June 2013

Next Meeting — Monday June 17th at Allied Gardens Rec. Center at 7pm Dog Daze Deadline: the 3rd of the month.

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A Wagging Tale: Experts Decipher the Ways Dogs Express Happinessby Blanche R. Dudley, EdD from Dog Fancy Magazine

Do you need an instant pick-me-up? Had a punishing day? Longtime dog

owner Darren Consider of Washington, D.C. has the perfect fix. When Darren walks through the door, 8 year-old Regan, a 50 pound Flat Coated Retriever-Border Collie mix, pounces with joy. Regan is not quite large enough for her happy pounce to be a problem for her owner. “Just the opposite,” Consider says, “It’s the perfect welcome. One big hug and the stress melts away, especially, after Regan adds the ready “kiss” for which Flat Coats are well known.” This happy transfer of emotions is all in a day’s work for Jane Shaw, D.V.M., Ph.D., associate professor of veterinary commu-nication and director of the Argos Institute at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Fort Collins. Shaw teaches techniques for effective commu-nications within the veterinarian client pa-tient relationship. “The transfer of feeling between people and pets is well document-ed, and shared happiness is a great boost to a healthy owner pet bond,” she says. The eager greeting from an excited pet seems a sure sign that your dog is happy to see you, but sometimes the signals you re-ceive are harder to interpret. And, experts say, some breeds and mixes have a natural advantage in showing their cheery disposi-tion. When they’re happy & you know it.

Dog lovers delight in sharing a happy mo-ment with a friendly dog, but experts urge caution in interpreting a dog’s signals. Professional behaviorists remind us how important it is to read a dog’s behavior cor-

rectly. For example, a wagging tail does not always mean, “I’m happy, Come on. Let’s play.” Sometimes it can also be a warning of aggressive intentions. “In a social interaction with a dog, it really helps to look at the entire body in order to make judgments on the dog’s emotional state,” says Meghan E. Herron, D.V.M., diplomat of the American College of Vet-erinary Behaviorists and clinical assistant professor at the Ohio State University Col-lege of Veterinary Medicine in Columbus. Here are some common behaviors that can sometimes be misinterpreted”Wagging tail. Does it indicate a happy dog? Not always. According to Herron, a wagging tail simply means, “I am ready to interact.” “I’ve seen many dogs wagging their tails and lunging to bite at the same time,” Herron notes. “I tell people to trust a wagging body, but never trust a wagging tail. To understand what the wagging tail means, one must look at the rest of the body.”

“A dog in a relaxed, happy state should have his weight evenly distributed on all four limbs,” she continues. “The tail is of-ten wagging loosely and rapidly and tends to be held straight out. With the “happy” tail wag comes the rear end wag, the shoul-der wag and sometimes—even a head wag for exuberantly happy dogs. A dog who is considering aggression will tend to hold his tail high with a slower, methodical wag, will have a stiff body, and will shift his weight forward.” Play bow. The play bow is the ultimate gesture of friendliness from a dog’s per-spective,” Herron says. “He bounces into position with his forelegs on the ground and his hind legs extended so that his rear sticks up. It signals to a human or another dog that no threat is intended and that the bowing dog is interested in a playful inter-action.” ‘Play face’ and smiling. A play face—also a sign that a dog is ready to play—shows an open mouth with relaxed lips and tongue, ears relaxed and neutral, or ears perked up; the play face often accompanies a play bow. As for smiling, Herron says, “many herd-ing breeds, such as Border Collies and Aus-tralian Shepherds, will show a ‘submissive grin’ when they are having a friendly social interaction with people. Their bodies typi-cally will be soft and wiggly.” Body Wiggle. “The two body postures I trust most to signal a happy dog are the play bow and the body wag,” Herron says. “I often tell clients to look for the body wiggle as their green light for letting

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people pet their dogs.” Shaw’s 14-year-old Golden Setter, Cliff—in his most exuber-ant moments—wiggles vigorously in thick Colorado snow to create “snow angels,” There is little chance of misinterpreting this signal!Jumping, bouncing, and running. When a dog is feeling happy and playful, he may bounce about in jerky movements or exaggerated twists, turns, and leaps. He might dodge around you, jump or paw at you, and then run off to invite you to chase him. These behaviors are almost always accompanied by the play bow. Personality-driven behaviors. Every dog is different and may have unique ways of showing happiness, from squinting to short yelps to yodeling and purring. In-deed, dog owner Angela Pervel of Gaither-burg, MD says her 6 year-old Toy Poodle, Richie, purrs when pleased. “A bit strange for a dog, but I get his message,” she adds. Who’s happy now?

