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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx
"we can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals"
-Immanuel Kant
↓ About us ↓
After seven years together, Hek and I finally bought our first harness. We’ve had the Säker long enough now that I can confidently say it’s not getting returned! It is honestly a wonderful harness in every way. Plus, Hek doesn’t hate it, which is really saying something because she absolutely despises wearing anything. That’s primarily why this is our first harness, and even when she's working, I hardly make her wear a cape vest.
I ended up choosing the Muse because I already have the Variocage for car travel, so this purchase was really just a fancy way to have her longline attached to something other than her collar.
Knowing Hek’s measurements, I knew she fell perfectly between a small and a medium. An AI chatbot and I actually went back and forth for about a week before I finally pulled the trigger on the medium. While it barely fits snugly even with all the straps fully tightened, the quality is undeniable. It might not add much in the visibility department, much to my dismay, but its a very pleasant green and she does look good in it.
Someone just said we're starting to get sugar faced 😭😭😭
I do not take Hek's safety lightly. When you scoff at me for saying I am concerned about her safety around your dog you have lost my respect.
Welp, I tried really hard to make this work but alas. We are moving again.
Did I mention we got to go on both the 4* and 5* course walks for cross country and stadium? Well, we did! My fruit was a warm puppy!
Saturday is cross country day. I was planning on going to the fourth question on the course, a very difficult coffin with a loop around to a tracainer. The course was designed to eliminate teams who we're not ready to be at this level early on in the course to save the footing for the other riders.
Volume up to hear about Harry Mead's amazing recovery in the first water complex
Saturday morning rolls around and all my plans go out the window. We ended up at question 21. This question consists of an upbank, a steep downhill 4 strides immediately after, to a very large oxer, and then 4 strides to a corner.
It was meant to be! Turns out all of Boyd Martin's grooms and family were stationed at this jump. I got a Go Bali (my personal favorite of Boyd's horses) poster from one of the girls, and was able to chat with some of them who remember me training with him years ago.
We ended up sitting here for 5 hours just watching the horses go by. Hek made friends with the jump judge very quickly. She and I talked the entire time about everything from how much we dont like the show jumping mentality to what it's like working with OTTBs.
This day was like a dream come true
I figured I could do a photo dump but instead I'm going to do a slow release
I want to splurge on a Saker harness. The question is:
What color?
Orange
Green
Black
None of the above: get a different harness
Orange would be best for visibility (we def have that problem). But I think green would look best on her. Black is what I always resort to but I'm trying to think of what would look best / be most practical.
I don't care what anyone says. It's Rolex!
⚠️ New boyfriend alert ⚠️
Take a wild guess as to where we went over the weekend. I'll give you a hint, it involves ponies!
We actually got to go two different days. It was wonderful! We did so much walking.
I am not going to lie that I did struggle a lot seeing other service dog teams and thinking "now that's a real service dog team!" But I cant figure out why my brain is messing with me about it so much. Is it their gear? Is it the fact they are all the fab four? Is it because for the first time in my life I feel like my health is manageable and Hek isn't altering all the time? Who knows.
It has taken three weeks for the kind human we are staying with to finally realize how crazy Hek really is.
*Hek easily jumps over her 5' fence*
"She really does have spunk in her! I never guessed with how well behaved she is all the time"
*Hek jumps the fence again*
*I'm kinda scared of her now. There's so much dog."
Y'all we had the best dentist appointment. Not in terms of like dentist stuff. I'm talking about in terms of having a service dog.
It was like not even having her. The hygienist who brought us back took one glance at her and that was it. The dentist herself didn't even notice Hek. It was like she was invisible.
I swear it was like a dream
Someone please talk me off of gaint schnauzers
The barn hunting trainer has now canceled 4 times in a row. I don't understand why the universe doesn't want us to go to barn hunt. I'm wondering if the person doesn't like me for some reason...
Our hiking location for the afternoon