[gemy]

Awh you know my heartbreak. It is so very very sad, he injured himself just prior to 3yrs old, and I had hoped and thought it was "just" a traumatic injury and not the DLSS he was diagnosed with.

We continue to train, but always something happens to exacerbate what I do now know is DLSS. And we have to pull back.

This is the dog my trainer Ilona told me when I came to her when Magic was a 10mth old pup, how far to you want to go with him? I said well as far as we can go. She said, this dog has potential to be a World Class Obedience Dog, do you want to go there? I said YES. She said the training will be hard on you especially. And my trainer is a World Class obedience winner. So my bodyset, my hand position, my timely correction was all grist for the mill. I had already developed in Magic a Huge toy drive, and treat work ethic. He was so very very smart. And he loved and still does love to work for me. I go out with a toy or a treat or both, and the whole other world does not exist for him. There is just me and him, and the toy or treat.

I do sincerely feel that NOT working with him, is so depressing for him, because he lives to work. But working can hurt him! Such a dilemmna