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News Updates -

NEWS FLASH - FARNHAM VENUE CLOSED

We are not able to gain access to the Farnham venue as the road is closed due to major water leak! Please note that Tuesday class will be held at our Alton venue tomorrow. We hope to be back there next week but you will be notified by email or text if the situation changes. Hope to see you tomorrow - 24th August.

All Day Workshop on 30th September

We are delighted to announce another of our very popular all day workshops on Thursday 30th September at our Alton venue. Come and spend the day with us working on any problems that you are currently experiencing. A chance for you to concentrate on your dog without distractions - these sessions really help our dogs learn and you have fun too. An ideal place to remind your dog all that you have taught him/her and a chance for them to run off lead with our balanced pack members.

Book your place soon either through your trainer or the office.

Residential Training - your dog lives with ours and has the time of its life!

We are delighted to announce the start of our Residential Training and Care service with effect from the 15th September. As you may know we are already offering a service whereby dogs can be trained whilst they stay in kennels at Spangleberry and this service will continue.

However, we are now able to accommodate selected dogs to stay with us and our dogs and be trained. Naturally there will be terms and conditions as some dogs will not be suitable, but we look forward to working with many of you to help you continue your dog's training.

Contact us now to discuss your options. Be sure to tell your friends and family too.

General homecare also available as an alternative to kennelling - book now for popular dates.

August Bank Holiday Meeting - Sunday 29th Aug - 11am at our Alton venue

We shall be running a social skills meeting at Jane's venue near Alton on Sunday 29th August followed by a cold buffet and drinks. As there will be limited places, please book through the office asap. Usual fees will apply and all donations towards the buffet will be most welcome.

Dont forget to put the 3rd October in your diary for the next event of our Walkabout year.

A message from the Peanut Pet Shelter in Mexico -thanks to all who supported us!

From Jennifer Macdonald :jen@peanutpetshelter.org>

to: walkabout.group@ntlworld.com

date: 29 July 2010 15:50

Thank you Carol, the help of the Walkabout Group is very much appreciated! When are you and Stuart coming out to visit?

love Jennifer

Katie - 21.06.00 - 26.7.10

Our beloved Katie was taken ill on Monday 26th July and sadly the Vet could not save her. The greatest hunter we will ever have and probably the best footballer! She was a special one, unique in many ways, but always keen to help and one of the many dogs that have taught us so much over the years. She will be much missed by us all and we would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and support.

Introducing to all Walkabout clients: Stuies aussie grills - homemade sausages and burgers - available now to all at each meeting - text Stuart on 0773 506 1037 to find out more or pick up a leaflet at your next meeting. And be sure to try some of Jane's fabulous free range eggs!

Come Walkabout with us!!

Some of our members now have dogs that behave perfectly when attending the social groups but are still having problems whilst out walking. So we are arranging walks for members away from our centres, in areas we know, so that we can help you there. If you are interested in our joining our group, please contact Carol to discuss the possibility. Costs will be just £17.50 and we plan to meet regularly in various areas. Our training dogs will also attend to help supervise the walk and numbers will be strictly limited.

Mytchett Social Walk - click for directions Next Windsor Walk is on 29th Sept

The dog's found a way to cool down in the heat and made sure we got wet in the process! More pictures here

Congratulations to all our puppies who passed their Kennel Club Good Citizen Puppy Foundation Certificate today(20th July) at the Puppy and Young Dog workshop. You all worked really hard and deserve the recognition of this. Keep up the good work and we will soon have you passing your bronze award!

Missed your chance? Why not join us next week and make a start - all pups under 1 year can take part.

Farnham Meetings

As with all our socialisation groups, all meetings are fully supervised and we are mindful of all the dogs' needs. A teenager's needs ( a chance to run and body slam with each other) will be different to a slightly older dog who needs a calm and controlled environment. But both need a chance to be off lead and relearn their canine manners and all owners need the time to practice their skills within a safe environment. With this in mind, we are splitting the group so that everyone can benefit from our Tuesday morning meetings.

Teenage dogs - start at 10.30 - all dogs under the age of 18months

All dogs that have currently been assessed - start at 11.30

Social Groups and Rehabilitation Workshops (Click for more details)

Training Workshops - Why does my dog run off, have a go at other dogs, jump up - all these and much more explained to you and your family at our training workshops held in Farnham or Alton. We use our teaching dogs to help your dog learn how to cope and communicate with other dogs properly. We combine some socialisation and gentle obedience to allow your dog to relearn some of their canine manners.

