Saturday Jack, Babi and I were able to go to the Sheepdog Festival in Midway. It was a blast! The first thing we saw was the Splash Dog Contest. These dogs would jump off the plank into a pool of water, the record I think was 26 feet! While the lowest was 3 feet:) This was a pair of golden retrievers that would run the plank, step gently into the water, and then retrieve the ball, getting the biggest applause and laughs:) They were very proud of themselves.
The dogs would follow their owners whistles, finding the sheep up the hill, and then herding them down through two sets of gates and into the corral! They had 15 minutes to do this in, it was so neat to see! And no barking involved.
Jack was a little busy on the bleachers during this competition:) He did like the sheep and couldn't understand why they would run away from him when he would yell "Come Here Sheep!!" He also got to pet one of the sheep dogs after he was done competing and soaking in a tub of water. The dogs look a lot like Kika, but with a tail, this was very strange to Jack, who isn't familiar with dogs with tails and kept picking it up and giving me funny looks.
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