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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.
Damp Paws
Early Mornings in November
I think the big dogs are enjoying their Rio-free walks. They get to enjoy them for a while longer yet, as even when she’s allowed out, she’ll be heading out on much shorter walks until she’s grown a bit more. Kim or Mollie will chaperone one younger dog each, depending on the day and the time and how cold it is. Kim doesn’t like to go so far in the cold. She had to wear one of her snoods this weekend!
The fog came down for the whole day after our lovely morning stroll though. A little creepy, we were glad to be heading home by the end of it.
Sutton Fields
Lovely day at Sutton Fields. I love this venue, I am going to continue my pestering of the team and hope we get to go again next May.
Two mix teams as we had several dogs on holiday (how inconvenient!), although Dyl’s team was actually the same as usual but with a fifth dog change.
Dylan and Mollie ran brilliantly, the team ran a new seed time of 20.16 and finished … last. Well, 5th. We can’t have everything. The 20.16 was on a break out and yet we managed to lose nearly every leg all day, oops. Really do feel like this team is gelling now, the dogs are getting comfortable running together and we’re pushing down the seed time even though ditzy Biba still isn’t running as consistently as she can. Unfortunately we now have the winter break and by next summer who knows what the team will be!
Kim’s team was made up of three top team dogs and then Kim and Bailey from the third team. We were on a DF time but I always thought we’d be pushing for break-out and we did, but nearly everyone in the division was. Lovely fast ground at Sutton! We ran a fantastic 19.40 with Norah, Roi, Kim and Bailey over 11″, and both height dogs were running over 5s. With Jet in there and a fast height dog this team would easily be running 17s times, so we’ll have to see what winter brings!
We finished 1st but it was tough racing, especially against Fylde in the last race where we were a leg down and had a dead heat before pulling it back. Super stuff!
I have all my fingers crossed that Kim has picked up the final points for her Ice Blue Moon at this venue as well, for various reasons, but we’ll see what happens when the points go up.