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The Monthly Newsletter of the Capital Dog Training Club, Inc. Obichaff August 2012 Volume 68, Issue 7 In This Issue From the Editor … … … 2 Awards Dinner … … 3 Delegate’s Corner … ... 4 Nikita’s Unusual Night .. 5 2011 Instructors … 6-7 Brags … … … … … ...9 Class Schedules … … 10-11 T.A.P.S. T.A.P.S. T.A.P.S. T.A.P.S.—Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors by Burton Goldstein “Remember the Love, Celebrate the Life, Share the Journey.” As pet owners, we can perform community service in several ways. We can do “animal-assisted activi- ties” (hugs and kisses), and “animal -assisted therapy”. Service dogs are typically trained/certified dogs (animals) that aid someone in need of this service. (We think of the blind person and their Seeing Eye dog.) In between pet therapy and service animals, there are “working dogs”. We think of search and res- cue dogs. There are also “animal- assistance crisis response dogs”. A typical pet therapy visit might be to arrive on-site, meet and work with the staff and their pre- scheduled patients, working on pre- determined goals. After an hour, maybe an hour-and-a half, the visit is over, and might repeat in two weeks. Animal-assistance crisis response work is like a pet therapy visit on steroids. The actual interaction be- tween the dog and person is basically the same as in a pet therapy visit. However, the crisis response visit does not end after an hour. Whether it is something like hurricane Katrina, a 911 call, or a Virginia Tech incident, working dogs are often brought in after the first responders. Only if we are called in by the chain of command, can we as crisis re- sponse teams be a part of the solution, rather than a part of the problem. Various organizations might call our organization— HOPE Animal-Assistance Crisis Response—in for their activity. One such event is T.A.P.S., Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. It takes place in Crystal City, Virginia, on Memorial Day weekend. 2,000 survivors of military families are brought together: adults are invited to attend seminars and activities, while younger survivors at- tend a grief camp, paired one- to-one with a counselor, who is a member of the active mili- tary. HOPE had been invit- ed, and had a handful of teams, including Burton Gold- stein and his thirteen-year old Shih Tzu M.G., and Shellie Goldstein and her eleven-year old Shih Tzu Goldie. (Their younger Shih Tzu, the Bear and Emma, were holed-up in the hotel next door.) (Continued on page 8)
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The Monthly Newsletter of the Capital Dog Training Club, Inc.
Obichaff August 2012
Volume 68, Issue 7
In This Issue
From the Editor … … … 2 Awards Dinner … … 3 Delegate’s Corner … ... 4 Nikita’s Unusual Night .. 5 2011 Instructors … 6-7 Brags … … … … … ...9 Class Schedules … … 10-11
T.A.P.S.T.A.P.S.T.A.P.S.T.A.P.S.————Tragedy Assistance Program for SurvivorsTragedy Assistance Program for SurvivorsTragedy Assistance Program for SurvivorsTragedy Assistance Program for Survivors by Burton Goldstein
“Remember the Love, Celebrate the Life, Share the Journey.” As pet owners, we can perform community service in several ways. We can do “animal-assisted activi-ties” (hugs and kisses), and “animal-assisted therapy”. Service dogs are typically trained/certified dogs (animals) that aid someone in need of this service. (We think of the blind person and their Seeing Eye dog.) In between pet therapy and service animals, there are “working dogs”. We think of search and res-cue dogs. There are also “animal-assistance crisis response dogs”. A typical pet therapy visit might be to arrive on-site, meet and work with the staff and their pre-scheduled patients, working on pre-determined goals. After an hour, maybe an hour-and-a half, the visit is over, and might repeat in two weeks. Animal-assistance crisis response work is like a pet therapy visit on steroids. The actual interaction be-tween the dog and person is basically the same as in a pet therapy visit. However, the crisis response visit does not end after an hour.
