Club Closed Due to Kennel Cough

Welcome to the August newsletter

Thank you to all those who have attended displays so far, we hope you all enjoyed the experience, displays still to come:

Monday 31^st August (Bank Holiday) Corsley Show

Sunday 5^th September – Bath Cats and Dogs Home

We are also having a stall at Bath Cats and Dogs Home open day, so we are looking for some good quality cuddle toys to wrap up for a cuddly toy tombola to raise money for the club and Bath and Cats dog home. Any donations can we please have as soon as possible to give time to get wrapped. We are also looking for some cooks of homemade treats to do some cooking for us to sell on the stall as well.

We also need some volunteers to help run the stall from 10am until 5pm. We are not expecting you to give up the whole day but if you can spare a couple of hours please add your name to the form on the notice board or speak to Carol or Debbie to find out more.

Obedience

Liam will be setting up the ‘ring craft’ ring during Monday evenings, if you want to know what is involved in obedience competitions then go along and have a look.

Lansdown, Chippenham DTC Show

Thank you to all of you who helped out on ring 2, our ring ran very well, we had positive feedback and thanks from both judges.

As most of you will know FDTC had entered two teams for the YKC qualifiers for Crufts.  Both teams ran well – team one: The Frome Flyers – Gemma and Barney, Sarah and Rex, Heather and Dale, Lara and Meg, Kacey and Summer – came second.  Team two – the Frome Rabble – Gemma and Benji, Sarah and Harvey, Heather and Izzy, Lara and Pebbles, Kacey and Kia – came third.  This was out of 13 teams, all the girls handled the dogs well.

So the Frome Flyers are off to Crufts in 2011 – well done all. 

We do plan to have a coach to take those of us who would like to cheer them on – keep an eye on the notice board for more details.

Member’s results

25/7/2010 Beeches Veterinary Centre

Flynn won ‘best 6 legs’ and ‘most handsome dog’ – then went onto win ‘best in show’ – well done.

8/8/2010 Lansdown Show

Clear rounds for:

3^rd Place for Kia in Grade 3 Agility

Grade 3 Agility – Dale, Harvey

Grade 3 Jumping – Dale, Spring, Kia

Lucy and Dylan

4^th in Grade 1 Jumping

10^th in Grade 1 Agility

14^th in Grade 1&2 combined Agility

Well done for your first KC show

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Dates for your diaries:

FDTC Birthday Party - Monday 20^th September

Hill House farm from 7pm until 10pm. agility games, novelty show, retrieve the sausage and much, much more !!!

Please check out the party notice board for all the details

Christmas Meal -Friday 10^th December

The Bell Inn, Buckland Dinham, please see Carol for more information.  We do have a limit to the number who can attend.

Combined Agility and Obedience Christmas Party Monday 20^th December

This is when the doggies get to play party games etc. More details to come.

Christmas times

FDTC will finish training sessions following the Dogs Christmas party on the 20^th December.  All sessions will recommence w/c January 3^rd 2011.

Bad weather arrangements

Last year we had several sessions cancelled due to bad weather, this year we hope that this will not be the case, but we wish to be prepared and ensure you have access to information on sessions.

You will see that the club’s contact details are on the top of this newsletter and will be on future newsletters.  Any information on cancelled sessions will appear on the website and facebook.  The club’s mobile phone will also have a revised message advising club members of any cancellations of classes.

For those members who have email access, we would also request that you provide us with your email address; we can then produce a distribution list of club members and advise you by email too (we could also email the newsletter to you  – save those trees!)

In the event of bad weather and to assist us in making these decisions, Jan will contact Mouse (owner of Hill House) and request advice re access to Hill House.  In all of last winters bad weather there was only one day which Mouse could not get out of Hill House, the road through Buckland Dinham is always well gritted.

Payment of fees by standing orders

When you next come to pay your fees you will be asked if you would like the option of paying your fees by standing order, monthly.

Thank you

To Derek Matthews (Lyn’s husband) and David Elliott for putting new plastic jump cups on the wings.

To Gemma who has put so much work into obtaining prizes for the Grand Raffle – ‘gift of the gab’ or what!!

Thank you for taking the time to read the newsletter, any comments or items you wish to contribute to FDTC newsletter please forward to Debbie Elliott either at a training session or via email:

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Well done every one who was at Lansdown today.
We were thanked by both judges and Chippenham Agility Club for running such a good ring.
We had success in the YKC with a second and a third in the team events.

So we now have a team going to Crufts next year.

Personal success was had by a few in individual runs.