Cello participated in the PuppyPalooza Dock Diving Contest Hosted by Chesapeake Dock Dogs at Detour Winery in Keymar, MD.

For this event, we stayed at Granite Hill Campground in Gettysburg, PA, as this was the closest full-hookup campground to the winery.

Granite Hill is located on a 150 acre Civil War Era farm.

The campground had a cute “Red Shed Cafe” that offered breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Cello crossed over the Mason Dixon Line to get to and from the PuppyPalooza dock diving event!

Detour Winery is located in Keymar, Md.  We drove on some really beautiful country roads to get there. The winery provided free tastings of their wines for the dock dogs participants, and offered wine by the bottle or glass for sale.  They were also selling a really cool wine “sippy cup” that I just HAD to have…!

This was the first contest that we have attended where the dock was set up into a pond instead of a pool.

Although it started out as NOT Cello’s weekend, she wrapped it up nicely with a spot in the finals, and earned Second Place in the Masters Division Finals with a jump of 22’8″, just one inch shy of her personal best.

Cello’s results from PuppyPalooza were as follows:

Day 1, Saturday, May 31

19′ 11″    18′ 8″      Cello did not place in this wave.

17′ 7″      19′ 6″       Cello did not place in this wave.

18′ 9″      20′ 8″      2nd place Masters Division ribbon

Day 2, Sunday, June 1

21′          19′ 11″     4th place Masters Division (no ribbon)

21′ 6″      21′ 4″       3rd place Masters Division ribbon

Masters Division Finals

22′          22′ 8″      2nd place Masters Division Finalist (ribbon, prize bucket, $50 cash prize)

Cello and her proud PaPa accepting their awards:

The Masters Finalists 6th place to first place, Left to right:

Congratulations, Cello and Brian!

2nd Place Masters Division Finalist, 21′ 8″