Last weekend of August! (Thank you for the photos Kevin!)

What a fabulous training day! First of all, we had our cute little mascot, Lucky:

Then, we has two pros overturn the boat and come up smiling:

And Miss Nella discovered that boat rides are FUN!

Good Luck to all of the MMNers in the water test next weekend!

August 21 Water Training

Fiona

Ozzy

Nellie

Nella

Scarlet

Birdie

Mary giving our guest steward some inside info

Xena

Holy Cow! What a day! We had some GREAT training today. Every single dog was amazing. Fiona was back and very impressive after being out of training for a couple of months. She seemed so glad to be back.

Xena worked through her one little hiccup of going all the way out on the take a line and worked up some real enthusiasm. The Oz man is so excited going out to that drowner we had to work through it a few times to help him remember. . . don't forget the rope! He got it though! Miss All Star Nellie has begun to work on the WRDX exercises and had great fun racing around the boat to find the caller. Nella is simply wonderful. We cannot believe that she has learned so much in such a short time. 6 1/2 months and doing all that! Scarlet has enthusiasm pouring out her ears. I've never seen a dog do go outs faster. And Birdie did her first amazing leap off of the boat today. A good time was had by all! (and a special thanks to our guest Steward!)

and the REST of the water test photos! (Thank you Suzanne!)

Click on the title of the post to see a BUNCH more!

More Water Test Photos! (thank you Kevin!)

Oodles more photos and a very cute photo of Birdie with our newest MMN pup, Nella! They must have called each other to coordinate outfits for the day! More photos to come, so check back at the site later!

New MMN WRD Title! Way to go Mollie and Nellie!

Molly and Nellie earned their WRD today at the NCNE water test and boy, were they impressive! Although all of us MMNers watching just KNEW they were going to do it, we couldn't help but hold our breath! Molly cleverly took Nellie down the beach to direct her to the correct first article on the double retrieve. Nellie swam so fast that she created a wake! She eagerly jumped off the boat to retrieve her paddle and came right back to the boat with it. She didn't hesitate a second carrying the life ring out to that very convincing steward pretending to drown. She took her line and bumper out to the stranded boat and pulled them safely up onto the beach. And despite the fact that the splunky she had to retrieve was not her splunky (thank you Barbara for loaning yours to replace the lost one!) she shoved her head under the water to get it like it was her best friend in the world. And her final dramatic act was to jump off the boat to save Molly and pull her safely to shore. WE ARE SO PROUD!

Barbara with Ozzy (hey, Ev, I spelled it right!) and Sandy with Xena did well and we are keeping our fingers crossed for new titles tomorrow!

August 7 New Training Site!

Below, we had a large group at the new training site in preparation for the NCNE tests next weekend!

And a new 10-week old puppy, Lucky! Donny is smitten!
Fun to see the advanced dogs work. Here Roxy and Lori are getting ready for the Multiple Victim Rescue (and they did well! Everyone was saved!).

More photos from this weekend!

Nella learning to swim with handler!
Look at Scarlet go!
Ozzie is really motoring pulling us in!

July 31st Water Training

A Fabulous Time Was Had By All!

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