Dog Agility On A Mobility Scooter

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Julie Thomson, 53, who has Multiple Sclerosis, and still enjoys showing off her dog agility prowess on her TGA Breeze 3 mobility scooter.



Picture Caption: Julie demonstrates her skills on a TGA Breeze 3 scooter alongside Dodger, her 4-year-old Patterdale Terrier cross. 

Julie Thomson is a lovely lady with a fantastic personality who was diagnosed with MS in 1998. Originally from London, she moved from St Albans to Sudbury, Suffolk in 1990. She then settled in Stanstead village in 1995.

She trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital in London, and was latterly the Nurse Practitioner in Urology at the West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. When MS began to affect her mobility, Julie was able to continue working with outpatients using her walking sticks and a wheelchair, but eventually 'MS fatigue' led to her early retirement in 2004.

As her mobility became more restricted, she decided to use a mobility scooter, but it was not until she owned a robust and rugged TGA Breeze 3 that she was able to tackle a wider variety of ground conditions and consider taking up dog agility; she and Dodger have now been training at Ace Agility since the summer of 2011. Julie's Breeze is a similar model to the TGA scooter that won the BBC Top Gear Extreme Challenge last year.

Julie explains, 'I've used a mobility scooter for a long time, but I wasn't lucky enough to get a versatile Breeze 3 from TGA in Sudbury until 2007. It's six years old now, and has done about 1,000 miles a year, but is still going strong! The Breeze 3's large wheels and slender front end make it ideal for manoeuvring around an outdoor dog agility course. Its handling, its power and, in particular, its suspension mean that it can cope with all kinds of terrain, making it the ideal mobility scooter for dog agility. And Dodger also has a comfy footplate to ride home on if he's worn out after a tiring training session in Glemsford!

When I'm not at Ace Agility, Dodger and I negotiate the beautiful public footpaths around Stanstead often over very rough ground, especially in winter. It's a superb machine, and one that I would recommend to anyone living with restricted mobility who wants to enjoy the outdoors independently.'


Julie can be seen in action on her TGA Breeze 3 mobility scooter on YouTube

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