Rookie of The Year

OK, the results have been looked over and the error has been corrected. Awesome Dawson has been named top rookie of PNP '08! WOOHOO!!!! I couldn't be any prouder of my dogs!! And now I"ve got bookend rookie awards to prove it!!

Way to go Dawson.... great job!!

PNP 08... We May Have Gotten Robbed This Year

With another excellent weekend at Pak N Pull in the books it's time to let everyone know what happened. Lucy was her usual awesome self and is still in basking in the limelight of another silver medal in the weight pull. She was in tough this year and in the end was no competition for Aurora. Lucy's top pull was an incredible 810 lbs!! That's 810 LBS!!!!! That's pretty impressive considering she weighted in at a mere 78 lbs.

She worked her butt off to go past her previous personal best and I couldn't be prouder of her. Just wait until next year when we show up with a proper weight pulling harness. She'll be over the 1000 lb. mark for sure!

Dawson also made his first appearance in the weight pull chute. I wasn't at all sure what to expect from him. I have seen his lazy side while out sledding and I was hoping it wouldn't show too much during his debut.

Well I got lucky. For a rookie he performed as well as I could have hoped. When all was said and done his last full pull was 490 lbs, good enough to take 4th place in his weight class. This is where I think we got robbed.

The dog that took top rookie honors finished 5th in the same weight class. I don't know how that happened... a lower finisher taking a higher honor, but I hope it was just a correctable oversight by whoever was checking the finishing order. I have asked someone to look into this and I can only hope the decision is corrected.

Here's some more pics from the weekend: