2014 round up!

 

Well. What do I say! I was struggling what to blog about as I’m aware I haven’t in an age 🙂 However it was suggested that I do a 2014 round up!

What a year 2014 has been. Moved house (again). Two job changes. Now in the best place I have been in a while 😀 for once. Me and D will have been together for five years next May, so I think that’s pretty cool too 😀

From Betsy’s side, she has made enormous progress. From being reactive and over threshold around other dogs most days because of the numptys that would walk near us, we now can walk in peace as people seem to have common sense, so that is somewhat of a luxury! As a result she has made loads of friends, lots of puppy playdates (despite being two she’s still my puppy).

We have also performed at both the London Pet Show, in Earls Court and the National Pet Show at the Birmingham NEC, coming 2nd place in Superdogs Live in the UK’s Most Talented Dog category. I actually can’t believe this having said the above.

To top it off, we have also started to compete in agility this year, in both Unaffiliated, Kennel Club, UKA and FAB shows. Not excluding the Kennel Club International Agility Festival and our own clubs show. We haven’t won anything yet, or even been placed in these types of shows. However, in the last show we came VERY CLOSE INDEED to running clear, which is quite epic really as I call us both the comedy pair to the rest of the agility world haha 😀 (You know, the people who actually know where they are going?!)

Both of us are attempting with a few other people to get Dog Disc off the ground here in the UK, so this should be interesting too 😀

I have also been asked if I would like to help volunteer at my clubs puppy class, so that is really really exciting!

For Christmas me and D treated ourselves to a new camera, which is a brill new toy to have. So please, any tricks you would like to see us do, please comment, we always like new ideas!!

Betsy’s YouTube channel and Twitter has now got 100+ subs/followers, with over 25,000 views on our channel, so that is also pretty cool!

 

 

I am not perfect.

I am not going to claim to be a dog training expert. However, the reason I have set up this blog is because numerous people have said to me both online and real life, that they are interested in how I teach my own dog, Betsy things.

I do not have 30+ years experience neither do I have any qualifications in the field.

Shall I tell you what though, the scary thing is, no one has to have neither if they want to become a dog trainer in the UK. There is no legal requirement whatsoever.

Neither am I going to say that Betsy is a robot (she’s a dog!), but neither am I. Hoomans have limits or scenarios that make things challenging too. I am (gasp, you are really hearing this!) not perfect either.

However, I would like to think that I can share both our achievements and mistakes, and hope at least one other person finds it useful.