No agility classes this week and no practice in the New Arena.

Obedience classes canceled tonight November 22nd due to weather.

Contact Terri at allpets@skynetbb.com for rescheduling.

Dog Yoga coming to Argus

Yoga with your dog coming to Argus Sunday afternoons in October and November in the OB Barn
Cathy Dormaier and Chris Offerdahl are the instructors.Click here for more info and a flyer for registration.

RED HOT ROVERS Agility Trial September 11th and 12th 2010

Class Schedule and Running order - Click here-.

7th Annual TDAA Petit Prix National Agility Tournament Oct 08, 09, 10 2010

Click Here for more info

Late September ASCA Agility Trial

ASCA
Sanctioned Agility Trial

All Dogs Welcome!

September 24th(half day), 25th, 26th 2010

RAT is partnering with the Australian Shepherd Club of Washington to host this show.

Trial Will be held in Argus Arena (New Arena)

1 ring, indoors on dirt

Entries open August 1, 2010 (postmark date)
Entries close Sept 20th, 2010
Entries are limited to 350 runs per day
Accepting pre-entries only.

Judge:
Penny Winegartner, Pearland, Texas

Tentative Class Order:
Friday: 1 Gamblers, 2 Regular
Saturday: 2 Regular, 2 Gamblers, 2 Jumpers
Sunday: 2 Gamblers, 2 Regular, 2 Jumpers

Divisions offered:
Standard, Veteran, and Junior Handler

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EAT NADAC Trial September 17th,18th and 19th 2010

Eat NADAC Agility trial in Argus Arena  September 17th ~ 19th

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Derrett seminars in November

GREG DERRETT & LAURA DERRETT  at Argus  November 15-16-17-18
Contact Jill at arftraining@comcast.net for more info.

Conformation Classes News Flash

Drop in Handling Classes

Tuesday Night  at  Its a Dogs World,
Will no Longer be held.
They are putting something else
in my time slot.

Wednesday Night

Argus Ranch
Classes are held  from 6:30~9:00 pm

All Classes are cash only!!
Pay on the floor

Cost;
 $10.00 for handler and first dog, $5.00 for each
additional dog same handler.

Junior handling Classes are now held
with my regular class.

CASH ONLY
Cost;
$10.00 for junior and 1 dog only

Any questions please call
 Ronda

253-324-0819

Why dogs and their owners are so alike

From NewsScientist.com

• 01 August 2010
• Magazine issue 2771. Subscribe and save

DOG owners are said to resemble their pets - and perhaps with good reason. It seems dogs naturally match human gestures in a phenomenon known as automatic imitation.

People unconsciously copy the gestures of those around them. For example, a yawn will induce yawning in an observer, and a person looking skywards encourages passers-by to do the same. Friederike Range of the University of Vienna, Austria, and colleagues wanted to see whether dogs' actions, too, were influenced by humans. They trained dogs to open a sliding door with either their paw or mouth. One group of dogs were rewarded when they used the same method as their trainer, another when they used a different method to the trainer. The team found that the second group took more attempts to get the task right, suggesting that dogs are indeed subject to automatic imitation (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1142).

The findings support the idea that social animals automatically imitate others. However, Thomas Zentall of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, cautions that training is needed to bring out the trait. "It doesn't happen automatically," he says.

Original article here

Cocker spaniel survives 120ft tumble from cliff with nothing more than a 'little limp'

Click here for story from the Daily Mail Online

Last Agility Classes for this Session

Class #6  - July 27-28 - LAST CLASS

I WILL SEE U ALL AT CLASS THIS WEEK ... ITS THE LAST CLASS OF THIS SESSION ... WOW, WE MADE IT THROUGH !
I WILL HAVE SIGN UP SHEETS FOR U ALL, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SIGN AT YOUR APPROPRIATE CLASS TIME OR TALK TO ME ABOUT A BREAK .... THANKS, JILL !
Next Session - July/August/September
** PUPS = THE 4:00 PM CLASS ON WEDNESDAY WILL BE A FULL-TIME PUP CLASS !!

Class #1 * Aug 3-4
Class #2 * Aug 10-11

Class #3 * Aug 17-18 
** FUN MATCH FORUM HEATHER WILL LEAD
-- I WILL BE AT MY LITTLE SISTERS 40TH BDAY !!!

Class #4 * Aug 24-25

*BREAK for CAMP *
August 31-Sept. 1
* 1/2 price auditing if you want to come for a few hours
... *more on this later

Class #5 * Sept. 7-8
Class #6 * Sept. 14-15


Jill

Test

Argus Ranch Congratulates Heather Kaluza and Derby

Argus Ranch congratulates  Heather  and Derby being the Performance Grand Prix Regional Champions....two years in a row!!

There are no classes this week due to 4H Dog Week

Word Team Members Coming to Argus Ranch

Saturday Afternoon ** August 14th ** from 3:00 pm until approximately 5:00 pm, you can come and cheer on the team ... watching them practice and run some international courses/exercises.

If you want to stay and support the Team, you can stay for dinner.  Its great food, there will be some great stories of World Team Past, and really fun people ... great dogs.

See the best in the country -- this year's team and world team coach, Nancy Gyes at her best !

It should be a fun afternoon !