Even if two dogs are both play bowing, wiggling their bodies, and displaying other signs of happiness, one dog may still seem more joyful than the other. Why is this? “I think the ability of certain breeds to show happiness in a way that humans will interpret it as such really depends on the facial musculature and jowls of the differ-ent breeds,” Herron says. “For example, an English Bulldog is less able to make exag-gerated facial expressions. Other ‘jowly’ breeds, such as Bloodhounds and Neapoli-tan Mastiffs, express more with their eyes than they do their mouths, simply because there is less muscular movement of their jowls and face. This can make them harder to read in general, but it doesn’t mean they

experience joy any less.” Ear cropping and tail docking may also im-pact how happy we perceive a dog to be. “Every breed signals happiness in some way, but differences can come into play with dogs who’ve had their ears cropped and tails docked, such as Doberman Pin-schers, Great Danes, and Boxers,” says Terry Marle Curtis, D.V.M.,M.S., clinical behaviorist as the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine in Gaines-ville. “These physical alterations may make a dog more difficult to read—espe-cially by another dog who has not had the same alterations.”Shaw adds that neither breeding gender, nor size appears to make a significant dif-ference in a dog’s expressiveness. Asked which dogs are particularly expressive, Shaw gives the nod to Golden and Labra-dor Retrievers. “They wiggle and wag of-ten,” she says. “I’d definitely call them the ‘Happiness Spokesdogs’ for the species.” Total body talk

Sharing happy moments with your dog is priceless, but the odds are good that at some point you will misinterpret your dog’s behavior. To help lower the odds, Curtis recommends that people who want to be around dogs learn canine language and respect what a dog says. Shaw adds, “We have to continuously make every effort to read our dogs’ non-verbal cues accurately. Beyond commu-nication and unrestrained joy, it’s a safety issue for all who interact with dogs—from veterinarians and pet owners to small chil-dren and others. We have to learn to read those behaviors correctly.” FF

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Safe or Sorry?Every Owner Has to Decide What is an Acceptable Risk for His/Her Own Dog

by Nancy Kerns from The Whole Dog Journal

After experiencing a collar-related near fatality, I’ve been checking ev-

ery dog I know, to be sure their collars are equipped with quick-release buckles. Sud-denly, I’m a safety nut, which is interest-ing, because I’m more commonly accused of putting my dogs at risk (because I often walk with them off leash on trails).The fact is, there are innumerable risk to our dog’s health and safety. And each own-er gets to—has to—do a little risk/benefit analysis and decide for herself which risks to take with her dog. I’ve heard about dogs being hurt by all of the following (and ex-perienced a few with my own dog(: • Keeping a collar and ID tags on a dog at

home, or in a crate (could get caught). • Feeding home-prepared diets (incom-

plete and unbalanced).• Feeding diets that contain raw meat (sal-

monella)• Feeding raw bones (choking, intestinal

perforation)• Feeding commercial foods (contamina-

tion, lack of wholesomeness)• Offering rawhides or pizzles (choking,

obstruction, salmonella)• Using a reduced vaccination schedule

(disease).

• Driving with a dog in the back of a truck, loose or secured (debris hits dog/injures eyes, dog falls out of vehicle).

• Driving with a dog loose in the car (dog gets flung from car in accident and gets injured or lost).

• Leaving a dog in the car while shopping/banking (injury/overheated/stolen).

• Leaving a dog tied outside while you get coffee or ice cream or something (injury, attack by another dog, stolen)

• Using spot-on flea or tick pesticides (poisoning, cancer)

• Not using spot-on tick pesticides in tick-laden areas (tick borne disease)

• Letting a dog eat grass (possibly sprayed).

• Letting a dog off leash on trails (can run away, chase/harm animals, cause prob-lems with dogs/hikers/bicyclists/eques-trians).

• Letting a dog off leash anywhere else (can run away or be hit by car).

