May: 2018

Number: 125

MILTON ULLADULLA DOG TRAINING CLUB INC

MUDTC

Established: 1979

Milton Ulladulla Dog

Training Club Inc

PO Box 274

MILTON NSW 2538

Training held at:

Milton Showground

107 Croobyar Road

MILTON NSW 2538

Email:

info@mudtc.org.au

Web:

www.mudtc.org.au

Phone enquiries:

44540171 Before 4pm

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President’s Report

Some of you will already know that sadly Rosie Milton has resigned from the position of President of our Club. Rosie was elected Club President in 2013 and has done an outstanding job. Rosie will still be attending Dog Club and partici-pating in our demonstration team. She is also very happy to continue to share her knowledge and expertise with any members wishing to improve their dog’s skills. As Vice President I have agreed to take the role of Acting President until our next Annual General Meeting, and am very pleased to be supported by Nata-sha Kostic who is Acting Vice President. I have been a Club member since 1999 and own two dogs, Rose and Shelby, who have won obedience and agility Club trophies. I love training my dogs, instructing class and also organising, and tak-ing part in the Club’s Demonstrations at various events.

Thank you to Diane, Belinda and Rosie who conducted the first round of gradu-ation assessments held on 25 March. Congratulations to all members who were promoted to the next class, and I encourage those who were not successful to keep on practicing and to enter the next round of assessments. After reviewing the program, and listening to member feedback, we have decided to conduct graduation assessments on the last Sunday of each month, rather than 8 weekly. This means that assessments were held on 29 April, and will be held again on Sunday 27 May.

Our Club Obedience Championship will be held on Sunday 29 July. Competition is geared to all levels, starting with a section for our Quick Start Class members, through to our most advanced obedience handlers and their dogs. We are cur-rently finalising the program for the competition so that members will know in advance what exercises to practice. We will let you know as soon as the program is finalised.

Wishing all Mothers the love and happiness you so richly deserve... happy Mother’s Day on 13 May!

Best wishes

Liz Karacsonyi Acting President

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CLUB COMMITTEE 2018 Committee Members

Acting President - Liz Karacsonyi

Acting Vice-President - Natasha Kostic

Secretary - Belinda Smithers

Assistant Secretary - Janet Smith

Treasurer/Public Officer - Cheryl Ball

Chief Instructor - Diane Richmond

Assist Chief Instructor - Belinda Smithers

Publicity Officer - Margaret Rudd

New Member Officer - Margaret Rudd

Equipment Officer - Mark Wilden

Catering Officer - Jenny Patch

General Committee Members

Lori Muir

Alison Nagle

Jan Lyall

Instructors

Diane Richmond

Jenny Patch

Rosie Milton

Jenny Marshall

Janet Smith

Colleen Ringe

Belinda Smithers

Liz Karacsonyi

Natasha Kostic

Mark Wilden

Bea Mies

Leanne Hoogwerf

Assistant Instructors

Rosemary Rixon

Cheryl Ball

Jan Lyall

Mary Firenze

Carolyn Campbell

Newsletter Editor

Janet Smith

Committee Meetings held on the 2nd Sunday of

each month after training - check the Calendar.

All Club members very welcome to attend. Al-

ternatively you can talk to any Committee mem-

ber, especially one of the 3 General Committee

members, Jan, Alison and Lori and ask them to

raise suggestions for discussion on your behalf.

There is also a suggestion box at the Clubhouse.

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Notice Board ..................................... ................................. 2

Doggie Language & Yellow Ribbons ................................... 3

Photos ......................................................................... 4,5 & 6

RSPCA Dogs Day Out ......................................................... 7

Members Corner .......................................................... 8 & 9

Cost to attend a class is $2 per dog. Members can pre-pay several weeks in advance. Once you have pre-paid your name is added to the book at the New Member table, and $2 marked off each time you attend class.

Please arrive at the Showground in time for your class, 10 minutes before class start time as a minimum.

Handlers must wear filled in shoes such as trainers. Please wear your name badge and bring your Dog Club bag with all your gear for training, including a toy, water bowl for your dog and soft food treats. We sell bags of soft treats for $3.

Training equipment can be purchased from 10.00am at the Club-house.

Club meetings are held monthly and everyone is welcome, or if you can’t attend and want to raise a matter, please discuss with one of our General Committee members; Lori Muir, Jan Lyall or Alison Nagle. Next Meeting is scheduled for Sunday 13 May at 10.15am.

