I want this day to end

And it's only just started. :( Colby is at the vet's probably now getting her pre-anesthetic and catheter set up for surgery. It was a TOTAL bummer handing her over to them. Poor, sweet little girlie. I have only five walks today. They don't start for another hour and I just don't know what to do with myself. I feel sick. It just totally sucks. I need a time warp to take me to the end of this day so I can snuggle and comfort her while she recovers. I know her knee surgery was FAR worse and recovery after that was horrible, but still I just want it to be over. I want this day to end.........................

**Since I needed something to do before my walks started, I made a little movie of Spur's recent running dog walks. Good little Monkey Pants. He should only get faster as he gains confidence and more experience on different dog walks.

What a day!!

Started the day with a very early morning walk with Mary at OOB. Went for my first outside run! Nearly a mile! Felt good, actually. Dragged out my tunnels and did some running dog walks with Spur. Prepared my kitchen garden for planting, just need Rich to haul in some fresh, good, composted manure. Just a LOVELY day!!! Then gave Spur a bath, since the sun was so warm and he could "blow dry" outside. Blow dry means chase the chuckit ball up and down the hill! It works! He's so soft and FURRRRRRRRYYYYYY........and white and clean.............

The wind helped blow dry.........

He's just the cutest boy........

Looking kind of aussie-ish at three years old........

The wind was blowing his tail between his legs, making him looks more aussie-ish.......

Colby enjoyed the warm sun in the yard and found two of her favorite beetles to play with.......

Later I saw a blue bird go carry the remains away to eat on the fence post

Tomorrow the eye goes. I'm sad, but I can't wait!!! It's painful and looks bad. Poor thing is on tramadol all weekend and has been kind of out of it. At this point I can't wait for it to be gone. :( Looks swollen and uncomfortable, poor, sweet girlie.

Enucleation

Yep, the eye must go. The drops were not doing the job managing the pressure from her glaucoma. Bummer..............

Monday surgery is scheduled to remove the eye.

She is such a pretty girl and will look very different. But, I sure hate the way the eye looks today. And she will be pain free after it's gone and that's a very good thing. She will have to retire from AKC Rally Obedience, though. No handicapped dogs allowed, damn it. She can do APDT rally. They even allow dogs in wheelchairs. :D Not sure how one judges a sit or a stand from a dog in a wheelchair, but they do! It's cool, the dogs still enjoy the work, so why not. It's not easy for Colby since it is her left eye, the one closest to my leg for heeling, but she has been managing/adjusting and she does enjoy the work.

One thing the loss of the eye will not affect. Her hunting..........She can hunt by sound and smell alone. And that's one of her most favorite things to do! She still has good sight in her right eye, so hopefully that will continue for a very long time.

Why do all the bad things happen to sweet Colby??? Why not to Rotten Roscoe? Although, imagine having to put drops in Roscoe's eye twice/day??? Hell, pure hell, that would be!!!

Nasty boxer should have been on a leash!!!! Damn it!!

Poor Rory got attacked by a boxer yesterday! We were heading to the Fort and up over our little short cut rise and there it was. Owner had it off leash playing ball. This was an ON LEASH area of the Fort. Dog freezes, so I stop and wait for the girl to recall it and get it leashed. I didn't like the frozen look on it's face. She tries and tries, but the dog ignores her and approaches. She squeeks out something like....."she's usually friendly......." and I say it's OK, cuz Rory is a lovely dog. She has perhaps the best dog-skills of any dog I walk. Totally appropriate and awesome, just the BEST girl. In a flash the boxer is attacking her!!!! :( I SCREAM....."HEY!!!!!!".......in the loudest, firmest voice I can, which usually stops a dog, but this dog simply hesitated, looked at me and then continued it's attack. POOR RORY!!! The girl tries her best to grab the dog, but this is a boxer, they have the ability to curl into pretzels and avoid capture. Rory isn't doing anything, I see her sweet face, eyes just squinting and trying to move her head to avoid another chomp from this asshole boxer!!! I look around for a stick and see a good one, but the dog is intense and the girl is failing to get hold of it, so I take my flexi-leash handle and WHACK the dog on the top of it's head as hard as I can. Poor dog, but DAMN IT all, this is SO unnecessary!!!! I feel bad, but it worked. The woman finally grabs it's collar and pulls it away. Mumbling something about how I didn't have to yell at her dog. WHAT......THE........FUCK?????? I look at her in amazement and tell her if MY dog had been trying to rip out HER dog's throat I am quite sure she would have yelled, too!! Geesus!!!! I couldn't believe it!!!! Um, now might be the time to apologize for your asshole dog's behavior and your lack of control over the asshole dog. >:/ She did ask if my dog was OK and I tell her I don't know, yet, and will have to look her over carefully. I tell her I need her name and number, which she does give me. I am beyond furious at this point because of her comments about yelling. HELLOOOOOOOOOOO...........poor, sweet Rory was just attacked by her asshole dog..........I am going to yell. Luckily, Rory is a chow mix and has a lovely thick coat of fur to protect her, so I can not find any wounds. I feel horrible that this had to happen to her. These sorts of things can affect a nice dog and make them hesitant and even reactive in the future. I hope that doesn't happen to lovely Rory, she is SUCH a nice dog. I continue to stress to this chick as she starts to leave that her dog needs to be on a leash. She is very lucky I am who I am because anyone else would have gone straight to Animal Control to report the incident, but I don't want her dog to be quarantined for her lack of responsibility. She needs to find a private spot to exercise her dog, not a public park. I called Rory's people last night and they said she seems fine and they can't find any wounds. Phew.

