Southern Districts Kennel & Obedience Dog Club

05/04/2025

A couple of notices for your attention:

1 If you have joined as a couple, please make sure that when you personally are training your dog, you wear your correct name tag, not your partners. Each tag has its own number.

2 We are accepting renewal of memberships now that the huge intake of pups & beginner dogs has eased. So if you joined last year and have a green tag, please come to the admin desks and renew for this year. This will ensure you are financial and still covered by our insurance.
Thank you all. See you on Sunday, remember to put your clocks back tonight.
Val - Head Instructor

27/03/2025

To all members of our great club:

I would like to let you all know that we are starting a class for young children to attend with an adult on the first Sunday of each month at 10am.
This class will be available to enable us to educate the children, big or small, regarding how to behave with their dogs or any dogs within their family and beyond. How to approach or when not to approach. What not to do and what can be done in the proper manner.
Serena, one of our experienced Instructors, will be taking this class in our log cabin and she will be helped by Eden, who is another very experienced Instructor. The class will take approximately half an hour and the first class will be on Sunday 6th April.
So please ask your family if they would like to attend and check with anyone in your class to check if they have seen this message.
I look forward to seeing you and your children on Sunday 6th April.
Val - Head Instructor

Please also remember that we are not training any classes on this coming Sunday 30th March as we have an Agility trial on the Saturday evening from 6pm. You are always welcome to come along and see what these energetic and clever dogs can do. Maybe one day you and your dog will be doing the same!
See you there.
Val

19/03/2025

Hi,
We are definitely training tonight (19/3/25).
It's under 32 degrees. See you there.
Val - Head Instructor

15/03/2025

Some notices regarding tomorrows training (16/3/25).
Temperature appears to be fine, forecast is showers but we will be opening for training and see how it goes. If it pours and pours or stormy weather we may have to stop. As i have said before, if it's pouring where you live, my advice is stay at home.
We will be there at the club just in case and also to take your membership renewals for this year. Please bring your dogs up to date vaccination certificates when you renew. There will be a table just outside the office windows with 2 staff members waiting to help you.
Also at 10am we have a childrens' class in the log cabin to teach them how to approach dogs, what not to do etc. After this particular class, this class will be held once a month at 10am on the first Sunday of each month.
Graduation for all grades will be on Sunday 23rd March and Wednesday 26th March.
We have an Agility trial on Saturday evening 29th March, so there will be no training on Sunday 30th March. You are more than welcome to come along on Saturday 29th to see the Agility trial in action from 6pm onwards.
Fingers crossed weather is kind to us tomorrow morning.
See you there. Val - Head Instructor

10/03/2025

Hi all members,
I have been informed that Kennel Cough is in our Noarlunga area. So to be safe, there will be no water buckets put out at training for a few weeks just as a precaution. Bring your own water container with you though, as we have fresh water on tap and your dogs will be thirsty in this weather. Monitor your dogs at home and if unwell or coughing, please do not attend training. Thank you.
Val - Head Instructor

07/03/2025

No Training this coming Sunday 9/3/25.
I guess you all would have guessed but due to BOM forecast of 35 degrees this weekend, it will be too hot for training. This also includes the special class for young children that was booked at 10am. I am hoping we can change that to the following Sunday and will confirm at a later date. Please stay safe in the cool with your dogs and practise what we have already taught you. Hopefully next week will be cooler. Apologies Val - Head Instructor

28/02/2025

Rings start back on this coming Sunday 2/3/25.
Tricks will be taken by Anne Greenwood as Carly is unfortunately unable to instruct due to health issues at present. We wish her a speedy recovery. Val - Head - Instructor

18/02/2025

TRIALLING HANDLERS:
Just a reminder, if you are training in obedience/Rally rings each dog costs $2. However, if you want to also go and train in another discipline we offer ie Agility or Tricks, you will have to pay a further $2 per lesson. Enjoy your trialling training. Val - Head Instructor

11/02/2025

NO TRAINING TOMORROW - 12/2/25
I guessed you all would already know that temperatures 32 degrees or over, means we do not train. 40 degrees is forecast, so stay home and keep your pets in the cool and off of hot concrete roads and pavements. Hopefully Sunday will be OK, but watch this space just in case.
Apologies, Val - Head Instructor

