Tag - agility - Dog Handling - page 3

To content | To menu | To search

Tag - agility

Entries feed - Comments feed

Saturday, February 6 2016

Good Dog Training Newsletter - February 2016

By Raewyn Saville on Saturday, February 6 2016, 18:15 - Newsletters

A NEW CLUB YEAR


Here we are into another year. January gone already. This is the year that I start my retirement plan. From now on I will not be doing any dog training on Mondays. It is my day to do home things on my tiny farm and try to catch up on all the things that have been neglected for the last ten years while I worked to help Dog Sports Rotorua (Inc.) become a strong dog training institution. To me the best work the Club can do is helping people to understand their dogs and what makes them tick. How to get best results for a pet dog with a Good Citizen type program that I call Good Dog Training. This program has never been extended because the club got sidetracked into being an Agility Coaching Group, which is fine for the minority of people who have the time, money and ability to get somewhere in the sport, but for the most of the people it is just an entertainment for their dogs on the side.

The areas of agility I set out to broaden and improve have not been achieved to date, but maybe as the next four years roll by and I slowly stop doing all the conventional coaching for Fly and Agility, I might get the opportunity to go back to my original aim which was to build a sport using some Agility equipment that suited big dogs, Huntaway’s at the top end of big and Great Danes and Mastiffs and of course suitable for German Shepherds and Labradors as well. Traditional Agility is totally unsuitable for large boned dogs as their bodies would collapse trying to keep up with the kind of course work and speed of the collies and heading dogs. There is also way too much impact on the dogs bodies in traditional Agility even for the middle sized dogs and even if good coaching is about making sure the dogs are fit enough to do the sport and that they have all their techniques in place for takeoff and landing from constant jumping and their contacts are trained to the stand on the contact standard.

So I foresee that a much lower much more spread out sport for big boned dogs with equipment other than hurdles and tunnels that replace the contacts but still make it fun. A lot more of passing through interesting spaces perhaps hung with curtains to brush through. Teaching the dogs the age old circus trick of jumping through a hoop covered in tissue paper. All sorts of interesting stuff can be built into the game that is perfectly harmless.

The other end of that scale is to build specialist courses and equipment for the tiny dogs in a smaller ring with the gear closer together and still with some contacts like specially designed dog walks that are longer, lower and can change direction.

In my opinion this kind of game would attract a lot more dogs from ‘pet’ homes than the Sports of Agility and Flygility do currently. The rules and the protocols of Kennel Club Sports are so strict and unforgiving that the average person just doesn't want to cope. I think the time limit game is the best of all. You have forty seconds to do a specific course and every obstacle you do on the second round reduces the score. So if by the time you get to forty seconds you have completed the 18 original obstacles and gone into a second round then every obstacle reduces the forty seconds by 5 secs or 10 secs, depending on the difficulty of the obstacle concerned. Then you might end up with a bunch of people with the same scores, so let’s say the top ten then run off on the same course for a time. Then you have your winners. But every clear round within 40 seconds is worth something? Points maybe? Which enable you to progress to harder games. Everybody then has the opportunity to improve themselves without being stuck in Starters and Jumpers C for simply years until the dog finally falls to bits.

So that is what I set out to do but instead I have been coaching regular Agility for the last five years anyway. So that's fine and I am very proud of the members of Dog Sports who have gone on to Champs level Agility and followed Fly Tournaments around the top half of NZ and are becoming well qualified in the sports of their choices.

The Tuesday night class at 5.30 to 6.30 is Beginners Agility and we are in the first round of a set of five classes featuring:
1. Just Tunnels
2. Just Hurdles
3. Tunnels and Hurdles
4. Miscellaneous things like hoop and long jump A frame and dog walk, blind jump, wing jumps and chute tunnel
5. Weaves

Then we go back to the beginning of the round again and compare the progress we are making. Every step along the way will be tested out at our Club Competition which is held once a month. The exercises the new team are learning will be their test on the day.

I am also keen to make sure Sprints stay on the agenda at Club Competition. It is a great game for the dogs and it is very good warmup for the Agility courses. Warming the dog up for Agility is a sadly and badly neglected part of the sport. No wonder we have so many pulled muscles and ligament injuries and that is just the dogs. With the people running not being the fittest they can be, then the injury list grows there as well. Whenever I suggest a bit of a warmup run with the dogs everyone groans. But I am sure that if general fitness and fit for purpose strengthening work for both dogs and handlers was properly followed through then the opportunity for a long and fruitful career in dog sports would be enhanced. I will always feel that there is a lot more work to do to make sure that people really esteem the ownership of dogs. That it is seen as a desirable thing to participate in by the public generally and that really well trained and well behaved dogs can change the public perception that dogs are a menace.

