Last month we made a quick trip to Maryland with a friend. We were going with a friend on a trip to a well-known veterinary orthopedic specialist. Good news? No surgery was needed. Bad news? No immediate action steps/specific diagnosis. But, as we had planned for surgery, we ended up Read more…
The first time we went to Minnesota was in 2014 – with just Griffin and Blaze. Now I’ve made the trip many times, with many different dogs. The initial trip was very stressful – I was worried about getting there in time for our appointments and getting back in time Read more…
On Friday we drove up to Minnesota for an action packed 3 days; participate in a trial, judge a rally obedience trial, go to the vet specialist, and visit with dog friends. Yesterday we got to do two runs in CDSP obedience first thing in the morning before I judged. Read more…
Viktor is now 24 months old. We have been addressing his ‘valgus deviation of both front limbs’ since he was a young puppy. Our rehab vet in Minnesota wanted to see him to evaluate his elbows and make a plan for moving forward. On Monday we went to an eye Read more…
I’ve been judging for the World Cynosport Rally program for about two years. That judging has primarily been at our facility and so that we could keep entry costs as low as possible for our exhibitors. A few times I’ve been asked to judge elsewhere but usually those requests come Read more…
Birch trees. Lichen covered boulders. Yes, we’re back in Sweden! It wasn’t something I planned really far in advance, and maybe not the most responsible thing to try to quickly find someone to teach all my classes and take care of the 3 dogs staying at home. But it was Read more…
This week we’ve traveled up to Minnesota to take the dogs to the rehab vet again. It’s been an adventure as always – great traveling, I had a second person (and her dog) with us this time, making me a little less stressed about some aspects of the traveling. Read more…
Somehow Griffin and I ended up on an adventure with a friend. We had a departure date and we had an end date – and the parts in the middle just sort of happened. First we took the dogs to Washington DC. I’d been here before – 12+ years ago Read more…
We went to Minnesota again to visit the excellent rehab vet and help our friend Megan with a work project. The travel went well and once we actually left, the traveling was more relaxed than our first trip. We attempted to stop at state parks in Wisconsin but apparently you Read more…
My first few attempts at this post were 5x longer. Even with only one flight experience I learned a lot. Read more about our adventure here. In the past I had said I would absolutely never fly a large dog – it was probably too dangerous and stressful. Now I’ve Read more…