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Hi Tracy – Thanks for the info on Silver Honey. I’ll definitely look into it. Fortunately the super-glue seemed to do the trick, so we only missed one day of practice.
We’ve finally been able to practice outdoors, but unfortunately the first evening outside was a bit of a disaster. Chip’s brain was focused on gopher smells (the flooding drove a lot of gophers out of their holes, and the foxes had some messy meals) and just ran around sniffing for 10 minutes. The next night went much better. After a slow start, I ran our other two agility Cairns on the course while my wife held Chip so he could watch. It seemed to help and he was much more focused.
We were back inside next two nights. I’m still having problems with connection and getting him in the correct end of the tunnel. Practice, practice, practice. He’s a fun little guy and I think he enjoys agility more every day.
Here’s the video of excerpts from several practices:
Here’s Chip practicing the one-step sends and the plank. He’s started to pick up a bit of speed in the first exercise.
Unfortunately, Chip split a nail this afternoon. I have no idea how it happened, but he’s not a happy boy right now. We were just walking through a pet store to get to their small agility practice room, and he started to limp. The store had some super-glue, so we glued his nail to stop the bleeding. Hopefully he’ll be able to practice soon.
We’ve had a lot of flooding in our area (SW Colorado) so outdoor practice has been impossible. I think it will be dried out in the next day or two so we can practice in a larger space.
