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Joy Wood, President

Mary Ash, Vice President

Lori Jackson, Treasurer

Frances Anamosa, Secretary

Gerry Glantz, Past President

At Large Board Members:Donna Golemon, Training

Roxann Gracia, Membership

Karen Jackson, Building

Kim Leslie, Publicity

AOCNC REPS:Gerry Glantz, Sue Osborn

NEWSLETTER/WEBSITE: Sue Osborn

OFFICE MANAGER: Mary Ash

TRACKING CHAIR: Sue Osborn

September-October 2016

Napa Valley Dog Training Club • (707) 253-8666 • Clubhouse: 68 Coombs St., Bldg N

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 4097, Napa CA • www.napadogtraining.org

The agility trial had wonderful weather.Everyone liked what Karen served forhospitality. Joy's worker raffle was asuccess. Certificates for a personalizeddrawing was the most popular item bothdays.My highest gratitude goes to the follow-ing people: Linda Wargo (bringing clubitems to Dixon, setting up, working Sat-urday & Sunday, taking down on Sun-day; Mary Ash for helping to preventchaos on Saturday morning, workingSaturday & Sunday, taking down onSunday; Donna Golemon for workinganywhere on Saturday & Sunday, takingdown on Sunday; Joy Wood for theworkers’ raffle, working Saturday & Sun-day, and taking down on Sunday; Karen

for hospitality, transportation, sisterlysupport desperately needed, working inthe rings when she could; Charlie Rose &Christy Rose for helping in the rings onSunday and the taking down; GerryGlantz for being the timer for Saturday &Sunday, and the taking of items back tothe club. Thanks to Jim & Sara for contributing money for hospitality:for Bobby, Anita & Linda Wargo for buy-ing additional sodas. Everlasting thanksto Teresa Russell for transporting thejudge from the airport, to the airport,driving her back and forth to the hotel,and taking Sherry to dinner. She workedvery hard in the rings on Saturday &Sunday, and kept working on Sunday onthe taking down. She proved what anasset the Vallejo club had gained and theNapa club lost. Lastly, thanks to TheaTsurumoto, not from the NVDTC club,but had run four dogs yet helped workthe rings for Saturday & Sunday, andworked to take down both the JWW andstandard rings on Saturday. I was glad to have the trial this year tomake most of the exhibitors happy. Itwas very sad that many members of theNapa club could not come help at theagility trial.

AUGUST 20 & 21 AGILITY TRIAL WRAP UP

TATTLE TAILSNVDTC Newsletter

by Lori Jackson

Our club is hosting a noseworktrial October 1 and 2, 2016. Ifyou are interested in the sportof nosework, then sign up tohelp. The best way to learnabout a sport is behind thescenes. Jobs are easy, and wewill teach. Lunch included!If you can help on Saturday orSunday, morning, afternoon orall day drop Karen Jackson anemail [email protected]

NVDTC’s First Nosework Trial!We can use your help!


September-October 20162 of 8

Session 6 – Tuesdays 7:30 pm $135“Dear Judy, I’m afraid my dogwon’t work unless I have food inmy hands”.. “Dear Judy, howcan I develop more focus out ofmy dog when we are training?”…“Dear Judy, I’d love to studyfreestyle, can you teach meclean technique to develop precision while allowing my dogto shine?”

If you were the author of any ofthese questions, Step by Stepwas created for you.

This class is based upon thesport of freestyle but carries overinto rally, obedience, evenagility. Clean clear “intent” inhandling is what your dog depends on from his handler.Develop those skills while breaking down behaviors, multiplemove combinations, and creative heel work. The method of backchaining conditions the dog to expect a reward or jackpot at theend of a series of behaviors. This method produces a dog that willdrive for that ending behavior.

Step by Step will give you

A) A technical breakdown of many freestyle movesB) The tools you need to create a focused flow of “work”C) Release of the dependency of holding food in your hand D) Experience back chaining combinations to a delayed reward

Questions about the class? Contact: [email protected] or call: (707) 449-1715

Sign up today! This class is limited in size to 6 working teams.

STEP BY STEPCLASS FROM JUDY GAMET

by Judy Gamet - Dogs Can Dance, LLC

Julot (CT Julot le Flair Gaia Kuymal SAR-W) hasmade it into the National Tracking Invitational to beheld in Kentucky in September of 2017!

Twelve dogs will be in this event over the weekend,which is held every other year. Julot has been eligi-ble ever since he became a champion tracker, butthis is the first time he has been drawn!

KayeHall’sJulot!

