Marc and Bigs - EOs 2014 |
It has been a year of highs and lows and it has not even finished
yet. The EO and FCI worlds with Agility Team GB came and went in a blur. The cramming it all in
approach to life has possibly reached saturation point in the Wingate-Wynne household, it has been manic in a good way. The hardest part was and
continues to be the lost of Nuts from our lives. In the darkest hours I find
myself waking up to feel sometimes the wet tears that have fallen in sleep, time as
always moves on. life goes on but in a weirdest way it also feels that it is dragging and a bit remote.
3rd Ticket Win - Aug 14 - Christine & Zev |
The high of achieving Zev's Agility Champion Title. The Agility Net - Champions Listing really brings it home how hard it is to
achieve this agility dream of the championship title.
Little Bear is challenged in size both vertically and
horizontally, compact he certainly is. So far he has been slowly
entered into the competitive agility world and has had two wins at KC and one
at UKA in jumping classes. Each time he has rewarded me with great attention and determination. I have now started to teach him
the a-frame this week and hopefully at some point he will make his full agility
debut. He endears himself to many and for me his determination and attitude, and how he is for me
just as ‘sweet as pie’ with a brilliantly cute cheeky element means he has it all.
Bear & Christine - Sept 14 |
Wings and Raz have aged as you would start to be expect as the
approach their 12 birthday, things are more difficult for Raz with his sight
loss, but we continue to try and do our best. Wings grows sweeter each year and is it amazing to think the behavioral problems she had when we took her on and how we turned that around. It was looking back both foolhardy I guess and a leap of faith. Ultimately it worked and she has had many happy and contented years. It is all that you can do. Marc with Bigs, picked up 3 reserve CC's, qualified crufts singles and team, and with Dixie also achieved a reserved, so so many successes all round.
With Mr Britannia at FCI 2014 |
Agility Team GB was challenging, tough and good. A real mixture
of emotions and a helpful influence on some factors we had been working on, At a
time when many people may be easing up in their lives we are heading in the
opposite direction and ‘ramping’ it up.
One of the Italian Agility Team at the EO’s had a brilliant
slogan – ‘all or nothing’, that is certainly inspirational and that is how we
feel now it is all or nothing…..