Because the leaders in our community are always looking for votes and if wiping dogs out of huge swathes of the City is vote catching then I can guarantee it will happen. What a huge pity this will be. All because the people in power will not insist on a WOF for owners of dogs including a Canine Good Citizenship course to be passed over one year that ensures the dog is as safe as it can be. It would immediately reduce the number of people with dogs and it would make dog ownership a pride issue. Those who had dogs would be seen as good citizens too. It takes a year to train a dog to be a trustworthy loving house pet. It is much quicker to train a dog to do Flygility or Agility and the result is a highly skilled competitive dog wearing a muzzle outside the ring because nobody taught him any manners yet.

I do hope all of you who are part of Dog Sports Rotorua will attempt to enhance the Club this year by giving time and adding value. Without those who clean the clubrooms and mow the lawns and turn up to put up the Nala courses and are happy to sit and do timing and scribing and repair the gear and paint it and help with shed maintenance, there would be no club. There are never enough helpers at Fly Tournaments. Dog Sports could specialise in running Fly Tournaments and run six or seven a year which would give an income in the thousands. It is not that difficult to run a Tournament and there are virtually no tournaments listed for this year around New Zealand. If a committee of five got together and promoted the sport Dog Sports could be 'the place to go' for Flygility. I am unhappy to continue to do most of the work on my own. I have had about four good helpers over the years, but they come and they go. Right now it is down to two of us to carry the organisation and get the final results to the NZ Secretary.

Give it some thought and let Debbie or I know what information you need to participate more fully in management of Tournaments.



Mr. Sam Chan FDX 1.9.08 - 27.1.16


Chan___Raewyn1.jpg



















It was with a heavy heart that I had to let my Black Velvet Boy go to sleep forever. I tried so hard to keep him fit and going and he tried so hard to be the best but in the end his brain tumor won and he really didn't know what day it was or where he was and his confusion was driving him crazy.

The diagnosis happened in July 2014 and the prognosis was not good with the expectation that he might not see Christmas 2014. But he did and he saw Christmas 2015. He was almost blind and had lost some hearing and finally he was trying to drag the skin off his head to get at the source of his pain. In the last months of his life he achieved his first Agility AD Cert and Won First Place in Jumpers C Champs. If only I had had the opportunity to run him more in the last three years he would have been a very well qualified Pitbull/Whippet x Sharpei. His greatest love was Flygility and it wasn't possible to enter him anymore because once he got any distance from me he didn't know what to do. He was a dog I taught to work at great distances even with agility and to see him so lost and alone and unable on course work was heartbreaking

I believe he had spent quite a long time in pain and it may account for his short fuse with other people and dogs. There is no doubt that my Dog Management Skills had to match my training ability to keep Chan safe throughout his life. He never had issues within his own pack and welcomed every dog that came to live at our house. He loved to Mentor 'his' dogs and has loved having a harem in Boo, Fae and Sophie. I was concerned as to how he would get along with my boy pup Chip but he just accepted him as a big brother and taught Chip everything he knew including how to terrorise people at the gate.

He was separated from his Mother at 3weeks of age and brought up in Fordland’s by a family with two young boys who just adored him. He slept in their bed and they fed him goodness knows what. It wasn't an ideal start in life. I had an outreach program taking agility gear to a park in Fordland’s so that people could bring their dogs and get free Eukanuba food as it was sponsored by MasterPet. They came in their droves with their cats and dogs and did the tunnels and dog walk and hurdles and I talked to them about their Pets' Health. A lot of Pitbull crosses turned up and most weren't registered with the District Council. They seemed relatively benign. I fell in love with the Black Velvet Pitty Sharpei X five week old pup even though he looked very unusual and almost like a fetus. I encouraged the Children and made a special effort with the family as the puppy had some amazing traits. His sense of balance was incredible and he was very fast even at six and seven weeks. He reminded me more of a monkey than a dog. I was fascinated. I saw him for about two months and then they disappeared off my radar.

