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dock diving

FAME! (she’s gonna learn how to fly)

October 22, 2009 By The Food Lady Leave a Comment

TDBCR rescue dog Joey moved to Australia with her adopted mum a couple of years ago. Big changes for a shy little rescue that was pulled out of a kill shelter in Washington State! But it was a good thing, because it was proof positive that it is in fact possible to move house, across the country and even across the WORLD with your dog. Millions of dogs in shelters didn’t believe that, because their owners said “Oh we’re moving, guess we can’t keep you anymore.”

Kelly Ramirez decided to put that myth out to pasture when she moved to Australia with Joey, and then to really drive the point home, she turned around and made Joey FAMOUS!

From the Hornby and Upper North Shore Advocate:

How much is that doggy in mid-air?

MEET Hornsby’s newest national champion – Joey the jumping dog. And she could be about to take the world by storm.

The high-flying pooch has been raising eyebrows and dropping jaws since her owner, Kelly Ramirez, of Hornsby, entered her into a competition called “dock diving’’ just for a few laughs. Picture gallery of Joey in action, HERE

Dock diving is a popular event in the US and is spreading its tentacles to other countries, including Australia.

It involves dogs running along a flat platform, then launching themselves off a ramp and into a long pool of water.

It is like long jump for dogs and, incredibly, the best dogs in the world leap about 7m (although the sport is judged in feet, because of its US creators). Dock-diving picture gallery from around the world, HERE

Joey already sails that far – and she has only contested one event.

“Her results were totally unexpected,’’ a stunned Ms Ramirez told the Advocate.

“People said to me, `oh, you must have done this before’, but I was just as surprised as them.

“There were US judges there who sat up when she jumped.’’

Adding to the story is the fact Joey, a kelpie-cross-cattle, was rescued from a US animal shelter. Ms Ramirez picked her up two years ago, when “she was a complete mess’’.

“It is nice to think that Joey could go from death row to being a world champion,’’ she said.

Joey’s sole competitive performance was at a small event at Homebush Bay in July. Her 19-foot leap gave her the Australian title. She has since jumped 20 feet.

If Joey continues her form into the World Dog Games at Homebush Bay later this month, Hornsby could have itself the world’s longest-leaping dog.

Dock diving will be a demonstration sport at the Games, in the hope it takes off here. For a video preview of the World Dog Games click HERE

Ms Ramirez said the sport was tailor made for Australians.

“This is a sport with a huge following in the US, with prizemoney, professional training and plenty of attention,’’ Ms Ramirez said.

“I think its perfect for Australian conditions there is potential for it to really take off.’’

Joey’s fitness level was “frightening’’, Ms Ramirez said.

“She’s all muscle. She gets trained every day because, when you have a dog like this a dog that’s built to work you have to exercise them a lot. It’s the key to a happy dog,’’ she said.

The Games start on October 31.

* More dock-diving videos can be found by clicking (or cut-pasting) the following links – these videos are not Advocate creations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-527_KG5iQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Jw3DqrbEI

Congratulations Kelly and Joey!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: big air, dock diving, rescue dogs

Hey Wootie …

August 3, 2009 By The Food Lady Leave a Comment

What?

I’m gonna throw your Wootie Toy!

AlllllRIGHT!!!!

Gogogogogogogogogogogo!!

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!11

And then he flew off into the sunset.

ha ha. Just kidding. I was fooling around in CS2 today. However, that really is HOW Wootie jumps. It’s ridiculous.

Come one. Srsly? WTF?

Now you know why I don’t have an agility Woo. He lacks Tweed’s svelte grace (background also photshopped).

And Piper’s determination….

… even when her timing is a tad off. I have no idea what she is jumping off of in this photo! It sure isn’t the dock!

Courage comes in small packages…

This is not one of them.

Yep, that’s right, ANOTHER one of my friends HURLED her dog into the lake with the force of a thousand jet engines and the glee of a demon maddened by lust and the blood of 400 virgins! And goats!

