Looking at the pictures, billboards or videos of past DockDogs competitions, it's easy to spot amazement on the faces of audience members. To the uninterested party, DockDogs can sound like dogs ...

Steve Sanchez spends up to seven months each year traveling across the U.S. and Canada watching dogs jump into pools, chasing after toys that their owners tossed out into the water for them to fetch.

Watching furry, four-legged friends run full-speed across a wooden platform, leap into the air to catch a toy, and land with a big splash in the pool below encapsulates so many emotions into one event ...