This week we’ve traveled up to Minnesota to take the dogs to the rehab vet again. It’s been an adventure as always – great traveling, I had a second person (and her dog) with us this time, making me a little less stressed about some aspects of the traveling. Read more…
We did our first WCRL rally trial of the year today. Three trials in one day – I judged a whole trial (my first time with Level 3), ran Griffin in all 9 classes and Blaze in two! Because all of my hosting and judging responsibilities my dogs didn’t get Read more…
He had a really exciting year – we went to the rehab vet and she helped him feel better. Changing his meds resulted in his evening focal seizures completely – he had those tiny seizures a few times a week for several years. We were both happy to see such Read more…
13 years old! He celebrated by eating snow and a few repetitions of fetching. We’ve had a retrieve ban for a few years due to his enthusiasm. I have video of the game but I won’t be sharing it – we stopped after he flipped over as he skid to Read more…
A year ago Blaze finished his Level 1 (APDT) rally title. Last November he finished his Rally Novice (AKC) title. That left us with not much else he could do while on leash. We still could try UKC rally or tracking and non-titling AKC subnovice classes. Blaze has an abnormal Read more…
Blaze is now 12 and not too different from before. He’s a little slower, but still faster than me. He’s starting to loose his hearing and sometimes needs help getting into the car. But I still have to manage his life to keep him safe. People who have puppies or Read more…
One more week until classes start to get back to normal. What we’ve done: We had a really warm day. I set up my agility equipment for the first time in 2012. The dogs got really muddy and had baths. Two days later it was cold, there was deep snow, Read more…
In 2012 I intended to be doing a lot of trials and events with all the dogs. It didn’t happen. Blaze did one day of rally and Griffin did one day of agility. But we did a lot of seminars and my notes say we did at least 26 days Read more…
We had a 5 day obedience seminar with Fanny Gott. Griffin and I had done online classes with her and it was really exciting to work face-to-face with her. Other seminar attendees were here from all over the US and with different types of obedience goals. It was one of Read more…
Last year for Blaze’s birthday I wrote about living with abnormal dogs. Now he’s 11! During the past year we finished his APDT Rally Level 1 title. We intended to finish his AKC Rally Novice but never got our entries in on time. This year we met a person who Read more…