Hair Of The Dog Flyball Club

07/24/2025

Although we had a smaller crew, and may not have taken many videos to prove it, our green dogs crushed it in Escanaba! 💪

Not featured in this clip, is Murphy (border collie) another green dog who is catching on quick-watch out flyball world because here we come! 😜

07/24/2025

The team spent the past weekend at the 13th Annual Fundraiser Tournament in Escanaba. It's one of our favorite tournaments, not just because of the location, but because it benefits the 2 area shelters. This year the Crafty Kids raised over $4,000 for the shelters with their bracelet sales, pawprint artwork, dog walking and Rainbow Bridge Memorial poster. Additional funds were raised with a co****le tournament, raffle, and apparel sale. it was a very successful fundraiser for sure.

On to our brags: First and foremost, a shout out to the best box loader, Tim for taking care of our team on the lanes every tournament - you're a big part of our successes!

Our team was a mix of veteran dogs in Zing, Forest and Willow, and green dogs in Cooper and Skye. While passing has been one of our weaknesses, our Jr handler Alex/Cooper was able to get a perfect pass on Saturday, and Karen/Forest and Michele/Skye each had 2 perfect passes on Sunday! A huge thanks to Rosalyn Russell for calling passes for us, which helped make those perfect passes possible! With 2 of our regular start dogs out, Becky/Zing stepped in to fill that spot and did an amazing job. Our Preflight dogs Electric, Lavin and Murphy are showing great progress and should be ready for singles in no time.

Unfortunately, we were missing some teammates due to dog injuries/illnesses, but they are on the mend and hopefully will be back playing with us soon.

The weekend also included bubbles and sq**rt guns with the kids, Rainy-Day Camper Trivia via FB messenger for the adults, campfires, s'mores, and swimming at the lake. It was one of our favorite tournaments to date, and we're looking forward to our next one!

06/20/2025

This weekend we are heading out to the Ionia County Fairgrounds for the Autumn Rose Memorial Flyball Tournament, hosted by the Daisy Dashers Flyball team. Unfortunately, 2 of our veteran team dogs suffered injuries this week, and they had to be pulled from competition. We had to do some adjustments to our lineups, but we will still be sending a Standard Team, 2 Pairs and 3 Preflights to have fun. Zing and Tazer will be rooting for their teammates from the sidelines while they recover.

12/25/2024

11/07/2024

Its been a week and a half since we went to the Tournament of Champions at Purina Farms in Gray Summit MO. It was a very emotional weekend, full of tears and joy for many of our teammates. Shortly before leaving, 3 members had to pull from the tournament due to an unexpected passing of a family member. Then another member tested positive for covid and wasn't sure if they could still make the trip. Once the team arrived, one of the dogs became ill, and later passed from his illness.

It was a lot to go thru in such a short period of time, but everyone was able to pull together and support each other for some great accomplishments.

While we had to pull our border collie dream team and one of our pairs teams from the Dream Team/Pairs/Singles Challenge on Friday, Hannah and Winston took 1st place in their division and Becky and Zing took 4th place in their division in Singles. Brooke with Roland and Paige with Tupelo took 1st place in their division, and honorary member Jill with her dogs Skye and Jack, who was handled by Ronda, took 3rd place in their division in Pairs.

Our Meet Me In St Louis team of Susie with Bonsai, Jill with Jack and Skye, Brooke with Raleigh and Paige with Tupelo did amazing. Jack was the veteran dog, bringing much needed experience to the team. Skye handled the anchor spot like a pro. Bonsai rocked the start dog position even though he's still on the green side. Raleigh was solid in her comeback, after an injury had kept her sidelined since Escanaba, and Tupelo ran her first ever tournament, stepping up after the loss of teammate Riggs, and did a fantastic job. Because they were a pickup team they couldn't place, but the mostly green team was able to hang with the other teams in their division. There are still some things to work on, but these dogs have bright futures.