Out of the blue months later I got a call from a woman who reminded me she was the Mother of the two boys and the owner of the little black pup. She simply said ' Can you come and take this pup we can't keep him anymore’ I tried to tell her the boys would be heartbroken but she insisted. I thought that they were probably in trouble for non-registration etc. so I called by the house. The Father of the house was at home and he gave me the pup to take away. No matter what I said he insisted I take him. I asked him why. 'I have to give him the bash' he said ' he won't let my missus or I into the boy’s room'. At seven months he had mated the dog across the road and was literally terrorising the neighborhood taking on all-comers people and dogs. So I took him away.

The boys had called him Sam. I already had a Sam Donkey. He looked much like a Sharpei, with quite a bit of spare skin at aged 7 months ish so I decided that a Chinese name was appropriate. I asked some Chinese Friends about the name 'Chan', they told me it was a name for a' Good Man’ and showed me the Chinese Symbol for Chan. When I introduced him to a friend with a pup I was helping her to train she instantly labelled him Mr. Sam Chan, so we decided that was his proper name and Chan was the shortened version.

When Chan won his first Flygility Beginners Ribbon I took it to the boys who brought him up and took him with me. He knew where he was and knew the boys. They were happy to have the ribbon but they had another dog now, a pitbull jack russell cross, so I got out of there before I ended up with the ugliest looking dog in the world. Tied to a kennel in the yard surrounded by dust and faeces.

It took me two years to get Chan's behavior in a place where he was capable of being in a public place or attending events where there were large numbers of other dogs. Training him to do Flygility was no trouble at all, so then I started on Agility and he learnt that really quickly too. He was always a work in progress but he trusted me with all his heart. He was obedient to me to the letter of the law. My voice could stop him in mid-flight towards another dog when he had a wrangle in mind. He had a beautiful soul. There will never be another dog quite like him. I am proud to have owned him and shown him off at Agility Events. Even if there were times when he totally exhausted me the good times we had in the end were worth every bit of it.

RIP MY BABY BOY

no trackback

Saturday, October 10 2015

Good Dog Training Newsletter - October 2015

By Raewyn Saville on Saturday, October 10 2015, 18:09 - Newsletters

BOOK A PUP!

IMG_2716.JPG

Rob and Sue's 'Girl' is pregnant The Sire is Eunice Brother's 'Ranger' Ranger is a son of Chelsea' Marriners 'Shift' She is due to birth around the 22rd November. Pups will be ready for homing about 20th January.

If you want a real working dog for Agility Obedience and Fly. These are the pups for you. There will only be one opportunity. Christine Longton has already booked a pup

All funds after expenses from the puppy sales have been gifted to Dog Sports Rotorua.



TWO FEET FOUR PAWS ONE TEAM


The heading for this article came from Katie Douthet (Meg and Tyson). She has given me a lovely vinyl sticker for my car which says the above, which was very timely because I already had the planning to write about team work for this month's newsletter.

About a month ago Pam Sharp said to me that she was sure that if I ran KC, KC would be just great. You will have noticed that if Deb is physically unable I will run Sophie and of course Chris Hutchings frequently has enough of Boston and so I run him to get him back on the straight and narrow. This is all very well on the odd occasion but none of these dogs are 'MY' dog. I am not in the business of training dogs to run with me. I am in the business of building new teams. All of you are brand new to the world of dog handling. Some of you want to go on and do a specific sport with your dog. Some of you want to sit CGC tests. Today I got asked to help prepare a dog to do Gun Dog Trialing and a dear older man by the name of Allan comes with his lovely little Corgi girl so that they can be better prepared in the Breed Show ring. Team building is what it takes. Your personality and handling traits, your dog and your success story for your Team.

To me I don't care if you consider yourself absolutely useless at giving your dog directions and teaching it what you want. That is the bit I can teach you to do. I try really hard not to wipe out anybody's personality by superimposing 'my way' on everyone. Alex Jones and Shadroc have their own way of doing things; all I do is make the corrections to the bigger picture for her like enforcing the contacts in agility. Ann and Gemma are unique in their approach to their Agility work and that is great because it tells me that the handler has or is building a working relationship with their dog.

What is team work between animal and human about? The first thing that you notice is that the human part of the team is the motivator. It is the human being that decides how a dog will spend its life for better or worse. The dog is the slave if you like. Dog has no choice about how it spends its life. The owner will decide. If the owner decides it can't be bothered exercising, feeding, giving shelter, training, playing, or making sure the dog has water, then that is the lot of the dog. If on the other hand the handler decides that they want a well trained dog that they can......... take running in the forest...............take to visit hospitals and rest homes............... do agility with.............................enjoy in the house and be proud to walk in the neighbourhood then dog is stuck with that as well.

