#9 SUCCESS!!! The last step in her recovery, April
30th, 2000
As Spring approaches, we are getting ready for
upcoming trials and we are working on tracking, as well. The dog walk and
teeter are intermittant problems, as they have always been. Whether we work
over them or not, is not as important as what we have achieved to date. Just to
watch her run and play and to be able to have fun training and running with
her, makes my day, each and every day. And yet, as I've said before....I'm
putting no limits on what we can yet achieve together!
Since Sylvia's
recovery from wobblers, she has only intermittently done the teeter and not
done the dog walk at all in practice or at trials. With two legs in Open, I was
beginning to think we should sit back and enjoy it as that's as far as we might
get. She was the last dog of the day today and they announced it, so that
everyone was watching. She started off by doing the teeter! I was thrilled with
that accomplishment! But then she surprised all of us. She started up the
dogwalk, crouched down (the whole place was SILENT--I think we were all holding
our breath), and completed the dog walk and finished her run with panache!!!!!
The whole place went up with a roar and people ran over with treat bags for her
to bury her goofy head in! Her 'butt in the air' routine on the table cost us
the time, but I couldn't have cared less!!!! (Did I mention that just before
this Open Standard run, she got her first Open JWW leg with FOURTH PLACE finish
on a difficult course? )
Sylvia--2001 Doberman National Agility Trial While
Sylvia did not have any qualifying runs at the National, you can see by the
look on her face, that she was truly enjoying herself. I'm grateful to Cindy
Noland for capturing her joy!
Since Sylvia's
recovery from wobblers, she has only intermittently done the teeter and not
done the dog walk at all in practice or at trials. With two legs in Open, I was
beginning to think we should sit back and enjoy it as that's as far as we might
get. She was the last dog of the day today and they announced it, so that
everyone was watching. She started off by doing the teeter! I was thrilled with
that accomplishment! But then she surprised all of us. She started up the
dogwalk, crouched down (the whole place was SILENT--I think we were all holding
our breath), and completed the dog walk and finished her run with panache!!!!!
The whole place went up with a roar and people ran over with treat bags for her
to bury her goofy head in! Her 'butt in the air' routine on the table cost us
the time, but I couldn't have cared less!!!! (Did I mention that just before
this Open Standard run, she got her first Open JWW leg with FOURTH PLACE finish
on a difficult course? )
