Hi everyone,
I want to start off by saying that we had two very successful shows
in the Doggie Palooza at Happy Tails Dog Park in Plantation and
Barkapalooza at Markham Park in Sunrise. Thank you to everyone who
stopped by our booth to say hello. We met a wide variety of dog lovers
at both shows and wanted to inform you all that we are moving forward
with our event planning and club for dogs and their families to come out
and play.
We have a calendar up on our website for keeping track of what we are
doing. Although there isn't much on it yet, we hope there will be
soon. This is a huge undertaking and we appreciate your patience while
we learn to walk from a crawl and get up and running.
Because we believe in all dogs, not just purebreds we are always on
the lookout for sports all breeds can play. Because of this we added
APDT Rally to our repertoire. APDT stands for Association of Pet
Dog Trainers. And this organization invented the sport. We have a
Rally Seminar coming at the end of the month if you are interested in
learning what it is all about. Rally is a fun obedience sport which was
designed as a precursor to regular obedience but you can talk to your
dog and help guide them all the way through which makes it less
stringent and way more fun! Check out the website for more information
on the seminar.
Next month we have our Skyhoundz Local Discdog Championship on the
19th. It's free so come out and join us but come early as we are
limiting the amount of entrants. First come, first served. Check the
website for more information.
Now I know that a majority of the people that filled out our cards
were interested in Lure Coursing and we hoped to have had our first
lure coursing event by now. We currently have a straight racing machine
but unfortunately realized that it would not be sufficient for the loads
of pups that want to run on it. Straight racing is just that, the lure
is pulled out away from the lure machine and the dog runs in a straight
line chasing the lure. Most of you that were at Barkapalooza saw the
Oval Racing and some of you even participated and realized how much your
dogs loved it. It takes a different machine to run an oval track and
our custom ordered coursing machine is on the way. So hopefully we
should have it in the next couple of weeks (it's being built now) and we
will be able to offer our first lure coursing day. Membership is
required to run lure coursing (as well as our other up coming events) so
sign up now and take advantage of our discounted membership fees. The
biggest benefit to our membership will be discounted entry fees.
We are however going to offer the straight racing lure as a party
favor. So if you or someone you know is having a doggie party or some
kind of doggie event and they might like to have lure coursing offered
for fun to the dogs, please let us know.
Last but not least, congratulations to the winners of our Toy-Filled
Tote Bag raffle, Cory from Davie, Don from Cooper City and Michelle from
Plantation!
