CANINE CAPERS April 2016 www.cudahykennelclub.org Like us on Facebook! Post about our classes on Yelp! Check out our new club website at http://www.cudahykennelclub.org April 19, 2016 are the next Membership and Board meeting for the club. The board meeting will start at 6:45 P.M. and the membership meeting will follow at 8:00 P.M. The club would like to thank all the the volunteers who helped with the CGC testing on March 21 st. We had a nice turnout for the event. The club would like to thank all the volunteers who help out with our TDI testing on April 2 nd. There were five people in the first test and three people in the second test. Everyone passed in each group. Congratulations to all of them. Future Training Class Signups: Obedience, Agility and other classes: The next signup is Monday May 23, 2016 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Conformation Mat Time: Tuesday nights 7 p.m. -----Cost $5.00 Rally Drop-in Classes Mat Time: Monday nights 8 p.m. ------Cost $5.00 (Please note: Classes are subject to change) Prices 6- and 8-week classes: $100 for the initial class. $85 for any other class for the same dog. Can mix and match classes after the initial class. Prices 4-week mini session: $55 for members and $65 for non-members. Does not count toward your first $100 initial class for repeat discount. Discounts available on Repeat Classes: *50% discount for Juniors for all classes
2 *Members and Senior Citizens (human trainees over 60 years) $75 for repeat obedience and agility training *Half price for the second dog with one handler in the same Agility class when a first dog is paid in full with the instructor s approval. Each dog runs half of the class time. *No discount for mini sessions other than $55 member discount. The website http://www.cudahykennelclub.org has a list of classes and activities along with a description of each class. Our Building is for Rent: Club members who belong to specialty clubs that are looking to rent the Cudahy Kennel Club building for any of their dog functions, please contact Greg Oberdorf at 414-429-1436 or email him at ogrego2001@yahoo.com or Wendy Anderson 414-771-6558, or email her at safeharborpwds@yahoo.com. Our clubhouse is available most weekends for rental for conformation, obedience, agility shows, matches, clinics, etc. We have about 10,000 sq. ft. and ample parking at a reasonable rental price for your dog needs. Call Greg or Wendy for available calendar dates and book your rental soon. Please pass this information on to your breed club officials and friends for future dates. Obedience Correction Matches: usually the second Friday of the month. Stewards and Judges (especially Utility judges) are always needed. No experience is required for stewards on the job training is provided. If you can help one Friday night, contact Kay Petersen at 414-334-9803 or pedersenmil@hotmail.com. Doors normally open by 6:00pm, starts by 6:30pm. Agility Correction Matches: usually the third Friday of the month. If you can help one Friday night, contact Wendy Anderson at 414-771-6558 or safeharborpwds@yahoo.com. Doors normally open by 6:30pm, starts by 7pm. UPCOMING EVENTS: Building Rentals: Cats Rule Sept. 16, 17, & 18, 2016 Activities: April 15, 2016 May 13, 2016 May 20, 2016 June 10, 2016 June 17, 2016 Agility run thru cancelled due to the obedience C match that night Obedience run thru 6:00pm registration Agility run thru 6:30 pm registration Obedience run thru 6:00pm registration Agility run thru 6:30 pm registration Future Cudahy Kennel Club Trials, Shows and Tests: Mark these dates on your calendar. We would love to have a good number of our members participating in these trials, shows and tests and would welcome your help as a volunteer at them. April 15, 2016 Obedience C Match April 16 17, 2016 Obedience/Rally Trial 2