Whether it is something like hurricane Katrina, a 911 call, or a Virginia Tech incident, working dogs are often brought in after the first responders. Only if we are called in by the chain of command, can we as crisis re-sponse teams be a part of the solution, rather than a part
of the problem. Various organizations might call our organization—HOPE Animal-Assistance Crisis Response—in for their activity. One such event is T.A.P.S., Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. It takes place in Crystal City, Virginia, on Memorial Day weekend. 2,000 survivors of military families are brought together: adults are invited to attend seminars and activities, while younger survivors at-tend a grief camp, paired one-to-one with a counselor, who is a member of the active mili-tary. HOPE had been invit-
ed, and had a handful of teams, including Burton Gold-stein and his thirteen-year old Shih Tzu M.G., and Shellie Goldstein and her eleven-year old Shih Tzu Goldie. (Their younger Shih Tzu, the Bear and Emma, were holed-up in the hotel next door.)
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Obichaff is published monthly, except in January, for the benefit of members of Capital Dog Training Club. Members are encouraged to submit articles that would be of interest to other members. All submissions to Obichaff must have the author’s name. Previously published material must include permis-sion from the publisher to use the material in Obichaff. The Editor has the right to edit for space, content and tone. If significant changes are made (i.e., more than just for clarity, punctuation, spelling, etc.), the author will be given an opportunity to review the edited article. Material published in Obichaff does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Editor or of CDTC. Newslet-ters of other clubs may quote any part of this publication, provided proper
credit is given and a copy sent to Capital Dog Training Club.
2012 Board of Directors
PresidentPresidentPresidentPresident Suzanne Miller
Vice PresidentVice PresidentVice PresidentVice President Carrie Solomon
SecretarySecretarySecretarySecretary Pam Coblyn
TreasurerTreasurerTreasurerTreasurer Dianne Harab
TrainingTrainingTrainingTraining DirectorDirectorDirectorDirector Lisa Daniel
Assistant Training DirectorAssistant Training DirectorAssistant Training DirectorAssistant Training Director Abigail Carter
Training SecretaryTraining SecretaryTraining SecretaryTraining Secretary Shannon Hall
Trial ChairTrial ChairTrial ChairTrial Chair Burton Goldstein
Trophy ChairTrophy ChairTrophy ChairTrophy Chair Kathy Sheehan [email protected]
AKC DelegateAKC DelegateAKC DelegateAKC Delegate Joyce Dandridge
Obichaff EditorObichaff EditorObichaff EditorObichaff Editor Melitta Carter
Members at LargeMembers at LargeMembers at LargeMembers at Large Ken Harringer
Donna Cleverdon
Bob Reinhardt
Dear Reader, are you reading this online through our website? If this is a choice you have made then thank-you for saving postage and copy costs. If this is not a deliberate choice, and you are wondering why you have not received Obichaff in the mail, there could be two reasons: one, you have not yet renewed
your membership. If so, please contact Marian Hardy immediately! Or two, if you have renewed your membership you may have forgotten to tick the box on page two, requesting Obichaff by mail. If this was an error, then please contact Marian Hardy, who does Obichaff labels as well as processing membership applications. As CDTC’s new financial year starts, please consider new ways you can help our Club: our hard-working Training Director is looking for new assistants and instructors, and I would like to find someone to take over Capital Points. Could that be you? - Melitta
From the editor…..
Le�er to the editor…
In the June issue of Obichaff Jennie Larkin wondered why people who do Free-style continue to do routines after they have titled. Short answer--we don't. A Freestyle routine may take a year or longer to put together. Just finding music that matches the gait of the dog and is appropriate for that dog and handler is time consuming. Then the handler must design a program and, hopefully, the dog will approve. Our dogs are very much a part of putting all this together. If a movement is difficult for the dog, we change it. They talk and we listen. The dogs also make up new moves themselves and these are added to the routine. Freestyle has two judges for each class with no pre-conceived idea what the pro-gram is. What they see is what they judge. There are only a few required moves but how they are presented is endless. This makes for an ever-changing and chal-lenging playing field. The presentations are even judged on artistry. After the dog has titled the process starts again, new music and new choreography. This is a sport based in large part on communication between dog and handler (yes, that is judged too) not just telling a dog what to do. This is what makes it fun. Pepper Guzman
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CDTC’s Annual Awards and Instructor Appreciation Dinner Text by Kathy Sheehan, Photos by Melitta Carter
Over 60 members attended the Annual Instructor Recogni-tion and Awards dinner to honor the contributions of our instructors and assistants as well as recognize those who earned titles during the past year. After a dinner catered by La Prima Catering and a cake appropriately decorated with doggies, CDTC President Su-zanne Miller (assisted by Trophy Chair, Kathy Sheehan) presented the plaques and plates for the many titles earned by our members. *16 Members earned AKC Obedience titles ranging from Beginner Novice (BN) to Utility Dog (UD) *Due – no doubt - to CDTC’s increasingly popular and very successful Rally Obedience Program, the most titles were earned in Rally Novice (RN). 19 members earned RN’s during 2011 on a total of 22 dogs! Three members earned three levels of rally titles during 2011 (Shirley Fer-guson with Lucy, Josie McAuliffe with Xena and Bob Reinhardt with Ben). A total of 41 Rally titles were earned and celebrated. *16 Members earned 47 AKC Agility titles. Diane Sutton earned the most titles (13) on her German Pinscher, Soleil. 5 members earned titles with multiple dogs. *In addition to these titles, we applauded the successes of
an AKC Earthdog title (JE), AKC Therapy Dog (THD) titles, CGC and S.T.A.R. Puppy Certificates as well as some titles from non-AKC groups – including a herding title. *A full list of titles earned is available on the CDTC web-
site.
After the awards were presented, our Training Director thanked the many dedicated Instructors and Assistants. In-structors were individually acknowledged and were given very cute baseball caps embroidered with the CDTC logo. (Note that caps will soon be available for sale.) The final award – the AKC Outstanding Sportsmanship Award - was presented by CDTC’s AKC Delegate Joyce Dandridge to Jane Weisemann who has made countless contributions as a devoted member and volunteer of CDTC. Thank you eve-ryone who helped make the event a success including Pam Coblyn (program cover design), Diane Harab (cake pickup), Mary Rice and Char-ma Edwards (party set up) as well as every-one who stayed to clean up!
President Suzanne Miller and Trophy Chair
Kathy Sheehan handing out caps
CDTC Members seated for award ceremony Jane Weisemann and Joyce Dandridge
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AKC Delegate’s Corner: Joyce Dandridge
A $300,000 donation was made by the HSUS (Humane Society of the United States) to a person running for Congress in Illinois. That person was elected and is aggressively back-ing legislation that is considered anti-breeder. As you hear of dog legislation in the state for MD and VA, many of you have asked me -- What is AKC doing? Well, AKC certainly cannot give bundles of money to candidates. They do not have the finances that exist with the animal rights groups. Fighting back takes finan-cial resources so in 2011 the AKC established a PAC and received only $6662 in contributions from members of AKC affiliated clubs, an average of only five cents per club member. This year AKC is asking clubs to meet the goals of their new Club Presidents Challenge. Clubs through their Presidents are being asked to raise a modest amount ($200) for the AKC PAC (Political Action Committee) in this election year. This donation will support candidates who will protect our rights as dog owners and breed-ers. At the last CDTC Board meeting, I volunteered to handle the AKC PAC for our club. I will collect all checks made out to AKC PAC and submit them to AKC with a list of the contributors’ names for our club. I will ac-cept donations until July 31, 2012. Periodically, AKC will report the results of the Club Presidents Challenge and how our club’s money is being used. Thanks to members who made donations at the annual awards dinner. We are half way there! I will take any and all donations, $5, $10 and up. Make sure you make your checks out to AKC PAC and mail them to me at 8132 Eastern Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20012-1312. If you have any questions, email me at [email protected]. Hopefully, at the next Delegates Meeting CDTC will be one of the clubs to reach the $200 goal for AKC PAC. Another goal for consideration by AKC is to increase the number of dogs which annually participate in the AKC’s Canine Good Citizen program to ten times what it is today — from more than 50,000 to 500,000. The accomplishment of doing that would be enormous because AKC’s CGC program attracts the general public, particularly young people and parents. It brings new people and new revenue to training clubs and events and serves as a bridge to companion, performance, and conformation events. It also strengthens our story in the legislative arena and amplifies the ability to insure homes when “redlined” breeds are present. Currently, 43 states and the U.S. Senate have issued proclamations in support of AKC’s Canine Good Citizen program.
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Nikita’s Unusual Night By Joan Adler and Melitta Carter
I, Nikita, was enjoying lying in bed with Mom and Dad, while they were looking at the tv. I could hear and smell the sounds of a big storm coming in, but Mom and Dad didn’t notice until it was almost upon us. Suddenly, Mom screamed at Dad and they made me leave my comfy position to rush downstairs. What a commotion! Mom and I were at the bottom of the stairs and Dad was still half way up when this huge crash startled us all, as one of my trees fell on the roof and some trusses (I know this because they kept on yelling it) fell into the upstairs hall, just missing my Dad by ten se-conds. It was interesting, I could finally see the sky from inside the house, through the bathroom, the hall and the kitchen! I didn’t mind the rain falling in the house, but Mom and Dad didn’t like it at all. It was fun squelching on the wet carpet.
Dad went outside to see the tree, and to turn off that noisy machine that started up as soon as the lights went out. I was happy about that, be-cause I don’t like the noise. Dad was also trying to turn off the gas, while Mom and I ran round to a neighbor. This was starting to be fun! I don’t usually get to visit with people at night. It got even better, because after Mom made some phone calls we got to spend the night at a friend’s house. They didn’t have lights either, but Mom was glad that it wasn’t raining inside their house.
The next morning I was happy to go back to my house because I wanted breakfast. It was really wet inside the house though, not just from the rain but water was coming out of a pipe, which was pretty awesome. I liked the idea of a sprinkler in the house. Everything outside looked different,
many of my trees were lying on the ground, and they smelt different. I’m sure I can get used to it, though.
We went to stay with Mom’s pup, Patti, but Mom and Dad aren’t being much fun because they are talking into their phones all the time. I heard them talk about an insurance company, a company with a crane, a “demo” team — all new stuff to me. We went to see the crane lift my tree off the house. They left behind the best part of the tree for me, the bottom with all the great smells, especially since it was on its side. It was taller than Dad!
Now all the carpets have been taken out and there are huge and noisy fans in there. Even the walls are being taken out, I always wanted to see what was behind them.
Two days later Mom’s pup and her family and other friends helped my Mom to pack some stuff up. Mom really needed the help, I could tell she was feeling unwell from all this change, even though I tried to reassure her and tell her it would all be alright. She told me the entire roof and trusses will be replaced, and there will be new ceil-ings and floors upstairs. Even better news for me is
that there will be a new kitchen. I hope that will come with a bigger bowl and more space for me. Unfortu-nately all the carpets downstairs will be replaced, and I really do not like the smell of new carpets. I’ll have to do something about that.
Meanwhile, we have moved into a strange place in a big building, and I don’t have a garden right outside the door, but have to go down in a mov-ing crate, which is a bit unnerving. But I’m with Mom and Dad, they have calmed down a bit, so things are not so bad. I did hear them say they would cut down the other tree in our yard, so maybe the squirrels will live on the ground, like me? That could be fun!
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Obedience Joan Adler Sandi Atkinson Karen Christensen Donna Cleverdon Carol Crawford Lisa Daniel Anya Dornak Dona Dwyer Eileen Freedman Gabi Golec Valery Gordon Jerusha Gurvin Shannon Hall Ken Harringer Shirley Harry Alice Hathaway Brooke Holt Jodie Jeweler Mary LaDieu Jennie Larkin Anne Melchior Barbara Merchant Suzanne Miller Robert Reinhardt Ann Riley Carrie Solomon Arlene Spilker Gail Young Mary Jane Zarnowski
Conformation Joyce Dandridge
Agility Ken Briefel Abigail Carter April de Bremond Shannon Hall Brian Maloney
Flyball Dona Dwyer Rachel Lindberg Jean Thompson Kristin Weichman
Rally Lisa Daniel Diane Harab Josie Mcauliffe Robin Siegel
Freestyle Wendy Ely Pepper Guzman Sally Kirshenman
CDTC Instructors in 2011
A Huge THANK YOU! To Our Instructors and Assistants for 2011
On our annual Awards Night, we honor both the accomplishments of our members and the dedication of our class instructors and assistants. As Training Director, I want to note that our volunteer instructors and assis-tants are largely what make our club viable from a financial point of view. These conscientious volunteers work hard, many of them all year round or virtually so, in order to further the missions of our club in a con-crete way. The lower level instructors do this by providing help and guidance to the public: teaching people how to have better, kinder, more responsible and more productive relationships with their dogs. The upper lev-el classes primarily serve our members, allowing us to train our dogs to the highest levels and to achieve the titles that we also honor on Awards Night. If you are not already an instructor or an assistant, please consider working towards the possibility. In the meantime, join me in expressing our HUGE appreciation to those who
are. Thank you all for ALL you do!
