Wednesday morning was the most fun part of our trip. We were staying someplace where the dogs could run off leash. They love this part. It was especially fun because we can just get out of the car off leash. At home we have to go on leash until we Read more…
We have the best rehab vet! We’ve gone many times before for all of the dogs. This was a recheck day. Blaze: Pain management is much better! We’re going to even try reducing one of his meds to twice a day instead of three times. Some of his exercises are Read more…
Right now our Saturday classes are extremely popular – a class of 4 and of 10 beginners in agility, 5 dogs in manners, and 5 in an intermediate agility class – plus additional private sessions. We also have to cancel for seminars, trials hosted at our building (WCRL rally and Read more…
On Wednesday we went to Gahanna High School for a special event “spread the word to end the word” day. Griffin was there to meet kids and do some tricks. There were kids doing other things – table games, wheelchair basketball, bean bag toss games, and a ‘pen’ of therapy Read more…
We did AKC Agility on Friday. I’ve been arriving at trials too late, this time I arrived many, many hours earlier than needed. It gave me time to watch quite a few of the Excellent dogs, train my dogs (outside – the trial site was very crowded), go on a Read more…
One of my goals for this year is to do a better job of making notes after trials and events. I need to remember to get pictures of course maps and I need to ask others to help video our runs. Griffin and I had our second trial AKC trial Read more…
Last weekend we did our first UKI agility trial at the “Senior” level. This meant we got the harder level courses. I recognize most of the people there from other trials and events but don’t really “know” many of them. I need to get brave and ask someone to take Read more…
We make occasional trips up to Minnesota to see our favorite rehab vet. We first went for Griffin’s injury… but now Viktor goes for his legs and Blaze goes to help maintain/improve his mobility. Our last trip was in October and while we should have gone in December, I was Read more…
We had some fun surprises this week when the 2015 rankings were posted for some of the programs. In WCRL rally we may 6th in ARCH points – only the preliminary results are posted. I’m not quite sure how that happened as we’ve never had enough points in the past – Read more…
One of the things we’ve been working on is setting up specific courses and/or sequences and running things created by other people. When I set up my own exercises I end up with more common patterns and I don’t get the same practice in remembering a course. We work through Read more…