09/02/2025

What a massive intake of new puppies and beginner dogs today. It was amazing and a pleasure to see you all in the relevant classes all over the training areas of our club. I want to thank all our awesome, hardworking Instructors from introductory through to grade 4 and 5. You alongside our admin staff, including Tiho, do a wonderful job and it's a joy to see our happy handlers with their equally happy dogs enjoying their training at Southern Districts. Thank you all so much - what a great team. Couldn't be more proud. Val - Head Instructor

08/02/2025

Hi all members,
We will be training tomorrow (9/2/25) as the forecast for our area is 29 from BOM.
However as i have advised before , if you feel its too hot for you and/ or your dog, then please take this day off and stay in the cool at home.
Wednesday is not looking good at all with forecast if 40 so I most likely will advise we will not be training. Watch this space on Tuesday.
There will not be any AGILITY training on Monday evening (10/2/25) due to weather conditions for that day. Sorry guys.

Our TRICKS instructors have advised that they will be starting Tricks classes on Sunday 2/3/25 alongside all other trialling classes. And of course, will be starting Thursday evening training on Thursday evening 20th Feb. Then every first & third Thursday of each month at 7pm.

Stay cool and thank you all for your patience.
Val - Head Instructor

06/02/2025

To all obedience and Rally trialling (& would be trialling) members.

Our rings will be starting up again on Sunday 2nd March 2025 from 9am.
We also have rings starting up again on Thursday 20th February at 7pm. And then every 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month at 7pm.
THIS ALSO APPLIES TO RALLY

Agility rings will also be on every Monday from 6.30pm.
Hoping to see you all soon.
Val - Head Instructor

05/02/2025

To all obedience trialling (& would be trialling) members.

Our rings will be starting up again on Sunday 2nd March 2025 from 9am.
We also have rings starting up again on Thursday 20th February at 7pm. And then every 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month at 7pm.

Agility rings will also be on every Monday from 6.30pm.
Hoping to see you all soon.
Val - Head Instructor

16/01/2025

Just one more thing, when you come to the club on Sunday 19th January, please remember to bring your pets up to date vaccination papers with you. Val 🐾

16/01/2025

As most of you know we are opening the club from 9am to approx. 11am on this coming Sunday 19th January. During those hours new handlers and their dogs are invited to come at a time that suits you to register your pup or dog and have a small introductory lesson. This is happening even if the temperature is 32 degrees or above as is forecast. We will be there for you to get that register done and we will only be doing a small introductory in the shade for 10 minutes or so.

So we look forward to welcoming you to our club ready for a full training session on Sunday 2nd February from 9am or We'd. 5th February at 7pm. But on those dates of course it will be weather permitting. Keep an eye on this facebook site for any cancellation s due to hot weather in February or March. See you on the 19th Jan.
Val Head Instructor

05/01/2025

Just a reminder to all that we are opening the Club on Sunday 19th January for NEW MEMBERS REGISTRATION this will be to enable all would be new members that they can come along between 8am and 11am on that Sunday morning and register with their dogs and we will also give the new dogs a smsall Introductory lesson for each group. This will enable those handlers and their dogs to start straight away on Sunday 2nd February at 9am in either the puppy class for pups up to and including 6 months old or beginner class for new dogs 7 months and over.
Renewals for handlers who had already joined earlier in 2024 will be in mid March 2025.
Looking forward to seeing you all then and wishing you all a happy, safe year ahead.
Val - Head Instructor

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06/12/2024

TO All TROPHY NIGHT ATTENDEES - 7/12/2025

Please note that as you arrive and find your table, wait till your table guests have all arrived and then one person check with me to see if it is all clear for your table members to order their meal. We do not want to flood the bistro with 55 people trying to order at once.
We will start the Trophy presentation before the meals are served.
Thank you. Looking forward to seeing you all.
Val - Head Instructor

01/12/2024

I just want to say a huge thank you to all our Instructors, admin staff, and volunteers in the BBQ as well as helpers in the setting up and putting away of our equipment, for making this last training/ fun day such a success. I feel sure all our members who attended with their dogs had a really fantastic time with all we had to offer them. The atmosphere was awesome, the food was delicious and the whole morning went off extremely well. Even the weather was perfect. We have an awesome team and a wonderful club and the words thank you never seem enough. But thank you all so very very much. Have a very well earned rest and a safe & happy Christmas. See you back at the club on Sunday 2nd February, weather permitting!!! Cheers Val 👍👏 🍾🍷