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Obedience Corrie Bouvier Dawn Felsen Shirley Ferguson Art Gonzalez Marsha Iyomasa Lisa Lee Rebecca McCown Patti Miller Robert Reinhardt Cinda Verbin
Rally Brad Smith
Agility Vanessa Andrews Mimi Burton Susan Eiss Shannon Hall Karen Hill Lois Keitur Luann Korona Jennie Larkin Angela Lauvray Lisa Lee Erinn Montiero Jen Romero Justin Romero Kathy Sheehan
CDTC Assistants in 2011
Some of CDTC’s 2011/12 instructors at the Awards’s Dinner, sporting their new CDTC Logo caps
Photo by Pam Coblyn
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Friday started with an inspirational kick-off speech given by Vice-President Joe Biden, as he spoke about his personal loss of his first wife and one of his sons. He spoke first to the adults, and repeated his talk to the kids, in two very emotional presentations. Kids were in red t-shirts and their counselors in blue. Everyone knew that if they needed a “dog fix”, we were in green shirts. We worked the crowds, non-stop, the entire day. Shellie took Goldie to a room for toddlers. The kids wore pictures of their deceased on buttons. One little three year old told Shellie that it was of her Daddy, and that he was in heaven. (A pretty heart-felt way to start a non-stop weekend.) One of the most famous traditions in this area is the amazing parade of thousands of veterans on their motorcycles, riding together to remind everyone to never forget those that have fought for our country, and especially those that have made the ultimate sacri-fice. This incredible event is known as Rolling Thun-der. While held on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, many of them come to this event on Satur-day, and bring the kids “do rags”, and have the kids sit on their bikes, revving the engines. These are big guys, leather vests, lots of tattoos, but the nicest men and women under all of that image. I told one of them that they were missing a couple of Shih Tzu to complete the picture. His bud-dies kidded him that they were going to post that pic-ture on the internet. He turned to Shellie and told her that we were ruining his image. As he rose, standing maybe six foot - a hundred inches, with arms like a billboard sign, Shellie told him that he really had noth-ing to worry about as far as his reputation went! Finding time to take breaks in between con-stant visits with attendees, we positioned the dogs on a large hassock by the main entry to the hotel. Some of us went to the room where the one- and two-year olds were, and then to the three-year olds. We were there when the kids got on the bus to go downtown, and when they arrived back. We were outside the door when seminars ended. We were visible in as many fac-ets of the activities as we could be. The kids wanted to collect “trading cards” of the dogs, so I went to the local Staples and made some for M.G. and Goldie. This was our first call out since the HOPE workshop last June. As the weekend progressed, more
and more people sought us out. Some of the kids had brought their dog trading cards from the previous year. From the continuous flow of young kids, to being called into a room with an activity, to just having someone sit down next to you, to being stopped in the hallway, we were on-call non-stop, all day, all week-end. On Sunday, the kids wrote messages to their deceased, and we all walked across the street to a large park, where on command they all launched their mes-sages to the heavens attached to helium-filled balloons. What an emotional three-days! We couldn’t have been more proud of our dogs. The noise and ex-citement of our “rolling thunder” was beyond belief. Our little guys were un-phased. They knew that they were there to meet and greet, to give comfort, and un-conditional love. All four of our dogs wear a starfish on their visiting vest. The story is that someone once watched as someone else was throwing starfish that were washed up onto the beach, back into the ocean. “What are you doing?” “I’m helping the starfish.” “But there are millions of them on the beach, how big of an im-pact can you make?” As they threw another starfish back, they said “I made a big impact on that one!” We help people with each therapy visit we make. In this case, it was three-days full of many vis-its. It was a great experience. We will continue to do our regularly scheduled, weekly pet therapy visits. We have separate go-bags packed in case of a call-out for any potential crisis response work. M.G. and Goldie, working Shih Tzu, with the Bear and Emma working their way towards accreditation. Great things come in small packages.
