Thursday, June 28, 2012

2012 Dog Camp- Thank you!

We just finished the 2012 Ohio 4-H Teen Dog Experience, and as always we had an excellent time! This year we had ten campers, seven of which were returning from past years. For the first time we also had five year campers (three of them!). A huge thanks to all of these campers for helping make camp so special.

Camp included our typical activities such as agility, flyball, obedience, rally obedience, tracking,freestyle, blindfolded cake decorating, blindfolded obstacle course, health and behavior sessions, tug toys and many others. New this year were Agility Scrabble, Obedience Jenga, Pet photography and Treiball! We will share more details on these in future posts.

Quite a few people deserve a huge thank you, we couldn’t have such an awesome camp without everyone’s support.  Thank you to our nurse, Stacey Williams, for not only being our nurse, but for jumping in and helping with cleaning, appreciating the foolishness, and having some fun with her adorable dogs. Liz Bailey, for taking so many excellent photos and videos, which we hope to share with you all soon. Rachel Olson, for being an excellent counselor and instructor. She managed to gracefully make the transition from camper to counselor. Our sponsors allow us to keep costs low, have an excellent raffle and give us the opportunities to try new activities (and feed the campers). Thanks to BOC Water Hydraulics (4 year sponsor!), Nodding Onion Garden (2  year sponsor), Kroger (2 year sponsor), Bark Magazine (2 year sponsor), Kong ( 3 year sponsor) and United Dairy Farmers (new sponsor, our campers LOVED the ice cream!).

Not to be forgotten are  Bud and Marsha Houston, for letting them us rent their amazing facility, putting up with the noise and chaos that results from 10 teenagers and their dogs, and going out of their way to allow us to make camp special. This was our fifth year at their facility, and we can’t think of a better place to hold camp.  Perhaps most importantly we want to thank all of our campers and their families. Camp is amazing because of all of you!

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