Sorry for disappearing off the blog. We've had a rough time lately. In September Soda Pop started with a cough. I took him into the vet. They thought he just had an irritation and sent him home with medications. It improved from the initial cough, but he was still coughing every day. Soda was still running around like a maniac and seemed to feel fine. At an agility trial, Soda turned blue. I pulled him from the trial and went over our local vet's head to take him to the veterinary teaching hospital at Oklahoma State University. Soda was diagnosed with a thoracic collapsing trachea and a hiatal hernia. Based on the internal medicine vet's recommendation, Soda is retired from agility. They encouraged us to continue obedience so long as Soda can remain calm (hahahaha anyone who knows Soda knows what a struggle that is). They want him kept extra skinny, so activities like heeling are essential to his weight-management (I always keep my dogs trim, but they wanted another 1/2 lb off his trim weight).
We tried an obedience show out a couple of weeks ago. I only had Soda entered in rally. The first day we had a bit of a rough start. The second day it seemed to come together. It was hard not doing our normal, excited warm-up. Saturday Soda got a 99/1st place, Sunday 98/1st place. He finished his RA title!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zd0wq8yVkg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVH_2O9aoQ&feature=related
Roo Bear made his debut in Beginner Novice obedience. I hadn't taught him halts or fronts yet, so I was REALLY pleased with his score of 196/1st place!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o60Ts9vj7P8&feature=related
Onward to Novice for Roo!
Roo is also filling in for the last few agility lessons I had paid for (for Soda). We'll see how that goes.
Note on the dumbbell. Roo is doing great on reaching and holding. Today I started free shaping the hold with him picking it up from the floor. He is reaching and holding at the obedience building as well as retrieving it with restraint.
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