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In this issue
News from the Club
President
Your questions an-
swered
Trial coverage of the
Riverland and ADCSA
July & Sep
Agility Dog Club of SA
One Jump Ahead
September 2020
From The Editor
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Welcome to the third edition for 2020. We are back trialling with competitions at
ADCSA in July and September along with the Riverland for those who braved the windy
weather to travel for the weekend. This issue features coverage of all three events with
our club members achievements highlighted at the latter two.
Competitions are now starting to be listed at other Adelaide based clubs in the next cou-
ple of months and its starting to look positive again (provided restrictions continue to
ease)
Please continue to like and share our social media pages to dog related pages along
with our promo video that was produced by Live Stream Australia—it was created from
scratch as there was nothing similar online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=zZT2vCrdK3Y&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0Z8RK4In3JynrsKCZenydcDPDDDisXGZmZCHS3MaJEtqvkIOlGRZKSJPU
https://www.facebook.com/Agility-Dog-Club-of-SA-311217319720180/
Our next trial is scheduled for the end of November (details in Trial Diary last page) and
is likely to be the final SA agility event for the year—as always if you are not competing
but would like to attend you are welcome and if you would like to volunteer even for a
class or two let the trial manager or committee know.
Don’t forget as of the start of October you can pay your annual fee taking your member-
ship to the end of 2021.
The AGM is also scheduled for the end of October and if you have the spare time and
would like to participate in running the club (you get discounted membership and re-
served car parking on trial days) you are welcome to nominate. Even if you are in your
first year of training (I was when I joined the committee) your skills & talents would be
appreciated.
We also have to continue to try and get Agility recognized as not just a ‘dog training
thing’ but a sport with the general community. ADCSA is starting to get displays at com-
munity events and we will continue to try and increase media coverage. Other high
speed dog sports focus on the dogs running at speed (eg Flyball, Lure Coursing even
retrieving for gun dogs) but our sport involves owners and handlers also having to have
a fair degree of fitness to keep up with their dogs working around the course as a team.
Jenny Barnes
Editor
2020 Committee
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President Pin Needham 0437 420 099 [email protected]
Vice President Jenny Pearson 0417 88 3094 [email protected] Fund
Raising
Head Instructor Ingrid Hanegreefs 0429 674 866 [email protected] Public
Officer
Treasurer Leslie McDonald 0418 816 811 [email protected] Catering
A/g Secretary Jenny Pearson 0417 88 3094 [email protected] Member
Protection
Committee Cathy Warcup 0407 617 804 [email protected]
Equip-
ment/Trial
Manager
Jenny Barnes 0412 208 011 barnesphotog-
Promo-
tion/
Media/
Magazine
Editor
Sub Committee Jo Shirlock 0413 878 222 [email protected] Trial Sec-
retary
Julie Brown Records
Officer
Michelle Vuaran Historian
Membership Fees
Joining Fee $15
Single membership $65
Family $95
Junior (under 17) $35
Social $35
Committee & Instructors $35
Memberships are half price for new members from 1st July
Club Account Bank Details
BSB : 805-050
A/c No : 61297807
Name : Agility Dog Club of SA Inc
Ref : Your Name
Instructors
Head Instructor
Ingrid Hanegreefs
Assistant Head instructor
Michelle Vuaran
Instructors
Mika Peace
Karen Moralee
Julie Brown
Cathy Warcup
Weather If the temperature if more than 36 degrees at
4.30pm training will be cancelled
TRIPAWDS
TUGS. We’ll try to make any tug (within reason) for you.
See Cathy Warcup.
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President’s Message September 20
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Another successful Trial was held on Saturday September 5, 2020.
The only dampener we had for the day was the cloudburst while we were trying to set up. However, it settled the dust, watered the grounds and the raffle tickets.
The winning qualifiers in the Novice Classes received a DVD “Building the Canine Athlete” by Dr Chris Zink and Dr Laurie McCauley, two renowned Sports Medicine veterinarians from the USA.
We are again pleased to welcome the following new members:
Melissa Anderson & Stephanie Morris with Kenia, Ollie & Rua; Sharon Bills with Willow; Andrew & Helena Bischoff with Peppa; Jude Bolton with Bodie; Ron Butler with Ben; Jeremy Ellis with Broc; Emilia Jaworek with Ari; Vicky Jobber with Cobber; Ellen Orlova with Bernie; Emma Panigas with Maisie; Suzanne Robson with Gemma; Verena Shields with Vinny; Karen & Emmeline Virgo with Ma-ple & Hazel; Matthew Wall with Daisy.