The Master lets the dog know what it wants and the dog needs to obey. If dog doesn't obey then the Master is likely to be grumpy in one form or another and the dog has to put up with being wacked, kicked or growled at even if dog is completely unsure what it is about. He quickly learns that if he cringes and blinks when being growled at, most Masters will feel sorry and the issue will be over.

We all like to think that we will be able to get our dogs to do simple tricks and everyone sets out with their baby puppy to get a 'Sit' It happens quite quickly either by accident or design and the handler gets a kick out of this bit of behavior he can ask for from the dog and dog gives it.

Let's face it that is just the tip of the iceberg. We know that a New Zealander has taught dogs to drive cars, and throughout history dogs have done some incredible and amazing acts and behaviors, so we know that dog is intelligent enough to want to do things FOR us.

In order to be a team though it is just a bit different. We want our dog to do things WITH us. In order to be a team member our dog needs to be able to make decisions on his own and follow our instructions as well.

How do we get the dog into a pattern of work that gives it independent work ability along with the ability to listen to the handler even when the distraction level is huge? The dog needs to learn to work no matter what. Think Guide Dogs for the vision impaired. They must never be distracted from their work.

It starts with kindness. It is my view that the less you growl at a puppy the more you give good dog rewards the more attentive and able the puppy becomes. It is more than that of course, it is making sure that every time you are with the puppy it is quality training time. In between puppy doesn't just wander willy nilly chewing up the whole house. Puppy is in his crate with his things when you are unable to attend to him or while you leave him alone. I am a total believer in hand feeding. I am ever amazed by the number of people who allow the dog to just about take their fingers off when they hand feed it. I see it in class all the time. This is a non-mastered dog. This is a dog who thinks the food in your hand is his right. It isn't and until he can take it nicely he is off my list for food rewards. The other important thing is that the handler is every keen to slap a pup on a lead and then proceed to pull it around, jerk its neck and head off and totally mess on any idea of loose lead walking. Think 'J' lead. From your hand to puppy's collar is a 'J' shape at all times. Practice it, coerce the dog into giving you a loose lead, and after a while all your walking on lead will be loose lead work. Nothing else will do.

When your young dog is showing interest in things around him you show interest too. Things that come to mind. Autumn leaves blowing in the park. Go with your Dog and investigate this new thing. A new thing in a place that it wasn't yesterday. Young dog's hackles go up and he needs to go and see why it is there. Take him on his loose lead and let him sniff at it. The minute you jerk your dog away from something that is interesting him is the minute you have a dog going crazy because there is something dangerous happening he thinks and he doesn't know what to do about it. Get inside your young Dog's head; watch him all the time so that you can see what he can see. If you want put your head down level with him and look in the direction he is looking and see what he can see.

Everyone who knows my Fae the Fat Fairy knows that she is vertically challenged. We were walking by the golf course at Hamurana one morning and she started nutting off at about six golfers walking along towards the green. I am not sure that we have ever passed golfers in that place before; they were obviously off to an early start. Fae was enraged and hackled up. So I got down beside her and looked at her eye level and what do you think I could see. Disembodied heads bobbing along above the foliage. That was all that was visible to her. Even I thought it was a weird sight. So I picked her up and got her up to my height and she calmed down straight away. Whew after all those heads did have bodies.

In order to train your dog to work over distractions and trust you to get it right, you absolutely have to be aware of what your dog is responding to whether that is positive or negative. If you can get this sense of understanding with your dog then your dog will start to believe in you. They will start to refer to you and ask for eye contact before they make decisions.

This is the point we get to in Control and Obedience Class and Good Dog Training lessons. If you are struggling to get to that point, don't rush on thinking you can still teach you dog to do - Agility- or - Obedience - or Gun Dog work or whatever, because you probably can layer on the required behavior to achieve something in the field you want to work in, but you will not have the bomb proof, reliable, trusting working relationship that makes the Team one of a kind, unique and exciting.

What am I saying? Take your time Get the basics and the rest of your Team work will follow for the two of you no trouble at all. Every dog is different, every person who is handling is different and every team will be very special.