Beginner Agility resumes on 6 May at 8.15am in the Agility area. You must have completed the pre-agility course with your dog to attend. Agility practice course available from 7.30am till 8.15am

On Sunday 13 May we share the Showground with Ulladulla Rid-ers and on Sunday 27 May with the Rotary Swap Meet fund rais-ing day.

Did you know that not all areas of Milton Showground are dog off-leash? Although the Dog Off leash sign at the front gate does give that impression, the actual area is shown on this map from Council’s Dog Off Leash booklet.

Articles appearing in this newsletter are considered to

be of interest to members, but do not necessarily ex-

press the opinions of the Committee or of the Editor

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Just a reminder: at the club we have yellow ribbons available. If you see a dog wearing one of these it means “give me space”. This does not mean the dog is aggressive and they are a danger to you or your dog. It means that they find the club environment overwhelming or exciting and they need to be given their space.

Handlers may elect to put a yellow ribbon on their dogs for a number of reasons, their dog may be overly excited to play with everyone, their dog may be recovering from an injury and needs to remain as calm as possible, or their dog is learning to be more confident around other dogs. We have yellow ribbons available at the clubhouse.

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The Senior Dog

Their affection is timeless

Their devotion is ageless

And their love is forever

Three of our “golden oldies” who have been at

Dog Club since they were puppies.

Above and left is Flynn aged 11 years who has

been at Dog Club since he was 12 weeks of age.

Alongside Flynn is Rose, now 14 1/2 years who

joined when 8 weeks of age and on the right is

Lady who is 13 years old and also came to dog

Club when she was only 12 weeks old.

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Demo Team in action at Sarah Claydon April 2018

Practising our stays at Dog Training

Bonnie, Pippa, Shelby, Rico, Ice and Gypsy

Happy 4th Birthday to Alison Nagle’s

gorgeous girl Livvy on 29 April

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April 1st 2018 Jenny Marshall said “Today is a very special day, my Mr Jai turned 16 which is a very pleasant surprise he is my very special goober

man, Jaiby and such a great friend, not sure how many more there will be we will celebrate each

milestone together. Happy birthday Jai!”

Mark Wilden’s Rex and Sophie with house guest Patterson

Mark said “our boy Rex is 10 today (30th April) we were blessed

the day you came into our life

Happy Birthday Jenny Patch (24 April) -

and thank you to Jan Lyall for baking the

yummy cake for our Catering Officer!

Jenny Patch’s Blue Heeler Billy Boy and the

beautiful words on his plaque which is now in place

at the Clubhouse

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Please wear your

name badge in Class

May: 2018

Number: 125

A very big thank you

to all our

Instructors;

Diane Richmond

Belinda Smithers

Jenny Patch

Rosie Milton

Jenny Marshall

Janet Smith

Colleen Ringe

Liz Karacsonyi

Natasha Kostic

Mark Wilden

Bea Mies

Leanne Hoogwerf

Rosemary Rixon

Cheryl Ball

Jan Lyall

Mary Firenze

Carolyn Campbell

Dogs Day Out

We continue our long association with the Ulladulla & South Coast branch of

the RSPCA by supporting the Dogs Day Out annual fund raiser on 20 May.

The event is at Lions Park from 9am. There is no dog training held at the

Showground on the 20th and our Club’s demonstration team will be perform-

ing at the Dogs Day Out during the morning.

Guess the weight of Merlin and Mikki - for a $1 entry fee (which

will all be donated to the RSPCA) you can guess the weight of

Great Dane Merlin, and/or Papillon Mikki - prize for the correct

answer, or closest to the correct answer. Write down your

guess on Sundays 6th and 13th May at training.

RSPCA Raffle tickets on

sale with Bea at Dog

Training on Sunday

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MEMBER’S CORNER - YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE WECOME

- If you have any photos, stories, or results for the Newsletter please email

them to newsletter@mudtc.org.au

A warm welcome to all our recent new members, and any returning members. We hope you have a happy and rewarding time training your dog at our Club.

