is better and the vet has taken some teeth out, don’t think I want to see the vet if he does things like that!
Friday
Well off they went on to the show on their own, they were stupid and forgot to take us dogs, even telling us to guard the house before they went, they won’t get many rosettes at the agility show when they forget us, where are their brains?
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Niko [she has the same problem with her ears as me, or is she trying to copy me] is going on a big boat today to Crufts with her mummy and they are going to play obedience on Friday and try to win a rosette, I gave her two of my best treats to take with her, her mummy is to give them to her when she has been a good girl............ cause I get treats when I'm a good girl.
Well I’m back! My mummy says she's been too busy to write my diary, but I've told her you all need to know what I have been up to.
Christmas and New Year (which is when I get to spend lots of time with my mummy) was rubbish, my mummy was ill and in bed, so I did nothing and even Santa was late with my presents.
I think my humans have gone mad….well completely mad. They spent the time moving out the settee and chairs that we could sit on and then spent hours getting another settee into the house but we can’t sit on it! I ask you what’s the point?.....Anyway we sit on it as soon as they go out the door!
They do some very strange things like buying a new TV and sticking it on the wall like a picture so we now can’t play chase behind the TV and get tangled in the wires
Last Saturday we went to the beach, it was great and I played in the sea and had a roll and chased the ball, we all went, even Dusty, and everyone thought it was really funny to have ten dogs walking on the beach. Lace, Shay and Jade had coats on to keep them warm, but it was lovely and sunny. The terrible two, lead by their little sister Poppy were very naughty and ran at people and barked. Poppy told me there were men hiding on the sand dunes and they were looking through tubes at her……but they weren’t, they were bird watchers taking photo’s of the seagulls. They soon went when Poppy woofed and woofed at them…..me?...... I just ran into the sea to scare all the birds away, and I think that's why they left.
Then we went into the seaside town and we all got an ice cream, the lady at the shop thought my human was mad asking for 12 ice creams (10 for us dogs, and one each for the humans), but she was very nice and put them into little tubs for us, so we could eat them easier. The ice cream was lovely.
How was I to know my mummy was not going to work yesterday? She didn’t tell me she was having the day off! So as usual I woke her up at 5.30am, she wasn’t very pleased…….so……as I am such a fast learner, today I let her sleep…….now she’s not pleased because today she is going to work….told you no pleasing those humans!
Oh nearly forgot to tell you, we now have a lovely and cosy indoor training centre as the humans have had a heater fitted so they can keep warm….and for us dogs as well!
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