We are looking for someone to be our sunshine!This is a person who can send cards, flowers ordonations for a NVDTC member who has experi-enced a loss of a family member or a dog.

Sunshine Person

All agenda items must be submitted by the following time line in order to be presented at theupcoming meeting:

General Meetings by the first Monday of the month.Board Meetings by the

third Monday of the month.

(From NVDTC President)Regarding Agenda Items

10 things I want in my life:1. Dogs2. More dogs3. Dog friends for my dogs4. A big house for all my dogs5. Money for dogs6. Dogs7. A husband who loves dogs8. A big car for dogs9. A field for my dogs10. Dogs

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NVDTC NewsletterSeptember-October 2016

Letterto theEditor:Dear Editor,Napa Valley Dog Training Clubput on an agility trial on August20th and 21st. This is an eventthat the club has done for sev-

eral years. After last year’s trial, the membership voted to havea trial in 2016 at a membership meeting. At that time I was nota club member. But on the weekend of the trial, of which the date has beenknown for months by the membership, the only members of theclub present to help both days were: Lori and Karen Jackson,Mary Ash, Linda Wargo, Joy Wood and myself. These six peo-ple were also the ones to set up and break down. On Sunday wehad help from Charlie and Christy Rose. I must also include aformer club member, Theresa Russell, who worked both daysand also picked up the judge from the airport, picked her up forthe trial both days, returned her to her hotel and drove her backto the airport. Theresa also helped out all day. Where was thehelp from the club members that voted to hold the trial? We hadtimes during the trial that the few of us were doing two or morejobs at one time. Lunch was also provided both days for allworkers. I have witnessed a lot of turmoil in this clubsince I rejoined; isn’t it time we start working asa whole instead of this side or that side and putthe club back together? I am not saying that wecan’t have different opinions, just handled dif-ferent. We should be having fun training ourdogs, laughing with each other, encouragingeach other, smiling at each other instead ofpeople bearing teeth. I have heard it stated thatthere are big changes in store for the club byone group, I have no idea what these changesmay be, but it should be working together,pulling together. The only big change thatshould occur is the membership of this club,pulling in their claws, and work to save this organization. Are you, the membership, pre-pared for the closing of the club? It’s time fornomination of officers for 2017. I became aboard member last year because I did not wantto see the club close; I love training my dogs,showing my dogs, training other member’s andnon-member’s dogs, but most importantly, hav-ing time with my dogs, and having them in mylife. I don't mean to be on a soap box, but we need to work together towards a common goal,create an atmosphere where we want to take classes, attendmeetings, support this organization, and each other. If I have offended anyone with this, I am sorry, it was not my intent.

Donna Golemon

Request from Frances Anamosafor photos and videos for use on

Facebook.

With a following of over 500 fans, Facebook has proven to be a great publicrelations social media tool for NVDTC.

www.facebook.com/NVDTC/

To be even more effective, using photos& videos of dogs are attention grabbers!

Whose dogs? YOURS of course!

If you have photos & videos of your dogsyou can share, including those from

trials, send them to:

Frances at [email protected]

Don’t Miss Out on These TWO Seminars“Shy Dogs & Enrichment”

being held at theNapa Valley Dog Training Club!

WITH

Mik Moeller, CPDT-KA and CBCC-KA

Seminars cover:Shy Dogs

(9:00am - 12:15pm)

Saturday, September 24, 2016&

Enrichment(1:15pm - 4:30pm)

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Cost only $85 for both seminars!For details and more about our guest speaker, download flyer from: napadogtraining.org/flyers

Registration is being handled through the PositivelyTrained website. Please visit

www.positivelytrained.com



Sep12 to Oct 21, 2016Week off: October 24th to 28th

Training Session 6

5:15 PM Good Manners 1 LeaMON GOOD MANNERS 1 ORIENTATION: Sep 12 at 5:15 PM**MON GOOD MANNERS 1 ORIENTATION: Sep 12 at 5:15 PM**

10:00 AM Adolescent Dog KimCOMBINED ADO & PUPPY ORIENTATION: Sep 13 at 10 AM**11:00 AM Puppy Kim COMBINED ADO & PUPPY ORIENTATION: Sep 13 at 10 AM** 12 Noon Delightful Distractions Kim

Delightful Distractions is a RETURNING class 4:30 PM To Be Announced 5:30 PM Freestyle Drill Team Judy 6:30 PM Musical Rally Challenge Judy 7:30 PM Step by Step Judy

NEW CLASS!NEW CLASS!

