UFO Major Colorado Canine Challenge - Denver, CO

Bailey and I made the long drive out to Littleton Colorado, from Santa Monica California, a couple weeks ago to take part in the UFO Major and the storied classic Quadruped Long Distance Disc Dogging competitions titled collectively as The Colorado Canine Challenge. First, what a beautiful drive through Nevada, Utah, and Colorado only to have the amazing scenic red carpet a precursor to a fun-filled successful weekend of canine acrobatics and disc chomping fun. As you can see from the picture, Bailey and I brought home a little hardware.

Bailey and I had an amazing weekend in Colorado!

On Day #1

We competed in the standard disc dog format. First we had our Freestyle routine. Among such an amazing group of talented freestylers if you fell off your game even a little bit you could find yourself at the bottom of the standing looking up. Well, we fell, a little and out of 50 teams we fell to 23 place. Ugh...

Next we had our Toss & Fetch round. Now you need to understand that for a few weeks prior to the event, a disc dogger name Matt Diano had been trash talking to EVERYONE about his talents in the Distance Accuracy. In fact, he put up (a sponsor put up) $100 to anyone who could not only beat Matt Diano, but take 1st place in the Distance Accuracy event.

I have to take my hat off to Matt. He put up, and he performed. He actually went out there and took 1st place! There were alot of really good teams out there, so it was by no means a done deal for Mr. Diano, but he did it. Bailey and I gave him a run for the money, but in the end we had to settle for a well earned 3rd place. Not Bad!

With the 3rd place we garnered a respectable 12th PLace overall and grabbed 45 UFO World Cup points.

But on a disappointing note, Bailey begins limping pretty noticeably by the end of the 1st day and I pretty much decide I'm not going to run him in the second day of competition.

Complete Results

Team White Thunder