My last post was right after the ACDCA national specialty and we were on cloud nine. We came home and a week later headed to Indianapolis for the Indiana Collie Club's fall agility trial. Tully was still on fire and brought home his 3rd AXP leg and the title and first place! He also picked up his second AJP leg and first place. Could it get any better than this? We had entered 3 more trials (two weekends of rally and one weekend of agility) to try and finish his RAE and AJP before the end of the year. Unfortunately, things change.
Tully was diagnosed with a splenic tumor and was abruptly taken to surgery on October 27, 2011 for a splenectomy at VCA Veterinary Specialty Center in Indianapolis. Tully's spleen was removed and he recovered well and came home the next day. We are waiting on the lab results for what type of mass was removed. All November agility and rally trials have been cancelled for us. At this point in time I am unsure if this will be a brief hiatus or if this is retirment for Tully. Four weeks ago we were tearing up courses at nationals. Now my boy is recovering from major surgery and we are waiting to see if he has cancer of if the mass was benign. Everything changes, and not always for the better.
This is a good time to spoil him. Ok, maybe not big bowls of ice cream, but going to the drive-up for a tiny cone would be appropriate. - Rosemary (mom to the spleen-free ACD mix,Marieke (1974-1990
ReplyDeleteRosemary - Oh yes, he's been quite spoiled. He's getting quite fat too, lol! All this time off from training and competing is making both him and I fat and slow!
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