Young and New Dog Training Night

In Attendance:

Shannon/Keeper
Terri/Luna
Jocelyn/Zumba
Roberta
Jolene/Lync
Amanda/Leo
Kim/Rundle
Maureen/Rhona
Donna/Sport/Swift
Michelle/Bezzie 


The dogs that were able  to take all 4 jumps and retrieve off the box practiced just that.  The new dogs that are just learning practiced retrieving with enthusiasm and retrieving over one jump.  They also practiced taking 2 jumps in a row, fun!!  We also practiced taking the bells off of the box.   Everyone is working very hard and coming along so well, it is just an awesome group of people!

We also had the pleasure of Judy from Due South come down for some practice with Drummer and Castle, it was great to see her as always

Practice

Baby Rhona owned by Maureen is one of the pups in training :)

 Tonight's practice was for the dogs that are trained and on a team....

In Attendance:

Jolene/Kort
Amanda/Pixel/Brit
Roberta/Karma
Gord, Terri/Luna
Shannon/Keeper
Michelle/Bezzie
Jocelyn/Zumba
Judy/Kona/Mazie/Roxy
Tina/Jethro

Not too much to report, all the dogs are doing amazing, making very few mistakes.  We rock :)

Changes

 We had a busy practice on Thursday, we have many members and upcoming dogs so Amanda and Shauna have come up with a schedule to suit everyone and give each handler and dog the individual training they require as well as the space to do it in, below is the schedule.......


TRAINED TEAM DOGS- defined as dogs who are steady and don't make many mistakes, or long term team members (ie. Bosley, Karma,  Kort, Jethro, etc)

IN TRAINING TEAM DOGS- defined as dogs who are assigned to a team but still need training and proofing (ie. Zumba, Sunar, Keeper, Bezzie, Cookie, Swift,)

NEW DOGS- defined as dogs who either just started training or are putting things together. (ie. Rhona, Rundle, Lync, Jade, Maggie, Hawk etc)

If you are not sure which category your dogs fits in please ask me.

We will be alternating weeks as follows

October
16 Team practice- team and dogs in training 
23 Training Night- dogs in training and new dogs
30 Team practice- team and dogs in training

November
6 Training Night- dogs in training and new dogs
13 Team Practice- team and dogs in training
20 Training Night- dogs in training and new dogs
27 Team Practice- team and dogs in training

New Team Members :)

Last night we had a pracitice and found out what teams the new dogs were going to be on!  This is always so exciting when your hard work finally results in being able to race!

Welcome Keeper & Shannon to No Nonscents!|
Welcome Bezzie & Michelle, and Jocelyn & Zumba to Full of Nonscents!

These dogs and handlers will be racing for the first time at our Lethbridge show in November, so exciting!!

We also have some new upcoming youngsters, belonging to members, that have begun their training.  Lync, Rundle, Leo and Rhona are learning the ropes and will be on a team once they have everything figured out :)

We definitely have to arrange a photo session to update our group picture!!

The Team

Tonight our Scenthurdle group got together and went out for supper, kind of an end of the season wrap up.
We have  such a great group, we really care about each other.   We have so many new members and dogs ready to race , it is so awesome!  A few of them will be debuting at our local show in November which is very exciting.  It will be nice for them to be on home ground so to speak.
We also have a few members who are now training a second dog as well.  
Here's a picture of most of us from tonight, Amanda is missing as she was taking the picture, Gord was home sick and Shannon arrived later so she isn't in it either, but aren't we a great looking group!

July Race

Swift back in 2011, taken by Wendy Devent

Another race is in the books!  This year we didn't have the tornado so we were able to finish all of our races!
It seems to always be our two teams, No Nonscents , Full of Nonscents, Due South, and the "Fun" teams that come down from Calgary to race here.  They really are fun too!  Such a great group of people and it is so relaxed.
We were thrilled to have Swift back, she only raced one race but she was amazing!, super fast and was so happy to be playing with us again!

This year we had to worry about mosquitoes, omg they were horrible!!!! I came home looking like I had the measles! 

All that being said we have some new titles to report!!

Actually JETHRO got his SCENTHURDLE DOG CHAMPION TITLE in June but I forgot to report it, Congratulations guys!!!!!!

ROXY finished her SCENTHURDLE EXCELLENT TITLE, congratulations !!!!!!!

Next race Spruce Meadows at the end of July, with any luck it will be mosquito free :)

Lethbridge Races

As always we had a ton of fun at out races held here this past weekend, we have some new titles to be proud of!

Congratulations to.....

Brit, new SCENTHURLE DOG CHAMPION !!

Catch, new SCENTHURDLE DOG CHAMPION !!

Karma, new SCENTHURDLE  DOG CHAMPION !!

Epic, new SCENTHURDLE DOG EXCELLENT !!

Way to go guys!