Collection of treats for RAF dogs

Thanks to everyone who has contributed dog treats, these and any more donated next week, will be delivered to Brize Norton for the 49 RAF Police dogs who have just returned from duty in Afghanistan.

New term!

A new term starts this week. Looking ahead, we will not be training Christmas week, Wednesday 26th December.

A full weekend of training!

Thank you to Matthew Goodliffe our guest trainer for last Saturday, for giving us a brilliant day of training :-)
We also had two workshops Sunday morning; one for those clever enough to qualify for Olympia, and one building weave skills for those dogs working towards independent weaves at who are not quite at the upright pole stage. In the first Olympia workshop we worked on some things that are specific to that final. Everyone was looking really good and we had a really fab couple of hours, some people came away with some specifics to work on that we will hone in the second workshop in December, but overall a very positive bit of training. Great to welcome Dave Munnings and Dan Shaw who were working their young dogs there as well. In the second workshop we worked on weaves using channels and 2x2's, made some really good progress, with all the dogs building motivation and drive for the weaves and showing some really nice (and fast!) weave action. A great weekend of training, and thank goodness we have an indoor venue, the rain lashed down!! I feel so much happier knowing there is less risk of dogs slipping or falling in our lovely indoor venue, especially now that winter is upon us (of course it is much more pleasant for the handlers too!) :-)

Technical difficulties

It seems that some emails that I send are not getting to everyone, and some emails that people are sending are not getting to me! Sorry about this, until it is resolved please resend emails if you do not get an answer!

Kennel cough

There is a lot of kennel cough about at the moment. Please do not come training if your dog is coughing! Please do not come training if your dog has been in contact with other dogs that have kennel cough!

This week is week 9 of the current 10 week term. Yesterday was the last open show of the year for me, I saw some nice work from club members and was really pleased with my two dogs as well, Deece bought home two trophies and Zazzy had three top ten places in the North Downs show. I greatly apologise for the delay in booking solid dates for our training plans, it seems there are many pheasant shooting days planned in the woods nearby and obviously I don't want to be running any training days when that is going on! If I cannot get a definitive response this week we can either move the weekend training to a different venue or hold some classes after dark (assuming the shooting has to stop when they can't see what they are shooting!)