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 more herself.
Just Dylan and Rio went to Drax, and I took Bailey as well. We desperately needed a height dog for our bottom team and Bails would also bring some much needed speed, so despite Emma being away in London she still got to come and play. It was fun running a little dog again as well!
Dylan’s team got themselves a new seedtime but they ran like a scratch team, which is what they are. Each of the dogs ran well individually, but there was very little cohesiveness between the five. Our fastest time was 19.17 (seeded on 19.25) but we were often a second slower than that with the same lineup and we took a lot of races to five legs when we really shouldn’t have. Finished 2nd in the end by the skin of our teeth! I actually think these five dogs could make a pretty good lineup but I don’t think they’ll run together again, which is frustrating.
Bailey’s team had a good start to the day and some great racing in Division 8. Unfortunately Bails slipped off the box on the first race in the afternoon, so I pulled her and the team had to go NFC. It’s always disappointing when that happens but there was no way any of us were prepared to run Bailey again, even if she kept insisting she was fine. The team weren’t on for any placings or new seed times anyway, they were already missing Mollie from the lineup.
Rio had a lovely day, she’s feeling like Miss Confident at the moment which means the whole world must want to be her best friend. She was very social and outgoing all day, mugging people and dogs at every opportunity. Thankfully she isn’t being obnoxious about it, when dogs indicated they wanted her to go away she obliged. Her recall was much better too, probably partly because the exercise area at Drax is miniscule.
Kim wasn’t there to pick up her Ice Blue Moon award, but she finally got it. I may have welled up for a second on seeing her certificate and glass; I remember starting to compete with Kim and being so envious of those people collecting their fancy boxes. I knew Kim was an awesome flyballer but I didn’t ever think we’d compete enough to get that many points (20,000!). Turns out she was awesome enough to get that many points despite not competing very often anyway.