Category: Health

  • Parvovirus Warning

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    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 is especially dangerous to puppies and younger dogs. > If you were at the TAG…

  • Drax & a Mollie Update

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    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 more herself. Just Dylan and Rio went to Drax, and I took Bailey as well.…

  • Round and Round

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    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 from an old injury which has been tweaked and inflammed, or c) a lump. We’re…

  • Pre-Drax Flyball Training

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    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 little stiff from her walks. Unfortunately, one recall and one run at flyball training this…

  • Vetchecks

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    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 good – as it always has been – and his eyesight is fine. I say…

  • Midweek

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    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 if we can secure an upright/flat fronted box in the next few months we can…

  • Acceptable Risk

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    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 is too dangerous and should immediately cease. I ought to begin by saying I don’t…

  • Run & Training

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    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, meaning Mollie is doing twice as much work. I probably should have seen that one…

  • Summer

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    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 been basking in what might be the only sun we see all year. We seem…

  • Fitness and Conditioning

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    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 about training the dogs to flyball. I’m not sure I entirely agree with that; I…