Tomorrow is Saturday and I have been practicing my weaves all week and tomorrow I will have to do them at the new Club grounds at Paradise Valley in Rotorua.

Every night my boss and I go out onto the lawn in front of our house and she throws the ball through the weave poles and I run and get it and sometimes she asks me to bring the ball back through the weave poles and sometimes she runs with me and sometimes she is on the other side and far away and sometimes she makes me sit and wait and then she calls me through and when we have done all that we play hard tug. It is great. I am having a bit of trouble doing more than three things in a row but the boss says all dogs go through this stage. Whew thats a relief. I like tunnels but I don't like having to do three hurdles in a row. I can do a hurdle and a tunnel and a hurdle and a tunnel and turn and come back but just three hurdles and I have to miss one of them, even if my ball or tug is at the other end. I am really good at contacts and I especially like the crossover. The boss says it will be a while before I get crossover in competition as I will be in elementary a long time. I am only 15 months yet and can't start to compete for another three months anyway.

Last Wednesday was Agility course work and my sister Bree was there. She is better than me, especially if her boss Amy takes her toy out on the course to Play. But my sister Nala the Pappillon is much better than all us small dogs except Bootz and she does courses properly and really fast. I got really fast on Wednesday when I thought I saw something to chase far away and took off. The boss didn't have a proper hold on me. When I got a long way away I turned around and I couldn't see the boss or the truck, that was a bit scary, and then the boss called me and waved her hand in the air and I could see where she was and I ran back as fast as I could. The boss was really pleased with me. She says it is one thing to run away but it is the coming back that counts. I love it when the boss is pleased with me I go all waggy and silly it is such a nice feeling inside.

Tyson, my boyfriend, ran well on Wednesday. He is just starting to like Agility and play and do things his boss Katie wants him to do. My boss says I am like Tyson and take ages to learn stuff, but that's okay cause Tyson is cool, I like being like Tyson.

There were only 9 dogs in Agility on Wednesday so we had lots of turns and some dogs were really good. The course was an old NALA one from 2001. My boss looked at some of the names of dogs in the book and said that most of them were dead now, except my oldest sister Midge who is 14 and was running in her first courses in those days.

Anyway I had better get some sleep so that I can do really well tomorrow. There are new bunnies at the new dog training park at Paradise Valley and they don't come out and play like the bunnies at the Ngongotaha Rail Park, but I know they are there. I am pretending they aren't but I know they are, if you know what I mean, 'sigh' zzzzzzz

Fae the Fat Fairy.