I had a dream, the dream to be on the AKC Agility World Team. I
had spent four and a half years of my life training, showing
and conditioning my first Border Collie, Frazzle, to compete at this
level.
When I first started showing Frazzle, everyone thought he was a
poor jumper, and he was just too out of control to be
consistent. Hearing those comments only made me more determined to
train him harder. With the help of some great instructors, who had been
on the AKC World Team (Linda Mecklenburg, Jen Pinder, Sue
Tovino etc.),
Frazzle and I started coming together as a team.
Two weeks before the 2006 AKC World Team Tryouts, Frazzle had a
grand mal seizure while running agility. To watch your best friend go
through something like that is just sickening. After several veterinary
consultations including two neurologists, Frazzle seized again while
running agility just seven days later (just five days before Tryouts).
I pulled him from the competition. Now, I have a new dream with
the help of my friends, Marisa Capozzo and Anne Bentley, who lost her
beloved "Ski" to this horrible disease (http://www.agilityecbc.com/page10.html) – to stop the seizures
and raise
money for research. Currently,
“Friends of Frazzle” have raised over $7,800 as well as collected hundreds of blood samples to “Seize the Gene.” For more information
concerning our Canine Epilepsy Bracelets go to:
http://www.dizzydogs.com/bracelets.htm or contact me for details
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Email: Tinna
Brown. Nancy Holmseth from
Tunnelbags.com has
been
generously donating some of her sales of her famous tunnel
bags to our cause. We cannot thank her enough for her support!
Currently, we are
about a year away from developing a DNA test, but to get the latest
updates to "Seize the Gene" go to:
