What a start to 2012!!!!!!

Well not quite the start to the year I was expecting took the dogs out for a lovely walk on New Years day at the beech and Honey pulls up lame after 15 mins :( No sure if it was running too fast or a bump off  Winston so had to carry her the rest of the walk and back to the car. Rested for the rest of the day but still wasn't weight bearing in the morning so took her to the emergency vet to be on the safe side to check for breaks and find out if can give some anti inflammatory. Well what a shock he gave her a very thorough examination (bless her she was so very good) then starts saying he thinks shes got elbow problems and will need an operation otherwise will be crippled at a young age and she will never be able to do agility. I kept asking if he was sure it couldn't just be a pulled muscle, tendon or ligament as shes shown no previous signs but he dismissed it and said highly unlikely. To say I was upset is an understatement I was crying in the car park. Thank god for friends who gave me some reassurance that maybe he was just saying worse case scenario and to take her to my vet the following day, also rang the breeder to see if they knew of anything in their lines but they where not aware they said sometimes their dogs go lame for a day or too if they have gone too fast with twists and turns. So after a very fretful night took her to my vet who was very surprised by what he'd said and that we'd treat as a sprain/strain with anti inflammatory and rest then reassess by the weekend, she knows the emergency vet and said he is very good but I'm not so sure as he weighed Honey at 4.5kg when shes actually 9kg!!!!! So several paranoid days watching her every move keeping her crated (while she cried) she seemed to get a bit better but I was still convinced she was limping a little bit. Bells & I where at Agility Nuts on 8th Jan so left her at home as thought she might be too excited (poor Bells didn't have the best day with very distracted handler)I think the break did me good as when I got home and watch her move she wasn't limping it was just me paranoid at her every move. I stopped the anti inflammatory on Sunday and kept my fingers crossed well she seems to be fine thank goodness. We only went on our first off lead walk yesterday as taking things very slowly (as Honey doesn't do slow lol) I'm just hoping it doesn't happen again. I am going to get her x-rayed at 12 months to see how her joints are for an agility point of view (for piece of mind mostly as still can't help wondering why he said what he did).
The whole situation also wasn't help as a break in at work over Xmas so we had to process payroll payments manually what a nightmare!!!
And had one of the rats in for a lump removal who then insisted on trying rip out her stitches so had to make her a body cast to stop her getting to them. And trapped one of the other rats tail in the door so had blood everywhere. I give up!!!! What was I saying about looking forward to 2012...............................................

Though on a majorly good news side of things Jules & Jette won into grade 3 woop woop that has to be the best start to the year for them both really really well deserved :D

End of 2011

Well what a year it has been saying goodbye to dear friends both human and doggie is never easy I still miss them both dearly. Then the golden bombshell came along to brighten our lives I couldn't have wished for a bet fit into our family it all worked out perfect. And throughout it all my super girlie Bella there with a smile on her face no matter what life throws our way I wouldn't be without her. Shes also made me so proud of all her achievements this year finishing off in grade 5 still fells like a dream, getting her bronze agility warrent and to be 3rd in the gundog league is amazing. For 2012 I hope we can have just as much fun in agility enjoying every run no matter what the out come, little miss Honey is going to start a little bit of foundation training in the new year along with doing her bronze good citizen and I just hope the old boy keeps pain free and happy :D
Happy New Year to everyone I hope you have a good time :D See you next year :D
Couldn't finish off the year without a pic of Bells rossie wall :D

Clever girl Honey :D

Well done to little Honey on passing her Puppy Good Citizen tonight :D

Agility Nuts 11th Dec

Had a lovely day at nuts with most of club was really great to see Kandy back running with Sal still some more confidence to be built for them both but a massive step in the right direction. We had some good runs with the odd pole and some tricky call offs but Bells was running nicely.