Junior handler's dog dies

Last trial I helped with course building, we put every common precaution in place, adjustment for floor dips, angles, tunnels coming close to DW and AF were additionally padded etc. Nothing that we could think of was overlooked and judge was most cooperative and thoughtful. Accidents do happen.
I think FCI still reporting ¨under investigation.¨ I do know that European countries use varied and different equipment, their contacts are not universally yellow and DW length is not the same country from country just look at the ST last run Austrian and Slovenian trials, how much difference you see not only in contact coloring but in the tunnel contraption set up. So I am inclined to wait till FCI release of official tunnel in question statement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laY-XPAPUtg&feature=em-subs_digest
Tabitha, I have similar tunnel with those grommets, they are joke IME and useless when dog running at speed but it is only intended for home plays.
 
I just read an article from the EO team's coach, and her comment was that everything that is currently circulating is speculation/rumor. Yes, a dog died, but the cause of death has not yet been determined.

The dog died in the tunnel--but whether the dog's neck was broken, or it suffered heart failure, etc. it has not yet been determined.

(And of course this does not detract from the fact that it was a terrible tragedy).
 
Sorry I did not mean to repeat the wrong info from all the gossip, it was what I overheard since it was taking up most of the attention at the agility show I went to and I didn't think before responding.
 
Internette said:
Sorry I did not mean to repeat the wrong info from all the gossip, it was what I overheard since it was taking up most of the attention at the agility show I went to and I didn't think before responding.
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No worries! My post wasn't a rebuke-- just read that they were still investigating and I wanted to pass it along.
 
corbinam said:
I just read an article from the EO team's coach, and her comment was that everything that is currently circulating is speculation/rumor. Yes, a dog died, but the cause of death has not yet been determined.

The dog died in the tunnel--but whether the dog's neck was broken, or it suffered heart failure, etc. it has not yet been determined.

(And of course this does not detract from the fact that it was a terrible tragedy).
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Where's the article? I, and I'm sure many others, would like to read it.
 
Sometimes things just happen -- they's why they call them accidents. Last year at the Collie Gathering at Sunnybank, a Collie died of bloat. The Collie belonged to the speaker who was doing the workshop on handling bloat -- so ironic and so tragic. There just wasn't anything she could do in this case.
 
Junior handler dog dies

I think FCI still reporting ¨under investigation.¨ I do know that European countries use varied and different equipment, their contacts are not universally yellow and DW length is not the same country from country just look at the ST last run Austrian and Slovenian trials, how much difference you see not only in contact coloring but in the tunnel contraption set up.
`I am no expert but I don't see how the DW is any different here(other than the colors) in othere countries.
 
Nothing official yet, but I think we might get some answers soon. Someone brought it up on Facebook in Agility Europe group.
From what I heard from our juniors who were there, it seems that it was heart failure. They said handler spent a lot of time training before it was his turn to run and the weather was really hot. Plus the dog was rather old.
 
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