Graduations Congratulations to the following members who success-fully passed assessments held on 25 March and 29 April. Class 1 to Class 2 Jean Patterson and Zip

Michael Nestler and Frankie

Lynette Johnston and Molly

Shane Jones and Tucker

Class 2 to Class 3

Denise Fors and Tara

Warwick Robinson and Gypsy

Jean Patterson and Zip

Jean Channon and Toby

Lynette Johnston and Molly

Margot Hadfield and Sam

Class 3 to Class 4

Lori Muir with Archie and Ruby

Carolyn Martin and Merlin

Bea Mies and Mia

Class 3 to Class 4 .. Cont

Merrill Allen and Oscar

Linda Eadweards and Tynan

Well done to members Deborah Benson and Poppy; Issa Shalhoub and Caesar; Pip Barring-ton and Pique; Chloe Bentley and Maggie; Donna Reutman and Ollie; Kathy Kerry and Chloe; Anne Fanning and Razzie; Josette Do-cherty and Jilly; Annette Sanders and Jax; Jen Chopping and Vincent; Dale Wolfenden and Georgia; Jess Goldfinch and Hugo; Sarah Thayer and Duke; Billie Macloed and Ree; Who completed the Quick Start course and graduated to Class 1 on 29 April.

Congratulations to all competitors in the 1st round of the Club Agility Competitions for 2018 held 29 April. Results are: Tessa Rudd Trophy for Club Agility: 1st Warwick P Taylor and Ajax - no other qualifiers Kelly Venning Memorial Trophy Encouragement Agility Award : 1st Jean Patterson and Ice; 2nd Liz Karacsonyi and Shelby; 3rd Belinda Smithers and Captain Penny Cullen Memorial Bowl for Club Agility; No qualifiers

Competition Results

Well done to Karen Gould and her dog Harmon who did so well at the Belconnen Trial.

“Double Obedience Trial held at Belconnen Dog Club on the 7th April, this was Harmon’s first attempt at trialling and a return from over 4 years of absence in trialling for myself. Harmon although very distracted by the new surroundings, dogs and the herd of cows in the paddock next door, managed to exceed my expectations of what we could do and scored a pass of 85/100 and a 2nd place ribbon in the morning trial. Although not a great score, today was more about seeing what we needed to work on as a team. It was near 30 degrees when Harmon went into the ring for the afternoon trial, being a black dog and even with his cool coat, he wasn’t feeling the automatic sits and therefore stood for eve-ryone, giving us a DNQ. The judge said that his heeling on everything else was much better than the morning (apart from the sits). Rather than risk bad habits being formed by both Harmon and I in the other exercises, I withdrew. It is now back to the training paddock for a bit”.

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MEMBER’S CORNER If you have any photos, stories, or results for the

Newsletter please email them to newsletter@mudtc.org.au

Competition Results… cont

Member Hilary Coulton and her dogs Mia and Monty also went to the Belconnen Trial. Con-gratulations and well done - Mia gained a pass with 96/100 and 2nd Place in CCD, a very spe-cial achievement as Mia is deaf. Monty gained a pass in CD with 184/200 and 3rd place.

Member Sue Swaney tells us about the wonderful time she had with her dogs Bonnie and Lass at the Nationals held earlier this month in Victoria. Plus Bonnie also has a 1st ADX & qualification from Moorabbin trial prior to the Nationals.

“We travelled to the Nationals more for the trip and the fun of entering the trial. You can imag-ine our happy surprise when our Bonnie pro-gressed to the finals. Bonnie gained qualifica-tions in ADX 1st on two days, JDX 1st. Also, JDX 2nd on two days & 3rd on another day.

I was particularly impressed with Bonnie’s result in Novice Snooker achieving a qualifica-tion and 6th place out of 154 dogs of all heights.

Our Lass has shown improvement, especially in ADO, completing the distance challenge, so pleased with her. Very grateful for the contin-ued support from MUDTC”.

Wet and windy weather at the Nationals in

Victoria

Congratulations to Chief Instructor Diane’s dog Rusty

who has now officially obtained his Champion Title

Bonnie 1st ADX Qualification

Thank You Thanks go to members Greg Churchill and Bear for the kind donation of 2 Disc Pull Toys and to Jemma and Hugo for the pack of puppy trainers.

Best Wishes Sending our very best wishes to Leanne who has been unwell, great to see you back at training last Sunday and glad you are beginning to feel much better.

Thank you for contributions and photos for this month’s

Newsletter from: Jenny Patch; Karen Gould;

Diane Richmond; Sue Swaney; Bea Mies; Mark Wilden;

Hilary Coulton; Jenny Marshall