FROME DOG TRAINING CLUBAPRIL/MAY NEWSLETTERPlease check notice boards for updates or visit www.fromedogtrainingclub.co.uk
DISPLAYSFrome hospital 11th July
A.G.M.
This years Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 15th June at Beckington village hall. Please support the club and attend this meeting if you can, there will of course be a raffle, refreshments and a trophy presentation.
RESULTSPlease e-mail or give in writing to Sam your competition results, as you can imagine this time of year there are a lot of dogs competing and it is difficult to get round everybody. If you give Sam your results they will appear in the news letter. 4th May at Lackham. Oscar came 1st in medium Agility even with a few penalty points but got disqualified in the Steeplechase. Floyd got a clear round in the large agility and competed in the Steeple Chase.
Floyd:
Steeple Chase - Disqualified went under the first jump but after that was fine. The extra height of first jump put me off as the jumps for large dogs were higher than at Club.
Agility - Finished 11th out of 45 with 5 pts for missed weave entry. Good round apart from that.
Oscar:
Agility - Disqualified after jump 3. Fell into the first trap. A tunnel was more interesting than where my dad was despite him giving me enough notice and block the entrance off. I ignored two commands and I think was I getting used to the new environment
Steeple Chase - Finished 8th out of 34 with a clear round. I got rosette for clear round and was 2 places outside a place. Good day out and long day, we both felt the experience has served us well even though we were both disappointed with our first efforts, we seemed to focus more on the second attempts .We would like to thank all the trainers for their time in training us and felt we did not let you or ourselves down in our first outing. Our parents both had their purple Frome Shirts on and look forward to competing again. JERSEYWell done to all members who went to Jersey, here are some results:
Angela & Dale 9th Agility, And 2 clear rounds in jumping. Kirry and Summer 5 Clear rounds and at the end was presented with a ‘judges special’ and 15kg bag of food and a teddy bear.
Carol& Chloe 2x4th 1x3rd . Made the final and disgraced herself!!! Barney and Izzy, 2 clear rounds each. Pebbles on the other hand was having too much fun air-scenting for pheasant, so nothing new there.
David & Charlie. Worked hard and competed in 11 courses, trashing them all but the last one where they won a teddy bear!!!!!! WORCESTERAngela & Dale . Jumping grade 1-7 clear. Angela & Spring Jumping grade 1-7 clear, and clear in agility.
Carol & Barney, 3 clear, Izzy 1 clear, Pebbles 3 clear (must have been a nice dry day). Lucy nearly clear, Chloe no clear and is going to semi-retire due to old age/general health (under great protest of course). SICKNESSThere has been several poorly dogs within the club recently. It therefore seems another good opportunity to inform you that if your dog shows signs of sickness , diarrhoea, coughing, or any illness, please do not bring them to club. Phone/e-mail a trainer or committee member to say your dog is not well.
If you bring a dog with an upset tummy to any of our classes you will be asked by a trainer or committee member to take your dog home. It is important for the health and welfare of all members of Frome Dog Club that poorly dogs are not mixed with the rest of our dogs, we have many elderly dogs and indeed young puppies that could become really ill if a nasty ‘bug’ was spread. Thanks for your consideration with this matter. Setting up at Agility Once again it has to be said that people are not turning up before 7.15 pm to help set up. The same few people are always there, and it does seem very unfair to me that is always the same people doing all the work.
This is not a person crusade on anyone in particular, but we have to address this issue, classes are starting later and later each week, I feel it’s not right that those turning up on time are losing valuable training time.
I would like to know anyone thoughts on this subject and suggestions on how to resolve it.
I feel like I’m always the bad guy having to bring the subject up all the time, when all I really want to do is come and have fun training you and my own dogs.
I am going to put this on the agenda for the AGM on 15th June.
Carol Scott.
BATH AND WEST
Well another excellent display was put on by the members of the club. It was a very hot day and all the handlers acted responsibly with their dogs and managed to keep them all from any ill affects from the heat (apart from a few getting a bit grumpy). The water trough was well used with most of the dogs having a dunk in at some point during the day!
The tricks and obedience kicked things off with a well rehearsed routine, the public seemed to enjoy the tricks and when the dogs don’t ‘comply’ is when we seem to get the best response from the crowd.
Next in came the helter skelter course, this went down well, seeing the dogs at speed.
Meet the breed was a real hit, the children seemed to enjoy coming and stroking the dogs, and all of our four legged friends behaved in a way to make any owner proud.
We took a break for lunch and then had a sponsored weave, Liam kindly said he would donate to the club charity and Bex had the fastest time through 48 weaves (blink and you would have missed it!)
We came back from lunch with more tricks and obedience followed by ‘catch me if you can’ this was fast and furious and gave the crowd a laugh, most of the dogs doing something completely unrehearsed and hilarious.
We finished the day slightly earlier for the sake of the dogs (and owners) health and the heat started to wear heavy.
So basically an excellent day, professional performance, but most of all I think we showed that owning and training a dog should be FUN, and that we at F.D.T.C all have a great time with our dogs. Many thanks to you all for making this a successful day.
Photos should be on website soon.....
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