Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. Hello and welcome to the Sexins Girl podcast, the podcast that

gives you real life dog training results. I'm joined by Nicole and we're talking sports mixes.

Now, Nicole, I had never seen a sports mix. I didn't even know what sports mix was. I mean, it sounds like some sort of pick and mix that you might go and like put on a sports top and a sports trouser and then maybe a different sock. But actually, I dropped my jaw when I was in America. I was competing in America with my dogs, and I dropped my jaw

when I saw this little dog move. And this little dog, I think Staffy crosswhip it, and oh, my God, the speed. Like, oh, my God, the speed. Now, I've always been a bit of a purist, so I kind of was like, no, my cocker spaniels and my border collies. But actually, when I watched this dog, you could really see that she was meant to do that.

Like she was absolutely purpose- was meant to do that.

Like she was absolutely purpose-bred to do that job.

Tell me about sports mixes in terms of what you see in Flyball and tell me a little bit about

your dogs and what you think.

So like the original sport mix is the border whip it.

As far as I'm aware and concerned, like I don't think, unless you want small, I don't think you can really improve on the border whipet, although loads of people will disagree with me, which is fine. So when you say border whip it, I always think of like a whipet, like a tiny little dog that sits on the sofa and is all super calm and super cute and like super like angelic you're not talking the same kind of whip it as me are you so normally not always

but sort of generally and historically the type of whip it used in a sport mix is like one from

racing lines and this sort of thing has been going on in America, Canada, a little bit over in Europe,

much longer than it has in the UK. It's only recently, I'd say, last sort of nine, ten years

taken off over here for fly ball. I know agility's very much still, sort of collies and

and spaniels generally. Obviously, there are many other breeds that compete. I don't want to

offend anybody. No, there are many other breeds, but typically lots of, lots of border collies,

lots of shelltees and lots of spaniels. Yeah. So, so yeah, we've got, currently in our house,

we've got a border whippet, we've got a quipit, which is Kelby Cross Whippet. We've got a whipet cross

staffy. That's it for sport mixes in our house at the moment. Really nice. Really nice.

And tell me a little bit about, I fell in love with party and tonic. So tell me a little bit about

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