May 14 15, 2016 June 11 12, 2016 June 24 26, 2016 July 13 17, 2016 August 12 13, 2016 August 12 13, 2016 September 11, 2016 October 8 9, 2016 November 26 27, 2016 December 2016 (TBA) Other Events: Fun Matches Lure Coursing (CAT) & Fast CAT Lure Coursing (CAT) Agility Trial 5 Day Seminar by Connecting With Dogs,LLC, Kay Laurence, Presenter Conformation Show Lure Coursing (CAT) Agility Trial Lure Coursing (CAT) Agility Trial Obedience/Rally Trial 3 On Saturday April 23, 2016 the Kennel Club of Fort Atkinson will host its 22 nd Annual Fun Match. There will be Obedience, Conformation and Jr. Showmanship classes. The event will be held at Western Waukesha County Dog Training Club(WWCDTC). Check out the Fort Atkinson Kennel Club website for the premium and further information. http://www.kcfadogs.org/ Fromm Petfest, September 24, 2016. We will run 2 Lure Coursing rings and a Booth promoting our club at Fromm Petfest. Please plan to volunteer for this event. It is a fun day! Titles Earned And Other Accomplishments (Brags): Congratulations to Cudahy Kennel Club agility instructor and member Jen Smith for her dogs Moquah and Strip and Rondie, a dog she runs for another member, being selected to go to the National Agility Championship. Dogs selected for this event must meet a number of qualifications which include 7 double Q s and 550 MACH points during a 1 year period of time to be selected. Moquah also earned the honor of getting into the challengers round. In addition, in the last month, not one but two of Jen Smith s dogs (Strip and Moquah) earned their MACH2 s. For those of you who have never competed in agility, MACH stands for Master Agility Champion. This is the highest title a dog can earn in agility. Jen and her dogs have earned this title twice. Congratulations on these big accomplishments! Several other members did well in recent Rally and obedience trials. Congratulations to the following members and their dogs. At a recent trial, Risha Cupit Berzins dog Dauphine (CH Howlin's Praline AJP RA CGC) earned her Rally Advanced title. 3
Also Risha Cupit Berzins dog Hubig became an AKC Champion at his latest show. He is now CH Howlin's King Cake OJP CGC. 4 Gatsby, owned by member Whitney Daley, earned his Novice Obedience title earlier this month. He also took 1 st place in his class. Nancy Freitag s dog Duke qualified, earned 2 nd place and a small cash prize both days in his 1 st 2 Novice obedience runs at a recent obedience trial. Duke earned his Novice Obedience (CD) title in his latest obedience trial. Nancy is very proud that he earned this title in 3 trials. Marisa U-AG1 AKC/UKC CH Lake-Breeze SafeHarbor Marisa, RN, NAP, CGC, TDI Marisa has been very busy in conformation, agility & Rally this year earning her AKC Novice B Rally title and her UKC Agility I title. On April 2, 2016, Marisa completed her AKC Championship in style (BOS, BOW, WB) at the Manitowoc shows. Marisa was expertly handled (for all of her points) by Jeri El Dissi. Owned by Wendy & Dirk and also handled by Wendy. Potential new club members: Aaron Krumnow has two Bernese Mountain dogs, former Conformation dogs who now are doing Agility. Members sponsoring Aaron are Wendy Anderson, Barb Ryan and Pam Brown. Cudahy Kennel Club Board Meeting at the Clubhouse March 15, 2016 The Board Meeting was called to order at 6:56 pm. Board Members present: Dirk Anderson, Don Adams, Nancy Freitag, Kay Pedersen, Mary Beth Hackney, Wendy Anderson, Barb Ryan, Ricky Adams, The minutes of the February meeting were approved with the following amendment. The 4/8 obedience run thru and the 4/15 agility run thru have been cancelled due to a building rental and our obedience trial. The motion to approve the minutes as corrected was made by Wendy Anderson and Kay Pedersen seconded the motion. The motion passed. Corresponding Secretary s Report: The Corresponding Secretary sent out an email with information about recent correspondence received from AKC. On Saturday April 23, 2016 the Kennel Club of Fort Atkinson will host its 22 nd Annual Fun Match. There will be Obedience, Conformation and Jr. Showmanship classes. The event will be held at Western Waukesha County Dog Training Club (WWCDTC). 4
Treasurer s Report: Our balance is $10,958.88 5 WIS/IL CAT show last minute cancellation discussion the security deposit was $250. Full rent was $750. Don will send a bill to that group asking them to pay the entire $750 per the contract. Wendy made a motion for us to ask WIS/IL to pay the entire $750 (They will owe an additional $500 because we have their $250 security deposit.) Kay Pedersen seconded the motion. The motion passed. Committee Reports: Agility: We have judges for all 3 dates this year and June and Sept 2017 Building: Don Adams created a cleaning proposal including when we will hire out the cleaning and when the cleaning will be done by volunteers. Conformation: No report given. CAT Events: Mary Beth Hackney reported that the judges have been hired for our May CAT tests. She will work on