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(Mollie loves her really. Maybe only when she’s asleep.)
Vaguely continuing from my previous post, I love this:
Getting ANY puppy, from ANY brilliant line, after a TON of research, after EVERY aptitude and health test in the book, is still a risk. You never know what happens, you never know what the outcome (or the influences towards that) will be. Even if you do everything right, something can still go wrong. This risk is not a problem for me. I commit to my dogs regardless, whether they will turn out to have issues (health or behavioural), they can live happy lives with me and we will deal with it. It doesn’t make the risk any less. I think most agility people have the hope that their new puppy will be a ‘little better’ than their previous dog. It is natural. But 99.99% of use couldn’t care less after the first week with our new addition. Our boys (and girls) just crawl into our hearts and stay there. Oh please, still do your research and your tests! VERY important to try and minimize the risk as much as we can.
Although I feel obligated to point out that I don’t hope Rio is a “little better” than Dylan, I hope she’s a lot better, just as Dylan is a lot better than Kim. If she’s only a little better then I’m doing a terrible job of learning from my mistakes.