canine clown show

Just because I'm at a fun match doesn't mean I'm looking for unasked for suggestions. Just here to work with my dog.

I was so flustered today when this happened but I really really wish I had confronted the person. Don't care that you're running the match, don't care that you might be a trainer or high level competitor ... I literally didn't ask. You actually can just keep your bad advice to yourself.

I've been having a lot of breakthrough nerve pain in the back of my thigh recently. Which isn't ideal. So I talked to my nurse practitioner and got the go-ahead to increase my lyrica dose a little. Going up to 175 twice a day. Hopefully that will take care of it. We also discussed surgery versus medication forever. She is of the opinion that surgery is probably still necessary, because of the likelihood of permanent nerve damage without it. Ultimately I need to follow up with the surgeon about it. I keep flip-flopping on my opinion ... I'm back in the pro-surgery camp.

We also talked about my worries regarding my family history of diabetes. I mean ... My mom, dad, brother, and sister are all either diabetic or pre-diabetic now. So that's a lot. I had bloodwork done a few years ago and it was very normal. I'm going to get it done again in the next week or so. If it's normal, we'll recheck every 2 years or if there's symptoms.

It's Haley's 14th Got'cha Day!!!!

On this day 14 years ago my dad bought 5-week-old Haley for $100 from some people who'd bought her elsewhere and couldn't handle her. That day and that puppy completely changed my life.

We went to our very first Barn Hunt trial and Arthur got a Q and third place! Yay!!!

He would have gotten 2 Qs if his handler wasn't stupid. 🤦‍♀️ He told me multiple times where the rat was on our second go and I didn't call it. He didn't Q his Instinct run because he was too busy checking every single hay bale instead of investigating the 3 tubes all lined up in a row. Oh well, maybe next time. He did so so well with independently searching in all of his runs, and he climbed up on bales and did the tunnels all by himself. They had the Novice cources nested with the more advanced ones, so they actually had a bigger tunnel with a turn in the ring that was not required but counted as a tunnel, and he did that one as well as the smaller straight novice tunnel!