Good news/Bad news as it commonly happens.
The bad news is that we flubbed our run in Agility tonight; Gemma missed the down contact on the dogwalk and the seesaw(?) on her first “official” ADX trial.
The good news is that she was surprisingly fast, and she didn’t show any signs of discomfort!
Of course, the former is what threw me – she was much faster than she’s been running lately, and put my timing off. When she’s slow, she’ll hardly ever miss a contact just because of gravity 
However the big news is that neither the weaving practice at home nor the actual run caused her enough discomfort to react in any way; maybe she is OK after all, and the mysterious limp (more of a three-legged walk) was due to a number of one-off problems with seeds?
I don’t care in the slightest whether we qualified or not tonight; it was another practice run as far as I’m concerned, just keeping the training up and looking for issues – like missing the dogwalk contact by a couple of millimetres
Rather than dragging her around the course like the Mock trials, she forced me to run my legs off – and I fully expected her to drop a few bars and/or miss the weaving from lack of exercise and training. I’ve been treating her with kid gloves for a couple of weeks in case she did have a muscle problem. It just goes to show – you can never predict what another thinking being will do next
Oh, and of course we came away with three good training ideas too, including a distance handling challenge from the Open course (which I don’t think we would have passed; as a precaution, we didn’t enter)
Fingers crossed then, for her visit to the Chiro tomorrow. So far, so good. Not a sign!
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