Its been a long time since I'd had Gimme in for a bodywork session and lately I've been noticing some warm spots, so today we got to see Tonya. Boyoh did Gimme need it. She was very stuck in two places on her back (loin and midback), and her right shoulder was very stuck. Because of those three, basically her whole spine from right behind her ears to her tail, plus her hips needed fine tuning.
It was bad enough that Gimme yelped during one correction and then wasn't going to let Tonya touch her again. Of course, a liberal supply of peanut butter convinced her that she could endure it. Tonya was pretty surprised to hear Gimme was willing to jump in agility, but I've noticed she can be a pretty tough little cookie. (not that I think that was the issue last night, since it was only that one jump she was having trouble with)
After the appointment we came home and Gimme curled up on the couch and slept for 45 minutes... at which point I had to wake her up to go to class. We just got home ten minutes ago and she is already sound asleep. Sometimes when I'm really bad, after an adjustment I'm so relaxed all I want to do is sleep for a couple hours. I've put it on the schedule to get her in for another fine tuning in three weeks.
Tonight Joyce started us out in the little room full of stuff, with three hides. Then out to the big room with two hides. Then last in the little room with one hide. All of them were level one hides... stuff we were doing a year ago.
For her first search Gimme wasn't getting anywhere and was dithering around. So I spoke to her to remind her to get to work and moments later she indicated the first hide and found the other two right after that. Joyce told me I shouldn't have said anything to her, saying she was working. When I took her outside, Gimme peed twice and then pooped. Proof that I know my dog - I know when she is searching without focus (for whatever reason) and when she is really working. In this case she had something else on her mind (even though she had the opportunity before her search) and wasn't really focused. Speaking to her served as a reminder and she did what she's there for.
The second search I thought she'd do better. She was more focused, but not like usual. She did find both hides. Likewise for the third search.
It occurs to me that one of the corrections Tonya made was to Gimme's "atlas", where the spine connects to the skull. I know that sometimes when mine is out of whack and Doc does a big adjustment, I can be kind of muzzy-headed for several hours. So, in the future, no bodywork on class days or in the day before a trial.
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