Good News Week

I'm so pleased to say that Kiros's operation went better then I could have hoped for:-)

He had a Pre-op Blood test that was perfect.  Exceptionally encouraging result in a large dog of his age.

Two lumps were removed with a good healthy margin around them and sent off for analysis.

The Vet Nurse told me "He's not in a good mood!" when I came to pick him up last Thursday afternoon and she wasn't kidding.  I guess Kiros is just a fiercely independent boy and was incredibly angry when he discovered that he couldn't do what he wanted to.  I've never heard him growl so much and he even snapped at me when I tried to lift him out of the Car!!

After a good nights sleep he was back to normal.  In fact a bit too normal.  Keeping him form playing rough with Reno and just lead walking is proving quite difficult.  Thankfully he will be back to off lead exercise on Monday and I should have an idea of how long it will be before he can run a bit of Agility again.

The best news came when the Vet phoned to say that both the lumps were benign...............Now I can stop worrying :-)

I've also had a very good week with Reno.

The video is of the training I did at Paul and Pen's on Sunday.  I'm working on bringing some "fun" back into the weaves so have used just 6 poles and have started to use his Tennis Ball as a reward which he seems to enjoy.

The weave exercises are an easier version of one at the end of Susan Garrett's 2x2 DVD building up to the sort of thing we were trying to do at Jo's the week before.

He's really not making many mistakes now and did some great weaves at both Jo's training and Lucy's training at NADTC this week.

We are at Empingham this weekend and I'm trying not to be overly optimistic but surely he will weave properly in the ring soon?!!