I hope you are all progressing with your training and both of you are enjoying it.
Coming events: Thursday, October 29th, 2020 ADCSA AGM
Time: 8:00 PM After the First Training Session
& before the 2nd Session
Membership Renewals: Are due from November 30
However, if you renew in October you could save; should there be a fee increase approved at the AGM.
Twilight Trial: Saturday November 21, 2020 Agility & Jumping Trial
Time Set up from 3:00PM. Trial starts at 6:00PM
We are currently negotiating with the Adelaide Veterinary Behaviour Services to provide a presenta-tion to our members at our last training night, November 26th, 2020. From 6:30 pm at the Club grounds
Best Wishes
Dr Pin Needham, President
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Your Committee
The ADCSA Committee has been working hard, meeting the challenges posed by COVID-19 and pro-
moting and growing our club through what has been a challenging year.
Prior to the COVID shutdown in March 2020, ADCSA had 22 participating members. We have now
grown to 57 members, with more on the way through our Come’n’Try sessions. Attendance at our
weekly training sessions has been exceeding 35 people in recent weeks.
Important tasks and issues addressed by the Committee in recent months include:
• Management of COVID-Safe return to training and trialling, such as:
- development of COVID-Safe plans for training sessions and conduct of agility trials;
- application to Dogs SA for approval to conduct July and September trials under COVID-
Safe precautions;
- organising COVID-Safe procedures, signage, and sanitising materials
- training COVID Marshals.
• Promotion of our club, new member intakes and Come’n’Try sessions through social and public
media to build membership following return from COVID shutdown.
• Video advertisement produced for ADCSA promoted through social media.
• Enhancement of membership database and attendance records.
• Responding to GSDCSA proposal to substantially increase grounds hire fees charged to ADCSA
and investigating alternative training venues (for discussion with members at our forthcoming
AGM).
• Continued fundraising for the purchase of new agility course equipment assisted by generous
donations of cancelled trial entry fees and raffle income.
• Rationalisation of equipment and sale of unused items.
• Child Safe Officer training completed by the Member Protection Officer and policy and proce-
dures updated to comply with new Child Protection legislation.
• Continued liaison with Sport SA, of which ADCSA is now a member, on issues of relevance to
our club.
Please consider joining our Committee if you would like to be a part of ADCSA’s continued growth
and success in 2021.
Jenny Pearson
Vice President and Acting Secretary, ADCSA
ADCSA MEMBERS SUCCESS IN THE RIVERLAND TRIALS
Congratulations go to the following club members for their qualifications as listed below:
Lindsay Newton & Albajail Feel the Rush—Masters Jumping 500 (Sat), Masters Jumping
500 (Sun), Open Jumping
Karen Moralee & Wattavue Amelia Joy —Novice Jumping 400 (Sat), Novice Jumping 400
(Sun x2) , Novice Snooker (below right)
Mel Maiolo & Firefrost Black Pearl—Excellent Jumping 500 (Sat x2), Excellent Agility 500
(Sat x2), Excellent Jumping 500 (Sun x2) and Excellent Agility 500 (Sun)
Nerissa Haby & Igmajik Assahtah—Excellent Jumping 400
Julie Brown & Collieston Rhythm & Rhyme—Excellent Agility 500 and Excellent Strategic
Pairs
E&N Cox & Sherbrooke Fun in Rio—Masters Jumping 500 (Sun x2) and Masters Strategic
Pairs
Cathy Warcup & Albajail Friar’s Brew—Masters Agility 500 (Sun) and Masters Strategic
Pairs
Jenny Barnes & Molly—Novice Agility 600 (Sun) and Novice Gamblers (below left)
Photos by Shadow’s Farm Photography
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What are the rules regarding weavers at trials? When trialling always remember the dog must enter the weavers correctly and not run past the
first or second poles. If they do or enter in the second gap its considered a refusal and you must re
attempt the weavers or you will be disqualified. If you enter correctly but then make an error fur-
ther along the weavers poles its considered a fault and you will have 5 points added to the total as
you would for a dropped bar.
