So, the week has not gone according to plan. Sadie was supposed to have the puppies this past Monday, not the previous Friday, the delivery was supposed to go smoothly and we would have had 4 healthy, fat puppies now, not just a healthy, fat singleton that is complaining loudly as I write this. (if he doesn't eat every half hour, he apparently thinks he will never eat again).
We were confident though, that the end of the week would go according to plan. Dixie would finish her championship on Thursday and there was a good chance Jewel would pick up a major either Friday or Saturday. The Fates/Collie gods must really be having a good laugh at our expense! When I was bathing Dixie on Sunday, something didn't look quite right with her eye. By Monday morning, when Ellen went to feed her, Dixie's eye was swollen and weeping. It looked like she had been stung, but off to the vet to make sure she hadn't scratched it in some way. It was a race against time, hoping the medicine would bring down the swelling before her show on Thursday. By Thursday, her eye was much better, but not enough to go into the ring, pushing the hope for her championship to the next day and eliminating one of Jewel's chances for a major. Late Thursday afternoon, Ellen noticed Dixie was scratching, in fact scratching so badly she had taken hair off the inside of her back legs (this is in addition to blowing coat!) Dixie has fleas! All my efforts to treat those pests naturally have been for naught and my insurance order of flea medicine didn't arrive in time before she left for the shows. In Friday's show, Dixie finished third in a class of three. Ellen said Jewel showed great and it sounded like she enjoyed being in the ring but there was no Winners ribbon or major points for her.
So now, we hope that next week-end will bring us the results we want. Maybe I should give Dixie and Jewel a copy of the play book for them to study ahead of time????
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