04/18/2026
Wildrose Midwest had a great client group training day this morning. We started out with strike back training with two pointers and four labs. Three of the labs had never done this before and got to experience some great new learning. The pointers were awesome in how they performed. Then we moved into more traditional training with a complicated wagon, wheel drill, hub and spoke drills in difficult flooded marsh conditions. After a complete morning of training, it was time for bratwurst and burgers, followed by our fastest dog contest. Everybody threw in a dollar and each dog ran a 75 yard trailing memory for a total of 150 yards. Dogs were timed by our neutral judge, David. In third place, with the time of 17.76 seconds was Abby. In second place, with the time of 16.66 seconds, was Paddy with one of our Canadian customers, dogs And in first place, edging Paddyy out by 1/100 of a second was Wiggle, another finished dog going up to one of our Canadian customers. Congratulations to Wiggle and his handler Marty Dalton, our kennel manager, for taking home “the purse”. This is an easy and fun drill to set up. Hit reply and let us know what your times are.