I am very proud of all of the teams we have working at Dog Sports. These are people of huge commitment in today's busy world. Keep going you may find that your achievements at Dog Sports helps with your achievements in the whacky world that human beings live in as well. If not then at least you have a hobby that moves you into a totally different view of life. Just you and your dog out for a day no matter what the weather, understanding and enjoying each other. It doesn't get any better than that.

tauranga.jpg Team Shadroc with Alex and Richard

no trackback

Friday, September 11 2015

Good Dog Training Newsletter - September 2015

By Raewyn Saville on Friday, September 11 2015, 18:36 - Newsletters


TRAINING FOR AGILITY WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET RESULTS


Every now and again someone comes through the Dog Training ranks who turns out to be extraordinary. The team of Sue Thomas and Girl are pretty extraordinary. I like to write about some of our wonderful Agiliteers because I think they are inspirational. I am continuously inspired by Alex Jones and Debbie Trimbach. As Club role models they take some beating.

Sue came to me 18 months ago with a little Eye dog bitch pup called Girl. Apparently she came from a bit of a strange background and she was quite a reserved pup with people. Loved other dogs though. Her head was all over the place, obviously wanted to know what was happening everywhere at once. Sue and Partner Rob are part of the Management Team for Sumner Farms which is next door to our training grounds for Dog Sports. Because she was part of a Farm team, Girl's career was already mapped out as a sheep and cattle dog.
IMG_2716.JPG
Sue didn't know what she wanted the dog to do as a 'Dog Sport' but she wanted to be able to get the dog responding to her with the usual sits and stays and downs and stands and recall and of course in her farm job, sendaways. So we set about doing her puppy stuff and Girl spent a lot of time working other dogs and puppies that came into her eye. She spent a lot of time dropping her favorite tennis ball at someone's feet in the hope that they would biff it for her to retrieve and drop back at the same feet. With this going on there was no way that she would return to Sue when there were fun and games to be had all over the Dog Sports Park. Never mind said I it is just young dog stuff, yeah said Sue and shrugged her shoulders and let it all happen.

While we were waiting for Girl to decide to come back and try some more work with us, Sue and I chatted a fair bit. Sue had never trained a Dog before, she is a 60 something year old and she confided in me that she could never run an Agility course as her back was pretty shattered due to a most unusual childhood injury. I am sure she will share it with you if you ask nicely. Sue wanted to know if Girl would ever get to the point where she could concentrate long enough to do any jumping or running in the right direction, or at least in the direction we wanted her to run in rather than where she wanted to run. I asked what her plans were for Girl in terms of her maturity and the need to spay. Sue hadn't really thought about it. I suggested that early spay for this pup might not be the wisest thing. I often find that bitches that are a bit silly and lack concentration get stuck in that mode by early spay. They never mature. (I can hear all the people jumping up and down saying the world doesn't need more pups and all dogs not used for breeding need to be neutered ASAP). Yep absolutely but I still believe that one or two seasons and a bit of time to let the hormones do the work that they were designed to do, makes a heck of a difference to the demeanor of the dog especially a dog that is going to be a working dog on a farm and perhaps even a bit of an Agility worker. The brain needs to be somewhere useful. I frankly thought Girl was a lovable airhead.

I sort of decided that with her love of Tennis Balls and her sendaway capabilities Girl would make a good Flygility Dog. On top of that with Sue not able to run it was probably the safest thing to get her involved in. Sue had absolutely no idea what Flygility was but we persevered and within a short time Girl was hitting the box .

By now Sue had eyed up Agility and decided that she wanted to have a go. So she joined the Junior Agility group and learnt all the pieces of equipment and some of the sendaway moves and how the weaves work. Nothing could stop her. Sue was at the Club at every opportunity. In her own words,

“I have a full dog training system right next door to learn a sport I absolutely love. The cards are stacked great for me”.

Over the last six months Sue has competed in Flygility and won ribbons and points, Agility and won ribbons. She is the top learner dog at Dog Sports Club currently. Partner Rob is totally rapt that Sue and Girl have such a great working bond and how is her farm work? Absolutely amazing. She is fearless with the Hereford Bulls, gentle and caring with the sheep and lambs and would work till she dropped. Sometimes she gets to agility with just about all her energy used up but she puts on a happy face and turns out some beautiful course work. Her Obedience and CGC work is awesome as well.
So she has matured into a beautiful happy hard working dog, who still drops her tennis ball at anyone's feet that she thinks might be good for a ball throw. She loves children - they throw the ball a lot and has a good feel for other dogs, a bit bossy as she is an entire bitch, totally normal playful lovable reliable dog.

