Hillam Hot Dogs Selby District North Yorkshire

Hillam Hot Dogs


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	Photo Gallery	- Hot Dogs at the East Midlands Dog Aglity Club Show, July, 2005
	Photo Gallery	- Hot Dogs at the East Midlands Dog Aglity Club Show, April, 2005
	Photo Gallery	- Hot Dogs [ and other teams] at the Northern Bytes tournament at Eggborough, April 30th, 2005
	Tournament Results	- Reports, video and photos from tournaments up to and including Middlesborough, May 6, 2006

New on this page - links to longer Flyball and Agility videos

This page

Team news and photos, and team information, up to the end of May, 2006.

In June, Robbie Beechey, [who up till then had been webmaster of these pages] and Zak transferred to Kellington Flyball Club. John Parker, also a Kellington resident, then took over the design and running of a new website for the club, which can be found at

http://www.hillamhotdogs.co.uk/

These pages will remain active, for those who wish to refer to the Club's activities over the past 18 months or so.

For further pages of photographs from tournaments + agility pics and assorted other categories, see Jamie's own website

Jamie [ JTG Photographics ] took his camera to Middlesborough, May 7th 2005.

Click here for around 50 photos of the Hot Dogs and other teams from other tournaments.

contact Jamie

Hillam Hot Dogs Flyball Team

The Hot Dogs' home ground is at

Sand Kim Farm,

Hillam Common Lane.

Coming from Kellington, turn right as you leave Birkin.

From the A63, take the Beal - Birkin - Kellington turn off at the Eastern edge of Monk Fryston village, and then turn left at the T- junction.We practise on Thursday evenings, from 7pm.

For more Information

Click Here

The dogs also enjoy socialising together - this photo was taken at Primrose Valley on February 8th, 2005, when the team enjoyed a beach walk, followed by a pub lunch for the handlers.

Latest Team News

[Latest First]

The 2006 Outdoor Season

Our Newest Recruits


Above - Polly, and right, Saffie, one of Claire's dogs Below, Morgan, another of Claire's Tibetan Terriers


Right and below - another of Claire's dogs, this time Danny.
	Finnegan and Megant [bottom 2 pics] belong to Eileen and Phil

Middlesbrough, 6 May, 2006

Millie achieved her Flyball Dog award at this tournament, and ran very well all day, helping to win all our races, taking 1st place in Division 6. She will make a big difference to the team, as being small, we can now run at the lowest height, but as a terrier, she is lively, fast and very determined.

Well, we're back into the Flyball outdoor season now, and the team went to Ryecroft Farm for their 1st outing. Unfortunately, once again the team experienced some fitness problems, with Millie missing her debut because of an injury, This hit hard, as Millie is the height dog, leaving her team mates, Tara, Holly and newcomers Breeze and Frodo, to run at full height. With Zak unavailable and Megan easing in gently after her cruciate ligament injury, unfortunately they were not able to run at near their seed time, and didn't come home this time with rosettes.

The 2nd tournament should have been on Mayday Bank Holiday weekend, once again over the Pennines, but bad luck has hit for a 3rd time - both Tara and Frodo are unwell, though expected to recover in time to run at Middlesbrough on the 1st weekend in May. This will be the 1st camping weekend, and all being well, we will have a full complement, as Millie, Megan, Tara and Frodo should be fit to run, and Zak will also be available - almost enough for 2 teams - a luxury we've not experienced for a couple of years now. Let's hope we have had all our bad luck, they do say it comes in threes.

Kennel Cough hits the team.

Unfortunately, some of the team dogs attending recent tournaments have caught Kennel Cough, and as a result have had to withdraw from the Yorkshire Bouncers Tournament which was to have been held at Selby College on the 4th and 5th of March. So many other teams have also had to withdraw because they too had contracted Kennel Cough that the tournament has had to be cancelled - hopefully this break will allow the outbreak to die down before the start of the summer season.

The first 2 tournaments in 2006 for the Hot Dogs took place on February 4 [Selby College] and on February 11th [Newark Show Ground]

Unfortunately the team did not achieve a rosette at either venue, but nevertheless, felt that both tournaments were a team success. Millie has now begun to run in the senior divisions, and is well on the way to becoming a flyball dog, consistently performing very well indeed. Its nice to see Claire back with us, and her two dogs, Breeze and Frodo both performed well.Carole and Stan's caravan made a very welcome team base - the weather was pretty cold for both tournaments.

Breeze's son, Foster, who belongs to Carole and Stan, is coming along very well indeed , and will be making his Starter debut before long. Megan, another of Carole and Stan's dogs, is recovering well from a damaged cruciate ligament, but will not be running this coming season, and will be sorely missed.

Three dogs have retired - Sep[10] and Tag[9] completely, and Jenna [7] has retired from flyball - she will concentrate on agility for the rest of her sporting career. Pippa is giving a very clear indication that she much prefers agility to flyball - she 's not too bothered about bringing the ball back down the run!

Jenna and Zippy both passed the Kennel Club's Bronze award, with Milly only just missing out - she broke her stay, having passed every other section. Hopefully, she'll get it when the next course starts, with Megan and Foster having a go too.

