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SELFIE’S
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PUPPY
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My name is Martin Reid, I am a full-time dog cloud has a silver lining, without the global
agility trainer and here is my journey about the pandemic the situation I am in now would have
last 5 weeks of my life collecting and staying been very unlikely.
abroad with my new Sheltie puppy.
I have been looking for another height category
Usually, I work travelling around the country for agility training and competition for a few
delivering training events and seminars. I also years, I’ve always had Border Collie’s and
have an online training website which covers absolutely love them, sometimes a change is
all aspects of agility training, from the very a step in the dark but also can give amazing
beginnings of training to training up a champion! opportunities. I was very undecided for a long
Check out the website for more information – time about what breed I would like and I have
been enquiring with a few people I know or
www.intoshapeagility.com
who’s dogs I’ve liked over the last year or two,
Unfortunately, due to Coronavirus lots of our but when this opportunity came up, it was a no
work this year has been cancelled. 2020, is brainer!
proving a difficult year for most! However, every
“Selfie” my next sheltie puppy was born! She is
from the “with eager to work” breeder (Tobias
Wüst), who lives in Germany. At first, I didn’t
know she would be mine, or even I was in the
running to have a puppy, but when I was added
to a private Facebook group where there were
only 2 other people and myself in the group, I
knew it was a good sign -Selfie was born in a
litter of three!
Time went fast, myself and my partner Naarah
Cuddy went to visit the puppies when they were
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