Wags Weekend!

We are home! We had a GREAT weekend down in Chula Vista, CA at the Wags for Wishes event. For those that don't know, this is an event put on for the Make A Wish Foundation - to raise money for them. As part of the Splash Dogs portion of it, they let the Make A Wish kids come up and throw the toy in the pool for the dogs. Well, while we were standing by the dock watching this really adorable little girl, Courtney throw for a dog, when they came down the stairs, she came straight towards Tractor - saw his orange wubba and told her dad she wanted to throw for him. It was SO cute!! Of course I said yes, so we went up the dock.. and she plopped his wubba in the water and Tractor waited patiently for his release and then dove headfirst after it. The look on the little girls face was priceless. Just the sheer happiness, really drove home what this event was all about.


As for our actual jumping - we didn't do as great in big air as his last Splash Dogs event (where he set his personal best of 21'11'') - but that's alright! His best jump of the weekend was 20'1'' - and it got him his 4th leg of his pro title, I really hope our next one he gets that 5th leg, so we can move from the Senior Splash Dogs to the Pro. :)

The biggest reason we went to this was for the vertical practice, and he did AWESOME! He made it to the final 4, with some BIG jumping dogs - and ended up in 3rd, with his highest grab at 6'8''. I couldn't believe how well he did again.. and am really looking forward to Worlds in 2 weeks.

The weekend wasn't just about dock diving though.. he also got to run in agility! Because of ME, he only got to run once.. in a novice Touch N Go course, and he Qed! So we have two of our three legs of that title. Woohoo!

I'd say the BIGGEST hit of the weekend though was the lure course. On Friday, after our big air wave, I let him go at it... and boy oh boy, was he NUTS. He was completely beyond obsessed with it and anytime we went NEAR where the grass was, he would freak. I have videos of it as well as some pictures. The pictures will be up on my Phanfare and the videos on our Youtube, so stay tuned!

This weekend is more low key, stuff around the house.. and then a mini practice at our sponsor's house on Sunday. We are going to try working on getting Tractor's stride just right for EV. We leave a week from tomorrow, for five days in Minnesota! Can't wait!!!