Agility weekend 22-23/9/2013 (Eden Hill Cup)

Finally after MANY frustrating weekends, the Princess decided she might actually stay on a few courses. For the last month and a half she has been doing lots of heeling - to try and build up her concentration; and as much "other dog" distraction work as I could find. Seems this work is starting to pay off, as she only left the ring once out of 7 starts for the weekend, and this one time only after a nasty incident with an A-frame. Happy days!!!!

This weekend was a grand fun time, with a great atmosphere. Sen completed her AAD title with a win (OH YEEEES! ground speed 4.18 m/s super duper!!!) and also got a teams pass! (3rd place, even I can hardly believe that one - thanks super team mates Courtney and Missy). We got some bling as it was a special blinged up championship competition weekend:

 

There are of course still issues of the off-course variety, but otherwise we are doing some nice work:



Bigi (alas) was a non-starter because of lameness. Enter substitute dog Sheeza! It was fun to get a chance to run someone else's dog (even if she has no concept of contacts - with this she would be perfect!). It was especially good that she was a larger dog than I am used to - good opportunity to learn more of this complex game. I managed to mess up almost all of her runs (mostly with just contact faults), but we nailed one run with an Open Agility win!

 

Sheeza is a lovely lady, and I hope I will have the pleasure of her company again sometime. Here she is with her mum (not spoilt or anything, just feeling a bit queezy here):

 

Bigi Bigi Bigi

Well, just to add to his expenses for the year, Bigi knocked out two teeth - or rather half knocked them out, requiring he be knocked out to fix the job. I have no idea how this happened. My guess is he did it on his car crate. Two small teeth (one upper, one lower) just inside the canine tooth. This has given him an aged smile:

He has also been lame since early August. Increasing his prednisolone did not help this time. I had him re-tested for Anaplasma sp. as that was the cause last time. All up teeth + test =$730 thanks. He is also back on stronger pred - just when his coat condition was recovering from the previous high dose. It took a whole two days for him to get back the prednisolone gut bloat look.

The good thing is he does not seem too bothered by it all. Still up to his old tricks: