Monterey fun!

[LoveOurLabradors]

What a beautiful weekend in Monterey! Great to see many of our SplashDog friends though looks like many others of the NorCal/NV folks were in Quincy. Congrats to another great showing by Aries and Makena -- it's amazing to watch them fly. And other teams did great increasing their distances and PB's -- congrats to Mason for his SV win!

Sandra, you'll be glad to know we finally got above 6th -- but it was in the Opens! I know you'll be looking at the scores and wondering about Hannah's 12-13-14's -- she had a slip on the dock and even stopped on one run (which Hannah has never done). Urs said she was hesitating and watching the edge instead of the toy. We did have a couple great practice jumps before the slip -- I thought it was psychological but now think it may be physical though she doesn't show any other signs/pain. Stacie, I found Makena's chiropractor via Google -- thanks so much for the advice about these focused sports dogs and their injuries! The good news for our weekend is we hit our 1/4 mile frequent flyer award AND the first leg to a Junior title (didn't think that would be our next one after Senior and Pro ;)

Special thanks to Urs, the staff, and even other competitors for helping promote our little Lady foster dog at the event. We were able to introduce her to a couple of interested families and hand out flyers that people can share with their friends. Our last foster was placed through a SplashDogs event as well -- it takes a village you know! I think it speaks so highly of this organization in everything SplashDogs represents at events from showing great representatives of lots of dog breeds (including re-educating people about PitBulls) and helping rescued dogs find homes -- while people have lots of fun with their dogs.

Hope to see you in Sacramento -- for Ursula's continued birthday party!

[Sassy Girl]

Cyndi - I will totally vouch for those practice jumps - Hannah was flying.

I'm so glad to hear that we were able to stir up some interest on Lady! She was a great lil dog and hope she finds her forever home!

LOL - oh my goodness, still not sure how I talked myself into this but it is true, I will be joining the crew at the Cal State event next weekend. Hoping we see just as many Splash Dogs this coming weekend as we did at the ISE Sac in January!

[longfeathers]

I am so glad you guys came to Monterey. Pearl and I had a blast!! Just wish I wasn't so busy there and could have been there more. Absolutely hated missing being able to make it to the finals.

Funny story,,, a couple of years ago, the livestock director made a "no dog" rule. I was stressing over what I was going to do with Pearl during that week. I have never left her alone for more than a day before.

Well, once I heard about your event, I planned to use it as a justification to have my Pearl with me. A big lol to that! As you know, once Pearl jumped, she couldn't get enough. In fact at night, once the fair was closed, I would let Pearl loose and she would would make a bee-line for your area. Ha!

You guys were so gracious and helpful and I just want to thank you!! I'm not even above a little begging to get you to come back next year, lol.

Urs, I made it back after breaking down my barn, but you had left already (lucky you:mad:), but I did get your cell and will be contacting you to get together in Hollister.

Oh, and by the way, it was hard to tell there, but I swear Pearl is well behaved, lol.

Donald
*Pearl's Daddy*

[Barbadler1]

FYI, DITTO on the bee-line to the pool and well behaved when not near one. You are NOT alone! HA! HA!

[Thunderpaws]

Hi, Everyone,

We had a blast this weekend and what beautiful weather! So good to see and talk with so many of you. I really wanted to bundle up adorable little Lady and take her home, but my Nicky is the jealous type....And even though my little Lab has a "ball-challenged" handler, we made our modest 11 feet goal and even broke 14 feet. If we ever get any more, maybe I will jump in that pool...maybe....

It was so much fun, thinking about driving up to Sac this weekend. Good luck to everyone!

Diane
and Nicky, black Lab (and now we can say it: PB: 14'1")

[Sassy Girl]

Congrats Diane and Nicky and all the other teams who came out of Monterey w/some new PBs! I believe we had at least 10 teams w/new PBs this weekend, not to mention several newcomers who came out who broke their first jumps by leaps and bounds!

Donald - told you it was addicting! See you and Pearl soon in Hollister!

[angel09]

I am so upset that we didn't get to go. But it sounds like you all had fun.

[Siberian]

I think this was one of my favorite events ever! Weather was perfect, crowd was perfect, dogs were beautiful, overall fun, fun, fun. :)

[playswithfire]

The pool temp wasnt that bad either! lol. For those of you who don't know, I had to take a dip in it myself on Thursday. The deal was if Beau jumped over 17' i had to go in. His first jump of the first wave was 17'1" and the next was 17'9". I had to live up to my end (thanks Urs) and I took the plunge. Thank goodness it wasn't at the Stockton event!

[Katiesmom]

lmao, did the brown water scare ya, great job on beau we all knew he would do it