• Bringing a dog to a dog park (disease, dog fights, traumatic social interactions)

• Taking a dog on a boat (drowning).• Shipping a dog by air (dog can get sick,

or be lost, traumatized , or killed)

• Boarding a dog (illness, injury, loss, mis-treatment)

• Sledding, hunting, search and rescue, and all other outdoor activities with dogs (injury, exhaustion, loss).

Personally, I don’t think it’s conscionable to tell people what they must or must not do with their own dogs, or to disparage them for the choices they make. I do want people to be aware of the risks of various choices, and will sometimes tell an owner about the risks of something she is doing with her dog—and, of course, sometimes other people tell me! But I also accept that people have the right to take responsibil-ity for their own decisions, even the ones I suspect they will regret. Sometimes this is painful to watch. For example, I can’t bear to see dogs ride loose in the backs of trucks. I almost had a nervous breakdown once driving behind a flatbed truck with a stock dog who was pacing back and forth behind the cab of the truck, barking, completely unsecured in any way. But it may have been just as painful for the owner of that dog to watch me feed my dog a raw chicken neck. FF

1. Play Naked! Remove your dog’s collar or harness. A harness may not present the same choking hazard as a collar if another dog got caught in it, but on the other hand, a harness has many more straps to get caught.

2. Use a Collar with a Quick Release Buckle. If you’re ner-vous about having your dog naked (and without ID), use a collar with a buckle that can be released even under tension. Another option is a safety breakaway collar, such as Premium Product’s KeepSafe Break Away Collar.

3. Don’t Allow Your Dog to Play with Dogs Who Are Wearing Gear. At times, this may mean your dog won’t be able to play at a dog park, because it’s nearly impossible to get every-one to comply with sensible rules at a dog park. If I had a young dog who really liked wrestling and mouthing other dogs, I just wouldn’t take him to a dog park that was crowded with collar and harness-wearing dogs.

4. Spread the Word. I’m now telling every dog owner I know about the way, the truth, and the light. Many people have never considered this potential hazard and may be open to hearing about how they can prevent a tragedy happening to their dogs.

5. Keep Something Sharp Handy. This is quite a long shot—and yet, I now know a young woman who saved two dogs’ lives with sharp scissors. I now have a box cutter in my car, and another one on a shelf near my office door. (Frightening photo found on line...you would need bolt cutters here!)

Take It All Off! Five Things You Can Do to Protect Your Dog When He’s Playing with Others

by Nancy Kerns from The Whole Dog Journal

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President’s Message June 2013

Another year has zipped past faster than I could figure. We have elections in

June, with officers taking over in July. We do have a slate with all last year’s officers agreeing to stay the course for another year. Thank you so much. We have added Jan Wall to our board for the first time. Thank you Jan. That said, I know there must be someone out there who really wanted to be on the board or hold an office and missed telling anyone. If you would like to serve the club, we can take nominations from the floor at the June meeting. All is not lost.We do have other positions for interested members to take up. The Allied Garden’s Recreation Center has a meeting every other month on Monday nights at 7 p.m. I have been going for some time now and getting a little tired of it. This has to be the easiest job in ABOCI. You only have to show up every other month and sign in. You can make motions and second mo-tions, but you don’t even have to do that if you don’t want to. It is a requirement of the Rec Center that a representative of the club

attend these meetings. If nobody shows up, we could lose our grounds for training. Please, anyone? We are considering a change in our bylaws, from having a meeting every month to one every other month. We would have some type of program at these meetings. Busi-ness will mostly be taken care of by the Board, with important issues brought to the membership when needed. This is a very big step. Please come out and give your opinion. If you are in favor of making the change, we do need a committee to write it up for a membership vote. I don’t want to scare you off by mentioning the com-mittee, we won’t draft anyone who isn’t up for it. You can still come and give your opinion.We have some interesting programs for the next few months, possibly tracking, herd-ing, agility and motivation. If you have an idea for a program or would be willing to speak on any subject, we would love to hear from you. Keep the August meeting open for our annual potluck picnic and fun

and games with our dogs. This should be a fun time for everyone.We do need a quorum to hold elections and make a committee and hold club business. Please come out to this meeting!! We need you.Thanks, Audrey Austin, President

