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She did a Rally trial and I won't say it was without potential for issue for EIC but Rally is also to hard on her hind end because of all the repetitive sits and things. She hasn't done tracking, that involves strangers and being nervy its obviously not really something she can cope with.

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How about nose work? At least as something that you would be able to 'train' her in.

No strangers, no sitting and something new with no high excitement attached? Probably no one in SA doing it yet but you have paved the way in other sports before.

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Not sure Jumabaar - her reward structure is pretty much toy focused which doesn't obviously make it easy either. In part through training structure but if I use food as a "reward" she quickly disengages in favour of finding twigs or whatever she can get her paws on. I am not quite sure where tug and toys fits in the hierarchy of what she can do. And the other problem is "training" quickly = high excitement. I am suppose to be allowed to do cavaletti's with her but she can't seem to come at doing those at any speed other than warp speed. Same with her balance disc/rehab activities she is super keen on that as well.

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Sally I just want you to know that I've been following your thread and am so sorry to read of all this hardship you're going through with Kenzie. She was such a sweet pup and I remember how excited you were to get her, with plans to compete in all your favourite dog sports. It's shitty when plans don't work out :( She's so lucky to have you fighting her battles for her though. Hang in there x

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Somebody decided to bring themselves up to bed last night - SHE DID STAIRS :D. Better then any trial brag. :thumbsup:

Off to underwater treadmill soon. Hopefully use up some of her feralness.

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A good session today = we finally seemed to have a breakthrough and she seems to be double stepping much less in her hind end. By her third session she was in cruise mode and I think could have kept going much longer. She was bored the minute we got home and wanting to do stuff :thumbsup:.

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She did a Rally trial and I won't say it was without potential for issue for EIC but Rally is also to hard on her hind end because of all the repetitive sits and things. She hasn't done tracking, that involves strangers and being nervy its obviously not really something she can cope with.

I'm not sure if tracking works differently in Australia, but in NZ the only stranger involvement in tracking is the judge and track layer following along behind to make sure she is tracking ok (and it's way further away than what an obedience or rally judge is). Of course they follow a strangers scent too, but there is no need for a stranger to get within 5 metres of your dog at a tracking trial here...

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She has done a small amount of tracking training DD but really never seemed to pick it up and I can only guess its nerves attached to following stranger scent. For a dog who normally picks up everything so quickly she just didn't get it.

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A good session today = we finally seemed to have a breakthrough and she seems to be double stepping much less in her hind end. By her third session she was in cruise mode and I think could have kept going much longer. She was bored the minute we got home and wanting to do stuff :thumbsup:.

:D :walkdog:

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Hmm except the word from the specialist is the RH MPL will still need to be repaired most likely at some stage :cry:.

Sigh she was in the front hallway about 15 minutes ago just walking and ended up I think luxating them both. She wasn't just three legging she was almost only on front end only and then went mega sooky and ended up in my lap on the floor :cry:.

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Kenz had another session today. She seems to be making improvements but we are little frustrated with the amount she is allowed to do. It seems to take some time before she settles and no sooner does she get settled then her session is over. Its like she just gets the momentum happening and starts walking properly and then its the end of her third short session. 9 minutes seems like bugger all and she is sooooo feral when we finish up.

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I will say she wasn't impressed with being made to pose for the camera in the middle of her peanut session. That is "serious" work to a broken BC. Nawww she is very cute with her rehab exercises though.

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