SUCCESS!!!!! The last step in her recovery, April 30th, 2000
Since Sylvia's recovery from wobblers, she has only intermittently done the teeter and not done the dog walk at all in practice or at trials. With two legs in Open, I was beginning to think we should sit back and enjoy it as that's as far as we might get. She was the last dog of the day today and they announced it, so that everyone was watching. She started off by doing the teeter! I was thrilled with that accomplishment! But then she surprised all of us. She started up the dogwalk, crouched down (the whole place was SILENT--I think we were all holding our breath), and completed the dog walk and finished her run with panache!!!!! The whole place went up with a roar and people ran over with treat bags for her to bury her goofy head in! Her 'butt in the air' routine on the table cost us the time, but I couldn't have cared less!!!! (Did I mention that just before this Open Standard run, she got her first Open JWW leg with FOURTH PLACE finish on a difficult course? )
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