The premium is now posted for our annual fall USDAA agility trial. This trial will be back inside in our climate controlled facility. COVID-19 precautions will be in place and the extent of these precautions will depend on the current status of the pandemic.
Please note that you only have a few weeks to get your entry in for the trial so don’t delay sending it in!
Please see our USDAA Trial Information page for details.
The premium for these trials is now available on our AKC Obedience Trial Information page.
Opening Date for these trials is Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Maybe you’ve heard about Barn Hunt and would like to learn more and even try it out? Oriole (and the Oriole Rats!) are supporting an Intro workshop given by BHA judge and Oriole club member Colin Ratcliffe to be held at Branchwater Farm on Saturday, June 19. Check it out here! After this workshop, you and your dog will be well prepared for the Rat Instinct Test at the July 23-25th trial next month (discounts offered for those that take the Workshop!)
And speaking of that July trial, entries are open until Monday, July 12. Note that we do expect to be using the outside rings (under cover and scheduled to avoid the maximum heat of the day) as well as the indoor air-conditioned ring. All COVID-19 safety protocols required by the Barn Hunt Association will be in effect.
We’re having a little MemOriole Day sale of our own!
If you missed entering Oriole’s June 5-6 Barn Hunt trial, we will waive late fees until 6pm on Tuesday, June 1. Just email your entry to our trial secretary Charlene Schilling (odtcbhsec@gmail.com) and get your entry in the mail postmarked by Tuesday, June 1. Here’s your not so secret code to do so: Write Happy MemOriole Day! on the envelope 🙂
You can find the link to the entry form on our Barn Hunt Trial Information page. And then you can plan on having some fun finding rats!
Can’t make the trial next weekend? We’ve another planned at the end of July. Click on the above link for more information.
And not to forget the actual meaning of the holiday, Oriole DTC sends a big THANK YOU to ALL who have served.
The premium is now posted for our annual spring USDAA agility trial. To keep everyone as safe as possible, this trial is being held in the open air barn at Hog Dog Productions in Millersville, MD. Because of the pandemic, we waited until we were sure of good trends in numbers statewide. Note that this means you only have a few weeks to get your entry in for the trial.
Please see our USDAA Trial Information page for details.
Come join us this spring in climate-controlled comfort for our third April AKC Rally only trial held on Sprinturf in our training building in Halethorpe, Maryland! Please note that COVID-19 protocols will be place; more details on that as well as the premium is located on our website under Events on our AKC Obedience Trial Information page.
This trial is limited to 60 runs/day and entries are open now.
The premium is available now and entries open on Monday, January 4. This event is limited to 30 entries per trial, so don’t delay !
AKC Virtual Novice Rally Trial
DATE: Sunday, Dec 20, 2020
TIME: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (teams will be scheduled on the hour and half hour; 20 minutes will be allotted for the walk-thru and run; the additional 10 minutes will allow for sanitizing the building)
COST: $10.00 per run (only one run per dog)
WHAT: One of the five approved AKC Novice Virtual Rally courses will be available to those who wish to earn a Rally Novice leg while trials are still few and far between. A Club member will be available to videotape your run on your own phone/video camera to submit to AKC. If you feel more comfortable, you may bring a tripod to hold the device instead. Exhibitors are responsible for submitting their entry form and fee to AKC, along with a link to their video (after uploading to YouTube).
Registration Opens: Tuesday, December 8
Registration Closes: Thursday, December 17
This weekend, Dec 4-6 2020, the Oriole Dog Training Club is having an AKC agility trial. Normally we hold this trial elsewhere where we can have hundreds of dogs and exhibitors in 2 rings . But this year, we needed to carefully guard the club’s stressed finances and scale the trial down to 1 ring to reduce the number of exhibitors present. So we moved this trial (and our January trial as well) to our club building.
The trial committee – chaired by Oriole member Tricia Dunseith and our Trial Secretary, Clantyre Show Secretary Services – spent quite a bit of time on determining safeguards to put in place. In addition to following best practices recommended by the CDC and AKC, the club has been monitoring the quality of the ventilation throughout the building for several months now so that we have a well-informed knowledge of how to ensure the air quality is such that the risk of contamination via viral aerosol is reduced to a very low level.
Sorry – but this is one trial where you can’t spectate. The key to keeping everyone safe is to ensure that few people are in the building at any given point. For this trial we have the Oriole Rule of Five: You can be in the building for exactly 5 reasons:
Masking of course is required at all times while on site including while running your dog. Here are some of the other policies put in place:
Check-in and worker coordination: Stations for these are set up outside of the building.
Traffic Flow: There is a specific one-way traffic flow in and out of the building. The main hallway is used for entry and the middle hallway is used to exit. Quality ventilation in this area is ensured by keeping the front doors open as well as use of an air purifier with a UV filter.
Cookie-Toy Table: A table is provided between the ring entrance and exit for exhibitors to store their coat/cookie/toys before the run.
Technological tools: Exhibitors with smartphones and car radios can track the progress of the class. (We are trying – with indifferent success – to stream the trial on Facebook as well, but are running into issues with bandwidth on the club WiFi network).
Results: These are posted in the building near the station where an exhibitor may enter to pick up their ribbon or they may be viewed in real-time outside on a monitor placed next to a window.
We are glad we are able to have a limited trial under all of these precautions and are appreciative that our exhibitors are being supportive to help keep everyone safe.
We know that both you and we all look forward to the day when things can go back to normal. Until then – Stay Safe & Stay Healthy!
Maybe you’ve heard about Barn Hunt and would like to learn more and even try it out? Oriole (and the Oriole Rats!) are supporting an Intro workshop given by BHA judge and Oriole club member Colin Ratcliffe to be held at Branchwater Farm on Saturday, Dec 12. Check it out here! After this workshop, you and your dog will be well prepared for the Rat Instinct Test at the new December trial the following weekend (discounts offered for those that take the Workshop!)
And speaking of that December trial, entries are open until Wednesday, December 9. Note that we do expect to be using the outside rings (under cover) so that maximum safety can be observed during the pandemic.