9:00 AM Good Manners 1 LauraWED AM GOOD MANNERS 1 ORIENTATION: Sep 14 at 9:00 AM** 10:00 AM Good Manners 2 Laura 11:00 AM Advanced Obedience Mary

Advanced Obedience is a RETURNING class 5:00 PM Adolescent Dog Donna

WED 5 & 7 PM ADO ORIENTATION: Sep 14 at 7 PM** 6:00 PM Puppy DonnaWED 6 & 8 PM WED PUPPY ORIENTATION: Sep 14 at 6 PM** 7:00 PM Adolescent Dog Marilane/Vange

WED 5 & 7 PM ADO ORIENTATION: SEP 14 at 7 PM** 8:00 PM Puppy Marilane/VangeWED 6 & 8 PM WED PUPPY ORIENTATION: Sep 14 at 6 PM**WED 6 & 8 PM WED PUPPY ORIENTATION: SEP 14 at 6 PM**

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Capital Canines Pat WhiteMeets every other week — First class: September 15

10:00 AM Rally–All Levels* MaryMeets every other week — First class: September 22

6:00 PM Rally–All Levels* Mary 7:00 PM Good Manners 1 MaryTHU GOOD MANNERS 1 ORIENTATION: Sep 15 at 7 PM**

8:00 PM Good Manners 2 Mary

6:00 PM Mighty Mights GM 1 VangeMighty Mights is a RETURNING class

FRI Mighty Mights ORIENTATION: Sep 16 at 6 PM** 7:00 PM Out and About Vange

Out and About is a RETURNING class

Fridays - 1st class Sep 16

Thursdays - 1st class Sep 15 (unless noted otherwise)

Wednesdays - 1st class Sep 14

Tuesdays - 1st class Sep 13

Mondays - 1st class Sep 12

Oct 31 to Dec 16, 2016No class week of Thxgiv–Off last 2 weeks Dec

Training Session 7

5:15 PM Good Manners 1 LeaMON GOOD MANNERS 1 ORIENTATION: Oct 31 at 5:15 PM**

PM**

10:00 AM Adolescent Dog KimCOMBINED ADO & PUPPY ORIENTATION: Nov 1 at 10 AM**11:00 AM Puppy Kim COMBINED ADO & PUPPY ORIENTATION: Nov 1 at 10 AM** 12 Noon To Be Announced 4:30 PM To Be Announced 5:30 PM Freestyle Drill Team Judy 6:30 PM Musical Rally Challenge Judy 7:30 PM Step by Step Judy

Step by Step is a RETURNING classNEW CLASS!

9:00 AM Good Manners 1 SandyWED AM GOOD MANNERS 1 ORIENTATION: Nov 2 at 9:00 AM** 10:00 AM Good Manners 2 Sandy 11:00 AM Advanced Obedience Mary

Advanced Obedience is a RETURNING class 5:00 PM Adolescent Dog Marilane

WED 5 & 7 PM ADO ORIENTATION: Nov 2 at 7 PM** 6:00 PM Puppy Marilane

WED PM PUPPY ORIENTATION: Nov 2 at 6 PM** 7:00 PM Adolescent Dog Donna

WED 5 & 7 PM ADO ORIENTATION: Nov 2 at 7 PM** 8:00 PM Recreational Agility Donna

Recreational Agility is a RETURNING classPM**

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Capital Canines Pat WhiteMeets every other week — First class: November 3

10:00 AM Rally–All Levels* MaryMeets every other week — First class: November 10

6:00 PM Rally–All Levels* Mary 7:00 PM Good Manners 1 LindaTHU GOOD MANNERS 1 ORIENTATION: Dec 3 at 7 PM**

8:00 PM Puppy Donna/LindaTHUR PM PUPPY ORIENTATION: Nov 3 at 8 PM**

6:00 PM Mighty Mights GM 1 VangeMighty Mights is a RETURNING class

FRI Mighty Mights ORIENTATION IS ON FRI, Nov 4 at 6 PM** 7:00 PM Canine Good Citizen Vange

Canine Good Citizen is a RETURNING class

Fridays - 1st class Nov 4

Thursdays - 1st class Nov 3 (unless noted otherwise)

Wednesdays - 1st class Nov 2

Tuesdays - 1st class Nov 1

Mondays - 1st class Oct 31

* CONTINUING CLASS **Do NOT bring dogs to orientation.

If there are other classes you are interested in, sign up on an interest list.

Visit or call the NVDTC office to have your name added.

Schedulessubject to change

Flyers describingnew and returningclasses areon theNVDTCwebsite.



