Tableland Dog Obedience Club Inc.

11/01/2025

19/12/2024

🌭 Sausage Sizzle @ Atherton Big W Saturday 21st 🌭

Come down, buy a snag and say hello to our friendly volunteers 🙋‍♀️ All money goes back into the club to buy and maintain equipment used in our classes and trials. 🐕

07/12/2024

🏆 Presentation Results 🏆 We finished off the year by acknowledging our outstanding teams, here are our highest scoring competitors and trophy winners for 2024 🤩

Tricks Starter
🏆 Dappa and Marie Solomon

Tricks Novice
🏆 Bronte and Mia Cavanagh

Dancing With Dogs
🏆 Bronte and Mia Cavanagh

Rally Novice
🏆 Sarasota Spruik It Up and Tayla Arnett

Rally Advanced
🏆 Bronte and Mia Cavanagh

Rally Excellent
🏆 Smudge and Michelle Rothwell

Open Obedience
🏆 Smudge and Michelle Rothwell

Games
🏆 Bronte and Mia Cavanagh

Jumping
🏆 Sarasota Spruik It Up and Tayla Arnett

Highest Scoring Junior
🏆 Scarlett Martin and Bullet

Encouragement Award
🏆 Mia Caulfield and Snickers

Junior Encouragement Award
🏆 Athena Arnett and Rubble

07/12/2024

🐕 Clever Canines 🐕 We have some very clever pups at our club, excelling in a variety of dog sports. Here are the titles they recieved this season -

Tricks Starter
🏅Bullet and Scarlett
🏅Dappa and Marie
🏅Rubble and Athena
🏅Jedda and Vicki

Tricks Novice
🏅Bronte and Mia
🏅Paris and Jess

Dancing With Dogs Starters
🏅Bronte and Mia

Rally Novice
🏅Rafe and Tayla

Rally Advanced
🏅Jedda and Vicki
🏅Bronte and Mia

Rally Excellent
🏅Smudge and Michelle
🏅Paris and Jess

CDX
🏅Smudge and Michelle

Novice Jumping
🏅Rafe and Tayla

Novice Snooker
🏅Rafe and Tayla
🏅Bronte and Mia

Awesome work everyone 🎉

07/12/2024

🎄The Christmas spirit was strong at our annual Christmas party with so many awesome costumes 🤩 Everypup looked amazing, I know the judges had a hard time picking the winners!
🥇1st Copper and Bandit
🥈 2nd Ashleigh and Hazel
🥉 3rd Scarlett and Thing 1 and Thing 2

A big thankyou to our judges Maree Baade (Division 4 Councillor) and Local Laws Officer Shellina Mckellar 🥰

04/12/2024

DOGGIE treats, dog smiles, and dog happiness were all around, when the Tablelands Dog Obedience Club celebrated its Christmas break-up party with a fancy dress parade, trophy giving, awards, and a big thank you to all of the volunteer instructors and committee members. The not-for-profit club,...

24/11/2024

Come and join us for our Christmas break up party this Wednesday, 27th November. Last class for 2024!

We will kick off with all classes (1 through to 5) at 6pm followed by upgrading for the end of month.

At 6:30 we will get ready for the fancy dress Xmas parade. Dress up your dog and/or yourself to win a prize!

Following the parade we will have some short performances by our juniors with Dancing with Dogs.

This will be followed by presentations for the year including most improved team for each class and awards for teams who have competed in trials throughout the year.

Lastly we will draw our Xmas raffle!! Don’t forget to grab your tickets on the night if you haven’t yet!

There will be supper served throughout the evening.

We are super excited to to welcome Councillor Maree Baade to judge the fancy dress parade and present the awards!

18/11/2024

A big shout out to Andrea from Cairns Canine Academy who came up and held a workshop on the weekend. We had members from our club attend plus some lovely new faces. All pups and handlers did an amazing job learning lots of new skills. It was a fantastic day and has given everyone lots to work on over the off season. Thanks again Andrea! 🐕

04/11/2024

Beginner Dog training classes start this Wednesday at 6pm (6th November) with the Tableland Dog Obedience Club at the community centre on Mabel st in Atherton. Easiest entrance to the grounds is via the drive way below the Disaster management centre on Vernon st.
Please arrive at 5:45pm to sign up.

