Dog Friendly ? My Butt !

Finally decided to make the trip to Wagga for my first interstate trial. Decided against running Cruz. On the one hand I would like his debut to be away from most people I know - I felt a lot of pressure when I first started trialling Atilla - but he can be a stress ball sometimes so I think a familiar location will be best for him when I finally bring him out.

Someone posted the name of the closest motel on an Agility list, so I gave them a call to book a room. When I said that I would have a dog (or two) sleeping in the car, the response was ' no one has ever asked that before. I will have to check.' What the? .......... Anyway, she came back and said, 'you can't have a dog outside your room, you will have to park in our carpark out the back.'

Thanks, but no thanks. Have a nice day.

I then called another motel, not all that near the trial ground, but this one promotes itself as being 'pet friendly.'

Surprise, surprise, when I mentioned that I would have a dog in the car, I got the same strange response, 'I will have to check.'
Um, excuse me, but you are advertised as a pet friendly motel. Yes, but we have kennels out the back and that's where your dog needs to sleep. After going off and checking, she came back on and said they would make an 'exception' in this case. What kind of dogs do you have? Working kelpies. Oh, they will be sleeping chained up in the back of a ute.

That made me laugh as I can just see Mr Spoilt Atilla roughing it. No, they will be cosy inside a 4 wheel drive !

And I thought Victoria was bad when it came to finding dog friendly accommodation - NSW beats it by a mile, even Canberra wasn't that bad when we went up last year to Susan Garrett's seminar. All the more reason to splurge on that van that I've been wanting for ages.



We had a huge storm here a few days ago - looked out the window and saw something yellow on my neighbour's property and thought 'please don't let that me my tunnel!' - luckily that had only made it as far as the back neighbour's fence.

The rainbow at the end of it was worth it though. Maybe the pot of gold is on my agility field! In which case, I will have it covered with artificial turf and won't have to worry about it dying every Summer ever again. Or better yet, I will turn it into an indoor venue complete with toilet, bathroom, kitchen, climate control, etc. Then I can train day or night, all year round - dream on!