Summer '05

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Mary is very busy at the moment, writing a book which should be released next year.  She has also been quite successful with the dogs, qualifying Tina the Sheltie for the Pedigree Dog Agility Stakes Olympia Semi Finals at the City of Birmingham Show in September and also qualifying Tina for the Agility Championships at Crufts next year.  She had already qualified Kizzie for the Bitch Obedience Championships at Crufts 2005 and at Eastleigh Show she won the Championship Dog Obedience class with Quincy and qualified for the Dog Obedience Championships at Crufts 2005.

We have just released a new video called "Clicker Training Mary's Way".  This is purely a very beginners' clicker training video, filmed during an actual training class.  We were hoping to release a more advanced one at the same time, but Mary has run out of time to get the filming done, so that will be available later. The video is available in both PAL and NTSC from Mary's store page.

Both Mary and Dave are looking forward to their trip to Australia and New Zealand in September, where Mary will be taking some training courses and judging obedience and Dave will be judging agility. Mary has also been invited by Samsung to visit South Korea on the way back, to be guest of honour at their annual Animal Care Centre Open Day. I think she will be helping their display team to put together a Heelwork to Music display to show to visitors to the centre on the open day.

I think we are all aware of the publicity surrounding dogs in South Korea, but Mary very much wanted to help Samsung in their endeavours to re-educate the population of South Korea about the benefits and positive side of dogs.  At Samsung's Animal Care Centre, they train obedience, agility, heelwork to music, search and rescue, guide dogs, pat dogs, etc, etc. This all stems from the Chairman of Samsung's love and commitment to our canine friends