During our visit to my doctor’s office last week, Russ asked, “Can she go to the next dog show?” The doctor had just finished examining me, following up on my collapse at the previous weekend’s dog show in Enumclaw. After doing some tests and ordering some others, she first looked me in the eye, then [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Team Cooper back on track
Posted in dog shows / conformation, life with dog, Obedience/Rally, Realta Rosario Cooper, tagged 2011 IWSCOPS regional show, dog show, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Novice A Obedience on August 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Killer dog show
Posted in dog shows / conformation, friendship, Obedience/Rally, Realta Rosario Cooper, tagged dog show, dog show nervousness, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS on August 23, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Dog shows are stressful. You wait your turn to go into the ring, and you try to remember to breathe. You go into the ring, hope your dog will live up to the hours of training you’ve put in, and try to remember to breathe. Sometimes you shake a little with nervousness, and your friends [...]
The trip to Enumclaw begins
Posted in dog shows / conformation, dog training, life with dog, Obedience/Rally, Realta Rosario Cooper, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog shows, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS on August 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Here I am, doing it again. Going to a dog show. This weekend is the Olympic Kennel Club shows, and Cooper and I are entered. Not in conformation, though. No, this time I am getting really brave/foolish. I’ve entered us in Novice A Obedience. “Novice” because I’d like to get a CD (Companion Dog) title [...]
Stars on comic book trading cards
Posted in life with dog, tagged dog, dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, trading cards on August 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, Russ was noodling about, trying to design some demonstrations for the beginning Photoshop class he was preparing to teach that night. Something fun that also demonstrated the skills he was planning to teach. He came up with these two “trading cards,” done in the style of comic book printing. I am envisioning “stats” on [...]
SLO check-in
Posted in dog healthcare, Realta Rosario Cooper, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy, tagged broken nails, dogs with broken nails, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, SLO, SLO treatment, Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Although it’s been awhile since I last wrote about Cooper’s SLO (symmetrical lupoid onychodystrophy), it’s never far from my mind. Three times a day, Cooper gets medicines. Every day, I’m always on the look-out for another broken nail, another session of determined toe-licking, or non-accident related limping. And awhile back, when Cooper’s coat began to [...]
Pre-show summer portrait
Posted in dog art and photos, dog grooming, dog shows / conformation, Realta Rosario Cooper, tagged dog photos, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, IWS grooming on August 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The last time I wrote about Cooper’s grooming, I was very much enjoying his new short field cut. It was March, and I was looking forward to months of less debris and less grooming time. Not to mention improving Coop’s ability to see. Well, now we’re getting ready for Cooper’s (probably) last conformation show in [...]
Team Cooper’s 3rd Novice A Obedience fun match
Posted in dog training, Obedience/Rally, Realta Rosario Cooper, tagged competition obedience, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Novice A Obedience, obedience fun match on August 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I know you will be kind when you watch the video below of our 3rd Novice Obedience fun match. Cooper and I are both beginners at this. Neither of us has done competition obedience before. And really, what you see below is such an amazing improvement over our first fun match. I have a lot [...]
