Doggie day out

The Dog, despite being a puny Golden retriever, packs up enough mass to exclude her from most our weekend trips. The other weekend, however, the focus was on her as we took her for a special kind of outing.

A doggie and Kiddo exercise day at the tracks! Ha!

Haha... I'm kidding. The local dog-lovers organised a dog agility competition at the field. Having never seen such competition, we went, with the Dog tagging along.

As you can see, the Dog was not the only dog at the venue. There were dogs of various sizes, breed and temperament, including the competitors.
We spent most of our time milling around, waiting for the competition to start, but we did get the Dog groomed.

The grooming was done in a grooming van/truck, so Kecil was understandably excited about the whole thing, although the Dog was pretty obviously was not thrilled. She emerged smelling a wee funny (a bit like men's cologne), but otherwise VERY clean. She did seem grumpy about having her butt scrubbed clean. Hihi....

This Mama did not take any pictures once the competition started, since we were pretty busy with Kecil and the Dog and watching all the comings and goings. We did try Penny on one of the hurdles, however, and she managed to clear a decent height despite not looking very keen on doing it. I suppose you really should start agility training when the dogs were still puppies.

We did enjoy ourselves very much. Why, Kecil even got to pose with another Golden.
We do hope there will be more opportunities (that we grab!) to have more outings with the Dog.
How about you, do you bring along your pets for outings?