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Delta agility and dog training offering agility training from puppy to Grade 7 competition dogs at my large indoor arena in Clevedon. Nick Gill

Also general dog training, such as recall, lead walking and puppy 1-2-1 training. I am using my experience and knowledge gained from owning and training dogs to start a dog walking and pet sitting service in Nailsea and surrounding areas. I currently own a rescue dog, a bearded dragon and tropical fish and in the past have owned dogs, cats, leopard geckos, a chameleon, hamsters, rats, mice, rabbit

s and guinea pigs. I started to train in dog agility with my boisterous rescue boy in 2015 after a recommendation from Gemma Fisher at Daybreak Dogs. The mental stimulation really helped with day to day life and from there I was hooked. After four successful years of competing with Cooper he has hung up his agility shoes and handed over the reins to my young Border Collie, Delta. Delta has been with me since 10 weeks of age, now just over 3 years old, Delta has turned into a wonderful family dog, and also a very promising agility dog. Sadly 2020 had very few competitions, but our first Kennel club competition Delta and I did pick up our first win! My love of learning about agility led me into teaching foundation classes for Gemma, I also shadowed puppy classes for over a year. Alongside my dog walking work, I have also completed many training courses, including a diploma in canine behaviour and psychology through, The International School for Canine Psychology & Behaviour Ltd (ISCP). From all of my experience teaching over the past few years and with all of the training courses I have completed, I am also offering Puppy classes, Youngsters classes, agility classes and 1-2-1 training for general dog behaviour or agility training.

The G1-2 fun show in September is fully booked🎉There are still spaces in the G3-5 fun show which takes place from 12.30p...
04/09/2025

The G1-2 fun show in September is fully booked🎉

There are still spaces in the G3-5 fun show which takes place from 12.30pm... so you can have a lie in😄

The G1-2 fun show in October is almost full, too🎉🎉

There are a few new dogs and handlers this year, so thank you for supporting and recommending my fun shows. I always look forward to running these and they are my favourite events of the year.❤️

I was watching Molly and Rocket playing the other day and it was lovely to see how happy they were together. They are li...
04/09/2025

I was watching Molly and Rocket playing the other day and it was lovely to see how happy they were together.

They are like this because they have grown up with each other, and I have made sure that they are happy together. I have always moved Rocket away if he needed it, as well as moved Molly away if she needed some space, too.

Molly is about to start school and I worked out that when she finishes her GCSE's in 12 years time, Rocket will be 13 years old.

To think that (hopefully) Rocket will be around when Molly is 16 years old feels weird, but it does go to show how much of a long commitment there is to bringing a dog into our lives.

That is why it is so important to help our dogs by teaching them and being consistent each and everyday of their life❤️

This photo is one of my favourites. Rocket was a puppy, as you can see😄. Molly had gone into the garden with Rocket to play with him. It was just a moment between them, building the relationship that will live long in her memories ❤️

I was getting into my van this morning about to start a day of fun with my daughter and dogs, when I noticed a screw in ...
03/09/2025

I was getting into my van this morning about to start a day of fun with my daughter and dogs, when I noticed a screw in the tyre🙈

I quickly took my van to the local garage, and thankfully it was fixed fairly quickly, although I had to wait outside for about 25 minutes with my daughter and dogs.

This was one of those moments when all the training that I have done with my dogs came into practice🎉

My daughter was bored and wanted to sit down, but it was wet outside and there wasn't anywhere to sit, so I had to focus on her more than the dogs.

All three dogs were very good, and they led down the whole time, including when we had a dog walk past us, barking, and trying to come over to us.

Teaching a dog to lie down and do nothing is very often ignored, but it was the first thing that I taught Rocket when he was a puppy, and I am very happy that I did 😃

None of the dogs had been out for a walk, and they were all calm and relaxed🍾🍾

It could have been a very stressful 25 minutes, but instead, I had a bit of fun playing around with my daughter😄

02/09/2025

Delta and I had a great time at our weekly training session last night. We have been improving our distance work recently, so it was great to see Delta putting it together at speed and with confidence 🎉

Rocket has his first KC jumping run at the weekend so we had a quick practice on a course I have set up at my venue😃

Junior fun show🎉This is something that I have wanted to do for a long time, and now that Molly is showing a lot more int...
02/09/2025

Junior fun show🎉

This is something that I have wanted to do for a long time, and now that Molly is showing a lot more interest in competing with my dogs, I felt it was a good time to organise the first of hopefully many Junior fun shows😃

I have made it a late morning start and although it says 12 - 2pm on the website this is not set in stone. You will get plenty of time on each course, so we might finish closer to 3pm.

I will split results depending on the ages that book this event. I would prefer to keep it to under 16, but I am happy to accept up to 18 years old.

