AFFILIATED WITH DOGS NSW ! MAY 2015

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PAWS AWHILE

Advance Notice of MMWDTC AGM

Please note the Metropolitan Mid-Week Dog Training Club Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 12 August 2015 after Training.

Please put this date in your diaries now! All committee positions will be declared vacant, and new faces are welcome and needed. Please start thinking about how you can assist.

Any of the Committee would be happy to answer any questions you may have.

METROPOLITAN MID-WEEK DOG TRAINING CLUB Inc

What a wonderful day we had for our trial. The sun was shining, the grounds were in excellent condition (and the toilets had been cleaned by Council). Many, many thanks to earlybirds Mary,

Pam, Teresa and Graham for setting up the rings, and to Georgina and Sheila for providing fabulous food from breakfast through to Lunch. A special thank you to Wendy Zingler and Mary for their

help in organising the stewards' equipment before the trial Thank you to Bernie for all the hard work she put in as Trial Secretary. The raffle made a profit, so a big thanks to Eve. Heartfelt thanks also to all members who came early to assist with set up, those who stewarded all day and helped with the packing up. It was a well run trial and that's all down to

you - so thank you. Robina Zanelli, President

Thanks to Robina from all of us at Metro.

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COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Club Patrons

Gwen Tregear

Marjorie Jackson

President

Robina Zanelli

8920 0825

Chief Instructor

Mary O’Dwyer

9810 0744

Postal ADDRESS

PO Box 3055

18 Moore Avenue,

WEST LINDFIELD

NSW 2070

Life Members

Joy Brown

Faye Clark

June Finch

Rita Forsythe

Denise Hope

Sue Hutchins

Marjorie McKenzie

Lea McNeall

Carol Moeser

Mary O’Dwyer

Judy Priest

Jenny Ralph

Gwen Tregear

Robina Zanelli

www.mmw.org.au

Vice Presidents

Sue Hutchins

9899 3007

Michele Martin9484 1005

SecretaryClare Seligman0408 754 203

TreasurerDenise Hope9652 2679

Asst. TreasurerSandra Fry9416 6080

Deputy Chief InstructorPauline Camp9817 3955

Tracking Chief InstructorGraham Elven0411 541 535

Trial SecretaryBernice Monteith9816 5954

CateringGeorgina McCarthy9489 0523

Ground Secretary

Pam Jones

9719 3279

Equipment Officer

Sheila Jolley

0403 907 722

Editor

Catherine Crouch

0402 091 233

AUDITOR

Meagher, Howard & Wright

MID WEEK DIARY: WEDNESDAYS OF THE MONTH

Week 1 New Members Day Ring Practice for CCD, Novice and Open from 9am Ring Practice for Rally O from 10am - 11am

Week 2 Club Meetings (alternate months)

Week 3 UD Beginners’ Class at 10am

Week 4 Testing for 1st to 2nd class, and 2nd to 3rd class

TRAINING is held every Wednesday.PRIMULA PARK, Highfield Road, WEST LINDFIELD

from 9.45 to 11am, followed by Morning Tea.

WET WEATHER - Training is on for beginners’ class as we can use the club house. Information on wet weather will be updated on our website www.mmw.org.au on Tuesday evening, or go to www.kmc.nsw.gov.au and look at Sports ground closures. Alternatively you can phone the Ku-ring-gai Council 24 hour wet weather line 9424 0800

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MMWDTC Obedience and Rally trial

The day commenced very early for Pam, Mary, Teresa and Graham (and the ducks!). Thank you ring set up extraordinaries.

Bernie, our hard working Trial Secretary.

Pam, our indefatigable Trial Manager with Bernie and our wonderful President, Robina. Our terrific catering team under our Chief catering organiser, Georgina with Sheila and Charlotte. Thank you

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Some of our Judges, MaryAnne, Margaret, Sue, Ron, Anne, Tracey and Pat with their stewards. Thanks to everyone who was a steward.

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Thank you to everyone who helped at the Trial. It was a successful day.

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Winter Warming Tips

As winter approaches and the temperatures continue to drop we find ourselves rugging up with warm jackets, scarfs and extra blankets on our beds to keep us warm at night. But what about our pets, how can we keep them warm and cosy during the winter?

