Very exciting that I now have a crate that's actually an appropriate size for at least one of my dogs. It's black and blue and perty and perfect- and won't blow over in a slight breeze like Charlie's old soft crate.
With Zeke going to need a new metal crate in another month or so, plus a soft crate like Charlie's when he's older and I know he isn't going to eat or claw his way out of it, I'm going to have seven crates.
Seven crates for only two dogs.
I'm running out of space to put them all.
I popped out to World For Pets at Springwood this morning hopping to pick up a couple of the RSPCA non-spill bowls for in the dogs' crates at trials and although they sold the last six that morning and I've had to have two ordered in from their warehouse for me, I did come home with a car restraint and a Nylabone for the monkey and a Boredom Buster foam bowl and Good Cuz for Charlie, who has worn himself out playing with the latter.
Squeaky toys send him a bit round the bend.
I decided to just bite the bullet and enter AD and ADO for our last trial for 2011 at the Purple Fundraising down the Gold Coast on December 3rd. Teeny tiny bit anxious about another seesaw fly-off in ADO, but we'll see how it goes and it'll give me something to work on for the eight or so weeks between that trial and the first for 2012. If this Thundershirt works then maybe I'll have a dog that's settled enough to actually listen and not end up injuring himself. Here's hoping.
Little bit scary to think that in, basically, thirteen months- so nearly this time next year- Zeke could be in the ring.
We've got a bloody lot of work to do before then, but I'm optimistic about him having his first trial pretty much right on eighteen months.
A big part of me would really, really love to have his first run at the Purple Fundraiser next year; I think that'd be a pretty special- if slightly emotional- experience.
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