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Introducing myself
Hi - got referred here by corgimum with her Montrose and Dylan.
I live in the DC metro area (for now - native New Jerseyan). I have a soon to be 5 year old PWC, Boomer and a just-turned 7 Jack Russell (Sparkie).
Boomer is currently working through a lot of stuff - she was diagnosed with fibrotic myopathy, a degenerative muscle disease normally found only in German Shepherds. This put an end to a promising agility career - this gal earned a Q and made open time in her first jumpers run in NADAC. Pretty good - but all the more impressive when you know that she hadn't even taken a single agility class before that day! She'd tagged along to the practice field while I trained my JRT and fooled around a little bit, that was it. She earned 1/2 her novice titles in NADAC and all her level 1 CPE titles before we had to stop. I'm hoping more rally (we have our APDT level 1 basic title) and perhaps tracking might still be in her future.
Behaviorally, we are working on accepting touch (especially around the collar - she is very snappy, might even bite me, so that's my husband's job since he's her favorite), stopping resource guarding, and getting along with Sparkie. We've had her for two years - she's a rescue, originally from a pet store via a first family - but these problems cropped up in the past six months when her health issues arose and we moved out of state, disrupting her routine. Any advice welcome! We are working with a good trainer and hopefully will get things turned around, eventually.
So that's us. Looks like a lovely place here!
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