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Brags!
Itzyu Figaro took 2nd place with 98 points in his first Rally Novice B event at the Basenji Club of America National Specialty, in Gettysburg, PA on July 9, 2012, under judge Nan-cy Withers. At the age of six months he is one of the youngest dogs to earn a leg in rally. I think he may actually be the youngest Basenji, too. He earned his 2nd Rally Novice leg at the Shetland Sheepdog Club of Greater Baltimore’s trial in Beltsville (CTA clubhouse). He was not paying attention as well as on Tuesday—86 points—but he did better than several others. The judge was Roberta Horner. Sandy Atkinson
At the NADAC Tailwagger's trial on July 8, 2012, Fenway (Ch. Tartan Bay Green Monster, CD, RN, OA OAJ NA, CGC) continued his quest for satin ribbons. Fennie earned his Open Tunnelers, Open Regular and Novice Chances titles with all 1st placements. With that last needed Q in Chances, Fenway got his NADAC Novice Versatility title. This award is given to dogs who earned a title in all six classes at the same level. Al-ways an enthusiastic competitor, Fenway accomplished this with ALL first place-ments, across the board! Fenway was presented with a special Versatility rosette by Judge Jeff Reidl. Pam Coblyn
Lisa Daniel and Cody - 1st RAE leg and 4th place! Josie and Xena - 3rd RAE leg Carrie and Tick-Tock - RA title and 3rd place! Carrie and Ripley - RA title!
Carrie and Dexter - RN leg and 3rd place! Eileen and Kuliana - RN leg and 4th place! Jodie and Kelly- RN leg Sandi and Fig- RN leg
Jeanne and Niki - first RN leg! Charma and Ernie - RN title and 2nd place! Charma and Pie = RN title and 3rd place!
We had many people from CDTC participate in the Sheltie trial at CTA on Friday night, 7/13/12. Congratulations to:
Information and photo by Josie Mcauliffe
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Class SchedulesClass SchedulesClass SchedulesClass Schedules
Time Class Instructor Ring
MONDAY
10-12 Freestyle TG Ely 1-2-3
6-7:15pm Open LaDieu 2-3
7:00-8:00pm SN Adler/Dwyer 1
7:30-8:20pm Novice Daniel 2/3
8:15-9:15pm Utility Adler 1-2
8:30-9:20pm Basic 6/18-8/13 Hall 3
TUESDAY
1-4pm Building Cleaning
6-6:50pm PK 6/26-8/14 Hathaway 3
7-7:50pm PK 6/12-8/07 Freedman 3
7-7:50pm Novice Merchant 1
8-9pm 1st/3rd TG Jackson 2-3
8-9pm 1st/3rd Open Skills 3
8-10pm 2nd Tue Club Meeting Bldg
8-10pm 4th Tue Board Meeting Bldg
WEDNESDAY
9:30-10:30 Novice TG McCown 1-2
12-2:30pm Ob. Skills TG Spodak 1-2
6-7pm Open Cleverdon 2-3
7-8pm Agility Comp. Briefel 1-2-3
THURSDAY
9:30-10:30 SN Adler 3
9:30-10:30 Novice Holt 1-2
10:30-11:30 Open TG Holt 1-2
11:30-12:20 Comp.Rally Daniel 3
12:30-2:30pm Open/Utility TG Goldstein 1-2-3
6-7pm Novice Gurvin 1-2
6-7pm Utility Prep Harry 3
Time Class Instructor Ring
THURSDAY
7-8pm Utility Harry 2-3
8-9:15pm Open Harry 1-2
FRIDAY
