Kavik is in great shape, but three or four pounds heavier than the athletic weight i would like him to compete at! I can't cut back his food any further, and he gets exercise - i think he is like his mom - naturally a little chunkier than most!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Arnold
To: CF-Community
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 4:55 AM
Subject: RE: Mortifying moments on ice, and television.
Sorry to hear about the naughty boy, ours aren't exactly "trained" but
they play silly-buggers from time to time...
Completely off topic, if Kavik is over-weight, you should leave her with
us for a few weeks - she'll be muscular when she returns <g> (yes, it
was a joke)
We've been looking after a friend's 12 year old Greyhound for about 10
days (she's picking her up in a couple of days) - when she was dropped
off, the dog was over-weight and had no muscle tone, now she's leaner
and getting some definite muscle definition in her shoulders and legs...
I'm sure if she spent another few weeks with us that she'd be close to
reaching a musculature near to our dog's levels
Charlie (our 2 year old girl) is so well defined that you just look at
her laying there and say "DAMN!" - she and Woody have got absolutely no
body fat and they're both above their racing weight, but she is
definitely the more muscular
Check out her shoulder here:
http://www.weberika.com/images/Gallery/October2003_Charlie2.jpg
And that's just her relaxing <g>
They just seem to enjoy the yard and going up and down the stairs from
the kitchen to the yard does them tons of good - even the 12 year old
runs around playing at times, which (according to her mummy) is unheard
of, so she must be enjoying her time with us
Anyways, that's enough rambling
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BethF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 3:01 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Mortifying moments on ice, and television.
>
>
> Today several members of our dog club went to the minor
> league hockey game to do an agility demo at halftime on the
> ice. Ok, on carpet laid on the ice. We decided to use small
> dogs because the ice is hard and the carpet is small (12 x
> 40) and offers little impact resistance. So I took novice
> keeshond toklat instead of more experienced, more reliable
> samoyed Kavik. Daring? Yes. But safer - Kavik is slightly
> overweight, Toklat's height weight ratio is EXCELLENT.
>
> We arrived at 6 for a 7:30 performance. Toklat was very well
> behaved in the VIP room. He sat quietly and paid wonderful
> attention to me and my liver brownies. However at about 7:15
> they hustled us to the other side of the building so we could
> enter in the zamboni entrance.
>
> Hockey in anchorage may be minor league but the fans are
> major. Thousands of screaming fans with cowbells, stomping
> their feet in the bleachers make a crapload of noise. The
> announcer, the foghorn, the clamor was enough to send even
> happy, good natured toklat's ears flat to his head. I fed
> him liver brownies until he was focusing on me and calmer.
> He seemed to be fine when the quarter was over, and they
> opened up the gates to put the carpet on the ice.
>
> He took one look at the open expanse of ice and I knew I was
> in trouble. His whole body tremored and shook with
> excitement. I left him with his father and went to set
> agility equipment on the rug laid out on the ice. When I
> returned he was still vibrating with excitement. I knew I
> was in for some
> wild ride. I went and stood on the carpet runner leading out to the
> course, heart pounding, trying to get Tok to focus on me. Fat chance.
>
> there were only five obstacles - chute, jump, tunnel, weave,
> baby teeter. I though maybe, since they were close together,
> I could keep his attention. I started him about six inches
> from the opening in the chute - so he couldn't miss it. He
> did the chute, the jump and ran straight for the tunnel,
> which unfortunately was clear. He hasn't seen one of those
> before, and he almost ran into it, and at the last minute
> veered around the tunnel, taking off at amazing speed to the
> far end of the ice rink. I called him - TOK TOK TOK, HERE!
> But t he laughter of the crowd was DEAFENING and the little
> devil was totally overstimulated, but somehow he heard me.
> he turned and ran straight back into my arms. I got him into
> the tunnel but the weave poles were out of the question. He
> has gorgeous, smart weaves but he didn't seem to get that
> these were weaves, the crowd roarer again. He got the baby teeter and
> I grabbed the devil dog before he took off. I was able to
> put his leash
> back on and get out of there. So he might be a crowd
> pleaser, but a mommy pleaser he is not. Luckily, his recall
> worked ok.
>
> As I typed this the news is on. The sports preview talked
> about how apparently 6200 people showed up for the game.
> "6200 people", I thought. " I made an ass of myself in front
> of 6200 people". They went to commercial and then opened up
> with the big hockey game. The first shot shown is of Toklat,
> racing at breakneck speed across the ice with some comment about the
> game going to the dogs. There was no explanation, no clips
> of well behaved
> dogs doing agility obstacles. Just toklat, running.
> Luckily, you can' see me. Maybe I will just tell everyone
> its someone elses Keeshond.
>
> Sadly, I already got two phone calls from admiring fans.
> Apparently, they all know its my freaking Keeshond.
>
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