Stop the Timer! The Aging Agility Dog…or Not?

When this blog topic came up with the Dog Agility Blog Event, I immediately thought about my first agility dog: Jean-Luc Picardigan, the boy no one ever thought could or would compete, due to his birth-related brain-injured strangeness.

Jean-Luc’s joy. Several of us cried over this picture, knowing how far agility brought this boy.

Then I thought about Belle Cardigan, whose loss still seems so recent I could reach out and touch it. She wasn’t supposed to run again after her non-agility injury a...