To book your place, go to www.delta-agility.com

01/09/2025

Rocket did another anysize run on Saturday. We are still learning how to put everything together at a competition, but it is a lot of fun😄

I am also trying to work out a routine for Rocket from my van to the startline.

With Delta, I make sure that she has had the chance to go to the toilet. She needs time for a warm up before going in the ring. We have a play together to ensure that she is listening to me😃

I am still working out how much time I can spend with Rocket before it is too much and he begins to struggle in the ring.

Unfortunately, on Saturday I didn't have enough time because Delta's champ run finished and then I needed to get Rocket straight into the ring.

He was much better on the startline and although he missed the last 2 jumps. He did come back to me and finished the course😄

I took my dogs to the local woods for a walk today. During the walk I noticed that Delta and Rocket suddenly stopped and...
31/08/2025

I took my dogs to the local woods for a walk today. During the walk I noticed that Delta and Rocket suddenly stopped and then looked back to me. Then I spotted a black lab just ahead of them, so I called Rocket back to me, put his lead on and moved off the path, and also called Delta to me too...she is more experienced and didn't need to go on a lead, but I would if I felt that she wasn't able to listen to me

Why did I do this?

The simple answer is that Rocket doesn't have a strong enough understanding to come back and lie down next to me off lead yet. I don't want him to learn that he can run up to unknown dogs on walks, so he will go on a lead when we see someone.

He was only on a lead for about 2 minutes and then he was off again enjoying the freedom that he had before meeting this dog.

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Towards the end of our walk I spotted two people out for a walk just ahead of us, and there was also a parent with his daughter and young dog.

Once again, I decided to recall Rocket to me, BEFORE he spotted the people and the dog and I put him on a lead.

Why did I do this?

Once again, this was to stop Rocket from running up to the other people or dog. If Rocket had run up to the little girl in excitement and knocked her over, I would have been in a lot of trouble, potentially with the police if the parent had reported me.

Instead, Rocket didn't have a chance to knock anyone over. He didn't have the chance to run off and self reward poor behaviour.

The other people didn't even realise that I was behind them and we all finished our walks in peace and all the dogs were happy and safe.

31/08/2025

Delta and I were at our last champ show of the year yesterday. We had a really good jumping run, although Delta slowed down as she went over the long jump, and she knocked it over, so a lovely, but faulted run.

The agility run was really good too. Unfortunately, just before we were about to go in the judge stopped the class because most of the dogs were falling off the dog walk.

So a course change, rewalk, and restart meant that we had to wait for an hour and for some reason, Delta seemed a bit out of sorts on the startline.

I am not sure why, but it did put me off a bit but we pushed as hard as we could and I messed up the see-saw a bit and a refusal just after meant that we finished in 25th place overall. Just missing out on another champ final... but we will improve for the next one😃

I will be sorting out her very naught startline😄

29/08/2025

Molly has started to have more interest in agility and she really wants to start running Rocket... he is my dog😂😂

I have shared the video of her and Rocket and it looks lovely, but this video makes me a lot happier and very proud of Molly.

This was her reaction the first time she finished a course with Rocket❤️ it wasn't perfect. Rocket missed jumps and would have been eliminated at a competition, but Molly carried on until the end.

She did have a couple of wobbles because at 4 and a half years old, she wants to be perfect😂❤️

I will always make sure that this is her reaction at the end of every run she does with any of our dogs because this is what it should be for everyone.

She will of course become more frustrated as she gets older, but I will never let her shout at the dogs in training or at a competition.

She can be frustrated when it goes wrong, but I am going to do everything I can to encourage Molly and give her the confidence she needs to be as successful as possible. Whatever that looks like.

29/08/2025

Delta and I are at our last champ show of the year this weekend, so Rocket stayed at home and I did some training with Delta, instead😃

We worked on a few things, including obstacle discrimination. But the main thing I did was to put more pressure on Delta because I know that I probably overthink things at bigger competitions which makes Delta a lot slower.

So I am trying to change my handling style and push a lot more in training. Delta looked happy and confident, so that is good.

I don't spend much time training Delta because the focus has been on Rocket, but it felt great to have quality time with Delta. I know that she loved it too❤️

27/08/2025

Weaves take some time to teach our dogs. They need a lot of foundation training to ensure that you get consistent success in the ring.

I have put together some of the training I have done with Rocket from the beginning (April) to the last clip (yesterday) to show some of the training I have done with him😃

I have some workshops over the Autumn and Winter focusing on weaves.

Go to www.delta-agility.com to book your space.

26/08/2025

I didn't have as much spare time between lessons today, but we did manage to do this short sequence and added the weaves in a course for the first time🎉

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