SUMMARY: Twelve.
It has finally happened. The statistics are out for the SMART USDAA trial coming a week from now. One hundred and eighty-one dogs are entered. When counted by age, the oldest age group is 12 years old. There's only one dog in that group.Oh, Tika. Sigh.
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Oh, and there's only one Craussie, too. Tika sure is unique.
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(Key for those not familiar with dog-breed abbreviations: BC/Border Collie. JRT/Jack Russell Terrier. Terv/Belgian Tervuren. Aussie/Australian Shepherd. Sheltie/Shetland Sheepdog. ADC/Australian Cattle Dog. Beardie/Bearded Collie. Pyr Shep/Pyrenean Shepherd. DSFarmdog/Danish-Swedish Farmdog (yes it's a real breed). GSD: German Shepherd Dog. PWD: Pembroke Welsh Corgi.)
She's the grand dame of dogs.
ReplyDeleteThat she can still run agility at 12 is pretty amazing.
ReplyDeleteI am entering her in only one run a day, and I'm trying to take it easy with her because of her heart condition. SHE doesn't think that she has a heart condition and seemed to want to run, so we'll do one a day. I did that with Jake when he actually got pissed off when I wouldn't run him.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see that Tika is still running. Good job managing her health so she can still play a bit. -GordonGirls.livejournal.com
ReplyDeleteThanks, although my dogs are either pretty much healthy or not. We exercise and play and hike and I make sure that they don't get overweight, see the vet regularly... I think genetics must have something to do with it, as they get older particularly.
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