Potential training camp next year.

[snowbunny]

Some of you will have heard of Denise Fenzi and her training school, Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. They have a big camp every year, but they're trying to arrange lots of mini ones - or, rather, the members do the organising, get the instructors involved etc. There are several already booked for this year.

A few members in the UK are trying to arrange for instructors to come over to have one there, probably in the Somerset area. It's still very early days, but it would be opened up to likeminded people who aren't Fenzi alumni, too, so it might be interesting for some of you. It looks set to run in 2020, so once dates are arranged and we have a line-up of instructors and topics, I'll let you know, but it should be great fun.

Instructors who have shown interest so far are: Denise Fenzi, Sarah Stremming, Leslie Eide, Sara Brueske, Julie Flanery, and Kamal Fernandez. I am pushing to get Amy Cook, too, because I love her!

We could turn it into a little forum meet-up if anyone is interested, too

I can bring wine and gin...

 

[Aitch]

Are you planning to bring me another dog too?

 

[HAH]

Oh sweet jiminy, this sounds fantastic! I subscribe to the podcasts but am not an academy member, so if it could be open to the uninitiated I’d be there like a shot

I can bring cider and sloe gin.

 

[snowbunny]

Are you planning to bring me another dog too?

Are you looking?

 

[Beanwood]

Oh now, this sounds exciting! Would be very interested!

 

[Jen]

I would love to come.

But I would definitely have the worst behaved dog there.

On the plus side I would definitely take lots of gin ..

 

[Aitch]

At the moment I'd be more interested in the gin but by next year .......................................

 

[snowbunny]

I would love to come.

But I would definitely have the worst behaved dog there.

On the plus side I would definitely take lots of gin ..

Pffft, my options of dog are Shadow or Squidge. Stanley would fit right in ... and who cares, anyway? When you have gin...

 

[snowbunny]

There's a FB group for keeping abreast of developments: FDSA Mini Camp UK

 

[Joy]

I'd be interested.

 

[Boogie]

I’d love to come - it depends on where we are up to pup-wise but we should know in good tome to book. I’d have to do a three leg journey down as I hate driving, but Tatze and I could make it into a mini labratour!

 

[snowbunny]

The details are on the Facebook group - I've just signed up, and am very excited. I shall be bringing the chocolate terrorist over.

The two instructors - Sara Brueske and Kamal Fernandez - aren't people I've worked with, but I figure I need to support the camp in these early days to make it a bigger, more permanent fixture in the future.

It's a four day camp, and you can sign up for the whole thing or individual workshops (either handler or spectator).

The last day is my birthday, so much gin will be imbibed.

Who's joining me?

 

[Jacqui-S]

Oh wow! How fabulous!

 

[Jen]

Do you have to camp?! Because that could be a deal breaker

 

[kateincornwall]

If I could manage it , I would love to come and bring Reubs x

 

[Leanne]

Ooh I’m debating it

 

[Natalie]

Maybe I could just get a nearby Airbnb... Come for the gin and the evening laughs but not the serious training stuff?

 

[Joy]

I'm thinking about it. I fancy doing the Saturday Sarah slots - bombproofing behaviours and tricks. I grew up just a few miles from Odcombe so could stay with my sister who still lives there.

 

[HAH]

I’m trying to work out which days to do, am thinking Saturday and Sunday. But need to book up pdq!

 

[snowbunny]

Do you have to camp?! Because that could be a deal breaker

Hah, nope! I’ve bagged myself a double room in the pub

I had visions of a tent, with me still inside it, being dragged around the field by a chocolate hooligan trying to visit new friends