United Schutzhund Clubs Northwestern Region

29/07/2024

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14/05/2024

Let’s welcome our newest full member club in the Northwest Region … Central Valley Dog Club! Can’t wait to see you guys thrive as a club! Super field, great people and an awesome training director! We look forward to many events at your place! Welcome!

20/02/2024

15/02/2024

March 2024 Regional Training Day -

12/02/2024

Dear NWR Members:
The Regional Directors of the Northwest and Southwest Regions are aware of concerns surrounding the disparate policies in the regions regarding the trophy placements in the recent years. This is very unfortunate and both Regional Directors believe that while, each region has the right to make their own policies, it is in the best interests of both regions to attempt harmonization of the policies regarding trophy placements. We each value the camaraderie we share during trials as we often compete together. We will be working with our respective Boards and regions with proposals to harmonize the policies to avoid future misunderstandings and inconsistencies.
If you have questions or input, we encourage you to directly contact your respective Regional Director. Ultimately, the choice will be up to our regions, but we are confident that working together we can find consensus.

Yours in the Sport.
Cherie Flores NW Region Director
Nelli Racsko SW Region Director

05/12/2023

Hey guys this Saturday is the day. Regional training, meeting, and lunch at Seet Thang's field 5196 Poplar Road Vacaville, CA 95640 We will meet around 10:00. We will work on obedience...we will spot for each other, answer questions. If you need help or want others opinions, just ask everyone will b...

05/12/2023

Regional Meeting/Training Day this Saturday -

Hey guys this Saturday is the day. Regional training, meeting, and lunch at Seet Thang's field 5196 Poplar Road Vacaville, CA 95640 We will meet around 10:00. We will work on obedience...we will spot for each other, answer questions. If you need help or want others opinions, just ask everyone will b...

03/11/2023

Best of luck to everyone!
Kick some butt WEST COAST!

25/10/2023

Wow! What a GREAT Weekend! So happy to see so many people come together in this Region to help each other reach many accomplishments.

Bay Area Schutzhund Club did a top notch job of putting on the show this past weekend! They started on Friday and did many character assessments for the dogs! If you are not aware, the SV is now requiring these for dogs born after July 1, 2020. It is a really fun way to see the true character of your young dog! We look forward to seeing more of them in the future!

Saturday brought an incredibly busy day with class after class of dogs getting their show rating! People grabbed other peoples dog to help run them in the ring. One thing we all learned...we NEED to do this more often as a Region to help us all train our dogs a bit better! Look for some exciting training plans coming in this area!

But Saturday was not done with the show! After the show was done, our trial started...yes, you read that right! In order to assist some people who wanted to qualify for Nationals, but just missed it at Regionals, Gold Country Working Dog Club worked around the show so that those competitors could fulfill their goals. A Huge shoutout to Judge Heidi Theis, who after showing her dog as well as many others on Saturday, then set about to Judge a trial, set up a few doors away! We did obedience, protection, and lest we forget two USCA breed surveys for the those that needed them. I heard there was a GREAT judges dinner Saturday night, but we wouldn't know, as we were watching some amazing helper work by Ronin B Ronin as the sun set! Thank you to Stacy for stepping up to ensure that dogs got the chance to make their way to Nationals! We need more like you!

Sunday started early with tracking...headlights were going at 06:45 in Elk Grove while we completed the trial! We got to see some beautiful tracking!! By 8:40, we had the tracks run, the paperwork done and we all split up! Back to Vacaville for the Breed Surveys!

Bay area continued doing an awesome job getting us all through the breed survey! The breed surveys started; people set off on Ad's while we continued with more breed surveys. Once again, people just stepped in to lend a hand! Many discussions about dogs and breeding and much learning happened on Sunday, wrapping up with a great Judge's Lunch (so happy to have made that one!)!!

While this weekend was exhausting, it was also exhilarating! This is what the sport is about! Regardless of where we train, we all came together to help each other, have fun, and reach our goals! We got to encourage the younger generation (sorry I don't have a pic of little Ajay handling and how proud he was of "his" dog. We discussed the need for more training and I look forward to rolling that out over the next few weeks!