Save me, jebus. I want to live!!!

Okay, so Harry is not so brave. She has jumped in on occasion on her own steam, but not too frequently, though she does love to swim!

This dog though, was very cool. This is Nancy.
(more fun in photoshop!)

Nancy likes to dock dive quite a lot.


Did you notice what is so amazing about Dock Divin’ Nancy Pibble?

Look ma! No front leg!

Let’s recap, shall we? Three legged Nancy can toss herself off a dock.

Four legged Harriet can’t navigate a submerged log.

Help?

I’d still really like my ball ….

Hmmmm …. Sorry. Can’t help you, squirt.


And then there’s Parker, who has the leaping mechanism, but not the swimming one.

If she COULD swim, she could probably leap clear to the other side of the lake with that stride!

But only once. Greyhounds lack stamina.

Stop playing with Parker. Throw the ball.

Thanks!! See ya later!!
XOXO
, GossipTweed.

Oh hai! I’m gonna get all up in your bizness like dat!

A shot of The Mighty Flamboyance for the road …

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: big air, dock diving, dog beach, Mr. Woo, Parker and Harriet, Piper, Tweed

The Church of Woo

July 15, 2009 By The Food Lady 1 Comment

Hallelujah! The Trio of Trouble have found religion.

AKA – they have all learned to dock dive. And I didn’t even have to try and drown them, like Sofa’s Dad does! (har har har)

Mr. Woo, of course, is a natural when it comes to getting air.

But the other two are natural born pussies!! Yet for no apparent reason, earlier this week my buddy Tweird nonchalantly hurled himself off the dock in pursuit of his ball – no teetering on the edge making noises like “HAROOOO MMMMM AH AH AH OOOHHHH AH ARRROOOO” before tumbling into the water like a dead body in a sack.

He just launched, like the space shuttle!

So of course, I had to see if this was a one shot deal or if he could replicate his success so today we went back to Trout Lake. And praise doG, Tweed is now an enthusiastic dock diving doggie!

Praise Wootie!

My goodness Tweed! I had no idea you were so accomplished!

You always doubt me.

Yeah okay. He’s got me there.

Piper took a little more convincing.

I dunno about this. It looks awful scary.

But under the careful guidance of His Holy Teacher Woo (who may or may not have been admiring her shapely rear end)…

…Piper took to the skies!

Whoa! Dude! What a RUSH!!

I cannot explain the born again dock divers, but they were having F.U.N.!!

Initially Mr. Woo was delighted, but soon realized that dock diving no longer belongs to him and him alone. He spread the gospel, and now he is just one of a sea of dogs who can fling themselves into the water with abandon.

Of course Mr. “Look at me! Look at me!” Woo had to up his game.

So he started jumping off the dock LIKE A PERSON – like vertically:

Are you watching?

Look at me! I’m a human base jumper!

Food Lady, why he gotta be like that?

I no longer worship His Holiness Woo. I now worship at The Altar Of Piper. You should too.

Poor Wootie has lost the adoration of his flock. Where once his mad skillz were admired…
…now he wonders where he went wrong.

Where did I go wrong?

Throw it again plz?

I know, I know – “What about the kittehs, Food Lady?”

I will tell you about the kittehs – first, they all moved into my couch. I reupholstered to prevent them from living inside my living room furniture, and now they have all moved into my laundry basket. They come out several times a day to attack my feet and climb my legs with their mini ice picks for claws and knock stuff off my shelves before vanishing into the closet again while I apply bandaids and polysporin to my wounds!

Also, some nice friends took pity in the poor (literally) Food Lady and got her a short term gig doing some work in pre-production on a movie being shot in Vancouver, so I’ve not been home much … I’ve been out scouting locations where the deer and the antelope will, in a carefully choreographed manner, play. I promise to take new kitty photos soon, for your viewing enjoyment, and also so you will stop complaining ;-)

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: big air, dock diving, dog beach, Mr. Woo, Piper, Tweed

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