10:15-12:30 Freestyle Ely/Kirsch. 1-2-3
SATURDAY
7:30-8:20am Good Manners6/23-8/18 Melchior 2-3
9:00-9:50am AB Solomon 1-2
10-10:50am PK 7/28-9/15 Zarnowski 2-3
11-1pm Freestyle Guzman 1-2-3
1:30-2:45pm Comp. Rally TG McAuliffe 2-3
6:30-7:30pm Beg.Flyball Lindberg 1-2-3
7:30-8:30pm Flyball practice Dwyer 1-2-3
8:30-9:30pm Flyball Comp. Dwyer 1-2-3
SUNDAY
11-12:15pm Agility Intro 2 deBremond 1-2-3
5-6:15pm Agility Handling A Carter 1-2-3
6:15-7:30pm Agility—Intro deBremond 1-2-3
7:30-8:45pm Agility—beginner Hall 1-2-3
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Special EventsSpecial EventsSpecial EventsSpecial Events
RunThru Sunday August 3rd all rings 8 am—4 pm
Class SchedulesClass SchedulesClass SchedulesClass Schedules
Day Date Time Instructor
COMPETITI ON RALLY
Thurs C 11:30-12:20 Daniel
GOOD MANNERS
Sat 6/23-8/18 7:30-8:30pm Melchior
AGILITY
Wed Start 8/8 7-8:30pm Briefel
TRAINING GROUPS
Mon C 10-12 Ely
Wed C 9:30-10:30 Clicker
Tues (alt.) C 8-9pm Jackson
Wed C 12-2:30pm ob.Skills
Spodak
Thurs C 10:30-11:30 Holt
Thurs C 12:30-2:40pm Goldstein
Sat C 1:30-2:45pm McAuliffe
FLYBALL
Sat C 6:30-9:30pm Lindberg/Dwyer
BUILDING CLEANING
Tues C Before 8 am And 13-16:00
Montgomery
Cleaning Co.
Sun Start 5/8 11-12:15pm deBremond
Sun Start 5/8 5-6:15pm Carter
Sun Start 5/8 6:15-7:30pm deBremond
Sun Start 5/8 7:30-8:45pm Hall
Day Date Time Instructor
PUPPY KINDER GARTEN
Tues 6/26-8/21 6-6:50pm Hathaway
Tues 6/12-8/7 7:00-7:50pm Freedman
Sat 7/28-9/15 10-10:50am Zarnowski
BASIC
Mon 6/18-8/13 8:30-9:20pm Hall
SUB-NOVICE
Mon C 7:00-8:00pm Adler/Dwyer
Thurs C 9:30-10:30 Adler
NOVICE
Tues C 7-7:50pm Merchant
Thurs C 9:30-10:30 Holt
Thurs C 6-7pm Gurvin
OPEN
Mon C 6-7:15pm LaDieu
Wed C 6-7pm Cleverdon
Thurs C 8-9:15pm Harry
UTILITY
Mon C 8:15-9:15pm Adler
Thurs C 6-7pm (prep) Harry
Thurs C 7-8pm Harry
FREESTYLE
Fri C 10:15-12:30 Ely/Kirsch
Sat C 11-1pm Guzman
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Obichaff The Monthly Newsletter of
Capital Dog Training Club
of Washington, D.C., Inc.
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Capital Dog Training Club (CDTC), a member club of the American Kennel Club, is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1938 to promote the sport of obedience training through classes offered to its members and the general public. We offer obedience classes from puppy kindergarten through competition obedience. We also offer classes in agility, canine freestyle,
flyball, conformation, tracking and rally.
CDTC offers a variety of other activities for dogs and people, including matches, trials and
seminars on dog-related topics.
Capital has a fully matted indoor, air-conditioned facility in Silver Spring, Md.
Originators of AKC’s Brace and
Graduate Novice classes
Important Dates at Capital
Sunday August 5: RunThru
Tuesday, August 14:
Members’ Meeting 8 p.m.
