The Monthly Newsletter of the Capital Dog Training Club, Inc. Obichaff September 2012 Volume 68, Issue 8 In This Issue From the Editor … … … 2 New Members … … 3-5 For Sale … ... 7 Who Does What at CDTC .. 8 Brags … … … … … ...9 Class Schedules … … 10-11 Number Twenty Number Twenty Number Twenty Number Twenty by Anita Gaeta, 2012 CDTC Fair Demo Coordinator This past Saturday, August 18 th , students and mem- bers of CDTC participated in the 20 th annual Capital Dog Training Club demonstration at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. This yearly tradition for the club was every bit as fun this year as in years past. Our demonstration started with agility, and the crowd loved watching every agility team take the courses designed by our demo announcer, Shannon Hall. Shannon kept the crowd interested and amused with her explanations and com- mentary as the agility teams each wound their way through the course. Off-courses and obstacle retries were met with enthusiastic ap- plause and cheers from the au- dience. They wanted the teams to succeed, but were amused and encouraging when the teams made mis- takes; reveling in the teams’ victory when a retry was successful. The next portion of our demonstration was a rally novice and rally excellent course designed by Burton Goldstein. Burton used the size of the ring to maxi- mum advantage by designing rally courses that spanned the whole 80 plus feet of ring length and al- lowed a team to start the course when the team before them reached half way through the course. This provid- ed interesting multi- dog activity for the spectators to watch and also afforded the rally dogs with a chance for distrac- tion proofing from the other dogs on the course. As if that weren’t enough dis- traction training, the excellent course also sported children from the audience standing on the course holding the rally signs at quite a few of the stations! We ended the demonstration with a few tandem obe- dience exercises; small dogs MG and Ella performed dueling broad jumps, big dogs Kip and Cino per- (Continued on page 6) Bob and Ben Take off for the next obstacle – photo by Anita Gaeta
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The Monthly Newsletter of the Capital Dog Training Club, Inc.
Obichaff September 2012
Volume 68, Issue 8
In This Issue
From the Editor … … … 2 New Members … … 3-5 For Sale … ... 7 Who Does What at CDTC .. 8 Brags … … … … … ...9 Class Schedules … … 10-11
Number TwentyNumber TwentyNumber TwentyNumber Twenty by Anita Gaeta, 2012 CDTC Fair Demo Coordinator
This past Saturday, August 18th, students and mem-bers of CDTC participated in the 20th annual Capital Dog Training Club demonstration at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. This yearly tradition for the club was every bit as fun this year as in years past. Our demonstration started with agility, and the crowd loved watching every agility team take the courses designed by our demo announcer, Shannon Hall. Shannon kept the crowd interested and amused with her explanations and com-mentary as the agility teams each wound their way through the course. Off-courses and obstacle retries were met with enthusiastic ap-plause and cheers from the au-dience. They wanted the teams to succeed, but were amused and encouraging when the teams made mis-takes; reveling in the teams’ victory when a retry was successful. The next portion of our demonstration was a rally
novice and rally excellent course designed by Burton Goldstein. Burton used the size of the ring to maxi-mum advantage by designing rally courses that spanned the whole 80 plus feet of ring length and al-lowed a team to start the course when the team before
them reached half way through the course. This provid-ed interesting multi-dog activity for the spectators to watch and also afforded the rally dogs with a chance for distrac-tion proofing from the other dogs on the course. As if that weren’t enough dis-traction training, the excellent course also sported children from the audience standing on the
course holding the rally signs at quite a few of the
stations! We ended the demonstration with a few tandem obe-dience exercises; small dogs MG and Ella performed dueling broad jumps, big dogs Kip and Cino per-
(Continued on page 6)
Bob and Ben Take off for the next obstacle
– photo by Anita Gaeta
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2012 Board of Directors
PresidentPresidentPresidentPresident Suzanne Miller
Dear Readers, I am happy to let you know that more members renewed on time than ever before, or at least renewed before the 31st July deadline. So well done all!
