KIDDERMINSTER DOG CLUB
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31st August 2010
Local newspaper Stourbrige News cover last months RSPCA show and include a picture of Louise with one of the winners and mention Kidderminster Dog Club. As well as in the weekly paper it was also on the Stourbridge News website at: www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/8325940.Dog_show_award_for_Stourbridge_girl_and_Poppy_the_pooch/?ref=rss
15th August 2010
One of the busiest weekends of the year for Kiddy Dog Club and its members. With both the British Flyball Championships and the Kennel Club International Agility Festival being held over the same three days. Great results for both the flyballers and the agility dogs at the two largest shows in the UK outside Crufts itself.
Kiddy Minors ran on Saturday with Tiegan, Mac, Flyte, Solace, Harvey & Jodie. The handlers were Karen, Louise, Mel, Will, Glyn, Stuart and Vicki on Box Loading duties. We worked hard in the summer rain and picked up a deserved Divisional Runners Up placing. Some close racing in all our matches made sure that we all were on top of our game.
The British Champs have 42 divisions with nearly 250 teams. It is run in 4 rings over 3 days and is huge compared to normal shows. This was a first champs show for Will, Glyn and Vicki. They all showed great nerve and performed to the highest standard and are now truly Flyballers.
Special well done to Solace who gained BFA Intermediate status at this show. We all want one of our flyball certificates to have British Championships on it and Sol has got his after 4 months competing. A special achievement to a special dog.
In the agility both Heidi & Code and Liz & Kera qualified for the British Cup Finals. Both ran well in a pressure cooker environment, with Liz and Kera coming 3rd overall.
Congrats to all our handlers and dogs who ran for Kidderminster over the Weekend.29th July 2010
Training on 12th and 19th August is moving to two local parks. Details in Training in the Parks.pdf.27th July 2010
Jodie running at Crufts 2010 is used on the Kennel Club DFS Crufts Agility results web page. Actual link is http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=3052&d=pg_dtl_art_news&h=243&f=0
25th July 2010
Thanks to all the club members who came along to the flyball demo for the RSPCA at Frankley. Those who attended were Karen, Will, Vicki, Louise, Mel, Glyn, Carly, Laura, Rob, Rachel, Graham, Rob, Alison and Stuart. The dogs who ran were; Tiegan, Jodie, Mac, Flyte, Sol, Harvey, Marmite, Bertie, Abbey, Rosie and special guest appearance from our mascot Casino.
Racing was fun and the organisers were very happy with our displays.
Louise was the judge for one of the RSPCA fun classes. Pictured right is Louise with one of the winners.
Once again thanks to all who helped.
18th July 2010
Heidi and Cody's Countless Capers win Reserve at the KC Agility Championship show in Rugby. Jenerelena Nothin But Blue wins the KC Olympia qualifier and joins Cody in the semi finals to be held at the Birmingham Show on 4th September. Both dogs are powered on Fish4Dogs Salmon Complete, a winning combination.6th July 2010
Kidderminster Dog Club are now on Facebook. Important updates will be placed on our Facebook page as well as on this website.4th July 2010
We continued our good form at Becketts Farm today. Running as Kiddy Minors with Solace, Jodie, Tiegan, Mac and Harvey we won 4 matches of the 5. Our second place was most welcome as we lowered our seed time to 20.28. Will and Solace have now got the start lights sorted and ran very well all day. Mac continues to improve, but throws in the odd curve ball, just to keep Louise on her toes!.
Jodie and Tiegan do what they always do with no mistakes. Vicki put in another faultless display on the box and Glyn and Harvey ran well to claim our final win of the day. Thanks to Carly who helped in the ring and our new lucky mascot Cassie the next generation of Kiddy Monsters. A well earned beer was taken on the way home.27th June 2010
Much better racing today at Bakewell. A very scenic venue saw us using our new flyball box and all the dogs ran on it very well. Vicki had another faultless performance box loading, it really does help when the box works!. Whilst Will got to grips with the start lights and fine tuned Solaces start sequence. Solace is now running very well in both lanes and kept pace with the other start dogs. Three wins in the morning session were undone in the afternoon when due to the hot weather the show went to best of 3 format. We did not do as well in the short format and lost our two matches 2-1. Thanks to Andy from the Rotherham Rockets who ran Chelsea for us. Even helped us beat his own club in the morning, showing the true spirit of BFA flyballers.
