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felixone123 wrote:Just sent in our deposit for camp dogwood for Spring. Look out for the stripe beast on the camp grounds!!
Looking forward to meeting and working with Christie!!

Barb that's AWESOME! I'm getting excited to go.
Alysa and Dave (Camp Directors) just emailed me and asked me to teach tracking also. So that makes tracking, agility and K9 Nosework.......and lions, and tigers and bears, Oh my! LOL. It makes things go by very quickly! That's for sure. You're gonna love it. So many of the people that attend come back to each Camp and it just becomes a very family like experience!

We are very excited!! Tracking - awesome!! Between the agility, tracking and dock diving, Odin is going to come home one athletic star. Cannot wait for you to meet him and show us what he really has and can do!!

Spoke to Alyssa last week (extremely nice). Had some general questions and she too put me at ease about Dakota.

Odin has a very controlled calm personality. Nothing and I mean nothing startles or bothers this boy or gets him spun up. Perhaps he was some sort of working dog. Whom ever had him previously did some major OB work with him and desensitized him to many many things (except kitties )

The only thing I am dreading is the long, long drive

btw - we are doing the extended camp - yay!!

booohoooohooo I want to go tooohoooo! you guys are just punishing me for all those puppy-pics you meanies! Here, eat this!



I do need plenty of pics from the dog camp!!! Please take as many as you can

oh my goodness - what an adorable baby!! I'll take him/her to camp with us!! However, you may NOT get him/her back

What puppy is this?

I wish I had puppy pics of Odin

>>Here, eat this!<<

Oh Barb, you are going to have so much fun!!! I wish we could go, Sadie would terrorize everyone!! Take lots and lots and lots of pictures.

Marj, your killing me!!! .. Send more!

That pup is gorgeous!!!!!! It would be awesome to go I bet you will have so much fun!

I am soo jealous----of both the trip, and the pup!
Gotta stay home and care for the other animals, and another pup is out of the question until this beast of mine is older.
I'll just have to suffer through all the fun photos.

Marjolein wrote:booohoooohooo I want to go tooohoooo! you guys are just punishing me for all those puppy-pics you meanies! Here, eat this!

Oh, he has trouble written all over his cute face

Mee too! Me Too!! Waaa.

I will just have to live vicariously.... Lots of pictures of striped beasts! :dswink"

mmmh, I've been searching the net for a camp like this in Holland, so I could try and get a group together and do it on the Dutch forum too, but there seems to be no such thing yet....mmmmhhh

They have a very low tech one of these near me. It is a campground for people and their dogs and they have agility, a swimming pond, various visitors to teach CGC, Rally, massage etc. It is open all summer and has different things going every weekend. Maybe, we could have a southern style Dog Camp!

http://www.4pawskingdom.com/ Here is their link..

Lauren wrote:They have a very low tech one of these near me. It is a campground for people and their dogs and they have agility, a swimming pond, various visitors to teach CGC, Rally, massage etc. It is open all summer and has different things going every weekend. Maybe, we could have a southern style Dog Camp!

http://www.4pawskingdom.com/ Here is their link..

That looks really neat! I wonder if they allow people to have course time without the instructor? I think that could be a ton of fun. Also wonder if they allow tent campers. It wouldn't be very expensive though.

My problem would be that if I stayed in NC at a dog friendly camp, some of my friends that own the hairy herders (GSDs) and silly blond cousins would want to come too! LOL.

Christie M wrote: Also wonder if they allow tent campers. It wouldn't be very expensive though.

Apparently not. Too bad. Then again, I hate camping anywhere near RVs, with their noisy generators

Christie M wrote: That looks really neat! I wonder if they allow people to have course time without the instructor? I think that could be a ton of fun. Also wonder if they allow tent campers. It wouldn't be very expensive though.

My problem would be that if I stayed in NC at a dog friendly camp, some of my friends that own the hairy herders (GSDs) and silly blond cousins would want to come too! LOL.

Yes, I think that you can use any of the equipment. There are two agility rings, one for playing around and one a AKC regulation ring. 7 dog parks, walking trail and my favorite part::: it is less than a mile from where i take herding lessons!!

I bet we could have Possom Hollow set up herding and herding temperment tests for all of us!

bring on the shaggies and the blonds! We could make it a all shepherd weekend. What do you think?

Finally, the time has come!! Me, hubby and the 2 furry kids are leaving for Camp Dogwood on Wed and will be back Tues.
It's going to be a long road trip adventure to get there!!

We are all so excited!! I believe Christie will be there teaching agility and other fun stuff and we are looking forward to meeting her.

There will be lots of pics - especially of the stripe brindle beast

Oh how much fun!!! Have a safe trip and take lots of photos to share afterward. ENJOY!!

GSDNanny wrote:Oh how much fun!!! Have a safe trip and take lots of photos to share afterward. ENJOY!!

Thanks!!