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. Let's go!
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.
Psst! You wanna know some secrets about life, Millie?
Here's the incredibly cute puppy Millie. She and some more tollers (and a GSD) arrived on the second day.
I got you birdy, I got you... Come on bunny boy, it's not far>
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.
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.
The things you do for a treat... I don't want to sit still! I want to eat up my reward!>
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