Fire Dragons Flyball Club.

09/06/2024

On Saturday 8th January Firedragons travelled all ther way down the M3 to play flyball at a comp hosted by Jets Flyball Team . It can honestly be said we had a fabulous time. With 3 dogs debuting in League, Willow, Poppy and Nyx, two league teams, sin in LL singles and less teamies than usual plus Jon and Louise Judging it was a tad busy. Fortified by ice-cream and a excellent atmosphere we had an awesome time. Our debuting dogs mostly remembered what to do, ably supported by the experienced members of the team we had lots of personal wins. Sin was clean all day and took first place. Lovely rosettes and Licki mat prizes. Very welcome judges gifts ❤ With a 2 hour journey both ways it was a long day for some. Next time we will all camp..

13/05/2024

Fire Dragons had an awesome weekend at Quantum leap Mania this weekend. Very busy on Saturday with 5 Little league singles. All dogs did well showing lots of progression and we gained some placings with Frankie coming first in her division and Nyx and Sin gaining a Second and third respectively in theirs. Unicorns gained a well deserved second. No placings this time for tesm Dragons and we have some niggles to sort out before our next comp. Our box loaders were awesome as usual with young Florence stepping in to box load for unicorns at a comp for the first time. Our captain did lots of Judging over both days, including the crufts qualifier on Sunday! The video is a round up of our weekend including the beautiful sky Friday night and the very silly Saturday night.

08/04/2024

This weekend Firedragons attended their First outdoor comp of the year at Ardingly. Hosted by All 4 One Flyball team . The weather was interesting! High winds and a tad soggy underfoot. But we still has a fantastic time meeting up with our flyball family, getting to know some new additions and having fun in and around the lanes with some very competitive racing. On Saturday FireGriffin - Betsy, Biscuit, Lilo and Nashi- and , LL Fire Squibs- Poppy, Frankie, Cooper, Willow and Chaos came first in their divisions. On Sunday pairs Biscuit and Jess came 1st and LL pairs Sin and Barley managed a respectful second. It was Nyx's first time in a competition setting, in LL pairs with Chaos, showed she has phenomenal drive but thought the ball was optional and Chaos was his usual awesome self. Our team captain Judged for both days- a first since her recovery- only achievable due to the support of her team 🧡 All in all a fabulous weekend🥳 and we won't mention the raffle 🤣

06/01/2024

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Natural dog treats. Available to buy www.pupadoodlepicknmix.co.uk or at one of the events we attend.

31/12/2023

Thank you Ellen Schofield and Cambridgeshire Flyball Club We had a lovely day today, what a way to end the year. Improvements and ideas for Jacko , Jenson ran like a pro he is only oopsing when people were in the wrong place. Daisy ran lovely all day, we won't talk about Zac's starts. Nashi got a third despite Lucas's terrible timing and Hector and biscuit ran their little and big paws off, with only 1 mistake (an early my fault) got a 2nd. Hector gained the teacher dog award, from Abbie Mellor, for his help in aiding my recovery.
A very emotional day for Fire dragons team captain as at the grand Old age of 10, today Hector ran his last league race. He loves flyball but its time he passed on his grrr power to a younger generation ❤

31/12/2023

Its New Years Eve and what else can a flyball team do on the last day of the year, but go and play flyball at Horseley Fen and Cambridgeshire Flyball Club annual event. Good luck to Daisy, Nashi, Jacko, Jenson, Biscuit and Hector and most of all enjoy yourselves 🐾 🐾

23/12/2023

Today was our last training session for 2023. Some are off to Horseley Fen on NYE . With new dogs coming through and our League dogs really working well I can't wait to see what 2024 brings. Fire Dragons Flyball Club. Sends seasons greetings to all our friends and see you in the lanes soon.

02/12/2023

Sin today got her shiny new pb 😱. Not a bad time for a dog who is still watching the other lane! All thanks to the whole team and Jon Thorpe who puts so much energy into her. With other awesome dogs already in the team and new ones getting ready to debut next year, 2024 should be a good one 🥳

23/08/2023

Does your dog like to be busy doing something? Are you interested in spending time with your dog working with them to learn the sport of flyball? Is your dog 6 months plus and in general good health?
If you said yes to all of those questions Flyball maybe right for you and your dog.
Your dog doesn't need to be ball mad and can be of any breed or cross breed.
We are a competitive, family friendly, flyball team, based in Stotfold Bedfordshire, looking for new members both dogs and people. We train on a Saturday Morning and attend at least 1 competition (also on a weekend) a month.
We are offering a free introductory session on the morning of Saturday 23rd September 2023 where we will introduce you and your dog to the ground works involved in teaching flyball.
If you and your dog enjoy this and think it could be for you you can then sign up for our 6 week starter course.
To register your interest for the introductory session please message the team via Facebook messenger or Whats App using the button on our page or email [email protected]

