nusee
09-26-2006, 06:56 AM
Eager canines, owners avid to compete in relay races
Inside a pole barn at the Chelsea Fairgrounds, everyone's wearing earplugs. The place has gone to the dogs.
The metal walls reverberate as border collies, Jack Russell terriers and other lean, wiry athletes with names like Bongo, Scrubby and Static bark and yelp for joy _ pretty much nonstop.
"It's the most fun a dog can ever have," says Phyllis Askew, a member of Front Runners, a flyball club competing in a recent tournament at the fairgrounds. A long-standing Ann Arbor-based club with about 50 dogs, Front Runners entered five teams.
Full Article: Wood TV (http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5454985&nav=0Rce)
Inside a pole barn at the Chelsea Fairgrounds, everyone's wearing earplugs. The place has gone to the dogs.
The metal walls reverberate as border collies, Jack Russell terriers and other lean, wiry athletes with names like Bongo, Scrubby and Static bark and yelp for joy _ pretty much nonstop.
"It's the most fun a dog can ever have," says Phyllis Askew, a member of Front Runners, a flyball club competing in a recent tournament at the fairgrounds. A long-standing Ann Arbor-based club with about 50 dogs, Front Runners entered five teams.
Full Article: Wood TV (http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5454985&nav=0Rce)