Pawsitive Steps Blog
Friday, October 31, 2008
Photo Shoot with Alex
Hi All,
Alex is going to be at the centre on Sunday Nov 9th at 10am for anyone wanting pictures of their puppies (or any other shots of your dogs but puppies get priority). Please make sure you book ahead. We want to try to get a picture of all the puppies that show up all together so try to work on a sit stay between now and then! Ya right!
Anyway, these would make cute Xmas presents, bring props as well, toys, baskets, etc if you want!
Here's a link to his flyer:
http://www.pawsitivesteps.ca/documents/PawisitiveStepsFlyer.pdf
Kim
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The Vancouver seminar with Susan is up on the web site! Go now if you want a spot!!!
Her web site is www.clickerdogs.com
Kim Collins
Pawsitive Steps Canine Sports centre
Prince George, BC
www.pawsitivesteps.ca
Fun Match Entries
The entries for the winter fun matches are now up on the site. You
may find them on the "Events" page.
There are three fun matches scheduled. December 14 will be all
standard runs, January 4 will be gamblers and February 15 will be
jumpers. These matches are a great chance to practice with your
competition dog, or give your new dog, and you, a chance to try out
agility in a trial setting.
may find them on the "Events" page.
There are three fun matches scheduled. December 14 will be all
standard runs, January 4 will be gamblers and February 15 will be
jumpers. These matches are a great chance to practice with your
competition dog, or give your new dog, and you, a chance to try out
agility in a trial setting.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Pawsitive Steps Updates
Hi all,
Just a few quick updates for everyone....
Classes
We are changing all our classes to 8 week sessions. Please check when you register for your next class to see if your classes have been moved to this new length or if there is one more set of 6 weeks before it is changing. Some of the Rally O classes are only 6 weeks right now but will be changing to 8 weeks as well.Those of you on the monthly plan talk to me and we will adjust your fees for 2009 to reflect this.
Kim's Classes
My Tue night Handling classes and Tue morning Classes are now done and they will resume Nov 4 not Oct 28. The Wed Contacts and Weaves will also resume Nov 5th. Please come in this week and register.
I will be away Thursday Nov 20 so Jump classes will be cancelled for that day although you are welcome to come in and work as usual.
Winter Agility Skills Camp
The deadline for the Winter Skills camp is Nov 1st. If you are planning to attend please get your registration forms in ASAP. I am working on the groups and schedule in this next couple weeks. This camp is open to anyone at any level.
Info for New Competitors
I will be holding a session for our "new to agility" students Sunday December 7th from 1pm -4pm. We will cover everything from what to bring to a trial, how to get your dog ID cards, how to fill out entry forms correctly, some basic rules of AAC, how to ring crew, time, scribe, rules for the ring, walking courses etc. Everything you will need to know for the 2009 season where some of you will be getting ready to debut! Cost is $60.00 per person.Bring your dog as we will also be working on how to get them measured. Maybe we will have time to run a short sequence to practice timing and scribing! Please register in the office by Nov 28th.
Rally O Trial 2009
We will be having a Rally O Trial Jan 31/Feb 1st 2009. Anne Douglas from Ontario will be coming out to judge. We will run 3 of every class as well as the new Team Class.
Funmatches
We will once again be holding our Sunday Agility Funmatches through out the winter. The dates will be December 14th, Jan 4th, Feb 15th and they will all run 10am -1pm. It is a great way to keep your dogs on the contacts through out the winter and also for the new competitors to try out some larger sequences as well as practice timing and scribing and ring crew so you are an expert at your first real trial!! There will be something for all levels so don't worry if you don't do contacts or weaves yet.$10.00 per run.Register in the office or forms will be available on the web site.
Learn to play Snooker on Halloween!!!
Snooker got you snookered? Well you aren't alone! Snooker is the most complicated of the Agility Games. We will be doing a Snooker Games Rules on Friday Oct 31st at 6pm.( yes all of you who want to get your dogs out of the house for Halloween night can come on down to the centre!) Come on out at 5pm and have some snacks and drinks and then we will play snooker for the evening!
We will also hold another Snooker Rules session Dec 30th from 11-1pm for those of you who have never played snooker before.Start to get the idea NOW before you hit the ring with your dog! We will talk about valuable skills you need to train for snooker as well!
Christmas SPCA Drive
As usual we will hold our SPCA collection during the month of November until the Christmas Party Dec 20th. If you wish to donate something here is a partial list of things they need:
Puppy and Kitten Food, Dog and Cat Food, KMR Puppy and Kitten Formula, Dog Treats, Collars and Leashes, Cat and Dog Toys, Brooms, dust pans, laundry detergent, dryer sheets, large orange garbage bags, floor cleaner, bleach, liquid hand soap, dish soap, Windex, paper towel, toilet paper, gauze, q tips, can opener, forks, copy paper, pens, scotch tape, batteries, scissors, disposable gloves, Canadian Tire dollars....
I would like to challenge everyone to clean out all their old dog toys, leashes, collars etc and bring them down to the centre to donate to the SPCA. I know I have TONS of dog toys my dogs never play with ( they like the water bottles and paper towel rolls just as much!!) plus I have leashes and collars my dogs never wear.
Annual New Years Fun Night
We will once again be having our New Years eve dog party at the centre. Games with and without dogs, pot luck etc. For those of you not into the usual New Years eve bash and would prefer to bring in the new year with your pups come on out. Start time 6pm Dec 31st!
Puppies, puppies, puppies!!
I am going to hold some one hour long puppy sessions over Christmas break for those of you with puppies preparing for agility careers. If you are interested in these sessions please contact me or leave your name at the office. These sessions will focus on crate games, building drive, tugging, shaping, working with distractions, recalls, rear end awareness etc.
I am also looking into getting Alex to come out and do a puppy photo shoot for all of us with new puppies. It would be great to try to get them all together in one shot if we can! ( ya right!!! hey I am up for the challenge!) If you have a puppy and would like to be a part of this shoot please let me know. I still haven't caught up with Alex for a date but I will try again in the next week.
BC Regionals 2009
The BC Regionals will be on May Long Weekend in Campbell River.
AAC Nationals 2009
As far as I know the AAC Nationals will be held in Ottawa July 31 weekend. This is NOT confirmed yet but it is what I have heard so far.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Xmas Party
Hi all,
We have changed the date for the Pawsitive Steps Xmas party. It will be Dec 20th not Dec 13th. Hope you all will join us!
Don't forget to bring an SPCA donation as well. We will set up the SPCA table Dec 1st and will take everything down to the SPCA after the Xmas party.
Also remember to get me your titles and Q's for the year! There will be prizes for that as well!
Also we need your photos for the slide show!
Kim
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