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Volume 12 • Issue 9 • September 2017
Dogs & Discs: For the Park & Beyond By Susan Spisak
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isc dogs, Frisbee dogs, flying dogs. Whatever you want to call ‘em - it’s a fun sport for canines. The dog runs, leaps, some!mes adds a spin or twist and grabs - mid-air - a disc or Frisbee that’s thrown to him and returns it for another round. It is notches above the standard fetch. To learn more, I called Mike Piazza, a mul!ple world finalist and world record holder in canine Frisbee and the current number one professional canine Frisbee performer in the world (Piazza prefers to call the sport “canine Frisbee,” but many call it “disc dog” because “Frisbee” is a trademark name). Piazza, a Massachuse"s na!ve, has 25 years of experience and performs through his entertainment venture, The Flying High Dogs. This cool sport hasn’t exploded in Maine yet (the closest club is
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