Mark Muir performs with Gipper during a recent practice session.
Disc dogs qualify for world championship
Pike County residents Mark and Stacey Muir and their four world class border collies have been training hard for upcoming competitions. The newest addition to the Muir family and the Georgia Irish Disc Dogs is 5 and a half month old puppy Thunder.
Two of the Muir’s dogs, Rocket and Gipper, are world champion disc dogs and have many titles and championships to prove their talent. Irish won her first big competition last month.
Recently, Gipper, Rocket and Irish qualified for the Frisbee Dog World Champion-ships to be held later this year. Not only did Mark Muir qualify with all three dogs for the Frisbee Dog World Championships, his wife Stacey qualified for her first World Championships ever with Rocket.
“She’s doing distance competition right now. This is her first time so I was really excited,” Mark Muir said. “She didn’t beat Gipper but she did really good. I was really proud of her.”
For more, read the Wednesday, June 9 print/eEdition of The Pike County Journal-Reporter.
Recently, Gipper, Rocket and Irish qualified for the Frisbee Dog World Champion-ships to be held later this year. Not only did Mark Muir qualify with all three dogs for the Frisbee Dog World Championships, his wife Stacey qualified for her first World Championships ever with Rocket.
“She’s doing distance competition right now. This is her first time so I was really excited,” Mark Muir said. “She didn’t beat Gipper but she did really good. I was really proud of her.”
For more, read the Wednesday, June 9 print/eEdition of The Pike County Journal-Reporter.
I will be at The Rock Ranch on July 24th doing some shows for them at their dog days of summer event.
I have been truly blessed with these wonderful dogs and I hope to do some things around Pike County in the future.
I had been asked about helping out at the July 3rd Festival here in Pike County but I had allready committed to doing shows at Fort Benning on this date for the troops for their Fourth Of July Celebration.
Kim we will still be getting together in the future I have not heard anything yet.
Thanks again Pike County, Yep I am one of those people who moved to Pike County from a County North of here, sorry for invading Pike when My wife and our pups moved down here but we LOVE it down here and our proud to call it our home.
Might sound corny but it is so peaceful around our house at nighttime and that is one of the things I love about Pike County so much.
Take Care everyone and Thank You so much for the kind words and hopefully in the future my dogs will get to put smiles on peoples faces in Pike County.
Remember if you asked for me to possibly do a demo, it does cost me a little bit of money to make this happen. I am not in the sport of it to make money I have a regular fulltime job and our schedule is booked really far in advance. And unlike some I love going to competitions just as much as doing shows. There are probably 10,000 frisbee dog teams across the world and 4 Huge Organizations so it is a lot bigger then most think.
We have to tell the organizers at events where we are from I usually try not to put my city and try to get them to say I am proudly from Pike County Georgia!
Thanks again
Mark Muir
If you ever have any questions please contact me thru my website www.georgiairishdiscdogs.com and we live off of West Road if you ever see us outside throwing plastic to the dogs stop by and say Hello.
We are in the process of trying to build a small field for the dogs to play on now.