GRACE

Grace was a bit poorly on Monday night. She had her head in a corner , then fell over!

She saw the vet on Tuesday who thought it could be a mini stroke. She took blood and urine samples.

On Tuesday evening Grace started wobbling on her back end and not wanting to put her left hind leg to the floor! Back to the vet on Wednesday...

The blood results were back and they showed that there was a problem with Graces liver...... More tests.

Thursday Grace is back in the vets for an ultrasound scan to see if there's a growth and more blood tests to see what else may be wrong!!!

The wobbly back end appears to be due to arthritis in her left hip!!

Ooooops!!!!

How could I have forgotten about this blog for soooo long!!!

Must try to keep this up to date this year!!

Well, 2010 has been THE most amazing year for us.

We took up Heelwork to music, also known as canine freestyle or doggy dancing. Lottie prefers Freestyle, whilst Loki would much rather do Heelwork, so in May, we had our first competition. Loki just did a training round, but Lottie competed and was I shocked when she came 2nd!!!
This gave 6 points towards winning out of starters (you need 14).

The following week we competed again and Lottie excelled herself and WON the class, giving her 10 points and thus winning out of Starters!!!! It all happened so quickly, even now, it feels somewhat surreal!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=favxiIy1JUA

This Lotties' winning routine!

Loki started his HTM competition at the same show, but I let him down badly as I'd not thought out the middle of his routine - if I didn't know where we were going - how could he??? He still managed to finish 6th!!

In August we went to Stoneleigh and he really pulled out all the stops at this show and WON Starters HTM! He'd had a 4th at another show, so was just 2 points short of winning out!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqIr86N4D-Y

This is Lokis routine.

We had to wait till September to get the final points for him to win out!! He came 2nd - and Lottie who had been playing around in HTM with him, came 3rd!!!

Also in September we entered one of the few Agility shows we manage to get to and Lottie came 2nd and 4th, which is amazing. The courses were very hard for her level (Grade 1), but she loves the hard stuff!!! Loki got 12th in his class, I was making sure he got all his contacts, so wasted time!

In November we had our flyball teams last ever competition (although we didn't know it at the time!) And what a swansong it was We only dropped one leg all day and WON our division in fine style!!!

So, for 2011..... we will be competing in more agility shows and continuing to compete in HTM/Freestyle, as for the flyball - I don't know!!!

We have our first show - a small fun HTM show on Feb 12th. So we are training hard. Lotties routine is complete and just heeds the polish. Loki is taking longer to get his routine together.

Our first proper HTM show is on March 26th, so we will see how we get on! My worst fear for Lottie is that her success in starters was a fluke and she will be terrible in Novice!!

Time will tell.

:-) HAPPY NEW YEAR