Health

  • Health

    Parvovirus Warning

    The owner of a young dog which attended the TAG Easter Show (4-9 April, West Midland Showground in Shrewsbury) has reported that the dog has been positively diagnosed as suffering from canine parvovirus. This is a highly contagious disease which…

  • Bailey,  Dylan,  Flyball,  Health,  Kim,  Mollie,  Rio

    Drax & a Mollie Update

    Mollie is much better. We still aren’t sure what is wrong but she’s has been to the vet, got herself some shots and some medication, and she’s improving dramatically. Still on lead walks due to the injury, but so much…

  • Health,  Mollie,  Rio,  Training,  Walk

    Round and Round

    Mollie’s injury is a multiple-options kind of injury, so we’re in a wait-and-see situation right now. She has a thumbnail-sized lump in her quad, which could be a) a bruise from running into something like a stick, b) scar tissue…

  • Flyball,  Health

    Pre-Drax Flyball Training

    Mollie came back from her walk on Thursday looking a little bit lame, nothing drastically unusual as Mollie has no body awareness or respect for things like walls, trees, solid banks of earth, so she does occasionally come back a…

  • Dylan,  Health

    Vetchecks

    Dylan has passed his vet check, so his jumping problem is almost entirely a psychological one. He has some tightness in his back but nothing major, and is probably just from a hard summer of competition. His ground movement is…

  • Dylan,  Flyball,  Health,  Hydrotherapy,  Kim,  Mollie

    Midweek

    Gentle introduction back to Wednesday night flyball training this week, Kim did five minutes of teacher-dog work with the starters and then Dylan did five minutes of boxwork. He is getting better and he is trying very hard, and hopefully…

  • Agility,  Flyball,  Health

    Acceptable Risk

    I have been thinking on this for a while, after a bit of a twitter debate with friends. Two horses very sadly died this year in the Grand National, leading to a whole bunch of people to say the race…

  • Agility,  Health,  Training

    Run & Training

    I have discovered a slight flaw in my well-considered fitness and conditioning plan, in that Kim is too smart for her own good. She now refuses to run for the first toy now, and will only run for the second,…

  • Health,  Mollie,  Photos,  Training

    Summer

    My pledge to try and blog more often is currently not really working out. I do have the very good excuse, like the rest of the country, that there has been the warm, hazy hint of summer around and we’ve…

  • Health,  Training

    Fitness and Conditioning

    There was a brief discussion at the seminar regarding conditioning and fitness, although it wasn’t a feature. It did get me thinking though! One of the points emphasised is that flyball practice shouldn’t be fitness training, it should be purely…