UKI Midwest Cup 2024 - Snap! Injured

15 Jun 2024Steve Schwarz

Well not the UKI Midwest Cup I was hoping for! This was going to be Snap! and my “comeback” from his injury that kept us from going to the AKC Team Tryouts. I was excited to run big fast courses and show what we could do. We’ve done pretty well at the Cup over the years so I was hopeful.

First course was a nice Roseanne Weissemann Masters Agility course. We were joking it was “all about the backside slice” 🤣 It turned out that was our downfall. But, E’ing a course wasn’t the real problem…

The video play by play:

Snap! was amped up! I was going to insist he hold all his contacts, because I have a bad habit of letting him self release.
He slide almost the length of the teeter in his 4on he was going so fast…
He beat me to the backside to blind I had planned at 4 and I was in his way and he dropped the bar.
He didn’t want to 2o2o on either his DW or AF…
Felt great about the back side wrap before the AF!
Perfect weaves as I faded to support another back side to blind… and he never took the jump - I should have been faster to turn the blind. He read the blind after not jumping and actually stepped on the rear of my foot; making me think he’d jumped it.

So we E’d but I didn’t know that it had happened until a friend broke the bad news.

But, the real bad news happened an hour later when I took him out of his crate and he wasn’t full weight bearing right rear. I walked him around and he smoothed out w/in a minute but I couldn’t risk running him. So we scratched for the rest of the cup. Seems like we can’t get a break lately. Luckily there was a cancellation and we will see Dr. Lisa Woodside at Ready to Go Veterinary Rehabilitation on Monday.

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UKI Midwest Cup 2024 - Snap! Injured

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