Hooked On 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 are drawn to purchase athletic wear 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.
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.
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 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.