Update on the Cairn Obreedience
Team: Unfortunately
Our Cairn Obreedience Team will not be at Crufts 2015,. But I
am sure you all agree that we are very proud of our team – and roll on Crufts 2016! Checkout
the trials on You Tube Obreedience
Audition 2014 Isla & Oscar - YouTube Latest
Update – 9 November Dear Linda, On behalf of the Cairn Terrier Obreedience Team I would
like to thank the Midland Cairn Terrier Club very much for sponsoring us and
to update you on our progress so far. Our thanks also go to Frances
Goldfinch in her role with the Cairn
Terrier Working Party who is going to act as our ‘Treasurer’ for the monies
donated to the Team. At the moment we are a team of five handlers with their cairns:
Suzanne Drew and Oscar, Andrea Bolden and Ruby, Wendy Laker and Isla, Amanda
Leek and Orwell and myself and Mischief. The actual team will only have four
cairns and handlers but we need reserve handlers and dogs just in case
someone is unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances e.g. injury or
sickness to either handler or cairn? Suzanne, Wendy and I, all show our
cairns, Wendy, Andrea and Amanda do competitive obedience with theirs and I
train my cairns in obedience but not to competition standard until now! Because we all live quite far apart, Andrea in Andover,
Wendy in Portsmouth, Amanda in Nottingham, Sue in Essex and me in Bicester,
finding a venue where we don't have to travel for hours to meet up is proving
difficult. We are all prepared to pay for the travel, pay for the services of
a Trainer and the hiring of venues for half days training but this could turn
out to be very expensive so we thank you for the sponsorship your club has
given us as it will mean we will be able to have several more training
sessions as the hall we are using at the moment costs £18 per hour and on top
of this we have to pay for petrol or diesel to get to the venue. We have
learnt that a three hour session is just not long enough for everything we
need to train for so next time we will make a day of it. Thankfully, Fred
Burns our Trainer is not charging us for his services and for this we are
very grateful. Thanks to the Southern Cairn Terrier Club and the South
Wales & West of England Cairn Terrier Club we have managed two very short
training sessions, both during the lunch time break at their shows in
September and October. Both sessions went very well and the cairns all worked
very hard especially as the shows had a lot of distractions. This will be
good training for the cairns when we get to Crufts. On the 16th November we have been invited to audition for
Crufts 2015. Of all the different breed teams auditioning, only ten will be
selected for Crufts. The details of what we will have to do at the audition
are as follows: a set formation heelwork sequence with all four cairns
working together and then each dog in the team will do one specific exercise:
either to ‘retrieve an article’, ‘scent discrimination’, ‘stop the dog’ or
‘send the dog to bed’. As there are five team members and only four needed for
the team, we needed to decide who was going to be in the team for the
audition. We arranged a half days training session in a hall in Sunningdale
near Ascot which is probably the most central for us all on Sunday 2nd
November with a very experienced obedience trainer, a gentleman called Fred
Burns who trains the Southern Regional Obedience Team. All five handlers
attended and Fred very kindly gave us his experience in helping us to decide
who was going to make up the team for the audition by putting us all through
the set exercises with additional training at the same time. It was decided by Fred that Mischief and I
would be the reserve for the audition. I did think this would take the
pressure of me but it doesn’t as I now have to train Mischief in all four
exercises just in case we are needed as reserve! So now I have to teach him
to retrieve and scent discrimination as well as tighten up on ‘heelwork’ and
‘stop the dog’ and ‘go to bed’! But then we are all doing this as well just
in case on the day………….. We have decided we will have a 'uniform' which consists of
a white blouse and black trousers. Suzanne has made us each a red tartan sash
with a matching bandana for the cairns. Sharon Confue is making us a lovely
kilt pin for the sashes, each pin has silver coloured cairns, red ruby shoes
and a bone to decorate the pins. We should look very smart!! Looking ahead, all this could have a spin off in that the Team
will show people that cairns can be trained and do enjoy working and maybe we
will have more than one Cairn Obreedience Team at Crufts in the future? The
team are all prepared to do training workshops for any of the UK Cairn
Terrier Clubs, if they so wish. We would also be prepared to give
demonstrations for any event we are invited too. Once again thank you for sponsoring the Team and I will keep you
updated on our progress. Yours sincerely, Jennie Fairweather
October
Update
We
have decided we will have a 'uniform' which consists of a white blouse and
black trousers. Suzanne has made us each a tartan sash with a matching
bandana for the cairns. Sharon Confue is making us a lovely kilt pin each
with cairns, red ruby shoes and a bone to decorate, all silver coloured for
our sashes. We should look very smart!! At
the moment we are all busy training the cairns and looking forward to our
next training session. The venue and date is proving difficult as we all live
so far away from each other so travel and hiring a hall is going to be a
major cost to us all. I
will send you further up dates as and when.
The
Judge wrote for Tinker: "Tinker is a very busy little lad. I felt that
in the blustery conditions Jenny was sometimes a little quick to go forward
and may have benefitted from letting Tinker work it out. Well done though,
it's nice to see 'unusual' breeds being successful". Mischief's
critic was: "Mischief struggled with the wind today and is still in the process
of working out that to get the food he has to follow the footsteps. Jenny
handled him very patiently, it was nice to watch her communicate him that he
should focus on the track and not her!"
Calling All Obedient Cairns! Click on photo to goto crufts site for more info Update on KC Obreedience competition at Cruft's 2015 . The
application for Team Cairn to compete is in! However, they still only have a
team of four and need at least two reserves. They are looking for anyone who
can do a bit of heel work with their Cairn and a couple of simple exercises -
recall/retrieve/send away/ or a simple scent. Madness, and a willingness to
make an idiot of yourself in public is compulsory!
Don't worry if you live miles away as we will meet up for training sessions,
plus there is still plenty of time to train. If anyone is interested please contact Jennie
Fairweather on 01869 322996 - email ockcairns@yahoo.com
or Andrea Bolden mailto:andreamariebolden@yahoo.co.uk |