25,26 en 27 juni  we were present with a stand, as promotion-team para-agility, together 
St. Servicedogs ( www.servicedogs.nl )  on the event Country-Fair in Aalten.
A very big event of horse-sports but even a lot of attention for dogsports!
Also a lot of information- and salestands with all kinds of themes.

Joep had given all three days demonstrations as a assistancedog and together Quita demonstrations para-agility, looked with a lot of interest from the visitors. 

Team St. Servicedogs

Joep picking up a smoked sausage

The foundation St. Hulphond (a training-school for servicedogs) have invited us to give demonstration para-agility for clients and volunteers of this foundation.

The waether was very sunny and they look to the demonstrations with a lot of interest. 

After the demonstration we have given everybody with
their dog the possibility to get acquainted with agility by accompaniment of one of us.

A lot of fun for the dogs and their owners!

The organisation of a big 4- days International Event of Horse-Sports have invited us to give demonstration service-dog and also para-agility.
 
A good organised Event and because the weather was sunny it is was very succesfull for the big number of visitors!

Also demonstrations  treibbal (football for dogs) and pushball by Hélène de Fremery (www.pushball.nl), a football with horses, very impressive, sure with the big ball.

Even demonstratiosn with Quads, who at the end of the demo pushball came back into the ring and play football together the horses....great to see that this was possible!

link to article in the Gelderlander 15-05-2010

Just like last year we have worked together the group of demonstration agility of the  Alphense Dogshool of Alphen a/d Rijn.

Together a trainster of St. Personal Servicedogs, Tina Prins, I went to the child-farm " De Maten" in Apeldoorn.  We go to give demonstration servicedog and also para-agility to a special group, named " ECO-group" (children on the age of 8 untill 12 years) who come together every wednesday to study someting about the scenery and animals, by accompaniment of Marieke Konings.

Very enthousiast they lissen to our explain how to associate with dogs, and how dogs can give help in many different ways!

A big Event about dog- and horsesports and also  attention for other little domestic animals.

A lot of well-known people had given demonstration like: Ellen & Serge van de Zweep and  Mike van de Most, who had given demonstration drift with their Border Collies on sheeps, gooses and ducks.

Also Birgitte van Gestel who can show how to work with your dogs on doggy-dance, by a very special way!

We had given demonstration para-agility and also servicedogs. A great experience to do on such a big Event!

The weather was very good, so a lot of visitors......about 27.000 ! 

Links with information about us on the website of Animal-Event ( sorry, only dutch)

http://www.animalevent.nl/public/clinicgevers.aspx?id=201&ids=%2f179%2f199%2f201%2f

http://www.animalevent.nl/public/nieuwsarchief.aspx?id=208&ids=/177/207/208/&nwsID=1374

Joep  put out my hand-brache

For us the second time, so good to meet again a lot of friends  practice dogsports!

By the Noorder Kynologen Club was organised on 6 & 7 March 2010 the 50th  MartiniDogShow on the Martiniplaza Hal, Groningen.

An International Dogshow with about 2500 participating dogs from a lot of different countries.
They had invited  us to give demonstration para-agility and servicedogs.

Everytime very nice to see how my young dog Joep first give demonstration as servicedog and successively very enthousiast runs his agility-course!

Even demonstrations of other dogsports like frisbee by the group "discoverfrisbee'
(www.discoverfrisbee.nl), doggy-dance by the group  "close to dogs" (www.closetodogs.nl) and  rally-o, a new  obedience-sport (www.rally-o.nl).

A very sociable weekend, good organised and co-operation!

Demonstration Joep as servicedog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETEmRfexRpk  (notice)
(click on for video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXHrUJGzcik  (demonstration)
(click on for video)

  group 4 with the dog of teacher Marian

On  thursday 4 Februari we drove very early direction Alphen aan de Rijn to give demonstrations service-dog and para-agility.

Demonstration servicedog with Joep and para-agility with both, Quita and Joep.

We were quest on basicschool  " The Weerklank" a special school for children with bad  hearing and speech-problems (www.deweerklank.nl).

At the end of the demonstration there was opportunity for the children to ask questions and they had a lot of nice and  clear one. They have prepared very good!

Even they want to measure the tail of Joep and  want to feel the thickness !

We were lucky about the weather, it was not raining! The ground was muddy after a vew weeks of snow, but I could drive and show some para-agility.

The flat-tunnel at the end of the course is always succesfull, the children like it very much when the dogs came out this tunnel very fast!

All groups came out to see this demonstration and for closing they could  stroke the dogs and give them some hugs if they like!

Everytime it's very good to see if some children who are very affraid of a dog, stroke them at the end!

I have recieved a very nice little book with pictures maked by the children of group 4  and a photo of the group! Thanks again!!