First show by myself! I really have the greatest friends in the whole world though. One had said I could stay with her so I didn't have to drive an hour back and forth every day. I swear every day someone had me food, coffee, baby sat or walked my dog for me. My friends really do rock! Mom's rocking chair that is collapsible and totally comfortable was a big hit as well as my boppy (nursing pillow that i use for everything now). So many agility aunts and grandmas out there that if I needed anything, they were there to take him or deuce and help me out. The club even let me set up early as I got there like three hours too early. We had some screaming in the car seat but I tried to plan all car trips when he was slightly sleepy. Probably the worst was going home yesterday. Had decided to go home via the old road which had several bridges under construction meaning it took twice as long as normal. He did scream for about 10 minutes and even went into one of his non breathing fits but i was able to pull off, put his pacifier in his mouth and he promptly went to sleep. Got decent sleep all weekend which was nice and bonus, have the day off to day to re cooperate thanks to the day care being shut down one more day. Things I learned from this trial are no more ready made bottles, I need a different cooler for keeping bottles cold and I need to eat no matter what. Went all day yesterday with no food and felt like CRAP last night and I really, really needed to clean the house, do laundry and run. Oh well, lesson learned. Will be running today and eating today for sure:)
Was still trying to figure out deuce's bar issue from the last weekend. Didn't enter T2B or FAST this weekend which made for long days since we were at the trial site at 7 every morning but not running till 11 or later. For the most part, all runs were great, some had one bar but luck for deuce, no first bars. Was very careful to set him up farther back but I am still not sure that was really the cause of him knocking them anyway. Got some good collection on a couple of starts but not alot during courses. Still battling that, how to get him to read collection cues when my motion is saying go. We finally got a q in JWW and had several really, really nice runs with either one little bobble or one stupid bar. I feel like we are getting so close. Of course we have a three week lay off but I need it. I am hoping we get to train some these next three weeks. We NEED it. I can tell that is what is lacking but just haven't figured out how to fit it into our busy schedule. The night I teach I go straight from work to the field so I can't go home and get deuce. I can do small sequences in the backyard which is what I am going to be stuck doing for now. He does so much better when I can actually train him, even if it is small skill set stuff. I was planning on going out to open practice last night but hubby got home late, baby was napping and slept through his bottle, I had to run and then eat and by then it was 8 pm and I didn't feel like having a 40 minute drive plus practice time. I know, excuses, excuses. I did have deuce massaged this weekend, something I had never done and he LOVED it. She even came and got him and took him away while I was taking care of the baby and he went with her and stayed on the table even though I wasn't there. Kind of weird! Anyway next show at the beginning of october so lots of time to practice. May just have to rent the field to get some good practice time in.
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