JAY K9

31/07/2024

Join our Slow Ways Journey!!!

I thought I'd give a little bit of a heads up about the charities we'll be supporting as well as the team before setting out on our adventure on Sunday. To kick things off I thought I'd give you a little bit of background info on the Slow Ways...

What is Slow Ways?

Slow Ways is a nationwide project with the inspiring goal of creating a network of walking routes that connect all of Great Britain’s towns and cities. Their mission is to encourage more people to walk and discover the beauty and benefits of slower travel. By promoting walking, Slow Ways aims to improve health, well-being, and our connection to the natural world, while reducing our carbon footprint.

Why Are We Supporting Slow Ways?

Anybody that knows me, knows I love to be outside, no matter the weather, being out and about is the best! As a passionate advocate for outdoor activities and the incredible benefits they bring, supporting Slow Ways aligns perfectly with my values. Walking not only boosts physical health but also enhances mental well-being and fosters a deeper appreciation for our environment.

How You Can Get Involved?

1. Get out and about!
Slow Ways is aiming to build a national network of verified routes. If you fancy getting out and about and enjoying some fresh air, check out their routes and see if you can complete a walk and verify a route so others can also enjoy it in the future!

2. Spread the Word!
Share our posts and tell your friends and family about Slow Ways. Awareness is key to growing this movement.

3. Donate!
If you want to support Slow Ways directly, consider donating to support developing and maintaining these routes. Your contribution will help make walking accessible and enjoyable for everyone.

I'm hoping that our challenge will build awareness and participation in the Slow Ways. By joining me, you’ll not only support a great cause but also experience the joy of exploring our beautiful country on foot. Let's come together to promote a healthier, greener, and more connected future.

Up next I'll be giving you some of the lowdown on Midshires Search & Rescue, before introducing the challenge team!

Please remember to like and share my posts and if you're able to make a donation you can do this by the Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/page/gerry-moss-midshires-slow-ways?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fgerry-moss-midshires-slow-ways&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

Thank you for your support!

Gerry

Help Gerry Moss raise money to support Midshires Search and Rescue

31/05/2024

https://youtu.be/EEXG7pVG8WM

19/09/2023

Can you help?

The The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) are looking for blood donors, both canine and feline.

Here's the requirements:

Dogs:
Aged between one and eight years old
Weigh more than 15kg
Not received a blood transfusion themselves
Be healthy and not on any treatment for any condition
Comfortable and relaxed with people
Have not travelled abroad

Cats:
Aged between one and ten years
Weigh over 3.5kg
Not received a blood transfusion themselves
Be healthy and not on any treatment for any condition
Comfortable and relaxed with people
Not have travelled abroad

If you can help please contact them on https://www.rvc.ac.uk/act/blooddonors

19/09/2023

Can you help?

The The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) is on the look out for some blood donors, both canine and feline...

This is the requirements that are needed:

Dogs:
Aged between one and eight years old
Weigh more than 15kg
Not received a blood transfusion themselves
Be healthy and not on any treatment for any condition
Comfortable and relaxed with people
Have not travelled abroad

Cats:
Aged between one and ten years
Weigh over 3.5kg
Not received a blood transfusion themselves
Be healthy and not on any treatment for any condition
Comfortable and relaxed with people
Not have travelled abroad

If you can help please contact https://www.rvc.ac.uk/act/blooddonors

03/09/2023

Things have been a little quiet in the Jay K9 HQ…

Back at the end of July I stepped down as a Head Instructor with Mantrailing Global, I didn’t feel that things were right for me as a Head Instructor any more...

The family and I have had a few weeks away, touring Europe in the van during August. This has given me some quality time to reflect and think about the future and how we will be moving forward with Jay K9 Mantrailing….I will obviously still be offering mantrailing sessions and am super looking forward to the rest of this year and have some great plans for 2024 (please give me a shout if you want to host in 2024 as the calendar is on the desk and getting booked up at the moment!).

One of the things that has been playing on my mind and I am very conscious of, is that for many of my customers my stepping down as a Head Instructor may have come as a little bit of a surprise, many of you have contacted me for support and advice in the past - I’m not abandoning anyone and I still love to talk all things mantrailing… I’ll just not be offering any Head Instructor CPD sessions any more, but the door is always open and I’m still here!

