Winter and spring 2018
If you are following us on social networks (Instagram, Facebook), you probably suspect that the beginning of this year was not the most fortunate for us.
Upon returning from Italy, we and Chase took full advantage of the dogwalk (we didn’t have time for other training and I did not want to bore him). Slowly but surely the results began to appear, so I started to be quite positive in that we could do it to tryouts. But how is it called? Man means life changes? In our case, it would rather be “Chase changes”.
Like almost every winter, Chase chose an unplanned break again. This time I found a bump on his throat, I went to our great veterinarian Irena Luxova (www.vetmnisek.cz), took all the liquid out of the bump and found that there was a good inflammation – salivary gland inflammation. You could do it anyway, so just a stupid coincidence. So Chase got the ATB and in a few days it looked better, but not enough, so ATB stayed for a month. As soon as I was looking forward to getting out of the way, getting up in shape, I came home after a full day of work, and my husband says, “I found a tooth, it’s Chase’s.” I almost fell. Chase cut off a piece of a canine at home while sighing and shaking his head against the wall or floor. You would not just have made that up. Of course it was a weekend, and before I got someone to fix the tooth, it was too late to save it. So he got a filler, crown and has the most expensive tooth in the whole family. Anyway, it did, but everything was fine!
After that, we finally got the chance to train for the qualifications. We have come for two months, so feelings mixed, but nothing can be done, we have to work with what we have.
In April, we had a couple of competitions (even with a running dog-walk) that we can continue in category A3!
Then they followed the first tryouts at the Republic Championship … but as I said, I experienced a great disappointment. We did not do much on Saturday – my disqualification in jumping, then a voluntary disk in agility, because the dog-walk went straight into the tunnel (out of order) and of course we did not get the discrimination at all. The next day I went to stop the dog-walk (even at the price of abandoning it this year and going on after the season), it again led to a sharp angle so we did not have a lot of chances. We managed to make the whole run, not even a bar, and I was running on the fact that we have a clean run. Well, we did not. One bar in front of the dog-walk fell (I did not hear it), followed by missing the upper contact. The disappointment that came was really huge and then reflected on the last run that we just did not succeed.
Anyway, from time to time – everything is bad for something good! After tryouts, I lost my voice, so the trainings were very funny – I apologize for my students. I did not have the temperature, so we planned another weekend for the trials, where we always managed to disq (the break in the training is obvious), but for the whole weekend Chase didn’t hit any bar!!! 6 runs and no bar! I did not understand it at all. But it shows me the way to go or try at least! Just do not talk so much 🙂
Now we have a few local competitons ahead of us, and then “big” qualifications (EO, AWC). Well, we will see.
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