Tuesday morning Adolescent & Puppy Session 5 graduates!Kim Leslie, Trainer

Photos by Assistant Sandy Bonifield

Graduates!November 12-13, 2016 in Santa Rosa, California

Michele PouliotWorld Renowned Freestyler & Clicker

Training Expert

WorkshopWorkshop topics:1) Preparing For Competition WithoutFood or Toy Rewards Toolbox

Strategies for before andduring performance,including using TrickBehaviors and the powerfulart of Back Chaining forperformance reliability.

2) Tricks—Who NeedsThem?

Trick behaviors can bemotivators, body strength-eners and warm up tools forall dog sports. Trainingtricks enhances your musical freestyle, improvesyour skills and keeps yourtraining FUN.

3) Problem SolvingMichele will work with each working partici-pant on his or her choice problem or topic.

For more information: Contact Laurie Rubin 707-829-7950 / [email protected]

Download details/registration fromnvdtc.org/michele.pdf



Over the next two to three weeks we will be reaching out toour members to respond to our calls for help. We will be put-

ting notices on our Facebookpage, our website and sending outemails for WORKDAYS and SPECIALPROJECTS that we need help with.Please watch for these notices and con-tact the person specified to sign up to helpfor 2 to 4 hours. We are depending on yoursupport and we THANK YOU IN AD-VANCE for being dedicated Napa Val- leyDog Training Club Members! Thank you!

possibility; AC costs would be high especially ifthe unit is installed by someone who would be li-censed; Karen Jackson will look into ceiling fansand see if that would work

ii) Mary Ash talked with Ross, the building man-ager, about the light switch – Ross is going tohave someone move the on and off switch closerto the door so you can turn it off without being inthe dark. Ross will do that for free and do it nextweek. Mary Ash to follow up with Ross re status.

f) Publicity – Kim Lesliei) Walk with Animals(1) Flyers from NVDTC were in all of the goodie

bags(2) Interest list was at booth – Kim Leslie to give

that to Mary Ash(3) Board for tricks for dogs

ii) Farmers Market(1) Should be turned in this week so that the club

can have a booth at the market in August2016

g) Training – Donna Golemon i) Week 3 of session 5; 6 and 7 are on the websiteh) Newsletter and Website – Sue Osborni) August 20, 2016, is deadline for items for

newsletter5) AOCNC – Sue Osborn, Gerry Glantz

a) AOCNC – Workshop 7-31-2016-wrap upi) Good turnout; Gerry did not hear any complaints;thanks to Joy Wood, Margie, Jim Spiva for theirhelp; thanks to Mary Ash and others who helpedto pack up the car.

b) Seminar with Obedience/Rally judges scheduled forSeptember 25 2016 at Mt Diablo

6) Hospitality- Thanks Joy & Mary for snacksa) Volunteers for next meeting – Anne Stanley to vol-

unteer for next meeting7) Old Business

a) 2016 Agility Trials – August 20 to 21, 2016 atDixon Fairgrounds – Lori Jacksoni) Lori has certificate of insuranceii) Linda has 201 runs on Saturday and 1___ runson Sunday; Linda will cover judge hotel fees withhotel points she has; need someone to pick judgeup at the airport – Lori to get the times for her ar-rival and departure; need volunteers at 7 am in

1) Welcome the Membership-Call to Order by Joy Wooda) Meeting called to order at 6:36 PMb) Joy Wood announced the death of Tom Gracia,

Roxann Gracia’s husband. Club to make donationof $50 to charity of his choice. Mary will send acard from the club.

2) Secretary report-Frances Anamosaa) Approval of Minutes – June meeting –printed in

newsletteri) Frances to send approved June board minutes toSue

b) The July general meeting minutes-handout i) Joy called for edits – there were none. Minuteswere motioned, seconded and approved withoutedits.

3) Treasurer’s Report – Lori Jacksona) Checking $19,485.56

b) Money Market $22,218.40c) $150.02 profit from Obedience Triald) Treasurer’s Report - motioned, seconded andapproved

4) Board Reportsa) President’s Report – Joy Wood

i) Our Board Member Roxann Gracia’s husbandTom, passed away.

b) Vice President’s Report – Mary Ash i) Last month’s vouchers and this month’s voucherswill be on the table by the door

ii) Roxann Gracia not present – new members –Karen Paris and Kim Gavette referred by AnnStanley

iii) Motion, seconded and approved to accept thenew members

c) Office - Mary Ashi) All requests for copies need to go through thecurrent office manager

ii) Mary Ash is now covering for Roxann Gracia iii) Any copy making also has to be clearedthrough person of the needed copies

d) Membership – Roxann Gracia (absent) Report by Joy Woodi) New Member packet update – will have a sampleto hand out at next meeting

e) Building – Karen Jackson – air conditioner update,cost, etc.i) Karen Jackson called re AC; ceiling fans are a

www.nvdtc.org/meeting

August 8, 2016 General Meeting

MINUTES (unapproved)

