Hooked on Flyball

February 15th, 2008 — Flyball

How to know when you are hooked on Flyball

• · You call and email friends and family to let them know how your dog did at their first tournament.
• · You are thrilled to get photos from your teammates of your dog in action and you email those photos to all your friends and family.
• · You start asking for vacation days from work around flyball tournaments so you can travel there on Friday and spend Monday recovering.
• · You spend hours braiding just the right kind of tug with just the right toy attached.
• · You are contemplating purchasing a new vehicle so you can haul yourself, all your tournament stuff and the dogs.
• · You work flyball expenses into your family budget.
• · You revise your dogs’ nutrition to maximize their energy and stamina.
• · You carry vetwrap and animax in your car’s first aid kit
• · The above mentioned vetwrap is in your team’s colors
• · You are drawn to purchase athletic wear for yourself in your team’s colors.
• · You take down some pictures in your house to create an “I love My Dog Wall” with their title certificates framed and photos of the dogs in action.
• · You have to move the garbage cans out of the garage to accommodate the flyball equipment you are storing.
• · If you say the word “readddyyyy” your dogs get really wound up. Sometimes you do this just for a giggle.
• · When you are procrastinating doing chores because you are watching videos of dogs racing on Youtube and/or surfing websites and blogs about flyball

• · You are considering adding a new dog to your family, but you want it to be a height dog so your first flyball dogs can race into their senior years.
• · As you name your dog you contemplate how that name will sound when shouted in the flyball ring.
• · You get a vanity license plate for the above mentioned vehicle that references flyball.
• · You purchase the RV/trailer/toy-hauler in order to travel in comfort to tournaments.
• · You teach yourself how to create a website so your team has something cool and fun.
• · You move the car out of garage to accommodate the flyball practice area you set up.
• · You take up running again… not for yourself but because you want to condition the dog.
• · You know the names of all the height dogs in your region, their breed and their approximate speed.
• · You hang out with your flyball buddies thinking through different lineups and how fast each would run.
• · You are subscribed to all the flyball email lists and actually read all the letters…. Even the ones thanking teams for tournaments in states a thousand miles away.