I did my first agility trial running a non-assistance dog yesterday and I had to work out a whole new set of logistics.\n<\/p>\n
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).\n<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
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.)\n<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
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