December 3rd, at the Doncaster Belle Stars indoor Tournament at Doncaster Race Course, was the launch day for the Hot Dogs new Team Banner. We are amongst the 1st of the Northern teams to adopt this style, and it looks very smart.

Millie was the only Hot Dog involved in this tournament, as a family bereavement and Megan's cruciate ligament injury have meant it was difficult to field a division team.

Millie ran with another Kellington dog, Charlie, in a Starter team formed from the Tykes and the Breakaways, and Sue and John were delighted to come back with a 4th place rosette

The beach trip of the Autumn took place on Friday, 8th October, when Robbbie and Sue took their dogs to Primrose Valley. Hopefully more members and their dogs will manage next weeks trip to the coast - we are very fortunate, having so many of the superb, quiet East Coast beaches so close by.

The weekend of August 6th / 7th has proved to be a good one for the team.

The Hot Spots came 4th in Division 5 at the Tykes tournament on York Racecourse on Saturday, despite the fact that Carole had to run Zak as Robbie had injured her knee.

That injury also meant that our Starter team had to withdraw, so Millie joined the Kellington Power Racers starter team on the Sunday, and ran very well indeed, especially as she did not know the dogs she was running with.

To see video of her running, see the Power Racers pages - Click Here

On the Agility front, Caroline and Jenna went to the Scunthorpe show, where they won promotion out of the Elementary class, by coming 3rd in Elementary Agility - photos to follow. They also took an 18th place rosette, but to win out of Elementary was really the dream come true for Caroline.

Maddie

The Hot Dogs would like to welcome new team members Michelle, with 10 month old collie, Maddie, and Margaret and her daughters, Catherine and Gemma with their 2 dogs, Gina and Cody

Gina is a Golden Retriever and Cody is an 18 week old labrador pup who is joining Pippa and Foster in the Nursery class.

The Nursery class is mainly for puppy socialisation, and to get them used to coming quickly to their owners even when very exciting things are happening all around them, but as you can see, Stan has made puppy jumps which are almost at ground level, so that they can get used to bringing their ball back between jumps and nets.

All 3 love this, and we have to strictly limit the number of runs they are allowed to do each session.

This set of photos from John Parker

Gina

Cody

Foster

Pippa

Zak has now achieved Flyball Dog Intermediate

Zak has now collected 1002 points, and will shortly receive the BFA Landmark certificate, Flyball Dog Intermediate. Kellington residents may remember Zak's photo appearing in the Corner shop window a couple of years ago when he and his litter brother, aged just 8 months old, were seeking a new home as their owner had become ill and was no longer able to look after them.

Zak stayed in Kellington, living with Steve, but unfortunately Steve also became ill and was unable to keep him. He next went to live at the Red Lion, but it was very quickly clear that he was not going to settle there - he needed someone with him constantly as he was becoming very insecure and Wayne and Michelle had work to do in the bar.

He came to live with us in January, 2003, aged 11 months, and as we already had a collie bitch, Zippy, only 6 weeks older than he was, settled in straight away with our 4 dogs. He loved his flyball training from the start, and qualified as Flyball Dog [200 points] in his 1st sanctioned tournament at 18 months old.

If any of his previous owners visit this page - you can be very proud of Zak. He is still the lovely, good natured dog that you knew, and is making a fast and reliable Flyball dog as well.

Agility

To see a video about aglility, Click here

Caroline and Jenna competed at the North Derbyshire Agility Show held at Bakewell on the 18th/19th June 2005.

To Caroline's great delight they came 9th in Novice Agility - a great achievement, as they only began the sport a couple of years ago, and as well as being very large classes, the Novice classes are open to any handler whose dog has not won out of that class. [ Elementary and Starter classes are only open to handlers, as well as dogs, who have not won out of those levels] They also managed to pick up a 15th place rosette that day as well

Other Hillam Hot Dogs trying their hand -or should it be paws - at agility are Megan, Tag, Zippy, Zak and now Millie, and Amy is eagerly waiting for Sammie to be ready to start, though it will be another year before Foster and Pippa can begin their formal agility and flyball training.

We have recently been joined by 2 new families, both with potential height dogs.

Millie, a Border Terrier, lives in Kellington, and is almost ready to have a tryout in Starters, while Eric is definitely the Hot Dogs' secret weapon - he's a very pretty miniature dachshund, and I'm not sure that there are any other dachshunds currently running in Flyball teams. He's doing well, and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing him run with the team.

We have 2 other starter dogs coming along too, Sammie, who is still too young to run in Starters, and Saffie who is a very fit 10 year old rescue dog, and who is enjoying learning to play Flyball.

Sammie, Saffie and Eric are being trained by junior handlers Amy, Stacey and Jack.

Millie

Sammie

Both Millie and Sammie love their practice sessions, and we look forward to seeing them enter their first starter tournaments before too long. [Photos from Stan]

This week as well, we are being joined by not one but two puppies.

Carol and Stan have added Foster to their household