Cost is $50 per year for membership which carries over into 2025 plus $10 per class.

Bring lots of yummy treats for your dog and wear closed in shoes. We also have treat pouches for sale at the club or bring your own.

Dogs of all ages and breeds welcome🐾
Just turn up!

29/10/2024

We are excited to announce our upcoming workshop with Trainer Andrea Wohlhuter.

When: 17th November
Where: Yungaburra Rec Shed
Time: 8am to 5pm

Working spots: filled
Auditing spots: $50 per person.

If you would like to attend, please email the club email address on
[email protected]

About Andrea:

I always loved dogs, I guess, from the moment I started walking. And I started training dogs as a teenager overseas. When I first joined the local club in Cairns I had a bullterrier, Luna. Both of us started to learn the way obedience is done here and we were able to compete in obedience, rally and agility. After looking for some time to find the right dog for me, I settled on a Malinois, Shelby.
Shelby and I gained many dog sports titles, and were able to achieve the pinnacle in the sport, Obedience Grand Champion and Rally Champion. Along the way we gained multiple State and National Obedience titles. Shelby won the annual award for best obedience dog in Queensland. Her incredible work ethics made her win 5 perfect scores of 200 within one year in CDX obedience. She is a once in a lifetime dog. What astounded me was, when I went to compete in Brisbane where people did not know me, they always lined to ring to watch us both. They loved her work, loved her attitude and I loved her smile.
Training with Malinois is not for the faint hearted and I wanted to make sure I could be the best handler for my dogs. I always had a picture in my head of how I wanted my work to look like – motivated, precise and fun.
I attended workshops all over the country and overseas to learn, learn, learn. I have attended seminars with Susan Garrett, Ivan Balabanov, Michael Ellis, Forrest Micke, Peter and Connie Scherk, Mia Skogster, Josh Moran and Simone Holdensgaard.
Apart from striving to be a perfect competitor, I also love to work with like-minded handlers and share my passion, my knowledge and my skills.

20/09/2024

The lovely Andy from Comfort Vet will be at our trial for a few hours Saturday. She will have with her a fantastic Stance Analyzer. $35 per dog if you would like to have your dogs stance analysed. Read the link below for some information on this tool.

Detect lameness earlier and track treatment progress with the Companion Stance Analyzer. This objective diagnostic tool provides weight-bearing measurements, allowing you to identify and discuss issues with your clients. Stay ahead of lameness and provide peace of mind to pet owners.

19/09/2024

📢 Notice to competitors 📢 Due to the weather forecast we will be opening our games trial at 8.30am tomorrow. Please arrive early for a 7.30am set up. Tricks will stay as scheduled with a 9am start.

19/09/2024

📢 Attention Triallers 📢 Not long now until our last trial of the year! We can't wait 🤩 The current weather forecast is for possible showers Friday afternoon and for high temps of 29°/30° Saturday and Sunday. Please keep your dogs cool and hydrated. We will have a hose and clamshell available beside the clubhouse. Please get in and help with bars/course changes so we can hopefully break by the hottest part of the day 🙏
Parking - Please do not park or camp under the SES shed veranda and leave plenty of room for them to get large trailers out. They need to be able to access this at any time in case of an emergency.
Best of luck to everyone and have fun!! 🐶

15/09/2024

Come and check out some awesome dog sports this coming weekend at our September Trials (20th, 21st, 22nd) 🤩 We will be kicking off at 7pm with Obedience (Judge - Tricia Williams, Cairns) and Rally (Judge - Andrea Wohlhuter, Cairns). Saturday starts 9am with Agility Games (Judge - Karen Winzar, Cairns) and Tricks (Judge - Sharon Daniels, Cairns) and approx 2pm for Agility/Jumping (Judge - Murray Sharman, Brisbane) and Tricks 2 😍 Another round of Obedience/Rally 7pm Saturday and then a 7.30am Sunday start with some more Agility Jumping with Murray. Please leave your furbabies at home but come and see the amazing sports you can do with them 😁

08/09/2024

A beautiful obedience demo with Rafe, Spice and Bronte 🤩