Great night sad week!

Monday night Toby and I headed off to our agility class at BF3. We had a very good night. Toby got upset with me only once! That's a record! What happened is I had to take Toby over two jumps and then go on tunnel. After the first jump I should have given the command go on tunnel so that Toby knew where is was going before he got there. After the second jump Toby had to slow down and look back at me to see where I wanted him to go. That upset him. At work we have a name for this, it is called Dev-T. Dev-T is anything that someone does that causes you to waste time getting what ever you are doing done in a timely matter. Man, I here Dev-T all day long at work who would think that the dog would be hollering Dev-T to me in the middle of an agility coarse. Whats up with that! Anyway, that was the only time Toby did a zoom. The zoom was very short and when I called Toby he came straight to me. So that was a great night.

The sad week is from several things that happened this week. First of all, on Monday afternoon during lunch I decided to go down the street from where I work to fill my car up with gas. Someone had hit a dog and left the dog in the middle of the road. If only I had been 15 to 20 min earlier maybe I could have saved that dog. The really sad thing was the dog was laying in the middle of the street across from a Veterinary office. How sad. The next thing that got to me was hearing about someone that I had just met a couple of months ago. A very nice person and someone I wanted to get to know. She has been very sick for a very long time and is getting worse. From what I am hearing she only has a couple more weeks here on this earth. A good friend of mine sent me a video clip of her last run with her dog. It was the perfect run in every way. From the skill of her handling her dog to the joy coming from her and her dog. Lis you are a Class Act!

Then I read an email about A sheltie dog show in Colorado. It seems that one of the dogs died due to heat and altitude sickness. I just can't imagine! Taking your dog to a show and having fun then before you know it they are gone. And to something so preventable. Turn the Air conditioner on Please! Dogs get hot too!

And of coarse dealing with moving and leaving all of my dearest friends. I know I will be OK once everything is said and final. But poor Toby. He also has great wonderful friends he is going to miss. But hopefully we will be able to visit a lot. The house in Georgia is going to be big enough for everyone to come stay with us from time to time. You just wait and see.