What handling gear should I use on my dog for training? You should only use a flat collar and a short lead for attending agility training. While many are now
using harnesses, haltis/gentle leaders, check chains, martingale collars, collars with tags etc for
obedience training or just general walking of dogs they are not appropriate for agility training. Har-
nesses restrict the movement of a dogs shoulder which is necessary to jump correctly while only
flat collars are worn for safety as dogs can and do step off the edge of equipment sometimes and a
plain flat collar reduces the low risk of the dog getting caught up on an edge. Some only use a slip
lead and have no collar when running a course. A short lead is just easier to keep the dog close be-
tween training runs and easier to put in pockets when running yourself.
What types of rewards should I use for training? Rewards usually take the form of food or toys. Some dogs love the reward of a tug toy for a brief
tug o war while others love food. As agility is off lead and as the grounds are used for other train-
ing as well as public access during the week you should try and find a high value treat /toy to help
keep your dog focused on you and the sequence that you are working on. The important thing to
remember when using treats is that you must be mindful of other handlers and dogs—if you use
food to coax a dog into the tunnel or over a jump make sure your dog finds all the treats given (or
remove them yourself) . If you leave excess food around it can affect others training as dogs get
rewarded by smelling and finding dropped food treats. Especially as the later class will use the
same sequences as they will be preparing for trials and no matter how well trained a dog is if there
is a dropped piece of fritz, sausage, etc they are likely to stop in their tracks (or even drop their
head at the smell and crash through an obstacle ).
If I decide to start trialling should I start with only jumping or both jumping
and agility? The answer comes down to if you think your dog is ready to do contacts and weaving it may be
worth entering in both classes and seeing how you go. Jumping tends to be faster and forward
flowing whereas agility tends to be slightly slower as you pause briefly for the A frame, slow down
for the dog walk and weaving. Some dogs may find agility slightly easier as the jumps are broken
up with other equipment aside from tunnels. There are also games trials where you work with a
partner in Strategic Pairs or ‘make your own course’ Gamblers and Snooker and knocking down
jumps or errors result in time penalties or loss of points so there is a little leeway not instant non
qualifying
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ADCSA July Agility and Jumping Trials
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Agility Dog Club of SA hosted a suc-cessful return to competition over the weekend hosting the July Jumping and Agility Trials.
Judges Neville Cox (Jumping) and Jane Law-rence (Agility) set challenging courses in the morning while Vanessa Loughlin (Jumping) and Rose Ince (Agility) did the same in the afternoon.
After the first competition for the year was cancelled due to lockdown measures merely days before the event the competition was the first held since November 2019. Junior member of ADCSA 14yo Tia Vuaran and Della had an amazing day winning the morning Novice 500 Jumping class and Novice 500 Agility class (the only team to go clear) while being placed second in the afternoon Novice 500 Jumping class. Karen Moralee who was debuting her young dog Wattavue Amelia Joy went clear and won both the morning and afternoon Novice 400 Jumping classes.
Other competitors who had stand out results were Tina Comely and Theglebe Lady Henrietta who won the Masters 300 Jumping and Masters 300 Agility in the morning then followed up with Master 300 Agility in the afternoon, An-drew Butler and Kee who won the Masters 500 Agility and Open Agility in the morning and Katrina Warland and Alba-jail Fair Maiden who won the Open Jumping in the morning and Open Agility & Masters 500 Agility plus placing second in the Open Jumping in the afternoon.
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NEW CLUB APPAREL RANGE—How to order
1-Choose the item from the catalogue page
2– Beanies & caps are ‘one size fits all’
3-For Soft Shell jackets—measure your ’1/2 chest size’ (measure carefully no refunds or returns).
These items should be ready and delivered in 3 weeks
4-The Polo shirts and Rugby tops need to have an order minimum of 10 items each to start. Polo tops
and Rugby tops will take a minimum of 4 weeks. As above measure your ‘1/2 chest size’ (no refunds
or returns)
5-Go to the link https://agilitydogclubsa.orders.net.au/
6-Place your order & pay by credit card
7-Your items will be delivered to the Club for you to collect at a training session.
