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For many years Macarthur
Dog Training Club has proudly taken part in the Campbelltown Fishers Ghost
Festival. The Festival is held annually on the 1st Saturday in November
and showcases many of Campbelltowns' Community Organisations, Clubs, Businesses
and Religious Groups.
Many of these groups spend weeks preparing their individual
floats and elaborate costumes which are displayed to the delight of thousands
of onlooker's young and old alike when they march down Campbelltown's
Queen Street. At the end of the march Macarthur DTC has been known to set up an Information tent and sometimes perform a demonstration of our Clubs Obedience prowess.
CHRISTMAS PARTY DECEMBERtop Macarthur finishes training for the year on the last Monday in November but on the first Monday in December and before we go on our 6 week Xmas break, we hold a “Games Night” dedicated to the Guide Dogs for The Blind. Members that come on this night can participate in organized “games” like the very popular slalom, or the even more popular bobbing for bikkies, musical mats, the egg (golf ball) and spoon race or the fancy dress. Members are asked to make a small gold coin donation to each event they want to have a go in and monies collected on the night are forwarded to the Guide Dogs For The Blind. The club provides a sausage sizzle and soft drinks for the member’s enjoyment and prizes are awarded at the end of the night for the best in each event. Members that have had success in the trial rings over the previous 12 months are also awarded their title trophies on this night. Here are some pictures from a past Christmas Sausage Sizzle.
On the
26th Saturday of each year Macarthur Dog Training Club, Inc holds its
Annual Obedience Trial. The day starts early
for the workers that turn up at 6.00 am to put up rings. A BBQ breakfast is usually organized for the workers and available later for the trailers. Macarthur runs CCD, Novice, Open, Utility and Utility X rings as well as a Gundog Working Test at its annual trial. INTER-CLUB CHALLENGE top
Macarthur is very proud of the teams we have been able to provide for the annual Inter-Club Challenge. The Inter-club "Trial"
is held on a team basis, individual scores are combined to give an over
all score for each Club "team". Each "team" class
entry goes through all parts of the exercises, whether they have zeroed
at any stage or not, to achieve a total score for that class. In the end
all the clubs team scores are added together to give each team an over
all score. Teams cover CCD, Novice, Open & Utility. At least one of our teams has placed in a very respectable position.
SHEEP HERDING top Obedience competitions are not the only activities you and your dog can enjoy together and you don't have to be a sheep farmer to have a working sheep dog. Here are a couple of pictures of Macarthur Member Janice Liston and her young German Shepherd Dog "Rosie" learning the age old art of Sheep Herding.
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