the premium soon. We need 2 more judges for our June tests. The application is in. Don Adams informed us that Fast CAT has been approved. Some changes have been made. The points system will reward a title for 150 points. Programming changes by AKC are expected to be completed by April. If the changes aren't complete, we will offer this event in conjunction with our May CAT tests and our scores will be inserted into the system after the programming is completed. Don will be in charge of it. Marketing: Nancy Freitag reported that the Marketing Committee has been busy promoting our upcoming CGC tests, TDI tests, class signups and obedience trials both on Facebook and by posting flyers at local businesses. Kay Pedersen suggested that we consider advertising in Clipper Magazine. We could include a coupon for $10 off in our ad. She will obtain more information about this. Tom Garvey also mentioned about a loyalty card that Animal Wellness Center in Oak Creek offers. Businesses offer discounts on their services with this card. Julie Westphal is the person to contact about this. Membership: No report given Obedience/Rally: Karen Paul we have a few entries so far for our April trial. The premium is out. We are using Caper and Trial in a Box instead of a club member Trial Secretary. Kay Pedersen will handle the paperwork and Wendy Anderson will assist her. Nancy Freitag offered to help them if needed. Karen will follow up with Caper about them emailing our premium to their list. Wendy emailed the premium to our members and 5
students and others who compete in obedience. We discussed offering the trial secretary some type of compensation for doing this job. We agreed that we need 2 people trained as Trial Secretaries for both our agility and obedience trials. Don motioned that we ratify our contract with Caper for Trial in a Box. Ricky Adams seconded it. Motion passed with one abstention. 6 Our December trial is not on AKC s calendar for 12/31/2016 and 1/1/2017. Don Adams will check into us moving our December obedience trial to another month. Karen Paul offered to be the assistant chair for this trial but will not be able to chair it. It was recommended that Chris Gremo be asked to be the December Trial Chair. Training: Don Adams, Dirk and Wendy Anderson had a meeting to discuss the training classes we offer. They discussed 0ffering a Beginner Novice class. Don wants to make sure all the classes have class descriptions and that all the class descriptions make sense. The Beginning Obedience class at 8pm on Thursday night has been renamed Basic Obedience. It s the same class as Lisa Bulowicz teaches. Respectfully submitted, Nancy Freitag for Fran Aring, Recording Secretary faring@ameritech.net Membership Meeting at the Clubhouse March 15, 2016 The meeting was called to order at 8:06pm. Members present: Dirk Anderson, Don Adams, Nancy Freitag, Kay Petersen, Mary Beth Hackney, Wendy Anderson, Barb Ryan, Ricky Adams, Karen Paul, Peggy Vanco, Tom Garvey Committees: Dirk Anderson, our new President will contact the current committee chairs regarding reappointment to their positions. It is up to the committee chairs to recruit members for their committees. Old Business: Mary Beth Hackney reported that we will offer CGC tests on 3/21 at 6pm and 4/2 at 10am. We will also offer TDI test on 4/2 at noon. New Business: Class signups we discussed being able to sign up online Dirk Anderson expressed thanks to Cristina Cook for her service to our club. She will be moving to California soon. We discussed putting up a new sign on our building but no action was taken New Member: Peggy Vanco was voted in as a new member. Welcome to our club! Delegates s Report: Fast CAT need a timer, more fencing, enough room on the grounds. We need 200 6
