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Well done Weasels with your herding titles :thumbsup:

Sounds like a good day at retrieving training as well :)

I had a great day at the horse show yesterday and Jive got to come up later in the day with my Mum and she was a very good girl and had several people comment on that fact :D We have discovered she is racist though :o She barked and growled at the grey ponies but not the other ones! In the end I picked her up and went and pat a friend's little grey pony and then she got over it :rofl:

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Hi All,

I am just wondering if anybody knows any nice spots for me to take my 10 month old border collie for a good run around. I'm looking for somewhere very quiet (as she does she some fear aggression towards dog). A lake, or natural land open area? I have my regular spot, but was wondering if there were any others around. I am in the Northern Suburbs.

Thanks

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Well Gibbs ran with Mason and a friend 2 dogs for an hr 15 min offlead yesterday and all good no limping :) he also pushed the back door of the car open and jumped out while i was trying to help my friend round up her 2 dogs who had just jumped out her car - little hoon :)

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Well Gibbs ran with Mason and a friend 2 dogs for an hr 15 min offlead yesterday and all good no limping :) he also pushed the back door of the car open and jumped out while i was trying to help my friend round up her 2 dogs who had just jumped out her car - little hoon :)

That is wonderful MG as only another lame dog owner can fully appreciate! LOL

Rosie has been 110% sound whilst she has been on confinement and on the anti inflammatories. Although my husband let her out the back whilst preparing to take her for a walk and seh spotted a bird, zoomed off and jumped off the wall. It has not affected her though, well not that i can see! I have a feeling it is the twisting more than the downward impact that causes the problem - or exacerbates it. Hence the refusal to do weave poles and the fact i can make her limp with 5 retrieves of a bouncy ball.

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Aww good to hear Rosie is doing a bit better now, and all the other broken DOL dogs!

It is so nice to see a level, reaching, long 'trot' stride when i walk her. :) Admittedly, this is usually only seen on the way home, the way out is more of a sproingy, correct, sproing, correct, canter on the spot, correct, ..... you get the picture. My husband said she was actually leaping and spinning in the air when he walked her on the weekend. LOL, she doesn't dare do that with me though. Same as my dad always asks how you get her to walk on four legs...... hmmmmmmmm I don't have that particular problem either...

Is your head fitting through doorways yet? :D

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Congrats weasels i really need to get of my butt and come to training the deatils are in my inbox but i can't access it as my computer crashed can you please tell me time location and date of the next training classes please?? Thanks

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Is your head fitting through doorways yet? :D

:laugh:

Yes, we return to training tonight and I daresay Trixie will be a crazed mental monster and people will look at her and go "Really? That dog is a National champion???" :rofl:

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That reminds me agility people if i bring chandra down can i get her measured? i had a judge tell me she was below standard so i want her measured to see if she is within the breed standard?

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Good to hear all the other "lame" DOL dogs are doing ok. Kenz's road to recovery has been a little rocky but we are still madly hoping another 6 week sees the back of all her lameness episodes. She had her follow up appointment with the specialist last Friday which wasn't completely good news. She had a physio appointment yesterday who is less concerned about the current equation and who has said with that level of muscle wastage she would be expected to still be having problems as there is no support to keep things where they should.

So the next 6 weeks are time for serious muscle rebuilding and fingers crossed we are over the worst of things.

And the good news Kenz is allowed to "roam" around the house :rofl:. Hmmm until I reminded the specialist she isn't the sweet, quiet well behaved dog he gets to see in the consult room. Still she is allowed more freedom at home but is still not allowed to be stupid.

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:D yeah, just imagine those other dogs she beat!! :eek:

I'm sure they were all thinking that on the day too :rofl:

"How did we get beaten by that puny sissy looking thing??" :rofl:

Way to talk your dog up Amy! LOL

She looks, and is, uber fast and yet dainty and careful - no wonder she kicked all their butts!

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No she looked puny and sissy next to all those border collies and shelties in the class :laugh: They were massive! And she was cold so looked particularly pathetic most of the time :laugh:

There was an italian greyhound though so she wasn't the puniest sissiest looking I guess :laugh:

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Good to hear all the other "lame" DOL dogs are doing ok. Kenz's road to recovery has been a little rocky but we are still madly hoping another 6 week sees the back of all her lameness episodes. She had her follow up appointment with the specialist last Friday which wasn't completely good news. She had a physio appointment yesterday who is less concerned about the current equation and who has said with that level of muscle wastage she would be expected to still be having problems as there is no support to keep things where they should.

So the next 6 weeks are time for serious muscle rebuilding and fingers crossed we are over the worst of things.

And the good news Kenz is allowed to "roam" around the house :rofl:. Hmmm until I reminded the specialist she isn't the sweet, quiet well behaved dog he gets to see in the consult room. Still she is allowed more freedom at home but is still not allowed to be stupid.

Sorry it wasn't all good news. I don't know how you have done all this confinement for so long. We are into week 3 with Rosie and I am already thinking I will do the 5 weeks of the '5 to 6 weeks' recommended LOL. I think in the end, I am concerned about the potential for stupidity if i leave her too long.

Hope Kenz enjoys her roaming!

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Kenz did 6 weeks of fairly strict rest. Becomes a way of life. We have been out this morning and for the first time in ages she was allowed to walk inside from the car off-lead and not carried in to the house. She has been allowed to walk a little in the house but only on a short lead and no more then necessary.

She trotted in to the house and went straight out to the back room to put herself away in the crate :laugh:. She is upstairs with me at the moment and has put herself away in her upstairs crate. I guess that part hasn't changed. After 3-4 weeks I wasn't even bothering closing the crate up unless I left the room as she knew the drill. :rofl:.

I only really have to be careful about making sure I carry her up and down the stair case and that she doesn't go chasing things.

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