I’m on my way to Aldie Virginia. I have been involved with beagles for over 30 years. I have always wanted to go to Institute Farm and do something with my beagles.
My first Beagles were hunting dogs. I never hunted with them but I always wanted to. I have hunted once with one of the hunting Beagles and we both enjoyed it.
I did Obedience with Peppermint Patty and went to several national specialty’s with her. I was also shopping for a dog when I went to those Specialities but never found exactly what I wanted.
I did agility with Marcy and we went to the DFW specialty mostly because it was in the area.
After the hunting beagles I had a rescue which I did agility with. Search the specialties usually in the fall and the start of the school year I did not do specialties with her.
I got involved with the beagle rescue fund and since our major fund raiser is at the specialty I started going to again when I retired from teaching face-to-face. Two years ago at Purina Farms and last year at Ocala Florida. I really enjoy helping with the auction and selling concessions to raise money for rescue. I also like to support Agility that’s the topic for another post.
Macy is my first confirmation beagle. Though she doesn’t quite conform since she’s on the small side and on the fuzzy side. She’s cute but she wasn’t a very good agility dog either. In fact the only thing she’s good at is being very cute. Which is enough.
Dulce is my second conformation beagle, who also doesn’t conform. She does filled her inches but doesn’t have any. She’s decided to worry about everything especially my blood sugar and in fact she so worried she can’t do Agility. Which is sad because I really love Agility.
Summer is my latest beagle. So far she does conform although she’s blue. She has eight points confirmed by the AKC and five more pending. That means she has both her majors and 13 points. She’s been in training for Agility since the spring and she frequently forgets how to do individual obstacles or even how to do the sequence.
So I’m going to Aldie with one beagle who is entered in Agility but is probably going to be too worried to do anything. I’m going to Aldie with a second beagle who is entered in Agility but it’s more likely to forget how to do it. That same bagel does have a chance to do well in Conformation and is entered in sweepstakes and regular conformation.
I’m going so that I can help raise funds for rescue, Support Agility, maybe just maybe bring home a ribbon but mostly To have a good time with people who love beagles as much as I do.
So what is this have to do with Diabetes?Traveling is difficult with Diabetes: you have to take things that you can’t get it at Walgreens or Costco or Walmart. You have to travel with temperature sensitive medication with insulin pump supplies and glucose sensors and all the stuff that goes with it.
Plus I have to sleep with a CPAP machine so we just added to medium size boxes to what other people travel with. It’s a three-day drive from Dallas to Virginia. Two days in agility and three days of conformation. My Ford Escape is stuffed.
I finished one day of driving and started the second so far I have everything I need: medications, CPAP machine, and supplies.
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