Our Darby left us and crossed the Bridge this afternoon, and we are sitting in a much quieter and sadder house this evening. After 4 months of ups and downs with his health, his body had just had enough, and we let him go. We’re probably doing as well as anyone who’s been through this damn situation, and we surely do appreciate your thoughts and concern. (Anyway, Dennis says that when I cry it reminds him of a time when he once heard a calf bawling for its mother on the other side of a fence, so you don’t want that in your ear, do you?) I’m here to tell you the agility bond that I shared with him has made this ever so much harder to bear. Hug your pups one time for the Darbster. That little guy sure was fast.
10/28/00 Novice A 20" -Leg 1 98 39.94'/68' 2/03/01 Novice B 20" -Leg 2 90 2nd/7 42.35'/70' 7/20/01 Novice B 20" -Leg 3 98 4th/13 45.92'/63' NA
1/18/03 Open 20" -Leg 1 95 2nd/9 50.39'/71' 3/09/03 Open 20" -Leg 2 100 2nd/11 60.50'/68' 3/22/03 Open 20" -Leg 3 95 4th/11 36.65'/70' OA
12/06/03 Excellent A 20"-Leg 1 100 1st/6 50.78'/68'
9/04/00 Novice A 20" -Leg 1 100 1st/9 25.81'/40' 11/19/00 Novice B 20" -Leg 2 100 1st/5 19.27'/34' 1/28/01 Novice B 20" -Leg 3 96 42.67'/38' NAJ
11/17/01 Open 20" -Leg 1 100 2nd/25 29.01'/41' 7/19/02 Open 20" -Leg 2 100 3rd/29 30.62'/41' 1/25/03 Open 20" -Leg 3 95 3rd/19 31.40'/41' OAJ
6/14/03 Excellent A 20"-Leg 1 100 3rd/12 32.80'/40' 7/19/03 Excellent A 20"-Leg 2 100 1st/20 31.24'/43' x/xx/03 Excellent A 20"-Leg 3 AXJ
10/18/03 Excellent B 20"-Leg 1 100 5th/34 34.93'/44' 10/19/03 Excellent B 20"-Leg 2 100 5th/35 28.33'/37' 11/01/03 Excellent B 20"-Leg 3 100 3rd/37 29.34'/44' 6/26/04 Excellent B 20"-Leg 4 100 5th/53 29.44'/41' 1/22/05 Excellent B 20"-Leg 5 100 2nd/44 30.99'/46' 1/23/05 Excellent B 20"-Leg 6 100 6th/66 33.55'/46' 1/29/05 Excellent B 20"-Leg 7 100 9th/57 27.61'/40' 2/06/05 Excellent B 20"-Leg 8 100 3rd/42 32.77'/47' 5/30/05 Excellent B 20"-Leg 9 100 2nd/29 30.58'/41' 11/06/05 Excellent B 20"-Leg 10 100 1st/37 29.42'/40' MXJ
6/25/06 Excellent B 20"-Leg 11 100 10th/68 29.00'/42' 7/23/06 Excellent B 20"-Leg 12 100 13th/73 32.53'/43' 11/04/06 Excellent B 20"-Leg 13 100 9th/32 28.30'/38' 12/03/06 Excellent B 20"-Leg 14 100 3rd/14 27.65'/40' 5/06/07 Excellent B 20"-Leg 15 100 6th/21 29.77'/41' 5.11 4/12/08 Excellent B 20"-Leg 16 100 5th/36 31.78'/42' 4.91
10/18/03 CPs- 9 10/19/03 CPs- 8 11/01/03 CPs- 14 6/26/04 CPs- 11 1/22/05 CPs- 22 1/23/05 CPs- 12 1/29/05 CPs- 12 2/06/05 CPs- 14 5/30/05 CPs- 15 11/06/05 CPs- 20 6/25/06 CPs- 13 7/23/06 CPs- 10 11/04/06 CPs- 9 12/03/06 CPs- 12 5/06/07 CPs- 11 4/12/08 CPs- 10
Total- CPs-202
11/17/07 Novice B 20"-Leg 1 58 33.37'/32' 1/12/08 Novice B 20"-Leg 2 65 25.96'/32' 1/13/08 Novice B 20"-Leg 3 64 2nd/5 35.59'/32' NF 2/02/08 Novice B 20"-Leg 4 66 36.49'/32'
10/11/08 Novice P 16"-Leg 1 100 1st/1 20.25'/41' 5.33 10/12/08 Novice P 16"-Leg 2 100 1st/2 21.94'/42' 5.06 10/25/08 Novice P 16"-Leg 3 100 1st/3 19.97'/39' 5.11 NJP
Well, sadly, there it is for The Darbster. His stats are complete. After he recovered in August, I entered him only in Preferred Jumpers so he could have fun with the wide-open Novice courses and the lower jump height. To me, his speed is remarkable considering his recovery was just a month earlier. He had a good time as well as earned a title in 3 out of 3 runs. That’s my good boy!
4/27/03 Novice Regular 24"-Leg 1-CR 5/xx/05 Novice Regular
5/xx/05 Novice Gamblers
4/28/01 Novice Jumpers 24" -Leg 1 1st/13 24.24'/31.84' 4/27/02 Novice Jumpers 24" -Leg 2 21.07'/26.39' NJC
8/11/07 Novice Weavers 20+ -Leg 11
4/27/02 48th NJC
10/13/01 Performance I Jumpers 20"-Leg 1 4th/?? 34.32'/??
