Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:12 pm Post subject: URC Lincs Puppy Test - So near but So far!!!!
Well what a wonderful way to spend a Sunday - fantastic grounds, friendly people, lovely judges, and fandabulous barbecue afterwards .
Today was one of those days when you know your dog is "on song" and things are looking great, but then someone up there decides to put a spanner in the works.
First test was a two dog walk up and we were in the first walk up but hey we are old hands at this nowadays. Crossover marks with Pepper having to wait until second on the first two retrieves and then going first on the second retrieves. Mark 18
Second test a mark onto water and another mark off to the right. Pick the water mark first. Mark 19
I am on cloud nine by now Pepper is cooking on gas .
Third test mark over a dyke, across a grass path and out onto a pea field, then a blind to the right of the dog in some long grass in a copse of trees. What can I say it should have been so easy. Pepper went into and across the water in the dyke and got in the long grass the other side and started to behave in a really bizarre way. I could not make head nor tail of what was going on but he decided he'd had enough and wanted his mum . After a lot of persistence I managed to persuade him to go back and pick the dummy. He came back to me sort of limping and moving his backend really oddly. The judge and I scratched our heads and I tried to settle him for the blind which bless him he did go and get. Mark 15 and my hopes dashed.
I checked him all over but couldn't find anything and by this time he was holding his leg up, then he was laying flat on the ground breathing rather oddly. I was trying not to panic with thoughts of bloat going through my mind (having been at a Working Trial once where a friends dog got bloat). Then I was told that there was a wasp nest on the far side of the dyke and they thought he had been stung. The test was moved along a bit to avoid the nest. I took Pepper for a drink of water and tried to take his mind off things, wondering whether to withdraw him, but decided to just try him in one more test to see if he was still lame!!
Fourth test - Walk to heel with the judge, stop and sit your dog and throw dummy out yourself, turn and walk back to the beginning again with the dog than turn and send your dog for the dummy. Then send the dog back to the same place to pick a blind Mark 19 (and he was not lame phew)!.
Fifth test - A long single mark probably a good 100 yards. Unfortunately it was quite near "The Wasp Nest" so Pepper was worried again and not as fast as he could be Mark 17
Sixth test - Sit your dog up two dummies thrown out. Handler to pick the last thrown dummy first and then send the dog for the first thrown dummy. Mark 19
I am afraid the Wasp Nest did for us really but there was an awful lot to be pleased about. Every single dummy delivered too hand - and anyone that knows the problems I have had with that in the past will be amazed .
Oh and he did come away with a Certificate of Merit (the one and only COM) despite everything bless him .
I got a bit muddled with the placings but the winner was Froebelhouse Rihanna and Jim Christon.
Sorry it rambles on a bit, but Pepper is still holding his leg rather oddly although I can't find the stings, so I thought I would just pop an anti-histamine down him and keep my fingers crossed.
Oh WOW Jill and Pepper. VERY well done. Isn't he a little star? I cannot believe your bad luck though with the wasps nest. That is so unfair. I feel rather frustrated just reading about it! So glad your clever boy was OK.
Hi a very well done to you and Pepper, shame about the wasps . I hope hes feeling better now.
Im sorry that I was unable to see you today, we had to take Brook to the Vets yetserday morning as she has cystitis. Poor girl, but shes pirking up now after the meds have kicked in.
Hopefully see you soon, and very well done you, i bet your on cloud nine
sounds like a grand day out well done
shame about the blinking wasps nest, hopefully he'll be back to normal tomorrow. He's braver than me, i'd have run screaming in the opposite direction!
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For a moment I thought you were going to say it was a snake bite
Hope the pain eases off for him soon from the wasp stings, I wonder if they were attracted to his smashing colour (or is it just bees that like bright things?!)
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. After a lot of persistence I managed to persuade him to go back and pick the dummy. He came back to me sort of limping and moving his backend really oddly. The judge and I scratched our heads and I tried to settle him for the blind which bless him he did go and get. Mark 15 and my hopes dashed.
with thoughts of bloat going through my mind (having been at a Working Trial once where a friends dog got bloat). Then I was told that there was a wasp nest on the far side of the dyke and they thought he had been stung. The test was moved along a bit to avoid the nest. I took Pepper for a drink of water and tried to take his mind off things, wondering whether to withdraw him, but decided to just try him in one more test to see if he was still lame!!
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