Dock Dog Nationals!

We had an awesome weekend in Richfield, WI at Dock Dog Nationals. The weather was amazing and we totally lucked out that it was high 70s all weekend. Whew! I was concerned Rumor wouldn't jump again once he hit cold water. I was going to pull Rumz, but then I figured since I was there with Dylan... I might as well.

Dylan had fun and played around in the water. Nothing spectacular out of him, but he doesn't know that and he just loves the game.

Rumor had a new personal best on Saturday of 19' 11"!!! I was very shocked to find out that kept him in the top 8 (7th seed) so he made it into the Senior Division Finals for Sunday. He didn't jump quite as well in the Finals, but I was still thrilled that out of 94 dogs in the Senior division, Rumor was 8th :) What a good boy.



Andy/Fergus and Kevin/Ollie both did nicely in the Masters division. Ollie was 2nd seed in the Finals and finished 2nd place in Masters. Sadly, I never got to see Kim/Murphy jump, but I did see Katie/Ryder, Katie/Fergus, Mary Beth/Frankie and Jan/Gina -- everyone did great! The Rupps (as always) had a great showing... Abby and Alex both did well in Iron Dog and Remi ripped it up with a 1st in Novice, 2nd in Junior and 2nd (I think) in Cadet EV.

Lisa flew in town for Nationals (without Tractor who has an ear infection) so it was great that she got to hang out for the weekend too!