Once again the CDTC demo at the County Fair was a wonderful suc-cess. Thanks to Anita’s first class organizational skills, and Shannon’s equipment hauling skills among other talents, there were sufficient dogs to show off their skills and sufficient equipment upon which to do it. Of course there were others who helped, and their names are listed at the end of Anita’s article. The bleachers were full to overflowing, helping to create an enthusiastic atmosphere, which made it even more worthwhile for the participants. On a personal note, I was delighted that my husband and three children came out to support CDTC, and to watch our dogs perform—I think Cino made a special effort for them, since he performed his first public scent discrimination perfectly! More kudos to Anita for writing the front page article for me within 24 hours of the event. Apart from the Demo, August was a quiet month, so very little to re-port from our President, our Training Director, or our AKC Rep. Their space is filled this month with bios of five new members: please give them a warm welcome when you see them at the Club. Did you take your dogs on vacation with you? Our members would love to hear of any good experiences with airlines or hotels and Bed & Breakfasts which take dogs. Just drop me a line at [email protected]. Thanks!
— Melitta
From the editor…..
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CDTC Welcomes its New Members
Alice Lynch
I was born in DC and grew up in Arlington, VA and Mo-bile, AL. I went to the University of Kentucky in Lexing-ton (for which Lexy is named) and eventually moved back to this area. I love big cities, but I also love trails, woods and mountains so I’ve really enjoyed living in the DC area with its easy access to great parks. Most of my free time is spent exercising and training or otherwise entertaining Lexy, but I do go to the movies and see friends and fami-ly. I love to read and my big goal for a Sunday morning is to get Lexy tired enough that I can spend the afternoon on my sofa with my newspapers and books!
Pie and Ernie
Charma Edmonds
My husband and I have our own business focusing on de-sign, decorative painting and photography. We met at the Corcoran thirty-five years ago and besides art we love all animals. We have had five cats in our years together that we treated like dogs. Rowdy and Kamala are still with us. Our mentor from the Corcoran had a French Bulldog POP that we fell in love with 15 years ago and finally decided we wanted to have one of our own. But as any French Bulldog owner will tell you, it’s hard to stop at one. But hopefully we have stopped with two. We love being dog owners!
Alice Lynch and Lexy
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Sue Carle and Season
Debbie Lauriyzen and Jake getting his
RN title with a score of 97 and 2nd Place
Susan Carle
I am a rejoining member of CDTC. I am training my se-cond vizsla, Season. We have the first leg of our CD in Novice B (with a second place win) and hope to finish it soon. We then want to try Open, and know we have a lot to learn. I learned to train my first vizsla, Katie, at CDTC in the 1990s. After getting our CD, Katie and I retired from the obedience ring to raise my son Josh, who is now 13 years old. Josh is at that stage in life in which he would prefer that I spend less time trying to train him and more time focused on another trainee, so to speak, so it seemed a good time to jump back into dog training. I also enjoy gardening, exercising and reading, and I work full time. I live with my husband Henry, and Josh and Season in Bethesda, MD.
Debbie Lauriyzen I am a retired human resources office
manager with a background in music, nursing, and natural history. I grew up with dogs; my grandfather used to breed and train pointers and vizslas. Jake is my second sheltie, but he is the first one I have worked with to get a CGC and Rally Novice title. The transformation in our relationship since we started training has been dramatic and very positive, and I hope to contin-ue with him in rally and obedience.
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formed side by side retrieves over high jump and then did tail-to-tail directed retrieves. The last formal obe-dience exercise was scent discrimination performed back-to-back by Cino and MG- a nice juxtaposition of size and scenting technique between the two dogs! During some of the upper level obedience exercises we had Novice obedience dogs do sit-stays at one end of the ring and even had kids from the audience stand-ing at the far ends doing some milling about and wav-ing in the ring to try to distract Kip, Cino and MG while they were working, but being the well-trained CDTC obedience dogs that they are, they didn’t fall for the temptations from the kids! The demo culminated in the ever-popular kid and dog recall race from one end of the ring to the other. Han-dlers lined their dogs up interleaved between kids in a line up at the far end of the ring. We then went to the other side of the ring and Shannon gave the “go” to the kids to start running and then to the handlers to re-call their dogs. Much running and laughter ensued and I am pretty sure the dogs had just as much fun as the kids racing to the other end of the ring to see who would get there first. In addition to the “scripted” portions of the demo, we had teams that would help enter-tain the audience by performing tricks dur-ing set-up and tear-down; sort of a mini half time show for the audience! Quite a few
members took their dogs out and about in the crowd as ambassadors-at-large to show the crowd the benefits and joys of a well-behaved and well-socialized canine companion. I think all-in-all our yearly demos at the Fair help support and promote three of the critical objectives of the club (as stated in the Club’s Con-stitution):
• promote the training of dogs
• disseminate knowledge regarding dog training
• promote cooperation and good sportsman-ship among its Members in the training and exhibition of dogs
I want to thank all the participants and their dogs who attended and helped make this year’s demo a success-ful one. It went smoothly all because of your efforts. My special thanks go to Shannon Hall, Burton Gold-stein and Eileen Freedman for their efforts on the planning and preparations for this year’s demo and for their tireless work and participation at the demo it-self. This year CDTC was represented by the following dog and handler teams:
Sandi Atkinson with Itzyu Figaro (Basenji) Melitta Carter with Cino (Standard. Poodle) and Ella (Shih Tzu) Eileen Freedman with Kuliana (German shepherd)
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AGILITY JUMPS
1 agility practice double jump: PVC sch. 40 1” pipe, w/3 poles (2 striped, 1 white) about 4’ long; jump set up measures about 14” D x 35” H x 51” W. 2 end panels w/attached metal supports for jump poles – 5 each on 2 tracks, 1 on one. $80.