Now the moment has arrived, when she comes into season next month she will be in the mood to be a mother. Sue Rob and I have decided that Girl should be a Mum. She has tons of lovely traits to pass on to her pups, she will mature even more and then she will be spayed and come back and complete her life in Agility, Fly and working on her beloved Farm chasing the farm bike up the hills.

We have a candidate for Fatherhood and there are others around if that doesn't go. She will be mated with another Farm dog /Collie cross/Eye / Heading dog type who is not related to her and we hope that people keen to improve their Agility opportunities will want to buy her pups, or they could well go to be working farm dogs. Girl is a Measured Medium sized dog by Agility Rules we are hoping to mate her with another Medium dog so that the pups are smaller. Sue and Girl have been a joy to train with to here. This is how Girl got so good at Dog Sports in such a short time.

1. Puppy Class, play to learn 2. 11a.m. Saturday Control and Obedience plus tunnel and hurdle work on Saturday 3. Monday night Junior Agility class 4. Tuesday night Obedience and Directions 5. Thursday night Club Flygility with Juniors at 4p.m. for Sendaway Recall 6. Friday night Canine Good Citizen. 7. Girl and Sue completed their Weaves Clinic and learned to weave 12 straight poles 8. Attended all Club Competitions since they started learning Agility. 9. Attended all the Competitions within easy driving distance to watch the rest of the Club competing in Kennel Club Events and NZFDA Flygility Tournaments and therefore getting both of them ready to compete. 10. Joined National Agility Link Association (NALA) to get more experience at course running.

Sue and Girl put in the time money and effort to make sure that they could reach the standard Dog Sports Club expects before they can compete in National Competition. It would be easy to say ANYONE CAN DO THIS. That isn't true, it takes a lot of grit and determination. A will to make it work and the ability to put pain to one side and do the best you can. An awful lot of people come to me wanting to ‘do Agility'. Very few actually go the distance. Sue and Girl can well be proud of their achievements to date and there will be many more.

Club Captains Report

Winter is starting to give up to nicer days and longer daylight which will mean better outdoor training from now on. This newsletter is a little late due to my being a bit 'Off' following my arm operation a few weeks ago. During my lead up to the operation and for the weeks following I was unable to attend much club and unable to be Club Captain, so over that period Alex Jones and Pam Sharp did all the necessary work and I thank them very much for letting me have that break. When the Team is as good as the Dog Sports Committee, the support is there for us all when we need it.

At the last Meeting Alex presented her Code of Behavior Protocol and it was passed with the status of Club Rules alongside our Constitution. It is attached to this newsletter for all to see. Just occasionally it is nice to have a reference point or a line in the sand that says 'this is not respectful Club behavior'. There have been a couple of mild instances where people find they don't like someone else in the Club and it has overflowed into the greater Club arena. This is not what we go to the Club to train our dogs for. The Committee now have the teeth to simply step in and solve the problem. Previously this was not the case. It is the growing pains thing. When you only have fifteen members it is a lot different to having 40 plus members. Please remember our Club Meetings are Open meetings. They are Club events everyone brings a plate of finger food and we all share before the meeting. Meeting last one hour and everyone who is a Club Member can participate in the business. The next Club meeting is 16th October, we would like to see you there.

Adding Value to the Club is the job for all Members. There is an upcoming Fund Raising Barbecue at Bunnings on Saturday 28th November which we desperately need helpers for as it clashes with a major Club Agility Ribbon Outing which used to be held on the Sunday, which would have been the 29th so we were confident even with class day on the Saturday that we could staff the Barbie. Now EBOP Dog Training Club have reversed their events holding the Ribbon Trial on the Saturday and the Jumpers Champ on the Sunday. If you can help please contact Jenny Williams, me or Raewyn or Pam Sharp. Thank you.

We are always looking for one off Fundraisers so if you have a particular talent and would like to share it with the Club then please feel free to let us know. Like what? Running a cooking class in the Club Kitchen and charging members for attending, doing a poetry reading or a standup comic thing, anything that we can charge people to attend and make a little profit from. If your thing has outgoings then the Club should be able to help with those, such as photocopying or ingredients.

We are still short of people to clean the Clubrooms and would like volunteers to roster on to small areas such as the entrance porch and washing the towels, every little helps.

Happy training

Debbie Trimbach -DSR Club Captain.

no trackback

- page 3 of 15 -

login