The making of a DockDog

By Melanie Wong

VAIL — Meet Rowdy when he’s relaxing with his owners, Kathy and Greg Willis, and you wouldn’t guess by his mellow personality that he’s a champion jumper. “People will say, ‘He’s not very rowdy,’ but if you get him near a pool or he smells a pool, he’ll get so excited,” said Kathy Willis. “He has an on and off switch, and if it’s time to play, it is game on.”Rowdy, a six-year-old golden retriever, is one of the biggest stars of the four-legged variety at the GoPro Mountain Games, having cinched the DockDog Big Air title in the pro …

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