Let’s start with the Less Good News — Pozy has a torn meniscus and needs surgery to deal with it. This was found yesterday using something called a NanoScope after x-rays didn’t reveal the cause of her slight and occasional limp.
Pozy’s surgeon and her team at WestVet do an amazing job. Pozy is not at all aggressive with strangers but she gets concerned — and moves away — if they try to touch her. We have a system — Pozy stays in a room with me until she is well sedated. This is her on the path to not caring one bit about much of anything…
And then she is allowed to wake up in that same room with me.
I am grateful to the WestVet team who supports my commitment to making care less scary for my girl. Advocacy works — we should all be advocates for what our dogs need ❤️
All that is to say that Pozy will have surgery later this month — bummer but necessary.
The good news is that Starry G will be in the Specialty Tracking Test — we found out this morning that she got a TDU track 🎉🐾
With a month left before the show, my focus is building joy and drive for each event that we will be doing. This is not the time for new learning or “drilling” — it is all about making the activity super happy and fun, with lots and lots of reinforcement.
Capella, however, says that the only time draft is happy and fun is when the cart is stopped 😂
Our deal is this — she pulls her cart in exchange for TONS of great treats, and when she passes Open she gets to be done with draft forever. Her brother, Zuber, apparently got all her draft genes 😂
Happy Thursday ❤️