It is sometimes forgotten that our pets are just as accustomed to the warm weather and shelter of our indoor homes as we are. It is important to consider your pet’s wellbeing during the cooling months and consider the many things that you can do to keep your family pet warm and safe this winter.

We have some great and simple tips on keeping your pet warm and healthy during the cooler months.

Winter Warming Tips

1.    Good Exercise

Keep your pet warm and healthy during winter and prevent any extra winter kilos creeping on with plenty of exercise.

2.    Regular Health Checks

Don’t forget to take your furry friend to the vet for a winter health check-up. Older pets in particular are susceptible to chilly temperatures and you may notice them start to slow down over the next few months.

3.    Fresh Water

Pets still require plenty of fresh water in winter especially when they are spending time indoors as the heating can dehydrate them quickly. If you live in particularly cold area, be sure to check your pet’s water bowl regularly to make sure that it has not iced over.

4.    Warm and Comfy Bedding

Now is the time to reconsider where to house your pet overnight. If you pet sleeps outside, provide it with a warm place to sleep and rest utilising thicker bedding, warm jackets and even microwavable heat pillows if necessary.

5.    Maintain Grooming Regime

Don’t forget your pet still needs to be groomed during the winter months as well as the summer ones. Many pet parents leave their dogs and cats coats to grow long over winter in an attempt to keep them warm but this can lead to some skin problems, matting and long hours of brushing and trying to get those knots out. Ensure that your pet is comfortable and continue to get them clipped to a manageable length.

Reproduced by kind permission from Greencross Vets

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Sarbi

Australia's most decorated canine war hero, who went missing in Afghanistan for over a year, has died after a short battle with brain cancer.The bomb-sniffing dog was awarded the War Dog Operational Medal and the RSPCA's Purple Cross, its highest award for animal bravery.The 12-year-old Labrador-Newfoundland cross was only the second animal to win the Purple Cross for wartime service, following Murphy, one of John Simpson Kirkpatrick's famous Gallipoli donkeys.Her handler, David Simpson, wrote on Facebook that Sarbi had suffered a number of seizures in recent weeks and that a scan last week had uncovered a brain tumour.Advertisement

Warrant Officer Simpson announced that the decorated dog had died peacefully and with her loved ones on Friday."Sarbi will live on in everyone's hearts and minds and I hope that her story of perseverance and determina-tion will inspire you to do whatever you can to achieve your goals and dreams," he wrote on Sarbi's official fan page.Sarbi went missing when insurgents attacked a convoy of Australian and Afghan soldiers in Oruzgan prov-ince in September 2008.Nine Australian soldiers were wounded in the attack, and it was discovered in the aftermath that Sarbi had disappeared.SAS Trooper Mark Donaldson won the first Victorian Cross to be awarded to an Australian since 1969 for his actions in the same battle. An American special forces soldier then came across Sarbi with some Afghan locals in a remote part of the province 13 months later and arranged for her to be returned to the Australian base at Tarin Kowt, to the joy of her handler.A scan of the dog's microchip confirmed she was Sarbi."We will never know what Sarbi endured and saw during her time in the desert, but if she could speak, I'm sure she would have some stories to tell us," the RSPCA's national president, Lynne Bradshaw, said when awarding her the Purple Cross in 2011.Sarbi had spent the past five years in retirement, living with Warrant Officer Simpson.Last month the hero dog attended the opening of a $1 million dog park named in her honour in Warner, north of Brisbane.

Article on the internet, SMH 15 March 2015 by Patrick Heath

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4/30/2015 NewsLocal digital edition - FASHION GOES TO THE DOGS - 29 Apr 2015 - Page #21

http://newslocal.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/services/PrintArticle.ashx?issue=87152015042900000000001001&paper=A4&key=5nl4UdhruNSsNWWHjUu62g… 1/1

This article is about our own Metro member, Mary May. Thanks to Mary for sharing it with us.

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JOKES

An Engineer or A Doctor?

An Engineer was unemployed for long time. He could not find a jobso he opened a medical clinic and puts a sign up outside: "Get yourtreatment for $500, if not treated get back $1,000."

One Doctor thinks this is a good opportunity to earn $1,000 and goes to his clinic.

Doctor: "I have lost taste in my mouth."

Engineer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 dropsin the patient's mouth."