The meeting was called to order at 7:08.Sarah gave the treasurer’s report. Our dues to the rec center have been paid through June 30. Geri reported on training. We currently have a basic class running and Joanne has a Competition Level 3 Class. Louisa has the puppy class. CGC class is starting on June 3. Geri has a new basic class starting on June 10. Joanne will be starting a new introductory class on June 24.Our Facebook page is up and running - post your pictures, brags, disappointments - everything, and be sure to like us. https://www.facebook.com/AllBreedObedience-ClubIncWe have some programs planned for up-coming meetings and plan for June, July and August to all be outside. Bring chairs or pillows or something to sit on. June and July will be tracking and herding. As soon as it’s firmed up, we’ll post which program will be which month.August will be our annual picnic.NOTE: Audrey is asking for a new person

to take over and be our representative with the rec center. This involves attending a Monday night meeting every other month to represent the club - that’s it. And our president needs a break! Please step up and do this if you can.We’re having a problem with volleyball players encroaching on our space on Mon-day nights. Audrey will meet with Alvin and get this clarified.The meeting was adjourned at 7:30.

ADDITIONAL NOTE from Au-drey: This is to announce the new slate of officers and board. We will have elections in June. We can take nominations from the floor in June for anyone who would like to run for any position. Please let us know if you would like to either hold an of-fice or board position. We would love to have new people working with the club.

President: Audrey Austin Vice President: Geri Demaglio Secretary: Eleni Stevens Treasurer: Sarah Ball

Board members: Vickie Hill Louisa Golden Cathy Colley Jan Wall

ABOCI Meeting Minutes May 2013

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The Dog’s Mindby Pat Miller, CBCC-RA, CPDT-KA, CDBC from The Whole Dog Journal

Editor’s Note: This is a much longer inter-view on canine cognition. I have taken just this side-bar from the article.

Concepts in the Study of Canine Intelligence

We tend to think of intelligence as that which can be measured by an IQ test.

By that standard our dogs fall low on the scale. But there are many different ways to measure a dog’s capabilities. If dogs were to develop an IQ test it might well rely on the ability to find scent—in which case they would be brilliant and we would be the dull-ards.

Inference: Having heard about Rico, the German Border Collie who learned the names of more than 200 objects, retired psy-chology professor John Pilley adopted an 8 week old Border Collie pup and decided to see how many object names his dog could learn. Over a period of three years Chaser learned the names of more than 1,000 dif-ferent objects. Both Rico and Chaser, when asked to fetch an object they weren’t famil-

iar with, unerringly picked the one object in the group for which they hadn’t learned the name. The dogs inferred that it must be the correct object, since they know the names of all the others. Researchers tell us that this is similar to how children can learn the names of new objects.

Pilley took this research game with his dog one step further. Children are able to cate-gorize objects. “Sock,” for example, is not just one object that happens to be a sock, but rather is a category name for all sock-objects of different sizes, colors, shapes, and tex-tures. When scientists suggested that babies could learn words as categories and dogs could not, Pilley took up the challenge. He taught Chaser that his toys were classified into different categories. Then he mixed toys from different categories, and asked Chaser to fetch a category of toy. Chaser performed flawlessly.

Symbols: Canine cognition doubters also suggested that if dogs truly learned words, they should also be able to learn symbols. If

you show a child a replica of a toy, a child understands it is a representation of a real life thing. If you show a child the replica and ask him to go get the thing, he can do it. Could a dog? Dr. Julianne Kaminske, the scientist who did the original studies with Rico in 2004, pursued this question. She used Rico and several other Border Collies, asking them to fetch toys in another room by show-ing them a replica of the toy rather than us-ing the name of the toy. Some of the replicas were the same size, some were miniatures. All of the dogs were successful at retrieving the correct object after being shown the rep-lica. Rico and one other dog were even able to retrieve the correct toy where they were just shown a photograph of the object.

