Sawhda

24/08/2024

Reposed changes in Obedience CKC

13/08/2024

Peace of Mind for Pet Owners

12/08/2024

We would like to thank the following businesses for sponsoring our Barnhunt trial weekend.
Your support was greatly appreciated 🌹

12/08/2024

What a fantastic Barnhunt at the Cowley Hall this weekend! Amazing people and dogs providing the best in entertainment as they worked to locate the correct tubes hidden in the straw bales over a three day weekend. It was so wonderful to see everyone pitch in to help at every station. Beat Secretary ever. And what a judge. Laurie McGivern provided challenging courses, words of wisdom, and encouragement to everyone.

Our competitors from near and far became part of the SAWHDA family cheering each other on the entire weekend.

Thanks to Cadillac Kitchen for the fantastic food. Not having to cook was another time saver for our members and the crowd raved about the walleye. 🎉

We cannot thank enough Allan and Lucas Michalsky and Shawn and Corinna Anctil and their families for taking care of the straw delivery and pickup. Not their first rodeo doing this, I’m sure. It allowed the rest of our crew to put our efforts towards loading panels and tubs and gerbil cages, and cleaning the hall. We had our entire cleanup completed by 6:00pm. our fastest cleanup ever.❤️

Thank you to the Cowley Hall Association for trusting us with the care of their hall.

It was wonderful to have a space for spectators and competitors alike to visit and enjoy each other’s company. Another thing that people appreciated. 👍

Today we still have tubs to sort out and panels to put away but that can be done at leisure.

The SAWHDA Old Tyme Rat Wrangle is now a wrap. We hope to see you next year🌹

05/08/2024

Pet Supply
The missing box of donated EZClean samples
has been located minus a few bottles. A lady heard our announcement last night after the working group was over and she recalled the box being given to a worker and put in the trailer. 🌹👏👏👏

05/08/2024

Four Dog Night our box of EZ Clean bottles was found last night. It was missing a few bottles, but the announcement worked! A lady heard the announcement and she remembered someone giving the box to one of the workers then put it in the trailer.
👏👏🌹

02/08/2024

Good information

26/07/2024

24/07/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/4X6D2kLB4XtgnjTS/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Ever been told you are doing something wrong? How about you try again and it’s still wrong? Or worse yet you make a mistake and are punished for it? Does that inspire you to try harder? Or does it make you less likely to try again?

Think about that just a little bit while you are working with your dog. Especially if they are the sensitive type. I mean some dogs (like Ivy the Scottish Terrier) would gleefully make the same mistake over and over again. While others would rather just give up.

As the trainer it’s up to you to recognize these things in your training and relationship with your dog. Dog training shouldn’t be about making your dog afraid to do the wrong thing. It’s about making he right thing easier and more rewarding to do.

24/07/2024

Barnhunt practice last night was well attended and the dogs worked really well. Two more to go before
Trials on August 9-11.

23/07/2024

Barnhunt enthusiasts! Entries for our Old Tyme Rat Wrangler Barnhunt close soon. Best Barnhunt in the South! Enter today! Be part of amazing🎉🎉🎉

10/07/2024

If anybody would like to attend a Barnhunt clinic from 1 o’clock till 4 o’clock tomorrow in Okotoks , teaching you how to read your dog’s alert , please let me know asap as we have had a spot come available last minute.

25/06/2024

Entries open …. Georgia is in! Five Masters B runs! Yahoo.
🌹🎉🐾👏👏👏

03/06/2024

Join the fastest growing dog sport in the area! BARNHUNT.
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02/06/2024

Another crazy game for all the dogs that came out to play after the Pet Valu Cowley, Pincher Creek and Pincher/Cowley Roaring Lions Walk for Dog Guides was our mini-sprinter course. Every puppy got the zoomies and the crowd loved it!!
Thank you again to the side of members who came out and helped make this happen . 👏👏👏👏

02/06/2024

As part of our clubs contribution to the community events, in conjunction with and after the Pincher Creek Walk for Dog Guides, we had Terry Stickle a member of our club. show some of the tricks her Australian shepherds can do.
Those who brought their dogs were able to talk with Terry about how to teach tricks to their dogs. 👏👏 So cool to see how quickly the dogs caught on.

02/06/2024

31/05/2024

Is anybody in Fort McLeod missing a small Minpin type brown dog? It’s running it large across highways and through town.

29/05/2024

Join the Southern Alberta Working Herding Dog Association this SATURDAY after the PET VALU COWLEY/ PINCHER LIONS WALK FOR DOG GUIDES for some K9 Fun and Games!

CHECK OUT THE LINE-UP OF GAMES

Rock scramble (14 rocks hidden in the sports field area. Hunters can find one only and return it for a prize.)PRIZES

Grab A Toy! . (Toys in a penned area. Dogs allowed to pick a FAVOURITE toy)

Animal Actors. Tricks demo (Terry Stickle and her Expert Trick Dog Australian shepherds)

Sniffology 101: A Demo of local dogs showing how they can find different scents hidden in various containers.

Sprinters (puppy pens set up to form a channel. Dogs are held at one end. The owner calls the dog from the other end . The recall is timed.) PRIZES donated by local businesses.👏👏👏

Participating dogs must be people and dog friendly. Dog walk participants have free entry.

But DO NOT FRET if you hadn’t picked up a pledge sheet, BECAUSE FOR A SMALL DONATION OF $2, you can play too.

Bring a lawn chair and come out for the fun. 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

23/05/2024

Yep.

23/05/2024

One by One, they pass by my name, "Too old, too worn, too broken - no way.
Way past his time, he can't run and play, He'll die too soon," they all seem to say.
A little old man, arthritic and sore, It seems that I am wanted no more. I once had a home, I once had a bed, A place that was warm, and whereI was fed.
My family decided I didn't belong I got in their way or my attitude was wrong.
For whatever reason they felt in their head, If it wasn't for rescue, l'd certainly be dead.
Now my muzzle is gray, and my eyes slowly fail Who wants a dog so old and so frail?
Why can't they see that I too deserve love? Our Creator is the same from heaven above. Now I sit in this place, where day after day, The younger dogs get adopted away Give me a home, to God I pray. But they shake their heads and go on their way.

When I had almost come to the end of my rope, You saw my face, and l finally had hope. You saw thru the gray, and the legs bent with age, And felt i still had life beyond this cage. You took me home, gave me food and a bed, And shared your own pillow with my poor tired head. We snuggle and play, and you talk to me low, You love me so dearly, you want me to know. may have lived most of my life with another, But you outshine them with a love so much stronger. And I promise to retun all the love I can give, To you, my dear person, as long as I live. I may be with you for a week or many years, We will hare many smiles, you will no doubt shed tears. And when the time comes that God deems I must leave, I know you will cry and your heart, it will rieve
And when I arrive at the Bridge, all brand new, My thoughts and my heart will still be with you. I willbrag to all round me who will hear, Of the wonderful person who made my last days dear.

21/05/2024

Barnhunt practice this evening
6:30
Shadowbar

05/05/2024

Never EVER take a chance with bloat. This cannot be remedied at home. This is 100 percent an emergency veterinary visit.

Take no chances. If you see any of these symptoms load and go.

28/04/2024

A lesson with Karen McLean for Oran.