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My name is Donna Brinkworth. Four years ago I moved to Alberta from Northwestern Ontario. I recently completed the requirements to be a CKC tracking judge for TD and TDX and will now work on becoming an urban tracking judge, as it is one of my passions. I've also become involved in the sport of Schutzhund as a member of the Calgary Schutzhund Club, and my boy Caden is showing a lot of promise in this exciting sport. All I need is some land and sheep for the Border Collies to be completely happy in Alberta, and we are working on that! This blog honours tracking, herding and life with the dogs who are my teachers and who bring so much joy into my life. It started out as a training blog for my tracking students. You can check those archives, back in 2005. Over time I have used this blog to journal my own training, share information, and most recently discuss my personal journey since moving here.

All content and photos are copyright Donna Brinkworth (Smith), 2005 - 2012 unless otherwise noted. Please use the private comment function after each post to contact me with questions or comments.

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This blog may have come to an end, but I hope you will still find good information in the posts from over many years. Thank you for visiting, and enjoy your journey!

27 April, 2010

Beginners Tracking Clinic - Field and Urban tracking in Olds, Alberta

On the weekend, I gave a tracking clinic in Olds, Alberta. Lynda Caughlin of Fionavar K9s is pictured above with her Belgian Cavall - and isn't he looking pretty nice with his nose down! She wrote a nice description on her blog! So I will just give a link for everyone to have a look. I will put a few more pictures up over the coming week, to feature some of the dogs. We had three Belgians, a Weimerainer, an Aussie, a Lab, a Border Collie and a Norwich Terrier. All of the dogs were great and by the end of day two, had already made so much progress! As always, I was very happy to share with beginners to the sport.

Lynda's blog is in the sidebar menu...Fionavar K9s.  It feels funny, but in a nice way, to be on another blog this way! Thanks Lynda and everyone who came out to the seminar!

Below Gail and her Weimerainer Siegfried had just completed a mini-TD, and the crowd of participants shows their enthusiasm for a job well done! Lynda is in the background getting ready to go. Can you tell how cold we were? But, it was great tracking weather.

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