Weekend Social Groups - We meet at two venues available at weekends. On Saturday mornings we meet in West Byfleet and on Sundays at our venue in Farnborough, why not call the office to find out if you can join us for an assessment - or check our Socialisation Group page.

No dog ever turned away - there is always a way to help dogs relearn their canine manners.

Club T Shirts - Available to all club members @ £17.50 each in sizes from Small to XXL, these quality blue polo shirts can be ordered through the office.

Please ask if you would like to see one otherwise why not collect your order form at your next meeting.

Stop press - Red Agility T Shirts and Navy waterproof jackets now on sale.

Training Lines

Training Lines, the one-stop shop for those difficult to find dog training accessories. If you can't find what you're looking for at the pet shop, or want to try something new in your dog training, you've come to the right place!

As dog owners ourselves we know how difficult it can be to locate those unusual training items that may provide the answer to your dog training problems, and that is why we've created this site. All our products have been tested by ourselves and our team and so we are certain that you will be delighted with them.

We've already done the searching for you, and if you're looking for something that isn't listed , drop us a line and we'll do our very best to find it for you.

Contact Sharon or Neil on 0845 644 2397 or visit their website:

http://www.traininglines.co.uk

Stress - Do Dogs suffer too?

Well at Walkabout, we have known that many cases of aggression are eventually sorted out by removing the stress that the dog is experiencing. So perhaps now is the time to consider if this is one of the reasons that your dog is playing up. Although medical conditions should always be checked out by a Vet first, these are some of the signs to look out for: repeated ear infections or eyes weeping, not eating well; constant periods of diarrhoea or sickness; poor skin and coat; aggression over food or towards humans or other animals; constant barking or over reaction to the slightest noise; barking or even lunging at dogs/people as they go past. Whilst some of these problems on their own are not really signs of stress, if your dog shows signs of several of these symptoms, then we would suggest you need to work with us to help your dogs cope better.

We can illustrate coping with stress by telling you a short story.

Suppose you have a near “miss” in your car, just a near miss, but enough to shake you up. Within 15 minutes, you will be feeling angry, going over in your mind what happened and how stupid the other driver was. You cannot stop this – it is an automatic response by your body to the possible accident. When your body felt it was under threat, it set all sorts of survival instincts off to protect you. So when your dog is getting the wrong messages from you and has to take over as pack leader, its body is reacting to a threat to its pack. If this continues then your dog is suffering – but how to explain to your dog that you have the situation under control?

Over the past 12 years, the team at Walkabout have been helping owners regain control over their dogs by giving them the tools to help their dogs. We are holding workshops throughout the next month offering dogs and their owners a chance to learn these techniques. If you would like to come along why not book your dogs place now.

PAST EVENTS

Walkabout Charity Open Day- 11th July from 1pm at Rushmoor Arena, Farnborough.

Thank you to everyone who supported our open day this year and many congratulations to those who won the Treasure Hunt—Lesley and Claire with their dogs Finley and Mya

Here is Finley looking after some of the raffle prizes.

Agility—Want to find out more about our fun classes? - call 07500 875541 and ask Terena for more details.

Find out more here

All breeds are welcome!

Fun Dog Show— Everyone seemed to have fun and well done to those who won. Thanks also to Nathalie who organised everything and our judge, Karina, who had literally just got off a plane from Spain and came and supported us.

Here are the results:

Handsomest Dog: 1st - Stryder; 2nd Jak; 3rd Max

Prettiest Bitch: 1st - Molly; 2nd Rosie and Izzy; 3rd Ashka

Dog the Judge Would like to take Home: 1st Oli; 2nd Callie; 3rd Mistral

Cutest Puppy: 1st Mya; 2nd Snowy; 3rd Dexter

Waggiest Tail:1st Gunner; 2nd Kiera; 3rd Finley

Dog most like its Owner: 1st Lexi; 2nd Angel; 3rd Zach

Charity Barbecue—Did you try some? Dont forget Stuart will donate 10% of all orders placed in the next week to the charity and add to the total already raised.

More photos on our Facebook page - "Train Your Dog the Walkabout Way"

We will be sending this through to the Peanut Pet Shelter in Mexico, very soon.

Cheesy Grins Photo Service

We are pleased to introduce to all our clients, Dave and Sue from Cheesy Grins.

