Weirdo Dogs and What We've Been Up To

Izzie is strange. There's just something about her that is odd. She's too aware, too human. She really doesn't act like a "normal" dog, but really what is normal? I don't know. Shes awesome, no doubt about that, but she just isn't very doggy. Maybe it's because compared to customers dogs she's much better trained and socialized. I am pretty sure she's a person reincarnated as a dog.

So what have we been up to?

Well at the start of January we went to an agility seminar with Kathy Keats. It was pretty great, I audited 3/4 sessions and worked Izzie in a baby dog one. She did great, nothing was very challenging for her so it was great to come back to after her break from being broken.

Then we visited the rehab vet up in Calgary. Izzie was glad to see her, but my wallet wasn't! Ouch! Izzie needed it though and it was worth every penny. She was pretty out, completely rotated to her left side. She said this causes issues extending so very well could have caused her tricep issue. That tricep issue could have also caused the neck to be out of the neck being out could have cause the tricep issue. Who knows. Bottom line is it was gone by the chiro appt and she was adjusted and lasered and poked with 2 jabs of traumeel. Feeling good as new we're moving forward to injury prevention which takes me to our next thing!

The last weekend of January we attended a workshop on peanut ball exercises, stretching and conditioning. Izzie did great as we have already been working on the ball for a couple of months. However it was nice to have more eyes on her, especially to point out weak spots. So moving forward from that we have a lot of good stuff to work on and soon she'll be ripped! This will hopefully help her speed and endurance too, I can already see a difference simply in how she stands and even with her weave poles as she's stronger now and has an easier time keeping up with the weaving action.

So that pretty much brings you all up to speed. I'll try and blog more regularly!

Can your weirdo flexi dog do this?