Whizzy's double win

Whizzy is just over two now and earlier this year she won both of the novice freestyle classes that i had entered her in. At the end of July we made our way down to the HTM show in Cornwall as i had entered Whizzy in her first intermediate freestyle classes. Luckily for me this is a double show with the same classes being run both days so i was able to enter intermediate twice.
On the Saturday Whizzy worked ok but i think i might of done a tiny bit too much warm up with her plus i felt i rushed things a bit, so i had plenty to work on for the Sunday. I was pleased that she won on the Saturday but knew she could do better so gave myself a talking to and tried to relax before going in on the Sunday. I decided to change a small piece of the routine as Whizzy didn't seem switched on at one section which i think is done to her having done a lot of displays recently. The routine went much better from my point of view and she scored just over 28 points out of 30. So it was a good weekend as these two wins mean that Whizzy now is advanced in freestyle.

Count yourself lucky

Hearing about a friend of mine and the disaster she just has been through really puts things into perspective. Some of you may have read before in my articles, that i often stay with my friend Brigitte of the B star poodles when i am in the USA. Since we met she has moved around but for the last few years has been in Nashville. If you have been watching the news recently you would have seen the major floods they have had and i tried to contact Brigitte but had not heard from her. I recognised some of the places on the news and thought that they were not near her house but it seems the floods were more widespread.

I spoke with Brigitte and i could not believe that the floods hit her house in a major way. If you imagine a two storey house and the water came to at least half way up the second storey rooms you can tell it was a major flood. It all happened so quickly and Brigitte did not have time to get out any of her many dogs before the water came in. She eventually managed to get someone to lend her a kayak which she managed to get some dogs in crates out. No one was interested in helping so she had to canoe through her house again and again, it must have been the scariest time ever. The bigger dogs eventually ended up swimming around in one room as the water was so high.

There house is complete mess and they have basically lost everything as it engulfed the whole house. This house and area has never been flooded in the whole time the house has been built so it took everyone by complete surprise. Brigitte got out with most of the dogs but unfortunately a few dogs and her cats were not so lucky. So the next time you think your having a bad day or things are not going right remember things could be a whole lot worse.