I do love this dog walk!

He just looks so happy and having a great time!!!!

Weekend trial report!

Saturday was AKC. Spur did GREAT!! His first run was FAST and he was ON FIRE!! I love in the video when Kim says......"OMG, look at him GO!!!". He was FLYING and that caused him to jump over the finish jump and end our run without collecting enough points. Oh well, I am thrilled at how happy and fast he was and how awesome his dog walk was!!!



Then he Q'd and won his Open standard!! Yay!! One more leg and he moves up to Excellent. He did a nice teeter and again and awesome dog walk.



Then he ran clean and fast in his Excellent Jumpers. Good little Monkey Pants!!

Roscoe double q'd for number 17 I believe. He was awesome in standard and a little off in jumpers, but he did fine. Not his most favorite location.

Sunday was CPE here in town. Spur, again, was ON FIRE!!! He did the teeter nicely!!! The dog walk was a nice set up with tunnel dog walk tunnel. Great fun and he did awesome until his last standard style run. Looks like he missed all three contacts!! He was really pumped and even though the judge didn't call any of them the video (which I deleted because I don't want to look at it!!!) he clearly missed. Maybe one toe in one, darn it. It was fullhouse, so I could do it three times and I guess the tunnel dog walk tunnel was just too exciting. Or the fact that since Silvia's approval we haven't trained it at all and it was something we were training weekly. Time to do a little training, I guess. Just a wee reminder of his job. All in all, I am really pleased because the ones he got were super good. And he was SO happy!!!

He had some incredible scores. His jackpot score was 60 points. More than anyone else by nearly 20 points! He had the highest snooker score. This is the WHOLE group, Muffin Heads, all levels, all dogs, all heights. He blew everyone away!!! He was simply having a great time!!! Barking at all his fans, running his heart out, he had a great weekend!!!

I do have some of the CPE videos, but they are REALLY blurry and I haven't loaded them, yet. I was tired last night and in bed by about 8:30. I think he is ready for our team event in a couple weeks at BARK. I DO plan to get a team Q that weekend!!!

Oh, this eye is going to make me crazy!

Yesterday was our one week check of the new drops and how it is handling controlling the pressure. I had a feeling, just by looking at it, that things were not good. It wasn't constricting any more, barely any iris showing. It looked kind of foggy.

And she was squinting some, so I think it was hurting a little.

Yep, pressure was up from 30 to 45/50. :( NOT good!!! In fact, bad enough they said it could be damaging her optic nerve. So, we were to try BOTH drops. I put in the new drop, waited 15 minutes, then put in the old drop. Then waited for three hours and returned for my vet to check the pressure again. YEAH!! It was normal, about 13. Phew!! Because had it not come down they wanted us to head down there so the emergency vet could drain some of the fluid. ICK!!!!

This photo is from about a half hour after both drops this morning. She is getting bored with all these photos, I think......

And this one from an hour later.

Yay, almost looking as good as her "good" eye!!! What a relief! Except, of course, that BOTH meds are extremely expensive!!! Ugh!!