I did my first agility trial running a non-assistance dog yesterday and I had to work out a whole new set of logistics.
Checking in and hangout out with the assistance dog wasn’t a problem. Had to ask a few people not to pet her, they didn’t bother to read her vest as a lot of agility dogs are wearing harnesses that look a lot like her vest (this is not good).
I tried going without her during the first run and when I got back to her, both of us were upset. My blood sugar was running a bit high, and we weren’t cool with that. Basically we decided that Macy was too self-centered and I couldn’t be trusted to be out and about with just her <sigh>. So the second run, we took in her tiny crate and Dulce hung out there when I was walking the course or running Macy. The judges said I would have Dulce on the course, but since I had her entered later in the day, I didn’t think that was fair and after the August incidents didn’t want to cause people to think.
That worked really well, both of us were okay with that, and she saved me from going low later in the day (over corrected, these things happen.)
Was visiting with some friends and were telling them how much help Dulce was and got the comment “you’re diabetes must be bad”. That one always makes me wonder, but I don’t think of it as a degree of bad, just that I need to manage it differently.
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