This means dogs are able to grasp concepts—the idea that something can symbolize some-thing else. We can only wonder—and wait—to see what other incredible things the world of canine cognition science has yet to uncov-er about our dogs’ intelligence. Or maybe, you don’t have to sit idly by and wait. You and your dog can participate! FF

(Editor: I am including this specifically because AB-OCI has donated $50.00 to AKC CAR.) And I did see a piece on the news that a confirmed their efforts.We felt it important to keep you up to date with the specific actions that have been taken so that you can communicate these actions with any outside parties who may ask you about our ef-forts. Supplies: AKC CAR has been able to per-sonally deliver two rounds of supplies to the Animal Resource Center in Moore, Ok. These included bowls, crates, leashes and other ne-cessities. Along with the AKC, Mid-Del-Tin-ker KC, Oklahoma city KC and Lawton DFA members have been on site helping people at the shelter and our people stayed through the night Tuesday. Supplies have also been deliv-ered to the Home Depot Emergency Shelter. These have included 200 micro-chips and 6 scanners as well as regular supplies. Donation: AKC CAR donated $10,000 to Oklahoma State University (OSU) Animal Re-lief Fund, which is helping the OSU Center for Veterinary Sciences to provide free veterinary medical care to animals, injured during Okla-homa’s recent tornadoes. OSU has been able to put this donation to good work and is also man-aging to house many of the displaced animals.

Communications: The AKC team has pro-vided real time updates to our constituents, via social media. These updates have included places to find missing pets, images of pets that have been found, a list of pet friendly shelters, how to help the people involved and also how to donate to AKC Car to help aid the effort. To date, we have raised over $48,000 to help assist the people and dogs of Oklahoma. AKC Honors Canine Heroes with New Wilderness Search & Rescue Title

New York, N.Y. Wilderness Search and Rescue dogs, who use their air scenting or tracking abilities to locate missing persons, typically in a non-urban setting, will now be recognized by the American Kennel club (AKC) with the new SAR-W title. The AKC already acknowledges dog that are FEMA or State Urban Search and Rescue (SUSAR) certified as Urban Search and Rescue Dogs. Within the field of Wilderness Search and Res-cue there are dogs that specialize in tracking, trailing, air scent, water and avalanche search and rescue. “Search and Rescue is a valuable, modern day working activity for our dogs. At the time of greatest need, when we’re looking to find lost

or trapped people, human remains, or help others during disasters, SAR dogs and their handlers are there to provide their assistance,” said Doug Ljungren, AKC Vice President of Companion/Performance Events. “The AKC is proud to acknowledge skill and service of these dogs by offering the new SAR-W title to add to their AKC record.” The handlers of Wilder-ness Search and Rescue dogs, that have been deployed on at least five SAR missions and that have been certified by an AKC recognized SAR certification organization may request a title by downloading and completing the form. The dog must be AKC registered or enrolled in the AKC Canine Partners program. The han-dler is required to submit the dog’s SAR certifi-cation documents and documentation verifying the dog’s deployments. For more information please contact Lisa Carroll at 919-816-3900. In addition to the SAR titling program, AKC’s affiliate AKC Companion Animal Recovery has long supported search and rescue organi-zation through its AKC CAR Canine Support and Relief Fund. The Fund recently awarded $413,000 in grants to more than 140 SAR groups in 45 states. FF

AKC Announcement — Action Taken by CAR After OK Tornados

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Ralph Swingle RetiresEditor’s Note: I have known and tracked with Ralph Swingle for more than 12 years. He was my instructor and mentor when I began tracking with Dazzle CDX and ASCA CD with she was not yet a year old. Before we had the tracking community here in San Diego, we had Ralph. He was the only in-structor then. Ralph has devoted much of his time and efforts helping handlers and dogs learn the art of tracking. Many of our members know Ralph and have had the opportunity to become a member of our tracking world through him. Not just an instructor, Ralph Swingle has been a judge who is responsible for many of our tests and titles. He would spend all one day, plotting tracks, and all the next day judging. His last judging assignment will be this August. He will be terribly missed!! Pia Paulsen wrote an article for the Hol-lywood Dog Obedience Club newsletter:

Ralph Swingle: Long Time HDOC Tracking Judge Retires.

