Well Worth The Drive!

Well... we are BACK! We made it back from Stillwater, MN Monday around noon after an absolutely AMAZING weekend at the Dogs and Logs World Championships. Because of Tractor's Dubuque EV jump of 6'10'' - we were one of 16 teams invited to join the EV portion of Dock Dogs world championships.

We drove almost 30 hours late Tuesday night to get there really late Wednesday night - and were beat. Thursday was a rough day, being so tired, but we did end up jumping 6'6'' coming in 11th of 16 dogs. It was a rough day because I was extremely nervous, Tractor was beyond stir crazy from being couped up for so long and just a weird mood all the way around. It was still a lot of fun and we got to watch some really amazing dogs.

Friday, was our last chance qualifiers to make it to finals, and we jumped in a group of 6 dogs and Tractor came in 2nd/3rd with a personal best of 7'!!!! We endured some pretty scary weather, some HOT weather, some hiccups while making the drive, but there is absolutely NO regret anywhere. This event was by far the most fun we have ever had.I am ordering a CD with all of our professional prints so I will be sure to post more pictures when I get them, but for now, here are a couple (and of course all the rest of the pictures plus videos are up on my Phanfare.. so go check em out!) Here is the video to his 7' jump!! http://youtube.com/user/myvarietypack

Thanks to Lianne and Fred Hassen of Sit Means Sit dog training.. without their support/sponsorship and encouragement, we would NOT have made that drive.. and I honestly cannot imagine not doing that event. Thanks again to everyone who helped us, gave us advice (Melissa, Whit) and just all around supported us. A HUGE thank you to Ann and Becky. If it weren't for you two girls, this weekend wouldn't have happened.. and you know just how much both Tractor AND I would have regretted this weekend not happening.

In other news.. LVDD (Las Vegas Dock Dogs) was invited down to Lake Havasu this Friday for an interview with Animal Planet! Lianne and Fred requested Tractor and I go down with our EV rig so they can get some footage in the interview! This club is definitely taking off at warp speed. We are going to try to attend one more event somewhere in the midwest/east coast before our Las Vegas event to see another event ran.. but we'll see. As of right now.. we're just taking some time off... next DD event isn't until September in Colorado.