The South Eastern Ontario Region of the Newfoundland Dog Club of Canada successfully held the third part of our three part Water Rescue Seminar on July 18-19 in Ennismore Ontario. There were 9 dogs in attendance and all the handlers as well as dogs had a great time. On August 23, the SEOR held a Water Rescue Dog and Water Rescue Dog Excellent test in Ennismore Ontario. There were 2 WRD entries and 2 WRDX entries. Two legs were awarded to one of the WRD entrants. Upcoming events for the SEOR include our annual Fun Day on September 12. We will have lots of games, raffl es, corn roast (corn earned by our Newfs through a carting event earlier this Spring), and a BBQ. We will also be holding our clubs second Draft seminar for the year on September 25-26 in Lakefield, Ontario offering both beginners and intermediate levels. Our Draft test will be held on October 18 with all levels being offered. We will attend the Lakefield Santa Clause Parade to show off our dogs and enjoy a nice walk, our Christmas party to follow November 15. It has been a fantastic year so far and are looking forward to the rest of our events.
SEOR Event
The South Eastern Ontario Region of the Newfoundland Dog Club of Canada has had a busy year already. We started the year with our McLean Maple Syrup festival where the dogs earn their corn and veggies for our annual Newfie corn roast, BBQ and fun day on September 12, 2009.
On April 5, 2009 our club held its first control seminar of the year with our second one of the year upcoming on August 9, 2009. We had a full seminar of 17 dogs entered that day. The members and their dogs had a fun day training and working together.
On May 3 and 4, 2009 we held our first Draft seminar of the year with our second one coming up on September 26 and 27, 2009. We had 5 intermediates and 7 beginners. It was a weekend of great bonding and learning. Dogs that had never seen a cart before were pulling and taking passengers by the end. Our intermediates fine tuned their carting and learned even more.
May 18 was our annual Bethany parade. We had 16 dogs and puppies in attendance. Everyone came out to have a nice walk and show off our dogs during the parade which was followed by a picnic. We had many dogs and owners in attendance. Some dogs carted and others were just out to walk along and greet people along the route, we had lots of puppies as well as adult Newfies. We even won first prize for our entry in the parade.
June 7, 2009 was our first water seminar, the Take it. As usual we have another full set of seminars with 12 dogs registered in each. This seminar gets everyone started with the key aspects of water work, the take and release. Everyone leaves the seminar with the needed knowledge to prepare for our next water seminar coming up June 27 and 28, 2009 that is in water. They will be following them up with our third water seminar on July 18 and 19, 2009 they will be fine tuning and getting test ready in the final water seminar of the year.
Everyone will spend the year getting ready for the Water test on August 23, 2009 and the Draft test on October 18, 2009. Members are already planning their extra training times so they can be ready to strut their stuff at the tests.
South Eastern Ontario Region of the Newfoundland Dog Club of Canada
Santa Claus Parade
On November 16, 2008 we had our Lakefield Santa Claus Parade.We had another fantastic turn out with lots of Newfs with their families.As usual we had over 20 Newfs.We had a beautiful day for our parade and followed it up with lots of wonderful food and raffles back at the home of Carol and Ralph Bodnieks with an extra bonus of seeing 2 day old puppies.We had our final raffle of 2008, lots of door prizes and a homemade quilted Newf tapestry as prizes.As our final event of 2008 a good time was had by all and already the excited chatter about the events planned for 2009 began.It was great to see so many familiar faces as well as so many new ones.This remains one of our most favoured events of the year!
South Eastern Ontario Region
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