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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

PEEKABOO IS A CHAMPION!

WENT TO A NEIGHBORING CLUB FOR THEIR TDAA (TEACUP DOG AGILITY ASSOCIATION) COMPETITION LAST WEEKEND AND PEEKABOO EARNED HER TACH BAR!!! WAY TO GO MARCIE AND BOO!! YOUR ARE CHAMPIONS. IT WAS TENSE--THEY NEEDED 2 RUNS TO BE PERFECT AND HIT THE FIRST RUN OF THE DAY SATURDAY...AND THEN MADE MISTAKE AFTER MISTAKE IN RUN AFTER RUN. UNUSUAL THINGS HAPPENED--THE JUDGE STARTED AND THEN HAD TO STOP A RUN, MAKING MARCIE AND BOO RESTART DUE TO AN EQUIPMENT PROBLEM AND MARCIE AND BOO MADE AN ERROR ON THE RESTART. BOO JUMPED OFF THE TABLE IN ONE RUN, SOMETHING SHE HAS NEVER DONE BEFORE. MARCIE TOLD BOO TO TUNNEL INSTEAD OF CLIMB IN ONE RUN. NERVES CAME TO THE FRONT AND WE ALL WERE WORRIED. KODI RAN AND DID NOT DO WELL IN ANY RUN, SOMETHING HE HAS NEVER DONE--HE IS ALWAYS SLOW AND STEADY! IT SEEMED THE WEEKEND WAS DOOMED FINALLY WE WERE DOWN TO THE LAST RUN ON SUNDAYWHEN MARCIE SAT DOWN AND TALKED TO BOO. THEY CALMED DOWN AND PLANNED THE ROUTE AND DECIDED TO JUST RUN AND NOT WORRY ABOUT THE CHAMPIONSHIP...TO GO SLOW AND STEADY. AND IT HAPPENED...FOR A FEW SECONDS NO ONE MOVED OR MADE A SOUND. BOO WALKED TO MARCIE AND WAITED AND THE JUDGE NODDED AND MARCIE WAS JUMPING UP AND DOWN AND EVERYONE WAS YELLING AND HAPPY WAS EVERYWHERE!!! PEOPLE FROM ALL THE CLUBS SIGNED THE CHAMPION BAR. I BOUGHT HER A BED OF HER CHOICE AND THEN THE WHOLE FAMILY TOOK HER TO MAX AND ERMAS FOR DINNER TO CELEBRATE. THEY MADE PAW PRINT COOKIES FOR HER AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE LIFE OF BOO AND MARCIE--FROM THE TIME SHE MET THE LITTLE PUPPY AND HOW SICK PEEK WAS--THE FIGHT TO KEEP HER ALIVE AND HOW SHE HAS NOT BEEN SICK SINCE--A HEALTHY STURDY LOVING LOYAL AND BRAVE PUP! HOW MARCIE STARTED IN AGILITY FOR A TIME TO SPEND WITH BOO. AND HOW THEY ARE NOW CHAMPIONS IN THE SPORT. YEAH BOO AND MARCIE -- WE LOVE YOU!

PS--KALUGIA CLUB IS WONDERFUL--VERY NICE AND GREAT BUILDING. GLAD WE WENT. REALLY NICE DRAWINGS AND WE WON A BIG NICE BED FOR TULLA--SHE LOVES IT. THERE WERE A LOT OF OTHER GREAT THINGS IN THE PRIZE BASKET TOO! THANKS!

MIRACLE IN OUR LIFE!

TOOK TULLA JOI TO THE VET THIS MORNING AND LEARNED SHE IS DOIN FANTASTIC!! HER RED BLOOD CELL COUNT THAT STARTED OUT AT 53 AND DROPPED TO 15 IS UP TO 42. STILL A LONG WAY TO GO AND WE NEED TO START LETTING HER EXERCISE A LITTLE AND SLOWLY REBUILD HER STANIMA, BUT THE VET SAID TULLA IS BETTER! MICHELLE (VET)SAID SHE HAD BEEN REALLY WORRIED---AFRAID THAT TULLA COULD NOT RECOVER SHE WAS SO SICK! BUT WE ALL KNEW TULLA WOULD GIVE IT HER BEST SHOT. MICHELLE (VET) ALSO SAID THAT TULLA WAS LUCKY FOR SEVERAL REASONS. THERE WAS MARCIE'S DECISION TO TRUST HER FEELING THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH TULLA AND BRING HER IN TO THE VET SO QUICKLY! THEN THE CARE SHE GAVE TULLA HELPED HER SURVIVE. AND TODAY, TULLA SMILED AT MICHELLE AS WE TALKED!! A CLEAR TULLA LAUGHING LOOK! SHE IS BACK WITH US. AND ALL OF YOUR PRAYERS, LOVE, WELL WISHES HELPED!!! THANK YOU!!!