00:00Obviously we've been open for three years now and we had people asking constantly, you know,
00:04do you have dogs on the boards, do you have dogs? Because of the confined space we just haven't
00:07basically and we were looking at our calendar for this year and just thinking well can we do
00:11something different, can we let people bring their dogs onto the lake, have a bit of fun
00:14so we had our pops up hour every Friday morning at 10 to 11 and yeah just gives people the
00:20opportunity to come down, hire the boards, pop their dogs on and just get out there and have
00:25some fun with the, you know, pop on a sup basically. I think there's probably more benefits for the
00:29humans because it's just, it's a brilliant, it's just brilliant fun, you know, your dog,
00:34your best mate out on the board with you, having a great time. Some dogs like to jump off,
00:38swim around, they just love being out in that open space and open air but we've found even our dogs
00:43that aren't massive swimmers just sort of seem to enjoy sort of gliding along above the water and
00:47they're quite sort of inquisitive about what's going on around them and I just think there's
00:51got to be something in that for them definitely. I was a manager last year but we've got Jack this
00:58year so due to health issues I'm going to be moving into the shop instead. Paddleboard is a lot
01:06with my husband and the children on holiday, we had one for a long time and then met Reece and he
01:14offered me a job here. And what do you like about paddleboarding? It's just, there's no, there's no
01:20noise, it's completely silent, it's not like a boat and you can lie on it, you can stand on it, you can
01:28sit on it, it's just really relaxing.
01:31She starts off quite nervous and then you can feel her calm down, you can feel her body get
01:39more and more relaxed. Yeah, she likes to cuddle on the board and I think she feels safe because
01:45she's with me as well. So it's like you're in charge Mum. Is she the kind of dog that enjoys the water?
01:53She'll go into the water, she'll go for a swim but she's not a natural water, she's not like a spaniel,
01:59a natural water dog that heads straight for it. When we're on the board she wouldn't jump in
02:06off the board, she likes to stay next to me. I think it depends dog to dog, I mean it's, I think your dog
02:12wants to enjoy the water, definitely that's going to help them have an enjoyable time out. We recommend
02:16a life jacket for all dogs just because a lot of people don't know how their dogs can swim in deep
02:20water, so we've put life jackets on our dogs as well. But yeah, any dogs welcome along, you know,
02:25as long as they're going to be out in the water looking like they're having a good time then that's
02:29all we want really. I'll be here all the time, yeah. I mean the shop's only just on Sheep Street up
02:35there, so yeah, after work I'll be straight down with the dog. So we open on April 5th,
02:42we do our first pups up on the 12th of April and then we run basically through until the weather
02:46closes us. So last year that was the end of September, the year before it was the end of
02:50October but all summer long, you know, as long as the sun's shining we're here, we're open.
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