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Hop River Air Dogs Here you’ll find all of the information about the upcoming dock diving season at Hop River Shepherds!

09/29/2025

Some exciting updates for 2026 (and things that I think make dock diving at Hop River even better):

✨I (Jenn) and Scott (if time allows) will be becoming certified judges.

This will allow us to keep things “in house” and to allow our dear friend Lisa to actually come participate in our events

✨ I will be becoming not just a certified judge, but a UKC certified judge.

What this means- we will be holding Hop River specific events in which you can earn UKC titles for your dogs.
Once I am certified, I will be sharing a link in which you can register your dog to start earning titles.

This also means we can participate in the Super Retriever Series along with our friends in Catskill.

✨We will start looking at our calendar as soon as possible to get some dates on board.

You likely won’t see Scott or I as a judge until summer time, as we will need to get to some events to shadow and learn to judge first, so you’ll likely see Lisa or Joe at our first couple of events.

❗️I appreciate you bearing with us when it comes to events. We unfortunately can not plan a full years calendar at a time, as we all are also dedicated to French ring, PSA, IGP, our families and our clients for our respective businesses.

I wish we could be, but we are doing our best and heading into 2026 with a refreshed game plan.

07/24/2025

Updates:

A September event (the weekend of UAG for those not attending)

And will probably try and squeeze in our annual Oktoberfest event 🤍

Links to follow

06/13/2025

Hi friends!

After discussing with our judge Lisa, due to the forecasted weather and the lower entries (due to the strawberry cluster and a few other conflicting events) we are going to postpone our first event.

I will send emails to those of you that did register and keep an eye out here for the updated date!

Hi guys! Wow, long time no talk. I can’t believe it’s already 2025 and we’re heading into warmer weather. Thanks to the ...
03/27/2025

Hi guys!

Wow, long time no talk. I can’t believe it’s already 2025 and we’re heading into warmer weather.

Thanks to the amazing Jayne Phair I have a calendar of other Dock events in the area, and am finally going to sit down and get some things on the calendar.

My question to you:

Do we like two day events? One day events? A mix of both?

I like to host a regional qualifier because it’s the only one in CT, but outside of that, the world is our oyster!

We usually try and do May as our first event, but find it’s a bit chilly still

Thoughts?

We could start in June, and also do an August and early October?

I’d love any and all feedback back ✨

Hi guys! As some of you may (or may not) know, I lost two of my dogs this year. One of those dogs was the one that got m...
12/20/2024

Hi guys!

As some of you may (or may not) know, I lost two of my dogs this year. One of those dogs was the one that got me into dock diving.

It’s been hard for me to even think about entering a new season with out her, but as silly as it sounds I think she’d want that.

With that being said, I’ll be posting dates for 2025 events here before the new year.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

-Jenn

Got our logo for the 2024 Nationals made! If you’d like a shirt, comment size and quantity down below!
09/10/2024

Got our logo for the 2024 Nationals made!
If you’d like a shirt, comment size and quantity down below!

I took approximately zero photos this weeekend because I was busy having fun and working! Thank you to everyone who came...
09/02/2024

I took approximately zero photos this weeekend because I was busy having fun and working!

Thank you to everyone who came out to our End of Summer Splash! This was our biggest event yet, and probably my favorite because there were so many new faces-whether it be first timers or dogs and handlers from other organizations.

There were many personal bests had, and a new pool chase it record made (5.01!!)

Thank you to everyone for helping everything to run smoothly and efficiently, and for being good sports about the hour long downpour on Sunday.

Thank you so much to Lisa-Marie Griffith-Podielsky for judging, and to being so go with the flow. I think we make a pretty good team.

Thank you as always to Scott Beebe and Katherine Boggs for hosting/letting me run the show (and answering my 800 texts.)

🎃I had a few people ask me about an October event: if this is something you’d be interested in, comment down below! ✨

Otherwise, I’ll see you all in TN (or next year)

Good Morning! Today is a “light day” which means we will probably roll through splashes quickly. Tomorrow is a bit fulle...
08/31/2024

Good Morning!
Today is a “light day” which means we will probably roll through splashes quickly.
Tomorrow is a bit fuller of a day, so I would anticipate following close to schedule. ☀️

See you all soon!

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