Here is the link for the photos taken on Easter Sunday - we hope you like them. http://www.cheesygrins.co.uk/easter-walk.html

Past visit photos are still available at: http://www.cheesygrins.co.uk/walk-31-10.html

More at http://www.cheesygrins.co.uk/winterwonderland.htm and: http://www.cheesygrins.co.uk/walk-28-11.html

Walkabout Open Day

14th November from 9.30am Photos by Cheesy Grins available now - see above.

Winter wonderland at Rushmoor Arena raising money for CURE LEUKAEMIA

Thank you to everyone that attended despite the awful weather and for being so generous.

Special thanks to Terena and Debbie who kept up a regular supply of hot food from the back of the horse box! And to Jane, Karis and Caroline for braving the terrible weather and organising the various events around the centre.

Our Dogathon attracted a loyal crowd and the winners this time were:

Obedience: Wendy with Bella

Cross Country: Tracy with Callie

Agility: Lesley with Finlay

We were also delighted to meet the Malamutes and see them racing and keeping fit, finding out more about this fascinating breed from their rescue stall and meet the dogs - all organised by Louise and her friends. They were so kind to give up their spare time - we hope they managed to enjoy themselves, we know that the dogs did.

Lindsey from Simply Gorgeous! is Arctic Dog Sledging in Northern Sweden in aid of Cure Leukaemia. We are delighted to confirm that she has met her target of £3250 and is off on Friday 12th February - look out for some photos soon.

Dogathon 2 - September 5th at Rushmoor Arena

Another glorious day made sure that everyone had a great time at our second Dogathon of the year. Entrants were surprised at how easy it was to have fun with their dogs and yet still be competitive. it was great to see so many people do so well and the dogs behave impeccably, well done to all those who joined in. We hope to see you all again at our final event later in the year provisional date 14th November at our Winter fundraising special.

The winners this event were:

Overall winner: Tony with Holly the Boxer with Linda and Holly the GSD as runner up.

Social Skills was won by Laura with Phoebe, the chocolate Labrador

Cross Country was won by Linda with her GSD, Holly with Adam and Vicky winning the questions section with their dog Gemma.

Agility was won by Diana and her magic dog, Bonnie.

As all these owners have had some challenges to meet with their dogs, it was wonderful to see their efforts so well rewarded.

more pictures here

Thank you to everyone who got involved and helped - we really couldn't have done it without you!

Thank you so much for the money raised at the Walkabout Fun Day. In dollars, the money you raised came to $1040, so a really good chunk towards building our clinic. On completion, we will be putting up a plaque in recognition of those who have helped to bring about such a great achievement - you can be sure that 'Walkabout' will be included.

Once again, many thanks for your help, it's very much appreciated.

Jen (Andy & Peanut Pet Shelter Board)

What a brilliant fun day and thank you for the tremendous support. Between us all we have raised over £650 for the peanut pet shelter.

This was our chance to fund raise for our charity based in Mexico. The Peanut Pet Shelter is having a really rough time at the moment due to the "Swine Flu" epidemic. Many of the tourists are keeping away or being prevented from visiting and this means that nothing can get to the shelter. They are desperate for medicines to prevent flea and tick infestations but the cost has risen so high that is almost impossible to help these young dogs. As a company we always try and run at least one fund raising event each year - so thanks for coming along to support us.

Here are the results:

Treasure Hunt: Leah with Kiera, Linda with Holly and Julie and Keith with Twiggy and Timba

Then we decided to have a fun dog show: Here are some of the winners with their prizes.

Best Veteran Prettiest Bitch Handsome Dog

Dog most like its owner? Waggiest Tail!!

Agility and a cake stall and the tombola and then a raffle all added to the sum raised. So special thanks to everyone involved, we know that Andy and Jennifer will be so pleased with the result.

The Walkabout Dogathon-1 2009

We all had great fun at the first Dogathon-1 on the 23rd May at the Rushmoor Arena and we were delighted to see so many old friends and their dogs come and take part. We were blessed with kind weather and following the dressage/obedience test, there was a race around the centre to find all the treasure in the cross country. Then the show jumping—or rather the agility. We had designed the course so that everyone could take part and enjoy their dogs and despite keen competitiveness amongst some, it was the steady work by Neil and Tony that made sure of a lower penalty rate and resulting in overall winner and runner up position. The winners of each section also were awarded with trophies to recognise their skill in each section.

Copies of the dvd of this event are now available from the office @ £6 per dvd. 50% proceeds going towards charity of the year - the cancer and bio detection dogs.

See http://www.cancerdogs.co.uk for more information.

