Tilly did very well in her first every Crystal Challenge competition on Saturday. She came 11th out of 27 dogs in the 1-3 levels combined. I was really proud of her. We were at the show for 6 hours, and she started to get really tired and hot just waiting around. Nevertheless, she ran well and had a great time. I've just got to work on her speed!
She went to Hydrotherapy the day before which she loves. I've started to do more training with Betsy and she is learning a lot very quickly. Here are...

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Tilly is a lot better now thankfully and is running around like a loon. I've booked her in for Hydotherapy on Friday just to give her muscles a work out and to relax her.
I have put our name down for an agility competition at the weekend. It's part of a 'Crystal Series' run by our club which we haven't done before. I'm not expecting much, but want to use the opportunity to run her in the outside arena - as next weekend we have our second attempt at our silver progress test.
I've been working ...

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Yup - Tilly's injured herself! She was severely limping on her left front and back leg! This started two days ago after a very chaotic walk which involved her, Betsy, another Labradoodle, Rottweiler, Lurcher, Shih Tzu, Chihuahua and Collie!! I saw her slip in a rather energetic game, but it didn't phase her at the time. Only later on did I see that she was limping.
So I've rested her for a couple of days and apart from driving me crazy through lack of exercise (pacing, barking etc) it seems to...
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