Chicagoland DockDogs... FINALLY playing outside!

Rumor really has been coming into his own and had a lot of fun this weekend. We were in Berwyn, IL for the Chicagoland DockDogs event and it was our 1st outdoor event of the season. SO NICE to be jumping outside! Since I am Vice President of the CLDD club I tried to volunteer as much as possible so neither Dylan nor Rumor jumped in many waves. Rumor had a couple 25' 5" jumps and was 1 of 3 dogs in the Super Elite Finals. Dylan's best judged jump was 14' 11", but he got lots and lots of practice time so I think he was a bit pooped :) It turned out to be a great event and I was impressed that we had 3 dogs jumping in the Super Elite division and 3 dogs in the Elite division...

The Super Elite Finals were quite exciting... Rumor came into the Finals in 2nd place. After all 3 of our dogs jumped 1 round we were still in 2nd. Callie jumped a big 25' 8" jump before us and so Rumor had to give it his all and had a tie... 25' 8" too for the little Rumz! That was a new personal best for him. We ended up winning b/c our other jump was slightly longer than Callie's other jump. For a relatively small event, it really was an exciting Fials!

Dylan and Rumor are both looking forward to spending next weekend in Michigan... a little agility and a lot of time playing on the beach! Rumor is taking a little break from dock diving until next month... when we head to Hawaii!!!