I just spotted on the Scottish Beagle Club website that there’s a Beagle missing in the Glasgow area. Full details here.

Jill has asked us to announce that the Beagle Race at the Open on the 3rd May will now start BEFORE the whippet races (Good news – less hanging about!).

Beagle Race start time is 11 am. The check in time is 10.30 am.

Contact number for more info: Maggie Hendrie on 0123 683 0273.

Information will also be available on the Caledonian Thistle Pedigree Whippet Racing Website: www.callythistlewhippetracing.co.uk and the Scottish Beagle Club website: www.scottishbeagleclub.org.uk/html/beagle_racing.html

This Sunday (26th April) we’ll be doing time trials. This will determine handicaps for next week’s race. The faster dogs will be starting further back to give everyone a chance.

At last week’s session at the agility barn I was very impressed by Beanie’s performance, but I was struggling to keep up with her. This is a plan of last week’s course:

This week I put a bit of thought into figuring out how I can cut corners so that Beanie can run faster without leaving me behind. We worked a little on distance commands “Go On” and “In” during the week. I came up with the following course plan that merges bits of last week’s course (which Beanie found easy) with opportunities to practice our new commands:

It was hard going, but we almost managed it. Beanie didn’t have the same enthusiasm as last week – too much thinking involved in this course and not enough fun! So we finnished up with a great fun session with Beanie, Biggles and Paul.