Our Tournament of Champions team of Brooke with Roland, Becky with Zing, Karen with Forest, Jessica with Willow and Ronda with Tazer, had some struggles thru the weekend, but with some strategic planning were able to make it into the finals in their division and went home with 2nd place plaques.

Our box loader extroadinaire Tim was awarded the title of MVP Box Loader. It was an award that was well deserved. He supported our teams and helped other teams all weekend while dealing with the sudden loss of his best bud Riggs, who was supposed to be running his retirement races over the weekend.

This was the first Tournament of Champions event for many of our teammates, and while there are still things to work on, as a whole we had a pretty good showing with multiple placements.

Thank you to all our flyball friends and family who helped, encouraged and cheered us on over the years. You are a big part of our clubs success.

We are all looking forward to a little rest, then back to practicing for next year.

08/16/2024

On the last weekend of July, the club made its way up to the U.P. for the 12th Annual UP Shelter Fundraiser flyball tournament. We had 1 singles, 2 pairs and 1 team entered.

Our singles dog Winston continues to improve his times and had a best time of 4.757 on Saturday and 4.867 on Sunday.

Our Pairs team of Cooper/Riggs had a best time of 11.105 on Saturday and a 10.373 on Sunday

Our Pairs team of Skye/Roland had a best time of 10.273 on Saturday and a 10.241 on Sunday.

Our team consisted of Bonasi, Zing, Forest, Willow, Tazer and Roland. They finished 2nd in their division on Saturday with a best time of 18.897 and 3rd in their division on Sunday with a best time of 19.301 This was Bonsai's first time running on the team and he did a fantastic job as start dog. Zing Forest and Willow were consistent all weekend and Tazer only had 2 spit balls all weekend which is something he's struggled with.

Bonsai earned his Top Flight title pin and his Level I & Level II bars
Roland earned his Top Flight title pin and
Tazer earned his Top Flight Executive Level II bar

We had a little fun with an inter- club competition for our raffle entries, where 2 teams were assigned a cooler to fill. There was a lot of friendly trash talking, but in the end both coolers turned out great and helped raise a lot of money for the 2 shelters.

Everyone had a great time on and off the lanes, and we saw great improvements all around. This is definitely a favorite tournament and we can't wait to come back next year!

Next stop, we are headed off to Monroe for the No Work, All Play Tournament on labor day weekend.

06/19/2024

On June 1st and 2nd we sent 1 Team, 2 Pairs, 3 Singles and 1 Preflight to Henry, IL for the Weekend Pass Tournament hosted by Asylum Unleashed.

Leland was our Preflight dog, and he did well with passing drills and running head to head against fellow club dogs Tupelo on Saturday and Roland on Sunday.

Our Singles dogs were Winston, Riggs and Roland.
Winston had a best time of 5.208
Riggs had a best time of 5.311 and
Roland had a best time of 4.649

Cooper and Bonsai ran pairs for the first time and had a best time of 11.315 seconds.

Skye and Raleigh also ran pairs for the first time, and had a best time of 10.469 seconds.

All the dogs are doing well and are moving up thru the ranks. It won't be long before we have a second team running.

Our Team dogs were Hestia, Zing, Forest, Willow and Tazer with Raleigh as a backup. We did have some struggles with interference and ball spitting throughout the weekend, but were able to manage 3rd place on Saturday with a best time of 18.773 and 4th place on Sunday with a best time of 18.935.

Zing and Forest earned their Top Flight Executive Level I titles and Raleigh earned her first team points and her Top Flight title.

We're definitely not perfect and have some things to work on, but as a whole, the dogs and handlers did great.

After racing on Saturday, we had some team bonding time with a pack walk consisting of 13 people and 21 dogs, and a team game night around the campfire.

This was our clubs first time participating at this event and we had a blast. The tournament was well run, and the venue and camping were fantastic. We will definitely be returning.

04/27/2024

We had 2 team members with birthdays this week. One was our box loader extraordinaire, team muscle, team outfitter and all around good sport for dealing with a team of women - Tim Braun! And the other was our Mr. Consistent, run any position, ready to jump in when needed - Zing! We hope your birthday week was a great one!