Canine Obedience And Agility

Cleo and I took Miss Puppy to a canine agility show today.  We just watched; Miss Puppy is very agile but nowhere near obedient enough to actually compete at anything other than running away, for which she'd probably gold medal, if they could catch her to present the award.  Anyway, part of the contest was doggy long jumping; the contestants raced to the end of a ramp and leaped into a long pool of water.  The winner, a Labrador Retriever (come on, you knew it would be a Lab, didn't you?) set a new world record for dog leapage by flying 30 feet 10 inches, beating the previous mark by four inches.  The audience in the bleachers at the side of the pool had their own splash zone like the one in Shamu Stadium at Sea World.