yards. It will be run at the same time as the CAT test. The point system is changing. Certain breeds had to run too many tests to be able to earn titles under the first set of AKC rules. Need 5 people. Timers for Fast CAT Mary Beth discussed this. Meredith contacted these people: Farmtek, these are the ones we rent from Cream City. Don t have to move the eyes as the dogs' sizes change. Work for Fast CAT. Need 2 pair of them--one at the start and one at the finish. The timer must be in the middle of the run distance. Has one type that isn t good for agility. Farmtek like we use from Cream City is $1900. Thunderpaws (the guy from Missouri) Meredith has had trouble with communication with this person. Has the single eyes that you need to move up and down. Will do the longer distance. We might have to move the heights up and down. You would have to have a separate jump to put the eye on for Agility with the Thunderpaws timers. Doesn t sound like their equipment is easy to work with. You ll get the speed from the timer. The display is for anyone to read. Farmtek the display is all on 1 line 2:22:22 and the display for the Thunderpaws is on more than 1 line. Meredith recommended the Farmtek timer. Thunderpaws $780 has a smaller display. What about renting the Farmtek timer. Meredith will write up an email to the board regarding her recommendations. The estimate is that we ll make $4000/year from Fast CAT. There being no other business, the membership meeting was adjourned at 9:30 pm. Respectfully submitted, Nancy Freitag for Fran Aring, Recording Secretary faring@ameritech.net 7 Additional Information: News from AKC ACT Program (Agility Course Test) for beginning Agility Dogs & Handlers The AKC Agility Department is excited to announce the launch of a new, beginning level agility program called ACT (Agility Course Test). The ACT program officially launches on March 1, 2016. This program is designed to introduce beginning dogs and handlers to the sport of agility. There are two classes ACT 1 and ACT2. Clubs and trainers can adopt the ACT classes as the graduation exercise for their training classes to be held at their facility thus providing their students a familiar and comfortable setting. The ring size requirements are small enough that ACT classes can be held in many training facilities across the country. In addition to preparing for these introductory classes, exhibitors will learn to do things such as to enter an AKC event, check-in at the ring, prepare for their run, and handle their dog while under judgment. We hope that clubs and trainers will use these classes as learning experiences. 7
8 There are several elements of the ACT program that are different from AKC Agility Trials. Eligibility to enter: This program is for dogs that do not have an AKC Agility title at the Novice level or higher. Dogs may enter ACT2 without having an ACT1 title. Dogs that are not registered/listed with the AKC may participate and their performance will be recorded under a temporary recording number. Owners will receive a letter from the AKC explaining how they can register their dogs. Application to be listed as a Canine Partner may be accepted at the test and submitted with the results. Judges/Evaluators: All AKC agility judges may judge the ACT classes. In addition we will be setting up a system for trainers and experienced participants to become ACT evaluators. Evaluators may judge ACT classes. There will be an application, online test and nominal fee to become an evaluator. More information about becoming an ACT evaluator will be available within the next couple of weeks. Holding ACT events: Any AKC agility judge/act evaluator may hold a stand-alone ACT event. The event does not have to be held by an AKC licensed club. AKC agility clubs may hold ACT events in conjunction with their trials if they desire. Jump Heights: No jump height card is required to enter an ACT class. Handlers are encouraged to have their dogs jump at the appropriate height that will help them prepare for AKC Agility trials. Event Applications: Clubs or judges/evaluators do not need to file an application for ACT events; there will be no application fee. A $5.00 per entry recording fee for all dogs entered will be submitted with the results. Courses: Evaluators and judges will need to submit their courses for review; however, courses may be reused, which we encourage for ease of administration. Titles: Dogs must receive two passing scores to earn each of the ACT titles. Dogs are required to be fully registered/listed in order to be awarded a title. There will be an ACT page on the AKC website where forms and information can be accessed. We have also set up a mailbox for the ACT program act@akc.org. ACT related questions can be sent to this mailbox. Please see the regulations and other information as it becomes available on the ACT web page that can be accessed through the Agility Home Page. We are looking forward to working with clubs, trainers and evaluators to introduce new exhibitors to the sport of agility. The AKC Agility Department 8