07/08/2023

Ukfl champs news. Back from the UKFL championships 2023.. News update. It was cold and wet and windy a far cry from last year. Congratulations to all those who attended and dealt with the incredibly long days. You are awesome and make Firedragons a very happy team to be around. A big thank you to my husband without who i couldn't judge run my dogs and remain standing over the 4 days and those that stepped up and ensured teams, dogs and people were in the right place at the right time. This year we followed the trend of last year and only ran outdoors. League teams- Dragons gained 3rd in Div 4. Unicorns 2nd div 7. Multibreed ( dogs racing have to be of different breeds, with xb counting as a breed) team Wyrms 3rd. Well done to all those dogs its not easy but they are gelling together. Watch this space for next years league racing! Ll singles willow did amazingly well bringing her ball back for Junior handler Esmae more times than she ever has for her own mum and dad, this partnership will continue. Poppy the rottie came first in her singles division, so proud if her and her dad 😍 sin and chaos came 3rd in LL pairs. Biscuit and Hector came 3rd in their mini maxi pairs. Nyx rocked her first PC slots on sunday and promptly came into season. Whilst I am so proud of all the adults and dogs, Lottie, Herbert, Oscar, Biscuit, Hector, Daisy, Nashi, Lilo, Poppy A, Poppy C, Willow, Sin, Nyx, Reggie, that attended its our juniors who were really awesome. Running dogs like pros and ensuring our lanes were got ready for racing promptly in our warm up time. Junior handler Megan deserves a special shout out as she box loaded for all 3 of our team dog entries and only her awesome skills ensured that we were placed 🧡🖤On a negative side, one of our juniors only went and broke his wrist yesterday afternoon, nothing to do with the dogs. We wish him a speedy recovery.

22/01/2023

Fire Dragons Award Winners 2022!!!!!!

Drum 🥁🥁 roll please......

Dog of the year - Lottie

Most improved handler of the year - Isla Anderson

Most improved dog of the year - Luna

Best partnership of the year - Lucas Sanders & Nashi

Team Member of the year - Louise Sanders

These awards were voted for by our fantastic Fire Dragons so it means a huge amount to be recognised by fellow team members. We can't wait to get competing again as part of the UK Flyball League bring on 2023!!!

If you're looking to host your own team awards, we can highly recommend our wonderful award sponsors: Laura from LH Engravers & Sian from www.collieprint.co.uk

22/01/2023

What a fantastic night we had as a team for our inaugural annual awards last night. It was amazing to see everyone and be able to chat without dogs barking at us every 5 seconds 🤣 will announce the winners shortly!

27/11/2022

Congratulations Michael 🎉🎉

12/11/2022

What a day! A massive thank you to Ellen and all of the team at Cambridgeshire Flyball Club for hosting today's brilliant racing.

We had 1 league team in with Lottie, Lilo, Nashi and a newbie rotating partnership of Daisy and Betsy. Some great racing and we came out with a first 🥇and a very respectable sub-21 time.

3 PC slots with Frankie building up her confidence around others and just her general enjoyment in the ring. Didn't see her stop wagging her tail! Poppy was up next showing everyone that Rottweiler's are perfectly happy to learn how to do a box turn...with lots of sausages at the end of it!! She also got the Inca award for the dog with best character 🥰 Lastly we had Oscar who attended for his first ever PC slot and absolutely nailed it! He's so willing and didn't skip a beat climbing our new board, which is like a mountain for him!
A great day helped out by our extended flyball family so thank you to Jess for box loading for us too!
We're looking forward to doing it all again in December!

02/10/2022

Firedragons would like to thank Northants for a fantastic days racing at Benham today. Dragons had mixed fortunes and went NFC but by the end of the day were in a much better place than at the beginning of racing. Unicorns syncing with Loki and Jon had an amazing time coming 2nd with a fastest time of 17.94. Sin had a PC slot and The wonderful Heritage ran as her stooge dog and gained a much deserved Shadow award. Thank you also to all our judges and ring party you were awesome. 🥰

08/08/2022

Our very own Michael E Wilson rocking the stage.. next weekend he and Lottie the lab will be making a different type of noise and be racing at the ukfl champs.

01/08/2022

These are great days..

💥NEW SCENT DAY💥

These days seem to be so popular we've added another date!

🗓️ Sunday 18th September 🗓️

A chance to come and search a super dog friendly farm venue!

We are offering two 3 hour sessions, £30 per dog, per session

SESSION 1 (10AM-1PM) NOVICE-INTERMEDIATE ⭐ -
This morning session will be set to be fun for any dog on scent, even if you have only done scent for a short time. We will be laying cloves but if you wish to lay your own scent this can be accommodated too!

SESSION 2 (2PM-5PM) INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED ⭐
This session is set to be a little more challenging with deep and out of reach finds as well as those to maintain confidence. Cloves and gun oil will be layed. Each area to search will have multiple finds.

