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Posted Saturday 31st December 2011, New Years Eve, I hope that you are suitably refreshed so far after a lovely Christmas and looking forward to the New Year. In the pipeline is a new obedience class, aimed at the companion dog...this will include good manners, walking on a loose lead, retreive and recall and much more and so watch this space! Sue will be very interested to hear from you if this is something you would like to do with your dog. sue@sitdogtraining.co.uk

3rd November 2011

Urgent! Dog has died from poisoning in Rossington

If you walk your dog or know of anyone that does, on the recreation area commonly known as the duck pond, near Brodsworth Way, please avoid for the time being. Or keep your dog on a lead.

This has been reported to the Police.

Google Map of location

Keep Safe

Posted Wed 27th July 2011, Sad news! We had to have our dog Cleo PTS while on holiday in Cornwall. She was twelve. We discovered that she was riddled with cancer after suddenly becoming very sick, she hid this from us very well and was chasing rabbits, doing agilty and pleasing us with her tricks right up tp the last week. She was huge help demonstrating her skills at class and will be sorely missed by all. Thank you for all that you have taught me, my wonderful girl. Sweet dreams xxxxx

I lost a treasured friend today
The little dog who used to lay
Her gentle head upon my knee
And share her silent thoughts with me.
She'll come no longer to my call,
...Retrieve no more her favorite ball
A voice far greater than my own
Has called her to His golden throne.
And though my eyes are filled with tears,
I thank Him for the happy years
He let her spend down here with me,
And for her love and loyalty
xxxx

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" Help us to get Pip moving"

Hi Everyone,

The end of August is already upon us and most will have had their holidays and the children will be preparing for their return to school.

For Sit Dog training, it has been a very busy but exciting year. My Fun Agility classes are well on their way and everyone is thoroughly enjoying them, and we do have fun. We have been extremely lucky with good weather sice starting the classes in April, until the last couple of weeks when we have had to don our rainwear.

Plans in the pipeline; I hope to start Pre-agility Puppy and Adolescent classes on Saturday 18th September 2010, Please pass this information on to anyone you know who may be planning a new addition to their family or wish to bring there young doggies along for some formal and fun training and socialisation. More information to be found on my agility pages; http://www.sitdogtraining.co.uk/Agility.htm

Lots have shown an interest in learning Flyball and so I will be investing in some Flyball equipment in the near future.

In July I am extremely proud to announce that I was accepted as A Master Trainer with the Guild of Dog Trainers
I love their motto…Lead by example. Teach that you may learn.

Sometimes I am asked to help a client re-home their dog. Earlier this year I successfully helped Lucy to find a forever loving home and now we need your help to find a home for Badger.
http://www.sitdogtraining.co.uk/news.htm Please forward this email to anyone you think may be able to offer Badger a forever loving home.

Don’t forget that I am always happy to give advice and really enjoy hearing from clients old and new.
I could do with some more recent testimonials for my website. ?

A huge thank you to every one for your support and encouragement and for the many organizations, vets, friends, family and clients who have promoted my services, word of mouth is a wonderful compliment.

Take care and happy training.

Kindest Regards

Sue Fryer 30th August 2010

Please help to re-home Badger

Badger is 6yrs old and we got him from a litter on a farm near Sheffield. He is fit and healthy, up to date with boosters and has had no medical problems.

The trouble is that we have moved house in the last year and we now live in a farmhouse that has no back door and the entrance door is open and shut all day long. Badger feels that it is his responsibility to guard the courtyard outside. If anyone comes to the gate, he dashes out to bark them away and has recently 'nipped' the back of the legs of two seperate people who have entered the yard. We have since learnt that this is a Collie trait and is what they do with sheep, but we are on edge all the time worried about relatives, friends and tradespeople visiting us, particularly as the gate is also a shared access.

On top of this my wife has recently changed to work full time and so has less time to excercise, play with and watch Badger and we are told Collies are very intellegent and need a lot of stimulation.

In hindsight I think we have probably let Badger down by not being sufficiently in command of him and he would have benefitted from more socialising with other people and dogs at an early stage.

He does also tend to bark at and lunge towards other dogs that he is scared of. This does not happen very often when I walk him, but when my wife and children walk him I think he feels he has to protect them against other dogs by barking first.

I hope I haven't panted too harsh a picture of what is a very loving, beautiful dog, but if possible we want him to be taken on by the right people or person who knows how to handle him correctly.

