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August 1, 2008

Dock Dogs take a leap

A group of children watched yesterday as "Thor," a 3-year-old Chesapeake Bay retriever, sprung from a running board into a pool of water during the practice period for the DockDogs Big Air Wave competition at the 21st annual Harford County Farm Fair held at the Equestrian Center in Bel Air.

DockDogs sponsors regional, national and international dock jumping performance sport for dogs. It got started as a "filler" event during the 2000 ESPN Outdoor Games. Despite low expectations it took a giant leap to popularity.

In 2002 DockDogs was established as a company, and this year it is holding more than 100 events worldwide.

(Sun photo by Lloyd Fox)

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About Jill Rosen

Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.

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