🐶Certificates of participation
🐶 Feedback, hints and tips if you wish from 3 experienced individuals who judge, teach and compete (levels 6 and 7) in the sector.
🐶Cafe, toilets, parking on site
🐶Large secure dog walking paddocks available to hire on site

MESSAGE THE PAGE TO BOOK YOUR PLACE 📩

25/07/2022

Firedragons had a fabulous weekend at Emneth hosted by Wash Warriors and Tina Hatcher and Joined by Joan, Noski and Mr Toad himself. Outside racing at its best, we had loads of fun. On Saturday we came 3rd with a sync team with Luna running paw perfect, Noski just slotted back in as second dog, Nashi ran clean most of the day as did the borrowed storm and Abi. We paired raced our mini maxi team for champs practice, stitch and Hector.. again fabulous racing by both and stitch didn't say Hello to any ring party whilst we were racing which is a massive result Sin and Nova worked in PC and with another ring alongside it really was a racing environment for both of them. Sunday the temperature went up so an early start was called. We raced dragons as prep for champs luna, noski, lottie and Nashi. I think between them we had 3 faults all day and they really gelled. Lovely competitive racing and we came home with a second place, just being beaten by WVF! As we were down dogs for unicorns we went nfc and decided to run Nova in her first league event. Blue Lane she nailed it, didn't put a paw wrong.. unfortunately red lane she went back to chasing so more work needed there.. Once again Stitch and Hector had fun racing well if not the fastest.. Sun and high temperature meant that racing was sensibly called short. Thank you so much to Donna, Tina, Abi and Colin for being our Judges all the ring party and again for the members of Wash warriors and especially Tina, Julia and Chris for hosting such a wonderful event

06/06/2022

Scent work is a great way to connect with your dog. It engages their brains and you can do it with all types and ages of dogs..

Exciting NEW scent day!! 🤯⬇️

CALLING EVERYONE WHO ENJOYS SCENT WORK OR WOULD LIKE TO GIVE IT A TRY!

⭐Saturday 18th June⭐

A chance to come and search a super dog friendly farm venue!

We are offering two 3 hour sessions, £25 per dog, per session

SESSION 1 (10AM-1PM)
This morning session will be set to be fun for any dog on scent, even if you are just a beginner. We will be laying cloves but if you wish to lay your own scent this can be accommodated too!

SESSION 2 (2PM-5PM)
This session is set to be a little more challenging with deep and out of reach finds as well as those to maintain confidence. Each area to search will have multiple finds.

You can choose both sessions too!

🐶Certificates of participation
🐶 Feedback, hints and tips if you wish from 3 experienced individuals who judge, teach and compete (levels 6 and 7 ) in the sector.
🐶Cafe, toilets, parking on site
🐶Large secure dog walking paddocks available to hire on site
🐶Amazing countryside to walk in and close to Hammerton Zoo!

MESSAGE THE PAGE TO BOOK YOUR PLACE 📩

05/06/2022

Firedragons have been away at the UKFL Jubilee celebrations at thirsk this weekend, and what a fabulous weekend it was. Lots of fun shared food and banter. Team captain Louise passed her judging exam and became a level 2 judge. Poppy (rottie) had a fab pc slot and is showing excellent progression. Poppy (span) run by the fabulous Isla went from running out all day on Friday, to competing in singles and completing every heat. Unfortunately, she didn't get placed but recieved the award for the most improved dog running in the outside competition day. Luna did her owner Hannah proud by staying in her own lane all day and being placed in her singles division and to top it all off for Hannah, stitch the teams mascot was placed as well in her singles division, something we never thought would happen. Dennis the dalamation, another of our young dogs became the fastest dalimation in the ukfl and also gained the award for the dog with the most character. Hector gained a respectable 3rd in his singles division as did Nashi. Unfortunately, Daisy had to be pulled from her racing after becoming lame.

28/05/2022

A sea of Red white and blue..

07/05/2022

Fantastic day racing at Naseby, hosted by Northants Falcons Flyball Team. Couldn't of raced if Tina hadn't rearranged her teams so we could borrow Vicky and Myst. Sunshine came as requested, live music played in the background really organised and chilled out event.. bonus that we came 1st in our div and the lovely Lottie got the Quinn award for the dog with the biggest character. We are back again tomorrow with our LL dogs and a PC .

27/04/2022

Dennis the Dalmatian Flyball dog in training also a fabulous dog Model 🧡

Uber Pet journeys launched in the UK today and sees customers matched with drivers willing to take their cats and dogs. It includes a surcharge of £3.20 in London and £2 elsewhere.

12/03/2022

Firedragons would like to wish good luck to all the flyball YKC teams running today. Just make sure you are ready, Ready, READY!

11/03/2022

Find A Flyball Club In Your Area https://www.ukflyball.org.uk/about/regional-mentors/

If You've Seen Flyball At Crufts This Week And Want to Get Involved With Your Dog, Then Our Friendly Team Of Mentors Are Waiting To Hear From You! Drop Us An Email And Come And Join The Fun!

10/03/2022

Firedragons was to wish good luck to all the teams competing at crufts in flyball this year.

08/03/2022

Junior Camp 2022 is now open for booking!
Running from 14-15th April - full event details are in the UKFL diary

To request an application form please email: [email protected]

19/02/2022

This team is full of amazing people who are amongst 8 teams who are representing the UK at the world championships. Their whole training venue and equipment was destroyed by storm Eunice. Please could you spare even a £1 to help them.

Thanks to Storm Eunice, Essex Flyball Team's training venue was destroyed al… Sarah Robson needs your support for Help Essex replace their training equipment