Jive's first run in Excellent Jumping

Jive had his first run in Excellent Jumping last weekend, he did a great job but with the famous one bar down. He had three runs in excellent jumping with one bar down in two of the events, he managed to get two seconds with an NQ in each, but still couple of nice sashes and two nice prizes. Jive also had two runs in Novice Agility with one bar down and the other run he missed the last weave.

Katie has been working on Jive's start line stays and this is going really well, Kris also is getting his timing much better with his rear crosses with Jive. I am really pleased with Jive's progress with lovely running A frames and nice fast weavers. He does all the hard stuff but just keeps knocking that one bar.

Jive's Excellent Jumping run



Jive and I  have been working on jump grids this week and lots of set point jumps as Jive is trialling this weekend at Knox.

I took the dogs for a run in the bush this afternoon as did not have any dogs to groom, dogs just had the best time.

Jive usually runs 10 laps everytime we get to this spot on our walk through the bush.


Dogs having a swim after their run in the bush



                                                 Dogs having a seat on our bush walk

Dogs all tired after their run and swim, getting warm beside the fire.

Jive gains his JD title

We had a double trial at Easter at Altona, lovely courses and lovely weather. Kris and Jive are starting to work as a team, they had two qualifiers one in jumping which was his JD title. The other one was first place in Novice Agility. Jive and Kris also had some other fantastic runs but with just the one fault in most of their runs. Next weekend the 14th May Jive will be running in excellent jumping.

Jive's Qualifing Runs




Some of Jive's runs where he had the one fault, although they were super runs for a baby boy.



Jive has been back at my place and having fun going for runs every morning with John and the other dogs through the bush and then goes for a swim in the dam. Jive just never stops running he has such a great time.

Jive running with Kris at Geelong

Kris and Jive had a great weekend trialling together at Geelong last weekend, although they did not end up with Quallies they did have some lovely runs together, just a couple of small hiccups.  Jive has been staying at Katie and Kris's place these last two weeks so Kris can put some time in to train Jive and run with Jive to get their timing worked out and work as a team, as this is a must for agility.

Jives's sashes he did not qualify as one bar down in each event but still managed first place in both of the Novice Agility events.

This Easter weekend we have a double trial on Saturday and Sunday, Jive has eight events in Novice Jumping and Novice Agility, in the mean time Jive is having lots of fun with his girlfriends Nakita and Kirra.

Jive wins his first Novice Jumping trial at Hobart

Getting ready to board the Spirit of Tasmania in Melbourne.

Jives first trial was in Hobart on the 19th March 2011, I ran him in Novice Jumping, it was really exciting to run him in his first trial after 10 months of training, finally the real thing. Jive was a good boy and won the ring.

He did have several runs in Novice both in agility and jumping over two weekends first weekend in Hobart second weekend in Launceston, most runs with only one fault in each, although we will need to work on his start line stay as he did manage to stand up in a couple of the runs on the first weekend. I was very happy with his running Aframe and his weavers although we might need to train on some more trickier entries especially coming from a running A frame. Katie ran him in a couple of the runs and won Novice Jumping in Launceston. So now he only needs one more qualifier to gain his title of JD. Katie and I ran him and Ace in Strategic Pairs and won the ring in Launceston. No video of Strat pairs as our videoing man was playing golf all weekend.

Below is a video of some of his runs in Hobart and Launceston


Launceston runs


This weekend we have a double trial at Geelong, Jive has 8 runs over two days,  Kris, Katie's husband will now be running Jive. I have had so much fun training Jive as he just loves to learn, run and jump so he really is easy to teach. I am sure Kris will enjoy running Jive as he is so much fun.

Dogs having fun running up and down on the sanddunes on some lovely dog friendly beaches in Tassie

Sailing on the Spirit of Tasmania

We are off to Tasmania this Thursday night sailing on the Spirit of Tasmania arriving on Friday morning at 7am. We have a cabin booked so should be lots of fun. Katie and I plus husbands and six dogs. We have a double trial this weekend, followed by some sightseeing of Tasmania during the week, the guys are hoping to get some golf and fishing in. Then we have another double trial the following weekend. This Saturday morning Jive has his first Novice Agility and Novice Jumping event.

We have been busy trialling the last couple of weekends with two double trials one after another in the country. Jive has had two weeks off as he tore his dew claw half off, he was scheduled for his hip score so we had his dew claw removed while he was under. He did come to Warrnambool with us and had a ball swimming in the ocean after the trials. Although he was rather bored hanging around waiting as he was 4 days short of 18 months so could not enter the trial.

Jive looking bored and saying when do I get a go at the fun stuff

Katie getting Jive used to all of the noise and commotion at ringside

We had an awesome time at Warrnambool with Katie and I winning 9 out of the 12 Masters rings. 

Some of the runs we won.

Coffee break on way home from Warrnambool, with the public holiday traffic it was a long five hours in the car.




I gave Jive his first training session tonight after having two weeks off, he really enjoyed himself.
(Not real good quality as I videoed session with iphone.)

Jive's first full practice jumping course

Jive had his first full practice course yesterday in which I set the course up at home, Ron Diamond from  Victoria designed the course it is an excellent jumping course, although I did add a couple of modifications. The course ran very smoothly with a lead out pivot and then some nice controled circle work, into a tunnel with a rear cross, then into another tunnel with a nice Go home.

The main reason I chose this course as I always envied handlers with their dog having a great Go at the end of a course. That is the one thing I did not teach Jazz she tends to slow down and says well are you coming. So I was determined for Jive to have a great Go. As Jive loves his tug he was pretty easy to teach the Go.

Jump'n Jive working on full height running A frame

Australia Day today in Australia which means a public holiday. Katie and Kris came down and we all went to the beach. The dogs had a great time swimming and splashing around in the water.

Jive has been busy the last couple of weeks with working on his full height A frame, also we had to revisit our weavers and we worked on proofing the entries and exits. We worked on the challenges of the 2x2 DVD of Susan Garrett, lots of great exercises to go through on Susans DVD. Over the next two months we will be working on full courses in readiness for his debut of trialling.



Jive at work with me in the grooming shed
Jive comes to work with me each day as I work as a groomer from home, so everyday Jive comes up to the shed with me and puts himself on the grooming table and checks out all the customers for the day. He loves just sitting around and keeping me company. Any free time we have we go and have a training session of agility which he loves.

More Agility Training

Jive has also been working on his dogwalk, table, jumps and seesaw, there is so much to learn for a young dog, but Jive loves to learn and he loves his agility. At the end of the day he loves to climb on the chair with John or myself and have a big cuddle.