01/03/2024
Baywood Portuguese Water Dogs is proud to once again present our Winter Sunday Series! These 45 minute Zoom calls on Sunday evenings at 7pm MST are on a variety of topics with different presenters each week during the Winter. This is available FREE of charge and available to our Baywood puppy owners.
🐾We are excited to introduce to you this Sunday January 7th, 2024 at 7pm MST:
"The Nose Knows - An Introduction to Scent Detection with MaryAnn Warren". 🐾
MaryAnn Warren of Precision Search Dog is an International Trainer, Search and Rescue Dog Evaluator/HRD Dog trainer/Speaker/Author and among Canada's experts in K9 detection trainers.
To Baywood, she has been a long time recommended trainer and friend. Both Brenda & Kathy have personally taken a variety of classes from Mary Ann at her training space in St. Albert, Alberta and so have many of our Baywood owners. Her Scent Detection For Beginners (and higher levels) has been very successful for a number of Baywood Portuguese Water Dogs. We are excited for you to hear from Mary Ann.
From her website:
Mary-Ann Warren has been working with dogs for over 35 years in various forms. She has trained her own dogs in protection, upland bird hunting, obedience, and search. Since the early 80's, she has trained individuals in obedience and in the early nineties started instructing in tracking followed soon after with training search dogs teams.
Among a few of her accomplishments:
*Awarded the 25 years medal by Search & Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada
* Online training for SAR K9 Armenia, Country of Armenia
*Train the K9 trainer course for the Malta Civil Department K9 Section
*Instructing the Country of Malta Civil Department K9 Section in Disaster K9
*2017, Qualified Expert court witness for human remains detection training and handling in the state of Tennessee.
*Awarded the Alberta Emergency Services medal given by *Office of the Fire Commissionaire SAR Liaison Mike Cook for over 22 years of service.
*First female civilian to pass the RCMP civilian tracking dog certification in Alberta.
*First female civilian to be invited to work with the Canadian HUSAR Task Force II team based out of Calgary.
*Since 1994, Volunteer Search Dog Handler.
*Since 1999, volunteers as the Training Director with the Search & Rescue Dog Association of Alberta® (SARDAA).
*For many years sat on the Provincial SAR Alberta Board and Executive Committee.
*Developed progressive training methods for SAR dog handlers.
*Published Author 'Bark Alert©' Basic Search Dog and Basic Human Remains Detection Dog and Bark Alert Continued Education workbooks.
*Developed realistic training for the pet owner.
*Awarded the Alberta Emergency Service Medal given by Edmonton Police Service Chief Mike Boyd for over 12 years of service
*International Trainer/SAR dog Evaluator/Speaker/Author
If you're a Baywood PWD owner and are interested in participating (you can come and go as you please week to week) please email Brenda at [email protected] to sign up.