8-Please advise your order details to Pin Needham [email protected] or text to
0437420099
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ADCSA September Agility and Jumping Trials
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Michelle Chapman and her Dobermann Redshift Hot Asha won both the Masters Agility 600 classes on the day plus the final event the Masters Jumping 600. Redshift Hot Asha was returning from sev-eral months on the sidelines (aside from Covid) due to a cat bite that resulted in a severe infection in a front leg which has amazed all with the massive wound now healed leaving only a slight scar. Sophie Wright and Maggie won both Masters Jumping 400 classes plus the afternoon Masters Agili-ty 400.
Other competitors who had stand out results were Tina Comely and Theglebe Lady Henrietta who won the Masters 300 Jumping in the morning and Masters 300 Agility in the afternoon, Andrew Butler and Kee who won the Masters 500 Agility and Open Jumping in the morning, Bevan Hill & Duke won both the Novice 600 Jumping classes on the day and Carly Butler and Tash won the Mas-ters Jumping 500 in the afternoon plus the Open Agility in the morning
ADCSA members who gained qualifications are below
Robyn Jackson & Hillani Regal Reko—Masters Agility 400 and Masters Jumping 400
Ingrid Hanegreefs & Birramalpark Ella—Novice Agility 500 and Novice Jumping 500 (top right)
Tia Vuaran & Della—Novice Jumping 500 x2 (morning & afternoon) (bottom right)
Jo Shirlock & Sherbrooke Last Luna Eclipse—Masters Jumping 400 x2 (morning & afternoon) (left)
Mika Peace & Flatout Breakout—Masters Jumping 500
Official Photographer at Agility Dog Club of SA Trials
www.barnesphotography.net.au
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Western Pet Services www.westernpetservices.com.au
Pet Sitting, Dog walking and Basic Dog Grooming Services in Adelaide’s Western Sub-
urbs.
Western Pet Services is a new business that started in September offering pet sitting (home visits), dog walking and basic dog grooming service in addition to brief visits to check on puppies and older
dogs if required.
Western Pet Services is run by Jenny Barnes who has completed a National Police check and the business is registered and insured. Jenny has also undertaken training in basic pet grooming and is
currently completing a Certificate II in Animal Studies.
Keep an eye on our facebook page for any upcoming offers and news.
https://www.facebook.com/westernpetservicesadelaide/
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WAGGLY CLUB
Waggly Club is an Australian business specialising in monthly deliveries designed
to keep your fur baby happy and healthy. We send out monthly subscription boxes
featuring premium and healthy, and always Australian-made, treats from our
Waggly Snacks brand, as well as enriching and high-quality toys from trusted
suppliers such as KONG and Aussie Dog. Toys are hand-picked based on your
dog’s needs, and the treats can be tailored to accommodate any dietary
requirements.
We started Waggly Club because we believed dogs aren’t “just dogs” - they’re
family members. So as well as a great product, we’re completely committed to
making your furry family member happy and healthy.
To learn more visit https://wagglyclub.com.au/agilitydogclubsa. Using this link you
can also receive 50% of your first box and you’ll be supporting Agility Dog Club SA
via donations we make to them. Or if you have any questions, please feel free to
email [email protected] - we’d love to hear from you.
Agility Dog Club of SA Annual General Meeting
The AGM will be held after the first session of training on October 29th.
Committee nominations are invited from all financial members of the club.
If you have a skill that you think could improve our club please speak to cur-
rent committee members to nominate (there are current vacancies). Do
you have good organising skills, good computer admin skills, good with
numbers/excel, spare time you could put towards the odd club commitment
AND you get discounted club membership !! The committee appointment is
for 12 months and involves 6-7 meetings per year.
As per DOGS SA Journal listing (subject to change) 26th September—Munno Para Agility and Jumping trials 9am and NB 1pm 10th October—Noarlunga City Obedience Dog Club Agility and Jumping Trials 9am & NB 1pm
7th November—Southern Districts Kennel & Obedience Dog Club 6pm
21 November—Agility Dog Club of SA Agility & Jumping trials 6pm
Trial Competition Diary
2020 Training Schedule – Subject to change
Keep an eye on Facebook
6:30 - 7:00pm Set up Equipment
7:00 - 8:00pm Introductory, Beginners, Intermediate,
8:00 - 8:15pm ANNOUNCEMENTS
8:15 - 9:15pm Trialling 200/300/400/500/600
9:15 - 9:45pm Pack up