I would be grateful if you could circulate this information on our behalf in the hope that someone will want to come and see him.

Thank you very much,

Anthony

If you can give Badger the home and attention that he needs please contact Sue in the first instance and she will forward your details to Anthony. posted 30th August 2010

Sue is extremely proud to announce that she has been accepted as a member of the Guild of Dog Trainers as Master Dog Trainer.

Message from one of my clients on March 29th 2010.

Another poisoning case!

Client: Reason i am emailing is a dog, a 6 month old springer puppy, has died. he was regularly walked on the footpath along the river Don from Balby/Hexthorpe towards Sprotbrough and his owner suspects he has come into contact with something around the horseshoe tunnel and bridge leading up to the transpenine trail walk. (not sure if you are familiar with area)
It has been confirmed it was poisoning, not from a plant or anything that would be normally be found along the path. The transpenine trail walk is very popular,as it goes through balby,warmsworth, cusworth and sprotbrough etc. His owners are absolutely devasted and know of 3 other dogs who are walked up there who have been ill, but are now ok.

my reply: Did you speak to the owner of this dog first hand? Who have they reported this too? I can put this information on my website, but need to make sure the info is correct.

Client: yes i have spoken to the owner, the land is the river authority, not dmbc he said he was reporting it but i don't know if he did as i have not seen him since, it happened around the 19th March

If anyone is at all worried then please contact your vet or the River Authority.

WARNING FOR ALL DOG OWNERS - RE CHILDRENS TOYS FOR DOGS

Last night at agility class, a vet, who is a fellow agility student was telling us about a case she had this week. The dog ate a child's teddy bear and was very sick. When she opened the dog up to remove what she thought was an intesti...nal obstruction she found a huge gelatin type mess inside and the dogs intestines were black and the tissue dead. The dog will die no surgery can fix him up there was no living intestine left from stomach to colon.

This was not an obstruction .... so she called the manufacturer of the Teddy Bear on a quest to find out what the gel was and what killed the dog. Turns out the stuffing in children's toys contains ingredients for flame retardants and mite control! It is designed to be come a gel. It is highly toxic. Now you would think a child's toy would be safe because it is for children, but they don't expect a child to eat the stuffing of the toys... huummmm that seems a bit scary too. But we all know dogs demolish stuffed toys.

So do not give or buy your dog any children's stuffed animals... some people get them at goodwill etc. The vet will be posting a warning and story and I will send any other facts as needed and as I learn more. Maybe some children's toys do not have this ingredient, but better to be safe then sorry. So meanwhile, make sure all your dog toys are for dogs.

Please pass this on... it is a horrible death she described and one that can be avoided.

Open Day Sunday March 21st 2010, Photo Gallery

Sue would like to express a huge thank you to everyone that attended. The sun shone down on us which was a blessing as the heavy rain the day before made the ground a little muddy. Thank goodness Billy's 'A' team were there to tow vehicles out of the mud. I lost count of how many lovely people and their dogs were there, a rough count about 40+, I should have made a list. A big thank you to the support of Adrian & Jane Wilkinson from Trophy Pet Foods. Also the Scunthorpe Gazette for advertising the Open Day, although they didn't turn up on the day as promised to do a feature, and I was wearing my makeup especially too. Thank you to Billy & Dawn for allowing me to use their wonderful venue at Clampit Creek. Last but not least for the support and hard labour that my Hubby John has put in over the weeks, helping me to put up stock fencing etc. just waiting for the gate now John! My dogs Malic & Cleo who are both new to Agility were exhausted and slept well, as did we. Posted 22nd March 2010

10th March 2010 email from client

Lost Dog, Woodlands, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

My aunty has lost her dog in Woodlands he escaped from the garden on Sunday 7th March, she rescued him from hampole kennels only a couple of weeks ago, they called him Oscar but don't know what he was called prior to this, he is a cross and looks like a big border terrier but black with a white chest he is about 6 months old.

she has put posters up etc, and rang the dog warden and kennels but hasn't had any luck
just wondered if you could help or knew of a dog walker in the area that she could contact?

Please email Sue if found.