Great job to everyone involved in setting up, volunteering, helping people at the event, or before! Its good to see such a positive schutzhund community come together for its members! I only hope we will continue to grow it from here! Without our clubs, there is no sport. Congratulations to all the new titles, show rating, breed surveys, etc...that occurred this weekend!

11/10/2023

URGENT! DELEGATES NEEDED! - https://mailchi.mp/e5b9c59a298f/urgent-delegates-needed

01/10/2023

Trial Oct 21-22 - https://mailchi.mp/62f3d59f3721/trial-oct-21-22

28/09/2023

Okay guys. We have the potential for a trial with Judge Heidi Theis on Oct 21-22 (will not conflict with show, we will be working a joint schedule). The trial will be held in Vacaville. We are waiting to determine what the costs will end up being to determine how many entries we need to make it go. We must decide by Sunday one way or another.

Regardless of the costs, we know we must have 4 entries for the minimum entries. We have two. We need at least two more entries (possibly more, possibly can be USCA breed surveys to help boost entries) to commit before we can confirm with the Judge.

So, need a BH? Need a title? Available to trial on those dates? Let us know asap! We are only pushing this hard so that people who want a chance to qualify for Nationals can have that chance here in the Region. Shoot us an email at [email protected] or call/text me at 209-304-4540. Please give those people a call who are not already on Facebook to see if they can help out!

27/09/2023

Who needs (would be interested in doing) a USCA breed survey at the time of the Show?

25/09/2023

Hey guys- We know several of you that trialed at Regionals don't yet have your qualifying score for Nationals. Please email us at [email protected] if you are looking for a trial (locally) to get your qualifying score. If we have enough interest, we will absolutely work to get a trial set up for you guys! But we need to know asap!

17/09/2023

Biokinetics Workshop with Angela Ahern, September 29-October 1.

We still have auditor spots available.

Details in comments

29/06/2023

The Motion to amend the requirements is approved. 270 or 250 with an 85’a’ AND regionals (for both) to enter Nationals. Keep training for the 270 or higher!!

03/06/2023

24/05/2023

https://mailchi.mp/699655eea5ba/nw-region-training-weekend

Come join us at Gold Country Working Dog Club to learn about Fitness and Nutrition for our sport dogs. Learn about injury recognition and prevention! Did you know that our dogs often show signs of impending injuries by how they walk, but too often we are not aware of it.  Learn some simple things t...

08/05/2023

11/04/2023

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11/04/2023

NW Region Board -

Lets give a round of thanks to Keith for stepping up as our new (Interim) Training Director. I am very pleased to add Keith as our interim Training Director! I know Keith shares the boards vision of bringing to life some training days both online and in person and I look forward to his input on the....

19/03/2023

We are having our Spring Trial on Saturday, April 8, 2023 with Judge Nathaniel Roque (USCA,SV) our Helper will be Keith Bendixen. Keith will be at our field for protection on Sunday, April 2nd. If you would like to enter you can find the entry form on our website linked below. Please message or email us if you have any questions and we will post updates soon.
http://placerschutzhund.com/upcomingevents

20/02/2023

Thank you to Placer County Schutzhund Club for being willing to host the 2023 IGP Regional Championships. Thank you to Bay Area Schutzhund Club for being willing to host the 2023 Regional Show. Although we did some discussion of this at the last Regional meeting, we are currently going to send to th...

09/10/2022

Our USCA family mourns the passing of Willi Ortner Sr. Willi was one of the Schutzhund pioneers in the United States. He was USCA's first judge and first Director of Judges. We are forever grateful to Willi for bringing his knowledge of the sport from Germany and freely sharing it with all of us.

Our deepest sympathies to the Ortner family. You are in our thoughts.

19/09/2022

It takes a village!!

There are a lot of trophies for the GSD Nationals that still need a sponsor. Please help the host clubs with your sponsorship of a trophy or 2!

The available trophies can be found here..

19/09/2022

Helpers announced for the 2022 USCA IGP National Championship:

Brady Schnowske

Derrike LaCross

Keith Bendixen

Congratulations to all!!

05/08/2022

Folks have expressed they want a new logo for the Region.
The "New Region Logo" committee is asking for your input.
If you have any ideas or logos that you have seen that look really cool, please let us know!

You can PM Cherie Flores Terry Macias or Diane O'Brien Vegsund

Thanks for the help!