Toller Weekend
18-19th September
Saarijärvi, Espoo
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Time for some fun! The car is a good thing. It always means that something good is going to happen. This
time when I eventually got out of the car, I saw a lot of other tollers! I didn't know that then, but we were about to
spend the weekend with tollers on an island. To get to the island we had a nice walk and then a long swim. We were about
to do a lot of cool stuff.
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Here's the cabin. We didn't sleep in it though, because we're had a tent. Bestis is the
dog in front. No use to mess with him, because he's a bit older. Instead there was this Rommi boy
who I have met many times before. He's about my age, and we're big boys now, so we had a lot to
"talk" about... My folks didn't approve though.
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Here's the incredibly cute puppy Millie.
She and some more tollers (and a GSD) arrived on the second day.
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Here some nice working. I have a few problems with picking up the crow at land,
but picking up any bird in water is no problemo, even if it's a big seagull, or the first time ever.
Here's the rabbit. This made my humans pretty proud. I tracked the rabbit and brought it straight to
my humans.
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There are other fun things in the world than working with animals. We actually
had the toller olympic games - the "tolympics" - on the second day.
The sports were
"sausage tracking", limbo and water retrieve with style. The sausage tracking was fun, even though (because!)
nobody had told me that you weren't supposed to eat the package, just deliver it.
Limbo was fun. The technique demonstrated in the limbo picture to the right does not work for big dogs like me, so my other human had to develop a killer technique, that works
well for slim dogs as myself. I could have gone on forever...
The water retrieve was nervrasping. Seeing all
the other dogs run into the water to retrieve a bumper was almost too much for me.
Anyway, I got third in the
whole game. It wasn't bad! First was my beloved enemy Rommi and second came the cute puppy Millie.
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