First show apperance of a yet to be named Border Collie owned by Will and Vicki stole the show as everyone loves a puppy.19th June 2010
A difficult days racing at the Dolphins show on the Wirral. Our flyball box decided to play up which resulted in a number of lost matches. Sadly when we borrowed a box from the hosts our dogs struggled to adapt to it and we only won one of our five matches. We did move up from 6th seed to finish 5th, whilst Solace ran well in his second show.6th June 2010
Congratulations to Harvey and Code who ran in their first flyball competition at Princess Risborough today. Both ran well and gained a great deal of experience for future shows. It was also great to have Spot and Chelsea back running in the team. They both showed they still have what it takes in the flyball arena.5th June 2010
Tiegan and Jodie qualified for the Superstars final at Wye Valley show in Monmouth. The final was run over a double agility course (endurance), then a double jumping course (sprint). Tiegan went on to win the final and now is a real Superstar!23rd May 2010
Kiddy Minsters came a very creditable 3rd in division 4 at the Alpha Dogz show in Daventry. Congratulations to Heidi & Vibe who ran very well in their first competition and Vibe looks to be a very promising lead dog. Mac and Flyte were once again flying and along with Jodie and Tiegan posted a new seed time of 18.94 seconds. Thanks to Alison and Rob who came along to cheer us on and get the flyball bug.15th May 2010
Great session at the Blue Cross open Day demo held by Kiddy Monsters at Bromsgrove today. For some of the dogs it was a first taste of running in two lanes in competition mode. We had a number of positive enquiries from visitors who gave flyball a try for the first time. Thanks to all members who took the time to come to the demo. Those involved were Louise, David, Will, Vicki, Glyn, Carly, Becky, James, Graham, Laura, Steph, Karen and Stuart.29th April 2010
Solace handled by Will made a great start to their BFA Flyball life by gaining "Flyball Dog" status in their first show. Having travelled to Godmanchester to get some show experience in the warm ups, they found themselves running in every race. After a shaky start both Sol and Will got into the groove and to show the improvements they were making we posted our best time of the day in the penultimate race. Also congratulations to Vicki who took to the Box Loading duties from the very first run and did not make one mistake. Mac got a dead leg on the day and we wish him a speedy recovery, and look forward to hm racing again soon.8th April 2010
Tiegan progresses from agility grade 6 to 7 with her win at the Easter Bretford show on 3rd April. She went on to win four classes (2 Agility and 2 jumping) over the Weekend. Jodie also had a good Weekend with three wins and two second places. Code and Vibe also had wins and places at the Shrewsbury show over Easter.18th March 2010
The Kidderminster Medium Agility team feature in the Dog World Crufts supplement along with our sponsors Fish4Dogs.12th March 2010
Kidderminster Medium Agility team sponsored by Fish4Dogs where today crowned Crufts Champions 2010 after a thrilling final involving teams from Prestwick, Stoke and South Cotswold. The team of Code, Wisper, Pip and Jodie ran well in both the semi final this morning and the final this afternoon. Drawn to run first we thought we had not done enough. However as we watched nervously in the holding area each of the three other teams made mistakes. Congratulations to Heidi, Nik, Richard and Stuart the winning handlers.11th March 2010
Kidderminster flyball team sponsored by Kingspan lost 2-1 to Warrington Wizzards in the Crufts Flyball Championship Quarter Final. Having drawn one of the best teams in the UK it was always going to be an uphill task for Jodie, Mac, Tiegan and Jack. But to claim one leg win was a big bonus. Congratulations to Mac and Jack plus handlers Louise and Katy who ran on the green carpet at Crufts for the first time. The Wizzards went on to be runers up in the Grand Final, so it makes our performance even better.28th February 2010
Kiddy Minsters come 2nd in Division 2 at the BFA show in Deeside. The team included Jodie, Mac, Tiegan and Jack posted a best time of 19.09. Next stop Crufts.24th January 2010
Kiddy Minors won Division 4 at the Doncaster show today. The team consisting of Jodie, Tiegan, Jack and Chelsea were unbeaten during the racing. They finished with a new seed time of 19.66, during the racing Jack passed 5,000 BFA points to gain the BFA "Advanced" award. In the post show presentations Chelsea collected her BFA "Gold" award. She is only the second Kiddy dog to achieve this milestone award.18th January 2010
New club logo launched.7th January 2010
The Kennel Club have confirmed that the Kidderminster Agility Team sponsored by Fish4Dogs will compete in the Crufts Team Agility Finals on Friday 12th March 2010.4th January 2010
Happy New Year to all our members and team sponsors.6th December 2009
Kiddy Minxs come 5th winning two matches in Division 2 at Northern Racing College, Doncaster. The team consisted of Jodie, Chelsea, Tiegan and Jack. Congratulations to Cloe Oliver who competed in a BFA show for the very first time, handling Chelsea in fine style. Many thanks to Andy from Rotherham Rockets who helped Kiddy Minxs on box loading duty.22nd November 2009
Kiddy Minxs win Division 2 at Dolphins/Live Wires show held at Deeside Leisure Centre. The team consisted of Jodie, Tiegan, Flyte, Jack and Mac. The team ended the day as won 5 lost 0 and a best time of 18.97. This was Mac's first indoor competition and he gained the points to take him to BFA FDI level.15th November 2009
Kiddy MInxs finish 3rd in Division 1 at Newark. The team consisted of Chelsea, Jack, Flyte, Tiegan and Jodie. During the racing Chelsea picked up the points to gain her BFA Gold award. In the post racing presentations the following Kiddy dogs collected awards. Tiegan, BFA Silver. Flyte BFA Advanced. Jack BFA Intermediate. Congratulations to all the dogs and handlers involved.28th October 2009
Following appointed Officers and Committee members at club AGM. Katy Oliver - Chair, Karen milton - Treasurer, Stuart Milton - Secretary, Joe Upsall & Will Jones - Committee.4th October 2009
Kiddy Minxs come 4th at Becketts Farm show. Jodie collects her BFA Gold award the first Kiddy dog to achieve this milestone.5th September 2009
Kidderminster win Crufts Flyball Qualifier at Cirencester to qualify for Crufts 2010. The team consisting of Jodie, Tiegan, Jack & Mac did not lose a race during the tournament. They beat the host team Prestbury Park 2-0 in the QF, Anglesey Dragons from Wales 2-0 in the semi final and Dreamteam from the South East 2-0 in the final. Pictured right are the winning dogs plus Katy, Karen, Cloe, Stuart & Louise. This was a special win for both Jack and Mac who qualified for Crufts for the first time.29th & 30th August 2009
Kiddy Minsters finish 5th in Division 1 at Stoneleigh Park, Warks. Beating the current British Champions and British Record Holders Bassett Hotdogs on the way. Kiddy Minors have a bad day at the office finishing 7th in Division 5.16th August 2009
Kiddy Minsters finish 3rd in Division 6 at the British Championships, held in Warwickshire. Jack gains his BFA Intermediate level.9th August 2009
Kiddy Minsters finish 2nd at Rye Croft, with Tiegan gaining BFA Silver and Flyte BFA Advanced.8th August 2009
Kidderminster finish 3rd at the Crufts Flyball Qualifier held in Scunthorpe. Just missing out on a place at Crufts. Congratulations to Scunthorpe and Wilmslow who qualified.27th June 2009
Kidderminster Medium Agility team, sponsored by Fish4Dogs win the Crufts Team Qualifier at Lansdown, Bath. The victorious team who have now qualified for Crufts 2010 were; Heidi & Code, Nik & Wispa, Richard & Pip, plus Stuart & Jodie.29th to 31st May 2009
Kiddy Monsters finish 6th in European Championships held in Mechlen, Belgium. During the racing they set a club record time of 17.58 seconds.
23rd May 2009
Kiddy Monsters set new club record of 17.69 at Rye Croft Farm, Chesihre. The team finished 2nd in Division 1.9th May 2009
Bad day at the office. The flyballers crash out of the Nuneaton Crufts qualifier at the first round stage. Whilst closer to Birmingham the Agility team sponsored by Fish4Dogs fail to qualify at the Beacon Crufts qualifier as Stuart tears his calf during the team run.4th May 2009
Tiegan wins Grade 5/6 Agility at Vyne championship show to progress to Grade 6 in the kennel Club Grading structure.6th March 2009
Medium Agility Team sponsored by Fish4Dogs win Crufts team semi final.
Contact for more information
Stuart Milton by email stuartmilton@blueyonder.co.uk or by phone on 0753 0956533 (evenings or weekends only)