If you are concerned about your point standing, and need to know which trials are going to be higher point qualifiers due to entries, please call Molly 7 days prior to the trial to confirm entry numbers to date for each trial.
"Caroline" photo by Sally Hull
NEW SERVICE! Please see Upcoming Events for links to individual trial entry forms!
Eriksdale Arena & Field Trial, October 29 & 30, 2011
The Canadian Championship and Western Canadian Finals are being held this year in Cranbrook, BC at the beautiful Pine Butte Ranch. The scenery is breathtaking with mountains on all sides, not the least of which are the Rocky mountains on our right. We are running at a different angle this year than we did in 2005. It makes the terrain less dramatic, but that year the sheep were very cooperative. If you need dramatic this year, you need not look any farther than the sheep. They are fine wools from a local Hutterite colony that are used to being worked by dogs in large groups. If you rushed them, one would usually leave or run over the fence behind the post and off through the spectators and then the parking lot. If you were too kind, you might keep them together and on line, but they took it as a sign of weakness and got heavy. There were the rare dogs (namely Jean and Dennis Gelling's dogs, Star and Jan) who kept the sheep calm and moving.
Welcome to the Manitoba Stock Dog Association official website. {September 2009}
Upcoming Events:
Watch here for details of the upcoming clinics or trials with club members sharing their knowledge to help others and where new or interested dogs & thier partners can get a start for thier future in the stock dog life.
On behalf of all the Manitoba Stock Dog Association members and other participants in the Western Canadian Stock Dog Championship Trial, we would like to thank our sponsors with out whom we would not have had such a wonderful weekend.
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If you have any questions, or comments, or events you would like posted, you can contact us via the contact page.
Guests are welcome to attend all our events. Membership provides extra benefits. Members are welcome to advertise dog related items in the classified section. Watch for updates of upcoming events and see the results for recent trials.
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Words of wisdom....
A good friend just reiterated a nice sentiment recently and I will pass it along. Look around you at a trial or a training class, show or other competition and be supportive to someone. Inspire someone to do well, to feel great about what they've accomplished and how far they've gotten (even if they are new and even if they've been at it for a long time!) And remind them that their dogs didn't sign them up but they signed up the dogs. Thank your own dogs for sharing their time happily and willingly and make sure they are also having fun.
Congratulations to everyone out there who worked hard this year, who took their dog for a walk and not just to trianing classes, to everyone who learned something new or a better method to get what you want from your Canine partner.
Congratulations for being part of a wonderful world of Team sports where everyday we learn a little more about what we can learn and a little more about how little we know! Hahahaha.
Cheers,from Tanya and all the gang at Tucker Creek!
"HERDING - when ordinary humiliation just isn't enough" - from Little Hats.....
2011 National Sheepdog Finals Blog This link is to a blog profiling the handlers going to the US Border Collie Handler's Association National Finals in September. There are some Canadians being profiled in the most recent posts. The last post was about Amanda Milliken of Kingston, ON. I just read the most recent one about Scott and Jenny Glen (Alberta, woot woot!) There is some pretty sage advice in there for anyone in this hobby. Plus it's just more enjoyable reading about herding, for the obsessed. Nice write-up Jenny!
'He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.' --- Author Unknown
Cetyl M Wall2Wall Sheep Ranch now has available Cetyl M for dogs, and can order Cetyl M for people or in horse formula.
360 tab bottles $115.00 including tax.
120 tab bottles $45.00 including tax.
Kit has had great improvement in her mobility in just 2 weeks of treatment.