Stepping down was a tough decision, but it’s the best decision for me and my family and I’m excited about what the future holds for me and the mantrailing work I involve myself in! I’ll still be continuing to build my knowledge and learn in order to be the best instructor I can be and look forward to seeing you on the Mantrailing journey!

I’ve attached a few pics of our time away!

18/09/2022

It's been a brilliant 4 days with loads of trailing, learning and teaching...

Love when we all come together to help, support and learn.

Thank you Mantrailing Family... We've had a blast!

That's a wrap!

After four amazing days with Ed and Heidi from the INBTI-InterNational Bloodhound Training Institute all the way from Long Island, New York.

We've trailed our legs off and blown the dogs minds.

We've learned new exercises and skills, built foundations of others and had a wicked weekend.

It was brilliant to see amazing instructors come together and help everyone soar 🦅

Can't wait to meet up again and mantrail

17/09/2022

Day 3 has seen busy urban trails with shopping centres and elevators. All the teams did super well and learnt loads.

16/09/2022

We've had a great couple of days trailing with the INBTI-InterNational Bloodhound Training Institute with two more days to go! Ole is working hard and Tank is enjoying his few days away.

Thank you Trailing K9s for hosting!

Day two is underway!

Warm ups done, and time to get some advanced trailing in.

Having fun with the INBTI-InterNational Bloodhound Training Institute

19/07/2022

One of our Head Instructors at Mantrailing UK is offering this great deal... Get in quick as it ends tonight, but for £1 you can't go wrong!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=567895738095111&id=100046240696793

ONLY £1

With this hot weather, I am offing my ‘find my keys’ course for ONLY £1 instead of the usual £20 using the code below.

This is to give you something to do while not walking your dogs….

CODE: HEATWAVE22

https://www.borders-scent.co.uk/product-page/find-my-keys

As with all my online learning courses, you will have lifetime access and is suitable for all levels of owners/dogs.

*code expires Tuesday at midnight!

12/06/2022

And that's a wrap...

What an amazing 3 days at our first Mantrailing Weekender. All the teams worked super hard and we've simply had the absolute best time.

Great venue, great food, great company. Thank you to everyone who came and joined us. Big thanks to Kathryn Jones Trailing K9s and Mantrailing UK. See you at the next one!

11/06/2022

Glorious sunshine for our Mantrailing Weekender today.

With Trailing K9s and Mantrailing UK Mantrailing Association UK

10/06/2022

The Weekender is a go go...

With Trailing K9s - Mantrailing Classes and Workshops

31/05/2022

JUST ONE HANDLER SPACES LEFT!!!

If you're thinking of coming get booking quick!

Spectators still welcome to both our June and July dates!

TWO HEAD INSTRUCTORS
ONE MASSIVE MANTRAILING WEEKEND!!!

Only one handler spot left on our Mantrailing Weekender with myself (Gerry Moss) and fellow Mantrailing UK Head Instructor Kathryn Jones.

We'll kick things off early Friday evening with some theory and dinner! Then follow up with two very full days trailing and dinner together on the Saturday evening.

Lunch and dinner is included in your booking.
We've only one spot left so get booking fast!

www.jayk9.co.uk/services/

31/05/2022

What a great evening Mantrailing...

We had two newbie teams join the gang... Welcome team Dot and team Scally!

29/05/2022

What a fab day at the The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) ...

Thank you so much for having us. A massive thank you to Diane from Superhounds for joining us for Mantrailing UK today.

Just a few of our favourite pics from today...

29/05/2022

This trailing video captured by one of our instructors Mel Taylor from Mel Taylor Dog Training just makes me smile Mantrailing UK

24/05/2022

24/05/2022

Our July Weekender has now sold out (of handler spaces), we've just two handler places left on our June Weekender. Spectators still welcome to both!

If you're thinking of coming get booking quick!

JUST 2 SPACES LEFT

TWO HEAD INSTRUCTORS
ONE MASSIVE MANTRAILING WEEKEND!!!

Only two spots left on our Mantrailing Weekender with myself and fellow Head Instructor Kathryn Jones...

We'll kick things off early Friday evening with some theory and dinner! Then follow up with two very full days trailing and dinner together on the Saturday evening.

Lunch and dinner is included in your booking.
We've only two spots left so get booking fast!

www.jayk9.co.uk/services/

16/05/2022

It was Mantrailing Assessment day yesterday!

