Team NestleBestly reports DockDogs results at PawsAbilities

Big Air is the original DockDogs event. In 2005 Extreme Vertical was added. This year marks the inaugural year for Speed Retrieve. The team with the best score (lowest score received by adding each teams ranking from all three events) was recognized as the All Around Event Winner. Nestle was entered in all three events. Unfortunately, an injury incurred early in the week, was not completely healed. After two Big Air rounds, Angie pulled Nestle from the event. Despite a sub par effort due to the injury, Nestle was able to jump a respectable distance of 19’10” which place him 20th overall out of 115 registered teams.

Fellow Keystone DockDogs Club member Dodi Conrad from Red Lion and her black lab, Reggie won the All Around by nudging out Tim Kline and Bella of New Cumberland by one point. Reggie won Extreme vertical, and placed second in both Speed Retrieve and Big Air. Bella, a yellow lab, won the Speed Retrieve, and finished behind Reggie in Extreme Vertical and placed forth in Big Air. The overall winner of Big Air was Rob Dedora and Seven. Seven is a huge jumping German Shorthair Pointer from Huntington Station, New York.

Angie’s rescue dog, Mercy a black lab mix, continues to be a work in progress. Mercy, who made the finals in the Junior Divisional Final at the National Championship in October, is working through some performance anxiety issues. Mercy completed 3 measured jumps. Her best of the weekend was 10’4”. She’s young and its Angie’s hope that with maturity Mercy will display the same confidence she has at the practice dock in the competitive arena.

The next competition for Team NestleBestly will be in Virginia Beach, Virginia the weekend of April 26-27. This will be a National event.