Sunday, October 21, 2007

Dogs Days Out


I told you once about my mum's Sisters. The one called Marianne who has the Husband Des Dickie came to visit us and do Flyball.

We went to the CanadaBayDogsDayOut and did a Demonstration. It's a bit like a Competition but there were no other Teams, just us Sydney Psychos. So we raced each other all day long, with our own Watch the Lights and Ian doing all the Talking Talking Talking in the loud voice thing.

The first time it was my turn I heard Ian tell the story about when I wasn't Brave, when I just shook all the time and wouldn't do Team Ready and would run away when there was a new noise or a person with a flag or children watching or a dog I didn't know or just anything really. I was only shaking a little bit when he told that story.

When it was my turn to Go Go Go Ebbi I went down to the Box and I got a big shock because the Husband Des was boxloading and I didn't know he was allowed to do it. I had to look at him with my mum calling me, 'come on Ebbi, Bring the Ball' and then I stopped Being Silly and I brought the Ball back to my mum.

Everyone who was there that day had a turn, Jessie and Zeus and Kaos and Rosie and Missy and Maverick and Lance and Digger and Kyra and the other Digger. Even the beginners like Bryson and Meadow and Muskat had a turn showing how you learn Flyball and how you can learn to be Brave.

My mum's friend Debra came with her person puppy Petal, and boy were they surprised that I can do proper Flyball now with my Team.

This week we had another Dog's Day Out. Before we went to Flyball we went to Soccer. In Albury I've played soccer with the girl Cindy that my mum says is my person cousin. She is REALLY good at Soccer. Her Team is so good at Soccer they were in the StateFinalCompetition in Sydney.

It was a bit scary watching Cindy's Team play Soccer. There were people with whistles and orange flags and there was shouting and screaming and kids, almost like Flyball. But there weren't any Overs and Arounds and I didn't have Ebbi's turn at anything, I just had to watch. That was hard because I wanted to play with Cindy, she can do good tricks with the Soccer and I like to bring it back to her.

My mum says we are having another Dogs Day Out this week we are going to Canberra for her to work.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

A Busy Day at Flyball


Yesterday was an excellent Flyball Day at Sydney Psychos. Lots of good things happened. Alex's eye is better, Sydney Psychos Team came Second in the Competition at BoorowaIrishFlyballFling, we got another Watch the Lights so that two Teams can do proper racing like at a Competition, Jack did his First Full Run with a Ball, Bryson did Around and Over One, Poppy can do a Full Run without the Ball, and my friend Buster that I saw at the PetExpo a long time ago came to visit us.

I did lots of racing with different Teams. First my Team was Molly and Chloe and me, then my Team was Connor and Chloe and me, then my Team was Zeus and Chloe and Molly and me, then my Team was Zeus and Chloe and me. I did Start Dog and Second dog and Third dog and Last dog. I did Watch the Lights, Ebbi's turn next, Go Go Go Ebbi and Bring the Ball and I only made one mistake all day when I didn't Bring the Ball. My mum made two mistakes when she let me Go Go Go too soon and I did bad CrossOvers then.

I helped Poppy learn to do CrossOvers and then I watched Poppy teach Bryson to do CrossOvers.

It was a very busy day, and then the surprise came when two ladies brought my friend Buster. My mum calls him Ebbi's cousin because she says he looks like me. But he's smaller than me and has long hair and he's not a Kelpie he's a SkipperKee (I don't know how to write it properly). Buster said hallo but then went in his mum's arms because he's not very Brave.

He ran around at playtime and seemed to get happier. I hope he comes to Flyball again so that he learns to be Brave and Good like me. He would find out that Flyball is the best fun ever. You make lots of Friends and then you can play with everyone, Molly and Connor and Kaos and Rosie and Missy and Meadow and Muskat and Sasha and Kyra and Bryson and Jack and Mocha and Poppy were all my Friends who were at Flyball playtime yesterday.