Super well done to Linda and Zara and Louise and albus on passing their Level 1 and to Jenny and Elvis and Becky and Seigfried on their Level 2

13/05/2022

After asking for sponsorship each month last year during my marathon of marathons challenge I decided to give myself this year off from any stupid challenges... Then I forgot about that.

I've come up with the amazing idea of walking the South Downs Way in 4 days. I'll be taking the hubby along for company, the dogs for entertainment and we'll be carrying everything we need for the four days, which will include:

Tent
Cooking equipment
Sleeping bag, mat and pillow
Clothes
Food for both humans and dogs
Water and other essentials

The South Downs Way is a 100 mile national trail and with the odd bit of extra distance each day to top up water or find suitable sleeping areas. We are expecting to do over a marathon a day each day for 4 days and will be setting off on the first weekend in July.

Just because I'm amazing at planning, I've decided to give myself a warm up to this challenge by completing the Yorkshire 3 peaks in the 48 hours before setting off. The Yorkshire 3 peaks is a 24 mile route with an ascent higher than Ben Nevis.

If you'd like to sponsor me for this stupid idea that would be amazing and I promise this is the only silly charity thing I'll be doing this year.

I'll be raising funds for Midshires Search and Rescue, our local search and rescue team that covers Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, who I volunteer for. Like all search and rescue teams in the UK, Midshires is completely self funded and relies on charitable donations to operate. It is fully run by volunteers and no one is paid when they go out assisting the police on searches for missing and vulnerable people.

As a team we've got a few big costs coming up as some older equipment is needing to be replaced. Covid meant that not only was fundraising affected but also some training had to be put on hold and so we are now looking at increased training costs to ensure everyone's experience and skills are where they need to be to operate a full service safely.

If you'd like to donate to this challenge it would be much appreciated and here's the link: https://www.justgiving.com/midshires

If you or the company you work for are able to support Midshires directly please give it a thought and get in touch!

Many thanks

Gerry

12/05/2022

JUST 2 SPACES LEFT...

TWO HEAD INSTRUCTORS
ONE MASSIVE MANTRAILING WEEKEND!!!

Only two spots left on our Mantrailing Weekender with myself and fellow Head Instructor Kathryn Jones...

We'll kick things off early Friday evening with some theory and dinner! Then follow up with two very full days trailing and dinner together on the Saturday evening.

Lunch and dinner is included in your booking.
We've only two spots left so get booking fast!

www.jayk9.co.uk/services/

01/05/2022

JUST 2 SPACES LEFT...

TWO HEAD INSTRUCTORS
ONE MASSIVE WEEKEND!!!

Only a few spots left on our Mantrailing Weekender with myself and fellow Head Instructor Kathryn Jones...

We'll kick things off early Friday evening with some theory and dinner! Then follow up with two very full days trailing and dinner together on the Saturday evening.

Lunch and dinner is included in your booking.
We've only a few spots left so get your deposits in fast!

www.jayk9.co.uk/services/

30/04/2022

Another fabulous day Mantrailing!

22/04/2022

What an amazing day!!!

Some fabulous dogs and amazing handlers. From complete beginners to some of our more experienced trailers all of them made some great progress as they worked through some niggles and problems and learnt new skills!

Can't wait to hear how you do in your up coming assessments!

Thank you everyone who joined us!

19/04/2022

JUST 3 SPACES LEFT...

TWO HEAD INSTRUCTORS
ONE MASSIVE WEEKEND!!!

Only a few spots left on our Mantrailing Weekender with myself and fellow Head Instructor Kathryn Jones...

We'll kick things off early Friday evening with some theory and dinner! Then follow up with two very full days trailing and dinner together on the Saturday evening.

Lunch and dinner is included in your booking.
We've only a few spots left so get your deposits in fast!

www.jayk9.co.uk/services/

13/03/2022

Final day at Crufts with our awesome Mantrailing UK team!

12/03/2022

What an awesome day!!!

8 new teams joined the Mantrailing gang and we also had some awesome trailing from our regulars some of whom are getting ready for their level 1 and level 2 assessments. Today's trailing included double blinds, aged trails and great line handling from some newbies and a special appearance from the amazing Evie 😃

Can't wait to see these dogs others in their future sessions