Thameswood Veterinary Clinics Ltd

Empi at work!

Huw's youngest collie Empi turned 18 months on 28th May, which allowed her to start competing at agility. There are seven levels of agility, and Empi has started at level three pitting her against lots of other young dogs. She has been working very well so far, and already has a big pile of rosettes (but no trophies as yet).

Empi's running quite carefully at the moment, which enables Huw to work on her accuracy and consistency, but as she becomes more confident and experienced she will start to use her full speed and power like she does in training.

Here's a video of one of Empi's clear rounds from a show in Gloucestershire in July. To go clear she had to complete each obstacle in the correct order, without knocking any poles down and making sure to touch the yellow areas at the ends of the pieces of 'contact' equipment (the A-frame, dog-walk and see-saw). She finished 8th in this class out of about 200 dogs, which isn't bad for a little girl!

More results as they happen!