1 agility practice triple jump: PVC sch. 40 1” pipe, w/3 poles (2 striped, 1 white) about 4’ long; jump set up measures about 25½” D x 35” H x 51” W. 2 end panels w/attached metal supports for jump poles – 5 for each pole (total 15). Top height of poles are about 24”, 18½”, and 12½”; spread between poles is about 12”. $90.
The double and triple jumps can be dismantled and laid flat for storage. They are lightweight and easy to move.
AGILITY OR OBEDIENCE JUMPS, POLES, AND BARS
2 bar jumps: A pair of 2 uprights w/bases make one jump for agility or obedience practice. 41” H uprights, 1 jump support on each pole. Holes drilled in uprights about every 2” up to 35” for a jump height of 36”. Add carriage bolts or other support for extra poles. $35.
1 practice agility or obedience broad jump: Canvas w/plastic legs, folds flat for storage, lightweight and easy to move. $30.
20+ jump poles: PVC schedule 40; 23 are about 54” (4½’) long, 1¼” diameter, some white, some striped w/black tape like Utility poles; some have caps on the ends. 1 white pole is 47” long, 1” diameter. $4 each.
2 agility practice tunnels: Great for training smaller dogs inside or outdoors. Use separately or put both together. Col-lapse to store flat; easy to carry! Rip-stop nylon, dark green, 9’ L x 22” diameter. $100 for both; very good condi-tion.
AGILITY TABLE - for practice (also good for stays): 22” long x 28” wide x 8” high, nonslip carpet surface, very steady. $25. TRACKING
14 metal tracking poles: Some with flags, 4’ tall. $2 each.
2 “POOCH PADS”
6½” W x 20” L: Wrap around dog’s middle, has secure Velcro fastening; use as is (completely washable) or stick an-other pad inside. These were only used briefly and only with a pad before I switched to a baby diaper. $10 each.
K-9 CART (for dog unable to walk unassisted)
6 wheels, 2 on back and 2 sets of 2 smaller wheels on front. Used for 12” dog. H, L, & W adjustable. $275.
K-9 EZ SLING, SMALL
Supports dog either under chest for front legs or at tuck in front of rear legs; you hold top of sling while dog walks on good legs. Use on flat or on stairs. $30.
Anita Gaeta with Kip (Rough Collie) Burton Goldstein with MG (Shih Tzu) Shellie Goldstein with Goldie (Shih Tzu) Charma Edmonds with Ernie and Pie (French
Bulldogs) Angela Lauvray with Ollie (Jack Russell Terrier) Josie McAuliffe with Xena (Lab)
Diane Olsson and Remi (Border Collie) Bob Reinhardt with Ben and Cole (Labs) Kathy Sheehan with Lucky and Dodger (Border
Collies)
Brad Smith and Tula (Standard Schnauzer)
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Who Does What at CDTC?Who Does What at CDTC?Who Does What at CDTC?Who Does What at CDTC?
For changes and corrections, please email [email protected]. For a list of duties of CDTC Officers, please refer to the December 2011 Obichaff which can be viewed at www.CDTC.org.
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Capital Dog Training Club (CDTC), a member club of the American Kennel Club, is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1938 to promote the sport of obedience training through classes offered to its members and the general public. We offer obedience classes from puppy kindergarten through competition obedience. We also offer classes in agility, canine freestyle,
flyball, conformation, tracking and rally.
CDTC offers a variety of other activities for dogs and people, including matches, trials and
seminars on dog-related topics.
Capital has a fully matted indoor, air-conditioned facility in Silver Spring, Md.
