Sunday, November 2, 2008

Class 1 and the weekend

On Thursday night we went to our first agility class for this new session. There are a lot of new dogs in my class - and a lot of big dogs! I was the smallest dog there. The class was pretty good for me - I am feeling more comfortable there now that I know the instructors and am familiar with the building and the loud sounds there. We worked on the teeter, jumps and tunnel first. The teeter was set at full height - and I did it and stuck my 2o2o. We did a pinwheel which went well and sends to a tunnel - I didn't want to do the tunnel because it was set up very close to the noisy adjacent ring. Our second station was weaves and chute and table. The weaves had two wires on each end. Last session I got used to seeing one wire on each end, but I had never seen two! What the heck? So sometimes it confused me and I went under the wire. Mom still doesn't see why I have to do them with wires at all. My tables were good but I still didn't just run through the chute (and it was a baby chute too!). The instructor said maybe it was mom's fault because she stops running when I go into the barrel part. (Mom would love it if this were the reason I stop!). So she tried running full out right by the chute and I still stopped. Oh well... Our third station was contacts and jumps. The instructor wants mom to keep running past the aframe too, to get me to run the downside faster. We're going to try that at practice on Wednesday. Also mom was telling me "out" to go to a jump that was just a little bit away from her and our instructor told her just to say "jump" and to make me look for the jump. She says we should reserve out for getting really away from mom. This is good advice because mom had also been saying out to get me to do the middle jump in a pinwheel. So all in all, a good class!

Unfortunately this weekend wasn't all that great. Mom and dad had a lot of what they call "gigs." All that really means is they go to work and leave me at home! But worse than that, grandma went into the hospital on Saturday! Apparently her heart doesn't stay in rhythm and even though she's been taking medicine and under a doctor's care, her heart got out of rhythm and she started to get fluid on her lungs and around her heart and that fluid got infected. She is a little better today but has had tests today and will have more tomorrow. The doctors are trying to find the right medicines to help her. She's in a good hospital so I am sure she will get better soon. If I could go and visit her, I would give her lots of get-well kisses!

Gotta zoom!


Ricky

9 comments:

Diana said...

Sorry about your grandma. I hope she starts feeling better soon. Diana

Cowspotdog said...

Oh no....poor Grandma......hope she starts feeling better soon.....send her lots of woofy wishes.

Brittany said...

Sorry about grandma! Our mom's grandma is sick too, but luckly isn't in the hospital yet.

Your class sounds like it went pretty well! Good luck this round, and hopefully you get over the sillyness with the chute.

-Patriot and Hobbs

Urban Smoothie Read said...

i'm sending my healing vibes to your grandma...

i hope u can conquer the nasty chute soon... my mum has to practically shout 'go! go! go!' everytime i enter, or else, i'll stop too.

Sara said...

Ricky, sorry your grandma is sick. I hope everything works out okay.

Chris and Ricky said...

Thanks everyone for your kind words and wishes! I'll have mom pass it along to grandma!

Xsara and Tani said...

I hope your grandmother recovers fast! But am glad to hear that you had a successfull class :)

Dawn said...

Hey Ricky, Katie and I are hoping your Grandma gets some good news with all the tests and is home soon. I know you'll give her lots of kisses when you see her. And just try to be brave when you see that chute next time! Your mom will be SO happy to see you run right through it! Give it a try little man! You can do it!

i said...

Hope your grandma gets well soon!