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Triebball Comes to Family Dog
Want to teach your dog a fun new game that is a low-impact activity yet provides great exercise, requires minimal equipment and develops teamwork? Try one of the hottest new dog sports sweeping North America-treibball (pronounced "try ball")!
To see videos of treibball in action, visit the
American Treibball YouTube channel or watch this
youtube
video of Kathy and Troy's demo at our holiday party.
Visit this link for More Details
The next 7-week session of classes will begin in February and classes fill in the order registrations are received.
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By Dick Capello
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Canine Musical Freestyle
Canine Musical Freestyle (aka “dancing with dogs”) blends obedience, rally and agility exercises with tricks and special freestyle “moves” to create unique dog and handler routines synchronized to music. Handlers with dogs of all breeds, mixes and ages will find freestyle training promotes increased attention and precision and creates a strong working relationship with their dogs in a fun and interesting way.
Many aspects of freestyle training enhance training for other dog sports, such as competition obedience, rally, agility and treibball. Freestyle is also a great conditioning program for dogs. While dogs are learning freestyle moves such as spinning, weaving and backing up, they are strengthening muscles that they do not normally use and increasing flexibility. In fact, Dr. Patti Schaefer, who practices canine sports medicine, often recommends similar moves or conditioning exercises for performance dogs.
Visit this link for More Details
The next 7-week session of classes will begin in February and classes fill in the order registrations are received.
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This is a list of some of our upcoming events.
For a complete list please view our special events
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 Sat Feb 11th - Ten Minute Ticker
Obedience
and Rally Run Throughs
Registration form:
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Sat Feb 25th - Freestyle Ten Minute Ticker
Canine Musical Freestyle Practice/Fun Match
Registration form:
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Sat Mar 3rd - Ten Minute Ticker
Obedience
and Rally Run Throughs
Registration form:
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Congratulations to Kathy Rosky and her Sheltie Bradley for winning the grand prize
for best costume at Family Dog's Howl-i-day Party on December 3!
In addition to the costume contest we had everything from a Family Dog Trivia Game to a Treibball Demo, Freestyle Performance that included a visit from Rudolph the Red Nosed Tervuren, Who Can Find it the Fastest Game, Potluck and Gift Exchange Game. Thanks to Karen & Barb for spearheading the committee! Thanks to everyone for coming...and, as usual, the wild and crazy Gift Exchange Game was the highlight of the evening...except for the hilarious antics of Snowy (aka Santa) and Boddington (aka Reindeer) while folks were cleaning up and putting things away.The video is priceless: Santa in the sleigh as Boddington took her for a ride 'round the training center! The video we took of Snowy & Boddington was so CUTE we decided to submit it to America's Funniest Videos. Until we hear back from AFV as to whether or not our video was accepted for broadcast, we are required to remove it from public web sites. We'll keep you posted!
For more videos and photos visit the Family Dog Facebook page.
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Congratulations to all of the Family Dog Students on their successes at the Whidbey Island Kennel Club show 2011 in Monroe.
Special congratulations to
Janine and Cranberry ( left ) who finished their CDX on Sunday. This is a huge accomplishment given that Cranberry is also Janine's working guide dog and Janine is legally blind. Be sure to read the Seattle Kennel Club article about Janine and Cranberry
Cranberry is now Cranberry CGC CD GN CDX RN RA RE and Certified Therapy Dog (Yellow Lab Guide Dog). Their next goal is completing their utility title sometime in 2012.
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