And here are my worries:
a) Bates will get hurt the day before the trial. He plays with two great danes, he barrels through the woods at mach 5. Right now he's sporting a half dozen nice scratches on his belly from this, one really good one that looks pretty gory. If I confine him the week before to prevent injury, he's going to be a spazoid, but if I don't and he pulls something and wakes up stiff and lame the day of the trial, how wrong would it be to dose him with arnica and deramax?
b) I will go off course. What is my friggin problem?! Last nights practice course had 3 finishes, two right and one left. I swear I stood at one sign for five minutes trying to figure out if it was a right or left finish. Oh, and I just LOVE to skip signs. You'd think I can't count or something. If I miss a sign, realize it and ask the judge for a re-do, can I do that? Or is it an automatic NQ? My trainer told me to take rescue remedy LOL!
c) I will show up and realize I have forgotten something vital, like oh, a leash. Or drool rag. Or I filled out my entry form wrong and I'll show up and they won't let me show.
I'm such a dork. I showed horses for YEARS, and would be the same excited, nervous wreck. I was a lot younger then though! Surely there is a trick besides hard liquor to help with this?
a) Bates will get hurt the day before the trial. He plays with two great danes, he barrels through the woods at mach 5. Right now he's sporting a half dozen nice scratches on his belly from this, one really good one that looks pretty gory. If I confine him the week before to prevent injury, he's going to be a spazoid, but if I don't and he pulls something and wakes up stiff and lame the day of the trial, how wrong would it be to dose him with arnica and deramax?
b) I will go off course. What is my friggin problem?! Last nights practice course had 3 finishes, two right and one left. I swear I stood at one sign for five minutes trying to figure out if it was a right or left finish. Oh, and I just LOVE to skip signs. You'd think I can't count or something. If I miss a sign, realize it and ask the judge for a re-do, can I do that? Or is it an automatic NQ? My trainer told me to take rescue remedy LOL!
c) I will show up and realize I have forgotten something vital, like oh, a leash. Or drool rag. Or I filled out my entry form wrong and I'll show up and they won't let me show.
I'm such a dork. I showed horses for YEARS, and would be the same excited, nervous wreck. I was a lot younger then though! Surely there is a trick besides hard liquor to help with this?