Sad Sick Dogs … and Happy Flyball
The collies have both been ill this week, which has meant I haven’t had much time to post on the blog, however much I intended to! Dylan picked something up last week and we thought it was his unfortunate eating habits (a towel, this time!) but since Mollie came down with it too, it seems to be an bit a tummy-bug.
Mollie had also lost an unexpected and unpleasantly surprising amount of weight – 18.85 down to 17.72 – which isn’t what we wanted to hear. Andy (our lovely vet) said she’s too thin now, and I agree; it’s not so much how much she weighs, but how much she’s lost in such a short amount of time, and she’s normally starting to hover around 19kg at this time of year, as her winter coat comes through. So the Mol is on a fattening, she’s getting some extra goodies in her bowl and she’s relishing the opportunity.
Kim is fine, no illnesses, and she is loving her new agility training regime. Her next competition is hesitantly scheduled to be Wyre in December, depending on the classes, but now the decision has been made and she officially has the “Semi-Retired” tag, I don’t feel all that anxious to enter her. So, at the moment, she gets 10-15 minutes of training a week, which usually equates to a couple of warm up jumps and then 3/4 courses, and she is just looking like my old Kim. Fast and argumentative and reckless.
Redcar tomorrow, flyball flyball flyball! It seems like ages since we were last competing, (it was ages!) and although we have 3 scratch teams in, it should be fun. Dylan has just got his Flyball Dog Graduate (3000pts), although I don’t think he’ll get his certificate this weekend. But what a good boy! Kim is well on her way to her Gold as well, which is a bit surprising as I didn’t anticipate us getting all that many points this year. Having said that, at the rate she’s going she won’t get it before this time next year, so let’s not get too excited! She and Mollie haven’t got much chance for points this weekend either, I can’t really see her team going under 22s as it’s a bit of a mix’n’match, so let’s just hope we get some good racing and can really go all out for speed and not bother playing it safe. (I hate playing it safe, it’s boring!)