"Building The Team"

I love to train my dogs and I love to teach people to train their dogs. I hope my students find as much joy being with their dogs as I find in being with mine!

"Before you teach skills & fundamentals, make people feel good about their abilities. Make them believe they can perform." Rick Pitino

Sunday, October 4, 2009

long time coming!!!

Boy oh boy, I have not blogged forever!!
Lots of news,
Cavall was 1st at regionals in his height division. His points were not has high as the year before, but ok. Cavall has been having some problems. We are not sure whether it is his eyes, vets thinking it was cataracts or PRA (progressive Retina Atrophy)He has been doing some very strange things on course. bars coming down, running past equipment, not driving out to tunnels,stopping dead in front of jumps.
have him regularly checked out at the Canine Fitness Centre so pretty sure it is not physical. They are even saying it could be neurological.
I have lowered him to 16" vet. We are also heading back to the eye specialist in 2 weeks. We did a full blood panel and it is good, we just had to adjust his thyroid meds to a bit lower. Ah, my very special needs dog. Only I love him and he really does not want to have a lot of friends.

Cavall and I drove out to Ottawa. It was a great drive and I loved the travelling with him. We slept in the van a few nights, no worries with him beside me and my finger on the panic button of the key chain.
The first day of nationals was very bright sunny day and that is where he had problems. 2nd day was very cloudy and rainy. He did very well, but it was too little too late.

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