That could describe the frequency of my blogging here, but today it refers to River. About 15 minutes into his agility class, the instructor and I noticed that he was limping, so no more jumping or training for him today.
She checked his nails and pads wihtout finding anything. We hadn't observed anything happen. He had been doing a series of 2 low jumps, with the goal of driving through the jumps to a target bag that Amanda was throwing. He tends to look at Amanda after each piece of equipment, which slows him down overall. He was making good progress on focusing on the bag and heading for that after 2 jumps. So then, he started from the pause table, took a bar jump and then turned to the 2 jumps in sequence. Coming back after the second time of this was when we spotted the limping. He put weight on it and moved fine at a walk, but with a little more speed, favored his left front. So, clipped the leash back on him and he got to rest. We got to help Wendy play with her 8 week old border collie puppies; gotta love that puppy breath smell.
River was still limping earlier at home and we have been discouraging running and jumping the rest of the day. It's late evening as I write this and he is walking without a limp right now. We're ignoring his requests to throw a toy so he won't run. I prefer to err on the side of caution and at least wait until tomorrow. Hoping this is the equivalent of a turned ankle, that maybe he just took a jump awkwardly, and will recover quickly.
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