Saturday, September 11, 2010
Every visitor will receive a little welcome gift! Make sure you receive your ticket for the:
Door prizes!!!
10am-5pm: Vendor booths – open to visit. Also: gear swap, face painting, photographer on site. Would you like to have a booth at our event? No fee, we’d just like to know ahead of time to plan you in. The booths will be outside on grass. You could bring a pop-up tent, a table and a chair to set up your stuff. If you need any of those, please let us know. We can help with some of it!
10am: Canine Good Citizen® test: 10am: same-day sign-up; paperwork for everybody; then general briefing of all participants; testing starts after the briefing in the order of sign-up (payment received). Fee is $10 (pre-registration) or $15 (day of test) per tested dog. Would you like to see what a Canine Good Citizen® test is about? Then come and volunteer! No pre-requisite required, we’ll teach you on the job. Let us know if you can help, so that we can schedule you in. Then show up at 9:30am, ½ hr before the sign-up starts. We also need a CGC-dog for the meet-and-greet with a strange dog. If your dog has passed the CGC-test and is mellow and neutral about strange dogs, you could be the one!
11am: Nose Work demonstration – check out this new fast-growing sport for our four-legged friends! Every dog with a nose can do it! This sport builds confidence in shy dogs, mellows out dog-reactive dogs, and is fun for any dog of any size and shape!
12-5pm: Meet the Breed – have a purebred dog/ want a dog? Bring your dog and we’ll present your breed to the crowd, talking about their temperament as well. Not purebred, but well-behaved? Bring him/her on and let us guess what breeds yours combines!
12:15pm: silent auction – part 1 will close (smaller items). We’ll part with some of our used agility equipment.
12:30pm: Sharing Alaska’s Trails – keeping (or getting) dogs out of traps in AK. Free DVD presentation (Alaska Trapping Association).
1:30pm: Agility demonstration – watch our students practicing with their dogs on our school equipment. Agility is more than just having the dog take each obstacle safely. It’s handler strategy, distance handling, focus training, and building that ultimate team of dog and handler.
2:45pm: Silent Auction – part 2 will close (larger items). We’ll sell some more agility equipment, even heavy stuff.
3pm: Dog First Aid seminar – pre-registration recommended, fee is $40 (pre-registration) or $45 (at the seminar), including a book with DVD. You’ll receive a card stating that you attended the American Red Cross Dog First Aid Class.
