She's back!

Well, it's good to have my dog back. She had some wierd stuff going on for a while - determined by the vet to be Vestibular Disease. She was dizzy, walking in circles repeatedly, seemed sluggish and after about a week she developed a pretty good head tilt. It started a bit before Christmas and took about a month for her to fully recover. So unfortunately she didn't make it down to AR with us. But she's been getting better all the time, and seems to be completely over it now.

Friday at the game farm she did great although I could tell she wasn't in the greatest shape from the sickness and that much time off. We put out 8 birds in training scenarios and she did well on all of them despite the deep snow. So I decided to run her at our test on Saturday. And it paid off - she went 2 for 2 earning her UH title (finally). She's had the HRCH title for several years, and always been a very good upland dog, but I'd only ever ran her in 2 tests before. She has a good hard flush but has learned to be good and steady, most of the time she'll sit to flush without a whistle. I'm planning to run some tests in WI and possibly SD this winter/spring, so maybe we'll start racking up some points and finally work on that 500 point mark. But don't hold your breath - we've got spring snows to get after too...