Guest patch Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Another submission, you are gonna love this pic !!!! "Hello, this is my Staffie Jack Russell x Collie competing at agility!! Hope it is of some help to encourage other people to give agility a go Stephanie Miller and Lexi" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest patch Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 If you have a look at the linky, there are fab pics of the 2005 Agility World Championships which were held in Spain, and not only are there non collies but theres a Staffie - I said there were some doing well in Agility and it doesnt get much better than that :lol: http://www.tachyonbc.cz/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staffymonkey Posted January 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 WOW! I certainly didn't expect that much a response... but thank you all so much! Fantastic posts, info and, of course, the pics - lovely pulis, a whole show of staffs, window-sneaking stafflet crosses... and lots of other lovely, lovely shots.... I think - once Maddie's travel sickness is better and she's done a bit more basic training - I might (if feeling brave) give it ago. I think she'd love it - she's always really keen to learn new stuff ( we could do 'sit', 'paw', 'other paw', 'wait' and 'up' within a couple of weeks). If we do, just wait for the 'bull in a china shop' tales (nice pun) . If I know my doglet at all, I can guarantee that she'll swap between making me ever so proud and aking me want the ground to swallow me up ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest patch Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 And we have more This is Sophie, a lovely Staffie who competes, her handler is Dave Roberts who kindly sent these pics of his lovely girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest patch Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 And next we have a fabulous story of a great rescue success which brought a tear to my eye as I read this lads journey to the wonderful life he has now - if this does`nt inspire people to try agility with their Staffie / Staffie crosses, I don`t know what will --------------------------------------------- Hi Patch Just picked up on this thread and attach a photo of my boy Finn (Finn BoyThree -staff/lab cross) jumping at Aylesbury last summer. I know it looks like he's lying down in mid-air but actually we'd already been E'd cos he was straight down the line and over the A-frame rather than doing the first combination of jumps properly! But that's cos he's so keen he can't/won'twait on the line - nothing to do with me being a rubbish handler at all!. He's just turned 8 this month and we got him in June 1998 when he was five months old from NCDL (Dogs Trust) Shoreham. We were only tentatively looking for dog number three but had popped out to see if they had any pups down at Brighton RSPCA. They were closed so we went down the road to Shoreham, mentioned that we were looking for a small, active dog who might like to do agility and the staff immediately said - you should see 'Grant' (as he wasthen called). He was originally from Bridgend, south Wales area and was put into the rescue centre very young as the child of the house used him as a push/pull toy - it's taken a lot of effort to get him used to small children, he's not aggressive but positively avoids them. Plus the vet records we got from NCDL indicate that he may have had parvo as a very young pup which makes me think puppy farm origins - thank heavens the NCDL put the effort in to pull himthrough. Even today he's fast and furious but doesn't have the overall stamina of our other dogs - the earlier the runs the better for us. NCDL Wales then sent him down to Shoreham where I believe he was waiting for us. He only really had one proper season of competing before the foot and mouth thing and then we had a long-ish break from agility due to other commitments. Having moved late 2003, we got back into shows in our area (Midlands-ish) in late 2004 and quite a few last year, which has been great. Finn is the dog that has a real high pitched scream as he goes round the course, while he's queuing, while he's watching etc etc! As he's really an Elementary dog but in Novice cos I'm out of Starters, last years goal was just to get a clear round and we managed a 19th in a NovAG qualifier so that was great. This year's goal will be a higher place and if we get a good course, with the sun shining and the wind in the right direction who knows!! At home, he's a perfect companion - and our new terrier pup loves him to death. He really is fun Finn and very forgiving of small teeth and overexuberance. All in all one fantastic dog. Well done for posting this thread, I enjoyed the other peoples responses - I would have replied on forum but can't do the thing with pictures. all the best Adrian Gibbins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest patch Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 More amazing Staffie pics, and a particularly impressive result with one of the gorgeous dogs as you will see in the text !!!! ----------------------------------------------- We are Ian and Sandra Mitchell from Ipswich - we have 4 staffys, Skipper, 8, (always had the poles down, now retired), Tiller, 4, (won circular knockout at Crufts '05), Marina, 2, (should come good this year!) and Bosun, 1ish, (a stray - had him since November...looking useful in his training) We will register Bosun in the rescue agility league for this year...he was around 15 months and entire when he came to us and has settled in fine ...a few spats with the other male, Skipper, but only in the first week when he was still entire. All get along just great. Have attached some staffy agility pictures. kind regards Sandra (black dog is Tiller (Crossguns Thong Song), Red dog is Marina (Solentstaff's Lolas Glory) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirisox Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Ian's staffies are great, I always enjoy watching him run them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegk68 Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 WOW! Amazing staffie agility piccys. I want my staffie to do that . Feel all inspired now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mum24dog Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 You don't want your staffie to do the see saw like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine R Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 This is a great picture to work out what happened next, i.e. did the see-saw touch the ground with the dog still on it or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tegk68 Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 You don't want your staffie to do the see saw like that! Oooh, shows how much I know!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mum24dog Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 This is a great picture to work out what happened next, i.e. did the see-saw touch the ground with the dog still on it or not? The dog's probably still in orbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine R Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 The dog's probably still in orbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staffymonkey Posted February 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 (edited) He looks like he's goinmg SO FAST! before I start gioving this agility lark a go (which I think I may well do, once Maddie's over the car sickness...) I'm gonna have to start going jogging... Patch, please say a big, big thanks to all the agility addicts whop've added pix and stories - all really fantastic By the by, what *did* happen next? My guess is stafflet did a power leap (usually best exhibited when jumping off your lap towards the cat...) from seesaw before it had chance to send him into orbit... Edited February 9, 2006 by staffymonkey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest patch Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Patch, please say a big, big thanks to all the agility addicts whop've added pix and stories - all really fantastic Tis done I copy/pasted your own words so that when they see that you will hopefully be giving agility a go with Maddie they will know its cos of their encouraging pics and stories, which I hope has given the same inspiration of the possibility to lots more peeps here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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