Dog Daze caps the pool season at Lincoln Park

Fetchaholic.

Jump.

Splash.

Chomp on ball.

Swim back.

Get out of pool.

Shake off water.

Wag tail.

Jump.

Splash.

Chomp on ball.

Swim back.

Get out of pool.

Shake off water.

Wag tail.

Repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat.

Border collies Ripley and Deli spent an hour (not as much time as they wanted) fetching wet tennis balls from the Lincoln Park-Moyer Pool mid-day Saturday.

It was a little different, and more chlorinated, than the typical time they spend at Connected Lakes with their human companions, Cary Atwood and Jim Landis.

Atwood and Landis brought their dogs to the pool Saturday to participate in Dog Daze 2008.

Dog Daze is the one day a year the city of Grand Junction opens the pool solely for canine enjoyment, and the resulting wild and wet pandogmonium was truly an expression of dog joy.

Nancy Friedman’s golden retriever (crossed with the “local black stud”) Rudy normally swims the Snake River in Summit County. But the warmer climate in Grand Junction didn’t deter Rudy from fetch after fetch in the kid pool at Moyer.

Brandee Calton and her daughter, Kenide, loved watching their dog, Sage, a golden retriever they shave for Grand Junction’s hot summers.

“I love it, to see them all together. To see them all getting along just so out in the open,” Calton said. “They’re all doing what they love.”