Jake's Progress

The adventures of a lurcher in the Scottish capital


Getting more serious now...

It’s some time since we updated this blog. In that time, Jake has been to his first agility show. It was great day, though the killer early start threw us all. (On the road out of Edinburgh at 0650 on a Saturday morning in the pitch dark?) Next time we’ll be much better organised for all our meal and toileting needs. (TMI?) Anyhoo, it’s a good way to see if we like this agility show lark enough to start entering Kennel Club competitions and using Jake’s KC Activity Register name.

In the first jumping class, Jake was so hyper and I was so in-a-strange-place that he ran amok and we aren’t sharing the video evidence.

Then we ran an agility class. I completely missed one of the jumps! Sorry Jake.




We got better as the morning wore on and we found our feet on the second agility class.



There has been a lot of practice in the autumn dusk since then … weaves and turns coming on a treat.

The other side-effect of Jake’s new show career is that the videos were so useful in seeing why we were eliminated and what we needed to practice that Rod went and bought a long-wanted camcorder. Chalk that up alongside the car as Things Jake Made Us Buy.

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Jake is a black & tan lurcher, adopted from Edinburgh Dog & Cat Home in August 2004. He now lives the life of Riley in a leafy suburb of Edinburgh. His interests include agility, running like the wind, enticing other dogs to chase him, fellow sighthounds Molly & Steve, squirrels, swans, plush swans, swans on telly, Portobello beach, the Edinburgh hills, sofas, & snoozing. 

Jake wears Earth Dog hemp collars from Mango Mutt. His collar tag (compliant with KC agility regs) is from the excellent Indigo Collar Tags.



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