Aug 12 and 19: Join NADAC judge Jean Wilkins on Wednesday August 12th & 19th from 6:30pm -8:30pm at the Oriole Dog Training Club and try Barrelers and X Hoopers. These two mini-seminars are open to dogs of all ages and skill levels providing the dog is able to perform a 15′ tunnel. Practice and improve the timing of your commands, handling skills, pathwork, and obstacle committment in the NADAC game format of Barrelers and X-Hoopers.
Fall is coming and Oriole will soon go back into full swing!
Although registration will not open until August 4, in the meantime check out the details on the Academic Calendar and the offerings in our Course Catalog.
When it comes time for you to register: members – please remember to log into the ClubExpress web site before signing up for a class in order to receive the club member discount. If you are not sure of the procedure, see the registration instructions on the Registrationpage for more information.
The Oriole Dog Training Club’s annual Canine Health Clinic is scheduled for August 9th, 2015. We are offering the eye and heart clinics. Unfortunately, we were unable to schedule the blood portion of the clinic this year.
Registration closes in one week (22 Jul).
Entry forms are available on the club’s website. Select “Health Screenings” under the “Clinics” tab, or visit
Although entries for this trial are closed, note that limited walk-in appointments will be taken for an AKC Canine Good Citizen test. See the last page of the judging program for more information.
To pre-register for the run-through, you may either complete the online entry form on the run-through information page or you can print and mail in the paper pre-entry form.
The premium for the Obedience and Rally trial is available on the trial information page.
ODTC’s annual Canine Health Clinic is scheduled for August 9th, 2015. We are offering the eye and heart screening clinics. Unfortunately, we were unable to schedule the blood portion of the clinic this year.
Entry forms are available on the health clinic information page. Select “Health Screenings” under the “Clinics” tab on the club website or use this link. Entries must be received by July 22, 2015.
If you have any questions, please contact Charlene Schilling at odtchealth@gmail.com.
Oriole is pleased to offer our series of summer mini-seminars. These are two hour seminars on Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:30 PM at our training facility in Halethorpe MD.
Donna Brown will present “Crosses, Turns, and Backsides” on July 8th and “Course Problem Solving” on July 15th.
Jean Wilkins is presenting her popular “Distance and Discrimination Handling” seminar in a two-part format on July 22nd and July 29th.
Flyers and registration forms are located on the Seminar Page
This past weekend, Artful Dodgers, the agility arm of the club held our spring USDAA trial outside at Hog Dog Productions. Our fall agility trial will mark the 25th year of our holding USDAA agility trials. Many thanks to Trial Secretary Sally Josselyn and all the club members who came and helped with setup, teardown and running the rings and congratulations to all those who earned legs and titles 🙂
Oriole’s obedience run-through was also held last Sunday and our run-through organizer, Linda Miles, notes that it grew in numbers from the January run-through. Our next obedience run-through will be in August.
Oriole is hosting its spring AKC Rally and Obedience trial this weekend beginning on Friday, May 22 and running through Sunday. Thank you in advance to organizers Helenmary Cody, Debbie Kaminski, and Ann Pribyl for heading that effort this year.
Entries close this Friday, May 22, 2015 for Oriole’s Jun 6-7 AKC Agility trial. The trial is currently full, but it’s not unusual for dogs on the wait list to make it into the trial.
We had some issues this past week with a breaker blowing when all three air-conditioning systems came online. Thank you to Melvin Knight and Richard Mathews for getting that all squared away this week in time for this weekend’s trials.
Come join us this summer in air-conditioned comfort for a CPE agility trial held on Sprinturf in our training building in Halethorpe, Maryland! You’ll find the premium on our website under Events on our CPE Trial Information page.
The Oriole Summer 2015 Electives Catalog is now available! Registration will start shortly on a published timetable and will be open to Contributing Members first, then Members, then Non-Members. See our registration pagefor more information.
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