Jody
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Jody
@cat4d1
former teacher...retired air force officer...current baseball fanatic. Given a cape and a nice tiara, I am fairly certain I could rule the world!
Phoenix, AZ Katılım Temmuz 2011
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#FuzzyFactsFriday Today’s is super special! I got my biopsy results back & it was all clear!!!
💚💚💚 I get these 80 billion stitches out on Tuesday 🙌. Mum is very happy & so am I 😊✨🥰 #DogsofX #Dogs #Rescue

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Incredibly grateful after my longest work trip ever. To @MLB_PR for having me do game notes for the whole @WBCBaseball, + to everyone who helped make this happen 😭
To my baseball family, ♥️. And to all who came up to me to say hello/intro, thank you for the kind words 🥺

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@buitengebieden An honor gradate from The Marcel Marceau School of Feline Pantomime demonstrating "Cat Trapped in a Box." 🐱😊
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@cat4d1 NO!
They were good?
Again????
I am utterly shocked! 😲🤭🥰
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The dogs were good again this week!! 😊❤️🐾
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@servicerotties @Crufts I will always support inclusion!! I’ve learned so much from you. @Crufts needs to learn from you as well!!
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@Crufts 2026 just wrapped up its obedience glory—yet its separate para obedience classes really disturbed me. They're exclusionary, insulting, and straight-up perpetuate the harmful myth that disabled handlers aren't capable of training dogs to elite levels.
That's completely inaccurate—and in my experience, the opposite is true. Being non-ambulatory has forced me to become a far better communicator with my dogs, relying on precise cues, body language, and partnership rather than physical force.
I'm a significantly disabled trainer/handler who's earned Masters titles in Rally on TWO Rottweilers, a CD in Obedience, and held Canada's #1 Rottweiler spot in CKC Rally for TWO years running. Obedience is about the dog's precision, focus, and bond—not the handler's mobility. My wheelchair needs fair, minor accommodations: extra space around pylons, a few extra seconds for 360° pivots, dropping/picking up the leash (or my dogs carry it around me seamlessly). Visual impairments? A guide relays directions. Deaf handlers? An interpreter signs instructions.
These aren't advantages—they're inclusion. I've competed head-to-head against everyone, outscored plenty (yes, the woman in the wheelchair winning bruises a few egos —not my problem. Most other competitors have been awesome), and judges already navigate biases with favorites, students, family. Good judges stay impartial; no valid excuse to segregate us.
Para classes send the message: "You don't truly belong in the real competition." They hide skilled disabled teams from view and reinforce ableist assumptions about capability. Crufts is the global stage—time to integrate us with reasonable accommodations so partnership, not disability, defines the ring. Segregation has no place here.
What do you think? Should Crufts scrap separate para obedience and embrace full inclusion, or keep reinforcing outdated mindsets? #Crufts #ParaObedience #DogObedience #Inclusion #Rottweiler #DisabledHandlers #ServiceDogs



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Marcus the laziest dog is my new spirit animal!! 😝🐾❤️
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Today is a most special holiday - it's #NationalOreoDay! 🎉
We all know it's really about this adorkable little white & black floofy boy. 🖤🤍🥰
But our hearts are big, so we'll celebrate the cookie too! We're nice like that. 🍪😁


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@CJ_FightPD I just LOVE her!! Such a great role model- like you said, she was just lost in the song and absolutely loving skating!! Totally herself!!
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@cat4d1 It looked so effortless - like she was by herself, having a good time skating to a song & not competing in the freaking Olympics!
Alyssa was on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live & she is so down to earth & funny. 🥰
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If I had a dollar for every time I've watched Alyssa Liu skate to Donna Summer's MacArthur Park, I'd have a lot of dollars.
And I spend them all on Kleenex. 😭⛸️🥇🙌
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