Water

Sept. 12-13, 2015 What a fabulous, fun weekend in Noblesville, IN despite frigid temps and a blustery breeze.  Smolder and Journey competed for Working Water Dog, Margaret for Junior and Maliboo for Courier.  In marathon runs (due to blowing and drifting articles), Smolder and Journey both passed on Saturday.  For Smolder that was 3 titles this summer: Junior at the National in August, Apprentice in August in Chicago, and now Working. Journey also just earned her Apprentice in Chicago. Just for good measure, both dogs repeated their winning performances on Sunday!  Margaret had puppy zoomies on Saturday, but was focused and energetic on Sunday.  Despite the cool weather, and waves much bigger than she's ever seen on my pond, she passed Junior Water Dog with flying colors! Nothing fazed my strong little swimmer.  Julie opted to pull Maliboo on Saturday as the weather had gotten much worse by afternoon, but the dynamic duo was on first thing Sunday morning.  Maliboo has those first 4 exercises down to a science, but is still in training for the Buoy Ball Drop.  Next year she and Smolder can work on this together!