Ralph Swingle has been a part of the tracking community almost from the

start. The Hollywood Dog Obedience Club started offering tracking tests in 1955 and we just held our 58th test. Ralph has been a part of many of them. He entered the

picture in the 1960s with his Aussie bitch, Frecca, who was—and is—the number 5 Tracking Dog with ASCA. Ralph worked in any position that needed to be filled for AKC tracking tests—tracklayer, secretary, pole carrier, etc.—for our Club multiple times as well as for Orange Empire, San-ta Ana Valley, Pasadena, and many other clubs.Ralph got into tracking through Sandy Bretto who was in charge of the obedience training classes for Orange Coast Obedience Club. Sens-ing Ralph was also an obedient kind of guy, she commanded him to lay a track for her one day. She liked his track so much that he had to come back the follow-ing Saturday, and as Ralph always said that was the beginning of tracking for him. In the 1970s he filled in for some judges who couldn’t make it to tests. In 1978 he was talked into applying to become a TD judge with AKC. After passing his test he became a judge in 1980 and one of his first assign-ments was for the Hollywood Dog Obedi-ence Club. When TDX became available he was one of the trailblazers. Then again, when VST came around he and Dan Law-

er were the first approved VST judges by AKC on the West Coast. Ralph says it was hard for him to stop judging TD and TDX since he enjoyed it very much. This year, sadly, he is also retir-ing from judging VST. August 9, 2013 he will judge his last VST test at Southwest-ern College in San Diego with long time friend Roy Fair from Oregon. Sally Nesbitt is organizing a farewell party for him after the test. Everybody is invited and we hope you do make it to San Diego on the 9th. Ralph, we’ll miss seeing you at our track-ing tests and we wish you happiness in whatever endeavor the tracking trail leads you down. FF

Flyball Report and BragsThanks to everyone for their hard work in hosting a good tournament!

Overall our teams raced well. Both of them had to deal with some general crazi-ness and running amuck, but we were able to race out the full schedule and earned alot of title points. Our Open team was able to finish in 3rd place on both days. Our Regular team ended up at the mercy of the division draws. On Saturday we were the top seeded team in the bottom half, and we finished in 2nd place. On Sunday we were at the bottom of the top half, which didn’t go as well.

Sasha earned her Flyball Master title (5,000 points).

Wyatt eaned his Champion-Gold title (2,500 points).

And beginner dog Ty was able to get in a number of clean runs in practice and com-petition. He earned his Flyball Dog title (20 points).

See you at practice next week.

Mark Ashbaugh

Obedience Brag June 2013

Rachel Amado’s super Border Col-lie, Shooter, finished his second

leg un Utility A with a 3rd place and a score of 197 ½. He also finished 4th in Open B with a score of 195 ½, At the Mission Circuit, Shooter qualified all three days in Open with a 3rd. place on Saturday. Way to Go Rachel and Shooter!Hey, there have to be more brags out there!

An Agility Brag from Rigel

Rigel has been having a TON of fun with the recent local NADAC

trials, He finished his Novice Regular title, started and finished his Open title, and now has one Q in Elite Regular. He also finished his Novice Chances title and has one Q in Open Chances, finished Novice Tunnelers, has a Q in Open Tunnelers and had a real blast with some unusual “Extreme Games” classes. Here’s a link to an Extreme Hoopers run:

http://youtu.be/bLEejgzElhMHere’s something called: Extreme Barrel Racing

http://youtu.be/LRtyNJtYYikAnd yes it makes a difference which way they circle the barrels, which he

had only seen once before this!

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NAFA Flyball Tournament 6/1/2013 Run Amuck Otay Ranch Town Ctr., Chula VistaClosing date (blank=N/A): 4/28/2013 Info: Ella Biggs: ecb3@ay.sdcoxmail.com

AKC Obedience & Rally Trials 6/1/2013 6/2/2013 Kennel Club of Pasadena Brookside Park, PasadenaClosing date (blank=N/A): 5/15/2013 Info: Bradshaw: www.jbradshaw.com

NADAC Agility Trials 6/1/2013 6/2/2013 Ups N' Downs Agility Club Valley CenterClosing date (blank=N/A): 5/24/2013 Info: Premium at: www.ups-n-downs.org/trials.html

Obedience & Rally Show & Go 6/9/2013 All Breed Obedience Club Allied Gardens Community ParkClosing date (blank=N/A): Info: 8 a.m. to noon

AKC Obedience & Rally Trials 6/14/2013 6/15 & 6/16 Bahia Sur KC of Chula Vista Southwestern College, Chula VistaClosing date (blank=N/A): 5/29/2013 Info: Bradshaw: www.jbradshaw.com

AKC Agility Trials 6/14/2013 6/15 & 6/16 Bichon Frise Club of San Diego NTC Promenade, Point LomaClosing date (blank=N/A): 5/29/2013 Info: Lynda Tjarks: www.lyndatjarksagility.com

ASCA Agility Trials 6/15/2013 6/16/2013 Aust. Shepherd Club of SD Co. Reggie Field, El CajonClosing date (blank=N/A): Info: www.asca.org/events/eventcalender

General Meeting 6/17/2013 All Breed Obedience Club Allied Gardens Recreation CenterClosing date (blank=N/A): Info: Meeting starts at 7 p.m.

