Alright, so I've been a little lacks in posting recently. A lot of stuff happened and I couldn't bring myself to write about it for a multitude of reasons. One was too painful. . .we lost Champ in November and I could never bring myself to write down the words as it hurt so much. Others I was just being lazy about it and others still seemed unworthy of writing about.
So I'll just start with the most recent stuff and call it even! ;)
Riley wowed me again this weekend with another double Q. I had stressed about it for so long that I was just hoping for a single Q, let alone a double Q. She has such a freakin good time out there and just goes nuts so our Q rate was minimal, at best, on some days. So not only did she double Q this weekend but at the last trial we went to too. Unfortunately, I think she double Q's on the days she doesn't feel the best. That's sad to say. . .cause it might mean that we are going to have to get a MACH through her feeling lousey. Hm, course we haven't double Q'd enough for me to validate that theory but the ones we have so far are definitely for that reason. This weekend, she had me freaked out cause she jammed a toe in practice on Thursday and was still limping occasionally even when we got to the trial. However, as soon as she figured out why we were there, she forgot about it. ;) The little stinker. Either way, I had Dr. Bonnie check her out and she was all jammed up in a bunch of different places. I could see a huge difference after Dr. Bonnie worked her magic and she was moving with so much more fluidity and relaxation. Anyways, maybe that was a bad thing, cause once she was all fixed up and feeling great, she blew me off on Sunday and made her own course! ;) Oh well! We are fast approaching getting over the 100 point milestone (the first I've set for us). In fact, we're only 6 points away. . .another reason why I was bummed about Sundays performance but water under the bridge. We just have such a good time with this stuff and I am just glad that we are lucky enough to be able to do this. We met another Westie (& handler) from Illinois this weekend. I'd actually seen her at Merrillville but we didn't meet so it was nice to officially meet her this time. And Beth & Betz were up from Cincinatti so we had 3 Westies there, which is like unheard of in central Indiana. Pretty cool.