Past and present minutes are available online at:napadogtraining.org/meeting/

continued on page 7

the morning on Saturday for help withtables, chairs, canopy, and ice chest – shewill need a truck for all of this; still needs raffleitems

b) Nose Work Trial- October 1 and 2 - Mary Ashi) Premium comes out Wednesday; judges are se-cured as is committee; Gerry will do the scoreroom; Gerry and Donna and Mary will have an-other meeting; 2 nose _____ will be going on atone time using a lot of the complex; sign-up sheetfor workers will be going up

c) Seminar Speakersi) Seminar in September on Canine Body Language;sign up with Marilane if you are interested; costwill be under $100

8) New Business a) Tracking Trial- Sue Osborn - NVDTC’s Tracking Test

to be held March 12, 2017, at the Veteran’s Home inYountville. Judges are Mitzi Young and Anne Her-shey. AKC has approved this tracking event with aclosing date of 03/01/17; things are underway onthis trial.

b) Building Request from Diana Martin – request to rentclub for December 11, 2016, for Irish Terrier ClubHoliday Party; motion, seconded and approved toallow this request; Joy will send her rental agree-ment

c) Laura Ecklin made the following business protocolsuggestions: when members want to discuss itemsthat are not on the agenda, members can presentthe items at the beginning of the meeting; a time willbe set in the future to consider them; items can besent to board in advance of the meeting to be in-cluded on the agenda; for items that need to beacted upon quickly – club needs to decide how tohandle. Board to review at next board meeting andreview at next general meeting with members.

d) Review edits to club documentsi) Membership Annual Review(1) Number 5 – is does not say anywhere that 2

signatures are required on the membershipapplication; board suggesting to add this

(2) These papers to go in the new member packet(a) Mission Statement(b) Vision(c) Code of Sportsmanlike Conduct

(d) Complaint Processii) Comments on the documents(1) Laura Ecklin said she liked a conduct policy

that mirrored the AKC guidelines(2) Marilane Bergfelt said the club revised the by

law to address certain issues that came up in2012. She stated that AKC said codes were tobe developed by club to be a layer betweenAKC rules and what the club wanted to do.Laura spoke to complaint process and howshe has worked with conflict resolution andsuggested that club members deal with issuesat a personal level without escalating things toa formal complaint process and proceedings.Club discussed having a less formal process toresolve differences and whether or not it fellunder the complaint process guidelines. Alsodiscussed whether or not changes should bemade at the annual meeting in November2016. It was suggested that there be a By Lawversion for serious violations and a version forissues of lesser weight.

(3) Discussion of issue of board recusing them-selves from any discussion in the process thatdirectly involves them and/or is a complaintagainst them

(4) Members proposed changing wording to num-ber 5 of membership annual review

(5) Members to send to Joy suggestions forchanges to these documents to be presentedto members at the next general meeting –send to Joy by email 2 weeks before generalmeeting; Joy will then condense and send tomembers for review before the next generalmeeting

(6) Motion made to table comments and to followthe process for comments. MSA

9) Brags- Adjournment at 7:54 pm a) Sandy Clark got a second major b) Karen Jackson and Captain Jack got a Blue Ribbon

for Preferred Novice and a qualifying run for ad-vanced gain

c) Barn Hunt title – Lindad) Diana Martin – Keegan got beginning novice title

Meeting was adjourned at 8:11 PMRespectfully submitted, Frances Anamosa



MINUTES from page 6

During Napa Humane's Walk forAnimals event on August 7th, KimLeslie was there to represent ourclub! Not only did she answerquestions, hand out brochuresand literature, she also was onthe ready to teach visiting dogsand owners a trick or two!



Next Meeting:September 12, 2016 • 6:30 PM

Leave YOUR dog at home.

Scheduling of Board Meetings:Board meetings are open to all members and are

scheduled on the FOURTH Monday of the month at

6:30 p.m except for the month of December.

Call 253-8666 to verify both date

and location of meeting. Minutes from board

meetings are posted at the club.

Submission deadline for the NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 newsletter

is OCTOBER 20, 2016.Send to: [email protected]

Visit NVDTC on the web for the latest news & photos:www.napadogtraining.org

Do you have a special or cute dog picture you’d like toshare? If you send a photo of YOUR dog (& name) to the newsletter editor, he or she could appear in a

future newsletter edition!

email to: [email protected]

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