This weekend we went up to Lindstrom to practice on dirt some more to prep for champs. My plan was to handle discriminations at a distance because there are always distance discriminations at champs it seems. We have not worked on discriminations since before CeCe was competing and she has had no problems. The bad thing is, up until this trial, I would baby CeCe to the tunnel so there was no chance she would take the contact obstacle (remember our rush to get regular Q's?). To my surprise, she sent out to multiple tunnel discriminations and nailed them; I thought she was a complete contact sucker! Then I realized I had done something veryy bad.. in two runs I turned her into a tunnel sucker -.- In chances she blew me off and went way out of her way to take a tunnel. When it came time to take the dog walk with a tunnel underneath it, SHE TOOK THE TUNNEL! What the heck she ALWAYS does the dog walk when I tell her too! By this point, I admit, I was done taking her blowing-off crap. I made her redo the dog walk discrimination and luckily got it that time. BUT she flew off the side of the contact when it would've been soo easy to add an extra stride and hit it nicely. I pulled her after that because she was being ridiculous.
Weavers was a complete failure. I don't really want to talk about it but her 2x2 training did not stick in this one... pulled her off for being yet again ridiculous.
Next was touch n go which I'm always confident that CeCe can do well in. This course had a wrap in it which is always exciting (: We were trying to hit that 100+ running index again and with a 5.35 yps run Im prettyy sure we got it.
Last was jumpers. I definitely did not feel in sync with her this run. It felt a mess, but in reality was not tooo too bad and we did Q. Yay? The best thing I saw during that run was in the home stretch horse shoe. I was trying some distance and layered a jump. I saw her pulling in but then noticed she corrected herself and went back out to the correct jump without me having to stop and support her more. An okay way to end a bad day.
Apparently blogs fail without pictures so boom boom POW
In between touch n go and weavers Sara was holding CeCe and I noticed her back left paw was bleeding. Upon further examination Sara determined that her nail had pulled up from her paw a bit. /: I was a little shaken, but CeCe didn't seem to be in pain so I ran her. When we got home I found Riley's snow boot and ended up putting it on her for part of the night and all of the next day.
I was planning on doing only hoopers, tunnelers, and maybe chances if it didn't have contacts on sunday because of her paw. The day started with hoopers and CeCe pulled a really nice run considering I was a little off due to my worry about her foot. She showed great "go on" distance!
During the regulars I noticed that CeCe had bled through her boot so I sadly decided to not run her anymore that day. I was really sad, I couldn't bring myself to even walk chances with Chrissy and Sara because I knew CeCe could have gotten that one. Watching CeCe be only a spectator for her favorite course, tunnelers, was equally hard. By the end of the day I wanted to curl up into a ball and die.
This morning it looks like CeCe's foot has stopped bleeding for good but she has a vet appointment today anyway; Im scared for infection. Ill keep this updated as best I can.
I'm sorry, I had no idea you had such a bad day on Sunday, nor that CeCe was injured!! We never want our teammates to be injured, but it is especially awful when it happens at a trial. :o(
ReplyDeleteTry not to be too discouraged. CeCe just had a baby dog day, that's all. And truthfully, I thought these were very challenging courses (well, on Saturday at least, since that's the only day I was there!). I have never seen a tunnel wedged so tightly against a contact as it was in that Chances course -- The dogs practically had to run around the tunnel bag to go up the plank!
Weavers was... Well yes, that was kind of a mess. lol But she weaved fine in the Regular rounds and that's how the weaves will present at Champs, so I'm sure she will be fine! Popping isn't the end of the world and you've still got time to keep working on it (as I tell myself for Kaiser's dog walk... lol).
The TNG run was GREAT! And I didn't see anything wrong with your Jumpers run, either, which is especially awesome considering she was injured at the time.
Easier said than done, but try not to stress. Remember that we are going with baby dogs who quite honestly, probably aren't ready for this. But that's okay, so long as we have fun.
And kick ass in Team. :o)
Robyn.....
ReplyDelete1. you forgot to mention the A M A Z I N G pictures you got
2. your baby dog runs like a pro. don't freak out, everybody has bad days, although I thought this "bad day" looked amazing despite the mishaps... soooo continue being a badass ninja and life will be good, kay?
3. I hope CeCe's foot is okay. My fingers crossed for a quick heal.
take a deep breath, and move on. you guys are rockstars, remember? ...so keep on rocking:)
we'll be rooting for you at champs!! (in spirit, sadly, me and George won't be there... grr..)