Tara had a chiropractic adjustment today!

LOL! who'da thought! We went to meet a new vet in Maine today that does alot of different cool things, including chiropracty, homeopathy, kinesiology, nutrition, etc. Mainly because I can't get her switched to raw, everytime we try she gets diarrhea, and I wanted a professional opinion. I friend had mentioned that her vet reccomends that puppies have chiropractice adjustments as they are growing, and I also know that alot of performance dogs I know go to canine chiropractors too, so I figured what the hell. Tara enjoyed herself at the office of this vet immensely, she was given free reign to drag blankets around off the dog bed and try to shake them to bits, through a bone around, play in the water, and with a teddy bear and hard plastic man. She was barking and tearing around and we were laughing at her. She's so funny. Last weekend we spent hrs walking on beach way up in Maine. She was so wonderful with her recall. She was chasing sandpipers on the beach and all I had to do was say her name once and she'd come flying back to me, which she was rewarded for, which is far more than i can say for her older brother horrible-recall-Orion. : ) Anyway, she loves the ocean, but I wish she hadn't felt the need to drink so much salt water that she got diarrhea! We didn't have our bath last weekend, but we got one this past weekend, outside with the hose and nice oatmeal soap. The first bath i gave her in the tub and she wasnt happy, so i figured I would try it outside as she loves the hose, I thought the worst I could do was wreck her love for the hose. Nope! Once fully washed she was happy to play with the hose. Silly pup. She definitely smells better though. Tara is now eating Solid Gold Barking at the Moon food, I don't think the Hundchen Flocken was really agreeing with her, cause she had some smells about her, well you know... : ) So she seems less smelly now, my last collie, Buddy, did well on a fish based food too, he didnt do well on lamb. Anwyay we missed agility last week, because I wasn't needed in MA, so I stayed in ME, and then we went this week and she was awesome. She was definitely better about the A-frame this week and we did it twice and then just left it on a positive note. I had her running through the tunnel many times in a row, cause she really likes it, but I think it got her really wound up and wanting to play, because then it was much harder for me to get her focus after. But we worked on a bunch of stays to calm down and then went to work on other things. I think she got wound, a) because she was running repeatedly through a tunnel full speed! and b) because she associates running around in tunnels with play, so maybe she thought she was going to get to go run around with her classmates (which are a greyhound, an aussie and a dachshund, BTW). Anyway. We are starting Rally classes on Monday as I have it in my head to enter her in the Rally trial at Gemini on Oct 21 and 22nd. So that's the plan. I have 4 weeks of classes to attend and alot of practice to do on my own with her. Hopefully it will go well and if we are really lucky she'll get her RL1 title a few days after she turns 7 months. That'd be awesome. (The RL1 title is through the Association of Pet Dog Trainers Rally-O! Program (apdt.com)) In the RL1 you are allowed to use food at select spots in the ring... so that makes things much easier. I can't wait. We're really gonna make ago for a rally title, a HIC and a CGC before '06 is over. I really hope she's allowed to participate in the Collie Club of Maine Herding Clinic NOv 4th and then the HIC testing NOv 5, I really don't think she'll have a problem with it, she definitely has herding instinct as far as my untrained eye can see. She loves to herd people and dogs : ) But anyway, Tara is still doing superwell, I'm still waiting for adolescence to hit, but I really don't think its here yet. :) Maybe it won't come. . . see ya all soon!