Clean Run - October 2017 - 48

Just One
Instant
By Laura Hartwick, illustrations by author

Antarctica is melting while you're reading this, there are
penguins who are learning how to walk across the dirt where
there used to only be ice. In uber-drive-thru-coffee-windowovernight-shipping-Google time, climate change is slow. In penguin time, it's horrifyingly fast. Ice melts, oceans rise, and now
the penguins are going to need flip flops or some kind of fourwheel drive for flippers to navigate the rocky shore.
I've witnessed an arm waving, charismatic charlatan whose
radiant smile avowed to change all the lives for the better in a
moment, in a breath, in just one second, for the bargain price
of five thousand bucks up front. There are cheaper deals out
there, shop around. Click the tiniest movement of a foot, of the
head; you're looking for the smallest bit to reward. Shape the
behavior. Create a response. It's funny that change can be excruciatingly slow, or it can happen in a blink of an eye, one beat
of a heart, one exhale out lungs to nose.
In one single breath and a blink of an eye a few months back,
Banksy crashed through a jump and landed in a pile of head,
neck, and scrambling legs. I'd like to say that my cool as a cucumber in a travesty persona didn't freak out, but the spectacle
was too gory. All I could see was
Border Collie ass over tea kettle
over ass. My persona non grata of
not exactly calm and rational flung
me down to my knees, screeching,
"Banksybanksybanksyohmygod!"
while the judge came scurrying
over, applauding me with hand
claps to whip me out of my frenzy,
with the classic dog trainer makeit-all-better response of a peppy
little, "Yay!" as Banksy scrambled
up with a dazed look on her usually crazy eyes.
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It's a running dog, jumping over a plastic stick twenty inches
high. How can that be that bad?
It was that bad. Something on our joint radar systems went
amuck, and she smashed right through the jump, flipped over,
and splat smacked hard into the dirt.
So this is a thing in agility. Our dogs run and jump and climb,
they go really, really fast, and any dog who doesn't spend its
life wrapped in bubble wrap and soft blankies on the couch
runs the risk of an ouch. We do our best to not allow it to
happen. How to Throw the Ball is a thing. We tug Just Like
This, but Not Like That. We have rules of How to Play. We
try to handle in a timely fashion, we check the approaches on
the contacts for danger zones, we crawl through the tunnel
to see if there's any pokies jamming their way through. We
inspect the footing, look for errant chunks of hardware rearing their heads, god forbid anything amiss that could damage
delicate dog limbs as they come flying through. We're like
mine sweepers out there, sweeping each location with hawkish attention to every little ruinous detail that might harm or
mutilate or disfigure.
But, well, you know, s*#t still happens.
Banksy wasn't limping, didn't seem
all that freaked out when we left the
ring. I regained some composure; so
I was able to take over the classic
make-it-all-better Clap and Yay. We
even ran one more course afterwards, just to test the waters. Onwards and upwards. All her systems
were on go, mine were a bit shaky.
But we persevered, and went home.
Then the fun started.
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