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Chase is just lovely to have around.  She loves to talk to you and gets quite jealous

 if you want to train the other dogs.  She is wonderful to live with and from a competitive

obedience point of view won through the classes and won open C giving her a

n Obedience Warrant.  She works with tremendous enthusiasm and on many occasions

works me. It is a privilege to have shared part of my life with her and

I hope there are many more years to come.

The picture below was taken March 2005.

A couple of pictures taken of Chase July 2006. She can knock the spots of most of the dogs

Chase qualified for ticket and i would like to thank all the judges that appreciated  Chase 

as she progressed through the classes and also the C judges that gave her her qualifiers and  

that is Mr. Roy Goutte, Mr. Robert Bint, Mrs, Barbara Peters and Mr. Keith Gwillim. 

Thank you so much . I will never forget you. From the bottom of my heart I thank you. 

There are also  many people who have major input into the success I have had, I am sorry that

I do not mention you personally here as there are many of you. You know who you are and

I thank you very much for all your support and help..  . I must also mention my  very dear friend

Mrs Sylvia Bishop who has been my mentor, my inspiration, my main teacher, my guiding force

and who without I probably never would have stuck with it. Thank you Sylv "Your Magic".

Chase worked her first Ticket Show and I was so proud of her.  She worked brilliantly and

we were laying third after The ring work and stays with only scent to do but unfortunately

she bought in the decoy cloth instead of the judge so we failed.   I have to accept that her

sense of smell is deteriorating.

Mind you, as you can see from the picture below, she can still tell you when she thinks she wants her dinner hee hee

Chase has had some xrays as I felt she had pain in her eyes and had started to be intermittently lame on one of her rear hind legs.

The xrays were sent to a specialist and she has disc protrusion in the neck on C5 and C6 and spondylosis.  The specialist feels that this could be causing the intermittent rear hind lameness as occasional pressure is put on the spinal cord.  I am seeing the specialist at the end of this month to discuss the option available.  Chase has been on metacam but is now on PLT until the appointment and my vet has mentioned an operation to the neck, but until I see the specialist I do not know.

I will let you know what the specialist says.

Chase has now seen the specialist Hamish Denny and he has said that Chase has got plenty of movement in her neck, back, legs, etc., and that he believes I should carry on working her and that I should decrease her PLT and stop it over a week and then give it to her as and when she needs it.

On the basis of this information, I will carry on working Chase and see how she goes through the early part of the season of 2007.

At the end of 2007 it will be time to let Chase put her feet up and take it easy.  I am sad as we have been working together for 10 and half years now and it will seem strange to not be including her in my working routine.  I am sure Chase will still try to push the others out of the way if she is around when I am doing things with the other dogs.