Too-crowded-space, contest, hot dog thief, and my youngest person

Today my people took me to Paws for a Cause. This is where a bunch of people and Dogs attached to each other by leashes get in a really tight space and try not to bark at each other. Somehow this helps the Dogs and Cats who do not have homes.

This type of thing is called "fundraiser". I know that all Dogs and Cats should have people to love, but some are not lucky. I am RescueDog - once I did not have a home either! So my people did something called "donation" to help.

My youngest person decided we should go in a contest.

Here we are practicing.

We went away from all the white-tents and loud-noises and too-crowded-dogs. We had a Walk. We enjoyed the cool breeze. I played Tug with Leash. And we practiced.

In case you can't tell, I am doing walk-between-people-legs-backward-and-forward-exactly-like-the-people-legs.

After we had practiced, we went back into the too-crowded-space and waited for our turn.

My name came very loudly out of the big-black-too-loud-hurt-ears-box, and my youngest person took me up in front of all the people and Dogs.

Do you see what a Good Dog I am? How closely I watch my youngest person?

Let me tell you a secret. My youngest person had hot dog in her hand.

I was a Very Good Dog.

Some of the other dogs did not pay attention to their people when it was their turn up front. They ran around in the open space, or stared at the other Dogs and ignored their people. Not me. I paid very good attention to my person, and I did exactly what she wanted!

There was a boxer-dog also in the contest. He won a prize for biting at a balloon, and then he tried to steal my hot dog. When I told him please-back-off by growling he jumped on my body and we had a dog-fight.

This happened after our Trick, so I hope it's not what made the judges not pick us. I didn't start the fight, honest I didn't. I just asked him to leave my hot dog alone.

A small-black-dog won a prize for doing many fancy Tricks, and also a Dog with a curly tail like mine who did a funny woo-woo-woo noise with his mouth.

My youngest person was a little bit sad because the judges did not choose us. But not me, I wasn't sad. I was very happy. Do you know why?

Because I had so much fun with my youngest person!

I gave her all my attention, and she gave me all of hers. I felt very special. And she gave me lots of hot dog and petting and nice words.

I'm not sure I liked the tight space with all the other dogs, and I certainly did not like it when someone tried to steal my hot dog, but I would do Tricks with my youngest person again any time. I love you, youngest-person-of-mine!