Doctor: "This is Gasoline!"

Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your taste back. That will be$500."

The Doctor gets annoyed and goes back after a couple of days laterto recover his money.

Doctor: "I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything."

Engineer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 dropsin the patient's mouth."

Doctor: "But that is Gasoline!"

Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your memory back. That willbe $500."

The Doctor leaves angrily and comes back after several more days.

Doctor: "My eyesight has become weak."

Engineer: "Well, I don't have any medicine for this. Takethis $1,000."

Doctor: "But this is $500..."

Engineer: "Congratulations! You got your vision back!

That will be $500."

 

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"Lexophile" is a word used to describe those that have a love for words,such as "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish", or "to write witha broken pencil is pointless." A competition to see who can come up withthe best lexophiles is held every year in an undisclosed location. This year's winning submission is posted at the very end: .. When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.

.. A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

.. When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.

.. The batteries were given out free of charge.

.. A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.

.. A will is a dead giveaway.

.. With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.

.. A boiled egg is hard to beat.

.. When you've seen one shopping centre you've seen a mall.

.. Police were summoned to a daycare centre where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

.. Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He's all right now.

.. A bicycle can't stand alone; it's just two tired.

.. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

.. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine is now fully recovered.

.. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

.. When she saw her first strands of grey hair she thought she'd dye.

.. Acupuncture is a jab well done. That's the point of it.   And the winner is:

.. Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end.

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My my what English language!

Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning. A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym.You think English is easy??I think a retired English teacher was bored...THIS IS GREAT! Read all the way to the end.................This took a lot of work to put together!

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.2) The farm was used to produce produce.3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.4) We must polish the Polish furniture..5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert..7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.10) I did not object to the object.11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.13) They were too close to the door to close it.14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.20)How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted.But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'?

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Vale

Missy - 20.6.2000 to 9.11.2014 Pepper - 1.4.2000 to 17.4.2015

Farewell our first re-homed dogs, and they were well worth the effort.

Darling Missy was the exuberant one, loved everybody she met, friendly and outgoing. She was

Raymond’s special friend they were always together and he still misses her.

Darling Pepper was the quiet one, she was independent and exclusive, but she did enjoy life so much, she was like a little baby lamb, frolicking and

running in circles.

Mum (Denise) and Dad (Raymond) and all the people whose lives you touched, will miss you both

very much, RIP our little ones.

Please send articles, suggestions for articles, photos, jokes, news etc to Catherine at lillytheminipoodle@gmail.comPlease don’t send pdf ’s. Thank you

From Denise Hope

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DATE PERSON DOG AFFILIATE RESULT

15 April Anna Steel Kelly MMWDTC UD, 198 points, 1st place

15 April Pam Murphy Ben MMWDTC Rally Advanced 87 points, 2nd place

15 April Gillian Baird Bruno MMWDTC CCD 94 points

6 April Clare Seligman Dora Hornsby DTC Open, 181 points, 2nd place

RESULTS AND TITLES

Our wet grounds when Training was cancelled.A tree down across Highfield Road.

Congratulations also to -

Mary O’Dwyer with Polly at the Easter Show, Novice Agility, 5th place overall, and Novice Gamblers 2nd qualification.Anna Uther with Chino at the Easter Show, Novice Gamblers 2nd qualificationGila Levy with Tessa, Hawkesbury Agility, Agility dog excellent and 1st place

PromotionsCongratulations to

Jocelyn McEwan with Tosca 1st to 2nd ClassRobin Dive with Junior 2nd to 3rd Class

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METROPOLITAN MID-WEEK DOG TRAINING CLUB

OPENING AND CLOSING ROSTER6 May 2015 to 24 June 2015

Date Opening Closing Meetings

6 May Clare Michele New Members13 May Mary Georgina Committee20 May Catherine Denise27 May Pam Sue

3 June Sandra Bernie New Members10 June Clare Sheila General 17 June Jenny Michele24 June Pauline Robina

Michele is moving.Come and join us on Wednesday 27 May after Training as we wish Michele well for her move to Moss Vale. This is not a farewell as we still see Michele at Metro from time to time. It’s terrific we are keeping her. Rather it’s an excuse for a special Morning Tea so

please plan to stay around after Training and bring a plate to share.