Mr Spittlehouse the vet at Bessacarr has asked to spread the warning that there is an unidentified infection going around at the moment which has apparently already claimed the lives of a couple of dogs, the common denominator is that these dogs are walked in Sandall Beat Woods and Cantley Park in Doncaster.
If you regularly walk your dogs in these areas then please try to avoid them for the time being. If you suspect that your dog is unwell then please check with your vet. If you have any information relating to this then please email sue@sitdogtraining.co.uk

posted 25th February 2010

One of my clients has checked with Mr Spittlehouse and the infection takes the form of Gastro Enteritis, sickness and Diarrhoea and as long as your dog is up to date with injections, should not be at risk.

posted 26th February 2010

At the moment we believe the source of it is coming from contaminated water where some building work has taken place over it in the last two months..........The ditch that separates the beat and cantley golf course which leads down pass crowther wood is quite possibly the main culprit.

Environmental health and the Council does know about it and my advice is to keep your dogs and other animals well away from the area until we find out what's causing it and until we know that the area is safe.

Cross Posted this information from dog owner on facebook 28th February 2010

I had a call from a very nice Man at Environmental Health today, in response to my call on the 25th February. The investigation is still on going, and it is a thorough one too, the water has been tested and nothing has been found up to press. He has also contacted all the local vets and there have been no more cases reported and he confirmed that it was just one dog that had died. So please just continue to be vigilant and take care.

I have just become the proud owner of Malic. He is a three year old Spanish Catalan Sheepdog. He is a very gentle character who needs to build his confidence with people but is like a rock with dogs and so he will play a very important roll as teaching dog along with Cleo.

LUCY

Border Terrier Bitch, Black & Tan

Black body, tan legs and face. Wearing soft black collar.

Disappeared chasing a rabbit between Skelbrooke, Robin Hood’s Well and Five Lane Ends beside the A1 north of Doncaster approx. 9 pm Tuesday evening 10th March 2009

She’s neutered and chipped

URGENT: She has epilepsy and needs her pills to control her fits

£250 REWARD FOR SAFE RETURN

Tel: 01302 337084: 07941 413822: 07760 110577

Is your Dog Tagged & Chipped?

An Incident I had on Monday 9th June 2008, while spending time with my girls and clients two Jack Russell pups in their back garden after returning from our social walk, a stray dog turned up at the gate, a huge english Bull Mastiff.....Duke 1 1/2 yrs.
He was a huge slobbering teddy bear.

Duke's tale had a happy ending!
After a couple of hours we found his owner..

The important moral to this story, Duke didn't have a disc on his collar, he was micro-chipped.
But a couple of hours was spent on a hot day by alot of helpful people including the dog warden.
I also was approached later in the week while walking my dogs, someone who had lost their beautiful pedigree dog, this time no collar, tag or chipped!

The Control of Dogs Order 1992 requires that any dog in a public place must wear a collar tag with the name and address of the owner written on it. Your telephone number is optional. Even if the dog is micro chipped! which is also a wise thing to have done.

Had Duke been wearing a tag, we would have been able to contact his owner immediatley.

Engraved tags are the best, these can be bought at most cobblers, pet shops and the internet. for just a few pounds.
Don't forget to have one made when away on holiday too.

Not only is there a risk of dogs straying, escaping and just getting disorientated and lost, dog theft is also big business.
http://www.doglost.co.uk/page.aspx?pg=72

Please Tag & Chip, keep your dog safe!

Goodbye Lady

Sadly we lost our Lady, on Easter Monday 2008, she died unexpectedly and suddenly while we were away in our caravan. She was just beginning her twelfth year.
She was very special to us and many people, having appeared on stage in 2005 as Sandy in Annie and has enjoyed competing in Flyball and generally looking after everyone, she was often mistaken for Pippin the famous TV dog, and she new it!

I had just started to teach her heelwork to music and she was loving it. Could jump back, weave in and out of my legs, roll over, high five, low five, wave and run along with her front paws on my bottom.

She hadn't been really ill, but was a little under the weather, we put this down to her age and she was slowing up. I had planned to take her to the vets that week to get her checked over, but sadly it was too late. We miss her terribly, she was always close by and if she could have been in my pocket she would have.

Who is going to fetch my slippers now, bring the post, after barking at the postman, who will tell us there is someone at the door?

It is some comfort to know that we were with her at the end and she didn't suffer for long. Lady deserved that.

Goodbye our Lady, we miss you.

Sue, John, Milly & Cleo

28th March 2008

Sue talking to Trax fm presenter Nick Hancock about his dog weeing on his new carpet.

10th March 2008

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