Overall Winner Neil Aust with Elsa, is joined here by Tony Mulcahy with Miska as overall runner up and also the winners of each of the sections.

In the centre are:

Helen Thomas with Bill who won the Dressage section

Alex Collins with Arnie who won the Agility section

James Vacher with Marley who won the Cross Country section

Well done to everyone who took part - see you next time.

Brook and Zytta love it but it is too deep for cars apart from 4x4's.

More Photos of the February snow here - why not send us yours?

We were delighted to see so many people attend our comic relief effort on Saturday at Rushmoor and well done to everyone who had a go on the agility. We hope to see you at our Sunday afternoon sessions very soon. Here are some photos of some of the dogs at the social session - the teenagers were definitely showing signs of "spring".

Congratulations to Julie with Pearl and Flyte for their success at Crufts 2009

Here are the Finchampstead class celebrating with Julie and Pearl- the Sealyham, (Flyte has now come into season so wasn't there for this photo!) on their successes at Crufts this year. Debbie (in red) kindly made a chocolate cake for us all to enjoy to mark this special occasion. This friendly class will always welcome new members of all ages, so if interested, why don't you come along and join us on Wednesday evenings at 7.30pm.

PROBLEM SOLVING MONTHLY WORKSHOP -19th February from 1pm.

Monthly workshops at our new venue near Alton - call the office now to see how we can help you and your dog.

Given the chance, all dogs are good but sometimes they just don't know how to be! Maybe they have been rescued and never learnt or maybe you just ran out of time, or they forgot. For whatever reason, they need to relearn their canine skills and you need help to guide them Call us now and book your 121 session with the experts - our teaching dogs and our trainers will help you to understand what it going on and how you can continue to help your dog remember their lessons.

Walkabout Fun Day - Saturday 26th July 2008 at Rushmoor Arena raises over £300 for the Berkshire Search and Rescue Dogs.

(Thanks to Shaun for the photos.)

Thank you for all of you that came and joined us and had some fun with your dog.

Julie with Jet starts the learning process!

We raised nearly £300 for the Berkshire Search and Rescue dogs who were kind enough to give us a demonstration

Social Groups - lots of opportunities for your dogs to interact and socialise with other dogs in fully supervised and secure compounds.

Here is Debbie with Fern who has just passed her Kennel Club Gold Award along with Sue with Troy and Julie with Jet.

Kennel Club Awards - well done to all of you that attended and passed their awards especially those who qualified for GOLD.

COCOA MULCH WARNING - PLEASE READ AND PASS THIS ON

I make no apology for copying this - we need to protect our dogs.

This message came to one of the groups from Ali Taylor, Head of Welfare, Battersea DH. They gave permission for it to be passed on.

Quote: Yesterday one of our dog agility friends experienced a tragedy and wanted me to pass a special message along to all of my dog loving friends and family. Please tell every dog owner you know.

Over the weekend the doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased Cocoa Mulch from Target to use in their garden. They loved the way it smelled and it was advertised to keep cats away from their garden. Their dog Calypso decided that the mulch smelled good enough to eat and devoured a large helping. She vomited a few times which was typical when she eats something new but wasn't acting lethargic in any way. The next day, Mum woke up and took Calypso out for her morning walk. Half way through the walk, she had a seizure and died instantly. Although the mulch had NO warnings printed on the label, upon further investigation on the company's website, this product is HIGHLY toxic to dogs and cats. Cocoa Mulch is manufactured by Hershey's, and they claim that "It is true that studies have shown that 50% of the dogs that eat Cocoa Mulch can suffer physical harm to a variety of degrees (depending on each individual dog). However, 98% of all dogs won't eat it."

Also included was the following information -

Quote:

Cocoa Mulch, which is sold by Home Depot, Foreman's Garden Supply and other Garden supply stores, contains a lethal ingredient called "Theobromine". It is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts dogs. They will ingest this stuff and die. Several deaths already occurred in the last 2-3 weeks. Just a word of caution, check what you are using in your gardens and be aware of what your gardeners are using in your gardens. Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities of theobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and theophylline. A dog that ingested a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from cacao bean shells developed severe convulsions and died 17 hours later. Analysis of the stomach contents and the ingested cacao bean shells revealed the presence of lethal amounts of theobromine.

PLEASE GIVE THIS THE WIDEST DISTRIBUTION!!!

Reminder - have you moved home recently - is your dogs id tag up to date? Have you had your dog microchipped? Then make sure you notify Pet Log now with your new address. Their number is 0870 - 6066751

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