In September 2013, Maisy became suddenly and critically ill. Our blog
readers rallied around us, providing us with the emotional and financial
support needed to get through a very stressful time. Although I will
never be able to pay you all back, I can pay it forward through Project Gratitude.
Please email me at reactivechampion (at) gmail (dot) com if you have an individual or cause that you would like me to consider donating to.
I recently participated in a fundraiser
for my friend’s foster dog, Diego. Diego has a broken foot (leg?)
and needs surgery to fix it. Until that’s done, it hurts and he is
crabby about being touched, which I totally get. So, we need to get
surgery for him.
My friend organized a CGC test as a
fundraiser. All the proceeds went directly to Diego’s surgery fund.
I also kicked in an extra $20.
The CGC part… well, we proved that
you can’t cram for the CGC. Both dogs failed, although I was still
quite proud of them for trying so hard.
Lola failed on the friendly dog (she
was soooooo excited to see a friend!) and the loose leash walking
(not surprising- there were good sniffs there, and Lo’s brain stops
in the presence of sniffs). She failed the come when called exercise
(she was very enthusiastic, but ran right past me), but was allowed
to retry it because her long line got tangled in a cone. She passed
on the retry.
Pyg failed on the friendly dog (OMG
FRIEND), the appearance and grooming (you may not brush me, no sir!),
and the stay (not at all surprised).
So, we failed, but the dogs both tried really hard, and considering how much (er, little) I've trained them, I really didn't expect they would pass. Mostly, I wanted to donate to a good cause and get a baseline on their training.
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