As our terrier-ific athletes and doggone grrrreat coaches gathered at Rude Rec for practice, everyone noticed The Dogfather was missing!

In the past, he had been absent on Bichon-ness travel. But, since he’s now retired, no one was sure who left the gate open or where he ran off to when he got out.

There are rumors he headed to Collie-Bassets, Collie-fornia, to go bike riding in the Santa Paw-nica Mountains. But the question remains: Who let the Dogfather out?

Despite his absence, our lifters stayed paws-ative, showed pug-sistance and had a terrier-ific practice. Lifters Luis, Jimmy, Anthony, Andy, Ryan, Robert, Thomas and Mai-Lin worked with coaches Natalie, Sam, Josh, Jonathan, Rebekah and Anjelica to improve their fur-m and paw-er.

Ryan set a PR in the bench of 110!

Mai-Lin wore her now-famous “Please don’t make me do stuff” t-shirt. As before, we still made her do stuff.

We are just over two weeks from Regionals and, no bones about it, our pack is ready to compete!

Our next practice is this Thursday (March 26th) at M+M. Our next Rude Rec practice will be March 31st.

WOOF!