AKC Agility Trials 6/28/2013 6/29 & 6/30 Golden Retriever Club of SD NTC Promenade, Point LomaClosing date (blank=N/A): 6/12/2013 Info: Lynda Tjarks: www.lyndatjarksagility.com

AKC Obedience & Rally Trials 6/29/2013 Kennel Club of Beverly Hills Queen Mary Park, Long BeachClosing date (blank=N/A): 6/12/2013 Info: Bradshaw: www.jbradshaw.com

AKC Obedience & Rally Trials 6/30/2013 Long Beach Kennel Club Queen Mary Park, Long BeachClosing date (blank=N/A): 6/12/2013 Info: Bradshaw: www.jbradshaw.com

AKC Agility Trials 7/5/2013 7/6 & 7/7 Agility Club of San Diego NTC Promenade, Point LomaClosing date (blank=N/A): 6/19/2013 Info: Lynda Tjarks: www.lyndatjarksagility.com

AKC Obedience & Rally Trials 7/5/2013 Channel City Kennel Club VenturaClosing date (blank=N/A): 6/19/2013 Info: Bradshaw: www.jbradshaw.com

AKC Obedience & Rally Trials 7/6/2013 Santa Maria Kennel Club VenturaClosing date (blank=N/A): 6/19/2013 Info: Bradshaw: www.jbradshaw.com

AKC Obedience & Rally Trials 7/7/2013 Ventura County Dog Fanciers VenturaClosing date (blank=N/A): 6/19/2013 Info: Bradshaw: www.jbradshaw.com

Obedience & Rally Show & Go 7/13/2013 Hidden Valley Obedience Club HVOC training grounds, EscondidoClosing date (blank=N/A): Info: Evening event

Obedience & Rally Practice Match 7/13/2013 Downey Obedience Club Apollo ParkClosing date (blank=N/A): Info: Evening event. Flyer at:www.4dogs2go.com/calendar.htm

General Meeting 7/15/2013 All Breed Obedience Club Allied Gardens Recreation CenterClosing date (blank=N/A): Info: Meeting starts at 7 p.m.

AKC Agility Trials 7/27/2013 7/28/2013 Aztec Doberman Pinscher ClubClosing date (blank=N/A): 7/10/2013 Info: Lynda Tjarks: www.lyndatjarksagility.com

AKC Agility Trials 8/3/2013 8/4/2013 Germ. Shep. Dog Club of SD Co. NTC Promenade, Point LomaClosing date (blank=N/A): 7/17/2013 Info: Lynda Tjarks: www.lyndatjarksagility.com

Obedience & Rally Show & Go 8/4/2013 All Breed Obedience Club Allied Gardens Community ParkClosing date (blank=N/A): Info: 8 a.m. to noon

AKC Obedience & Rally Trials 8/10/2013 SW Obedience Club of LA GardenaClosing date (blank=N/A): 7/24/2013 Info: Sharon Licciardi, 38513 12th St. E, Palmdale, CA 92550

AKC Agility Trials 8/17/2013 8/18/2013 American Chesapeake Club Rohr Park, Chula VistaClosing date (blank=N/A): 7/31/2013 Info: Lynda Tjarks: www.lyndatjarksagility.com

General Meeting 8/19/2013 All Breed Obedience Club Allied Gardens Recreation CenterClosing date (blank=N/A): Info: Meeting starts at 7 p.m.

NAFA Flyball Tournament 8/31/2013 INXS Otay Ranch Town Ctr., Chula Vista8/1/2013 Erika Heine, 213 Draft Way, Placentia, CA 92870

Calendar of Dog EventsEVENT TYPE DATE(S) Addl. Day? CLUB

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