Agility

Ticket’s return to trialing

Posted by on January 10, 2012 at 2:52 pm

Ticket had a fabulous time at her first trial back after TPLO surgery.  The weather was perfect (well, as perfect as January can be–70s/50s), the surface was good, and she ran great.  We even managed to qualify on one run, the last run of the weekend, in Exc. B JWW.  She even got 1st place, […]

15 weeks, and 4 days

Posted by on January 3, 2012 at 3:55 pm

Ticket is 15 weeks out from TPLO surgery today.  Hard to believe that her first trial back is in just 4 days.  That is an amazingly quick recovery from knee surgery, and I’m “lucky” that young dogs tend to heal more quickly, and that we had no setbacks during her recovery.  I have no doubt […]

Looking back at 2011, and forward to 2012

Posted by on December 27, 2011 at 7:17 pm

Well, 2011 was definitely a tough year for me and the Shelties.  It started out great–Trip was running well, Ticket began competing and also did well, moving pretty quickly into the Excellent classes.  The AKC Nationals were disappointing–it was not my favorite Nationals experience for many reasons–#1 the facility and its layout, but also the […]