Start Some Training

Hanging out in the living room.

The local dog training club I use started up a Obedience/Rally class, finally! After the winter holidays, it kind of goes dead and offers very little classes. I'd been hovering over their website for weeks so I could enter a dog in this class. It's just more basics, covering things like precision, for their more advanced classes that will follow it.

Originally, I was going to enter Loki in it, but since it's against AKC rules to compete with a dyed dog I decided to go with Ramsay instead. Even though events are marked in my calender, I don't think we'll be hitting the breed rings until July this year, simply due to funds. My business took a very unusual slow hit the first couple of months this year, so while bills were covered, fun things like dog shows weren't! Dog training classes are much more in my budget, so we'll cram a few of those in to hold us over. We've only been to one session so far, but so far it looks like a promising avenue.

We did Ramsay's Eye OFA this weekend as well, and everything came back normal! I believe the basic tests for his Canine Health Information Center number (otherwise known as CHIC) to be issued have all been done, so all that's left is to submit them to the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals for review and confirmed results. We still need to take a look at his thyroid and cardiac, which will be done when the options are there, but these are not required for his CHIC number to be issued.

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