The dastardly duo take a trip north to visit Ella

As the title states, Swing and Hank went north to Macedon NY to see sister Ella while Dodge competed at the DOTCORNY agility trial.  Ann had asked us to come up for the trial for a "family" get together since she never got to see the entire litter.  So Howard agreed to take brother Beau and of course I had my crew with me.  It was a wonderful weekend for an agility trial and Ella got to play with her brother and take a romp along a pathway that led to a creek where the girls, along with the two brothers (did I mention that Ann owns Dodge's brother Stanford?  Owning siblings must make Ann and I 2nd sisters or cousins or something like that!  Heck, we'll just say that we are family) to play in the water for almost an hour.  It was a nice setting and we have Heather to thank for the suggestion (she calls it her secret place).  All of the pups had a good weekend hanging at the trial, walking around and taking in the sights and sounds as well as meeting new dogs and people.  A big thank you to Ann for having us over for supper one evening and then taking us to the training bldg to play on some agility equipment as well as practice some breed stuff.  As you can see, Ella did pretty well with stacking

and hopefully Ann will send us some more pictures from her other camera in the near future.

Hank had a great weekend as well.  Not only did he get to spend a lot of time with his sisters but he got to travel with Howard to a trial and spend time hanging with him in a hotel.  I heard that he slept well and other than not eating his breakfast one morning (I hand fed him later that afternoon), he seemed to adjust to being on the road.  I'm sure he was super happy to have his human for the weekend as Howard has been judging a lot lately.  There was one "escape" the first day, my fault since I thought I could open the xpen door and slip in without too much trouble, WRONG!  It made for an interesting minute as I scrambled to catch two enthusiastic puppies who just wanted to run around and say hi to anyone and everyone they could.  Thank you to the lab owner who captured Hank by luring him with some yummy goodie, obviously he's a sucker for chopped ham or chicken or whatever he had.  I learned my lesson with that escapade, the door the xpen was not opened until the leash was attached to the young man!  I'm just glad neither one ended up in the ring!  I think Howard would have blown his whistle and kicked us out for good!  :-)

Have a nice Memorial Day holiday everyone.  Just a heads up, our crew turns 1 year old VERY soon!  Oh, Ann decided to celebrate their birthday a little early since she wont' see us for a while.  She made a special cake which Ella, Stanford, Dodge and Swing all enjoyed.  I might have a picture of the group waiting for their piece of cake.  I'll post one when I find it.