Thursday, September 21, 2006

Upcoming Seminar - Wallace Payne

Wallace will be in Bermuda 25Oct06 - 30Oct06 for a seminar, hosted byt eh Bermuda Working Dog Club

All are invited and encouraged to attend.

South Metro Atlanta Schutzhund Club

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Sports Fair 2006

It was a great time

We were given 4 lots on front st for a total of over 100'x40', we set up our booth with the banners, tv, videos, books, pamphlets and of course all the equipment. The space was huge so we invited the agility people to set up at the far end and share the demo area in the middle.

Ali and I had both Madison and Aron, Ann brought Basco, Jojo brought Nero and Kirista had her dobe pup Star.

The street was busy with over 50 sporting bodies from boxing, to lacrose, to sailing, darts, remote control cars/planes to Powerboat racing.....

I of course forgot to take pictures, but look for them soon on Islandstats.com

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Florence

Hurricane Florence blew through. It was slow, building throughout Sunday and peaking Monday around 11:00am. It was pretty minor, with very little damage I can see so far. The winds were only in the 85mph range maybe gusting higher, the waves off South Shore were up to 20-30 ft. A lot of people lost power but most was restored by last night. The surprise was to not have power at the office this morning. It has since been restored and we are up and running full speed.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Vacation

A week in Halifax was awesome. Relaxed, showed off my college town to my wife. All in all a great time. Even made the last direct flight back to the rock on Saturday before Florence came to visit.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Sports Fair 2006 - Postponed

The Sports Fair 2006 has been postponed to the 17th. THe rain was torrential this morning. Last year they made the move from a small event to trying to attract as many groups as possible and the Bermuda Working Dog Club was the only animal sport represented.

We set up a booth, all the equipment was alid out, and we did demos throughout the day. We even got a TV spot on the news with Aron coming over the A-frame. Here are a couple shots from last year thanks to Black and Coke, the Bermuda Party site.


Saturday, September 02, 2006

Protection

The pups managed to convince Ali to join us up at Port Royal this afternoon. It was a fairly quiet day, Ann brought Basco, Jojo brought Nero. Gunner has been diagnosed with early Heartworm... Jermaine, Wayne & Antoinette, Mark & Jeanette all stopped by to spectate.

We worked Aron's hold and bark. In the first round he looked to me on approach, in the second round we tied him off and through making miss he really got focused and ignored all external stimulus.

Madison came out firing on all cylinders. She burns out fast so we gave her a couple line bites, and then ran 2 blinds. She's a funny one, trotted out to the first blind, gradually picking up the run as she rounded the blind and flying into the 2nd blinds a couple good barks and the reward.