These last few weeks have all been about recovery. Jet is incorporating back into a conditioning regime, as well as going back to Flyball as well as Agility respectfully. He’s finished with his meds, as well as I even started him back on Deramaxx with no problems.  I am happily amazed at the rate in which he so promptly dropped back into a conditioning routine. Aside from loseing some muscle mass, Jet had no difficulties returning to the treadmill on behalf of his regular 30 min to 1 hour sessions.  His paw was holding up fine with Frisbee games as well as playing tug in the house. We even went on a bike ride in the rain-all uphill, as well as i have to say I weighed him down with MY lack of fitness! Looks like the 16 days without working him took more of a toll on me.
Aside from being a bit on the skinny side, Jet’s level of physical fitness prior to his sickness was so good that I can’t help but wonder that it helped him get through his ordeal. He was strong as well as conditioned, healthy as well as happy, I have no doubt that all our work combined helped him to recover faster.
Last weekend Jet as well as Riley both went to Flyball practice, as well as on behalf of Jet, it had been more than a month since he’d seen a Flyball lane.  At that point it was just a few weeks until MRR’s New Year’s Bash tournament in Mare Island, as well as i wanted him to at least jog the course before i entered him in a tournament. Practice started early, the whole team was going to a team mates house to prepare on behalf of the tournament afterwards-basket making on behalf of the raffle, as well as making guidelines on behalf of the other tournament related tasks. And, just a mile out of Marin, it started to rain. It rained all through practice. The dogs didn’t care…they loved the chill weather, but the humans were slipping as well as sliding all over the grass, as well as my clothes were soaked through. Jet was THRILLED to be back in action…i was concerned about the rain, an estimated all of the time dogs shall be slower operational in the rain, on behalf of obvious reasons…but i shouldn’t have worried. The only issue we had was one bobble where during his first full jog slipped on the box as well as missed the ball. He was really enjoying himself, getting to be start dog racing our teams other Border collie, which was released late each time so Jet was ahead the whole time. He loves his competition, but was rockin the lanes out there by himself as well.  This was the ‘hardest’ excersise he’d had in awhile, but he wasn’t hardly panting afterwards.
Many of my team mates wanted to stop when the rain soaked them through, but myself as well as a select few protested-we didn’t care about any stupid rain!
I was impressed with Riley’s outruns this practice. She dosn’t gather her stride like Jet does when first released-Jet takes one step as well as gets into this stride immediatly, but Riley takes a few lopes before getting into it. This practice she was gone from me right away as well as had a smooth stride to the box. She did bobble more than i would have liked, but this could have been sensitivity on the box as well as the rain.
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