Warm Thoughts for a Loss

It saddens me to learn and to announce that one of our very first students has suffered a great loss. Barkely's handler Davis (pictured left) and his father David (pictured below) came to the FlyDogs in 2009 when we first started our club. Barkley and Davis did very well as their father watched and cheered in support.


Last holiday season, an accident took David's life. Please send positive thoughts to his family this season. Our next practice will be in honor of David and his family. We will all miss you David.

News and Announcements

We are a little behind in our blogging. We have many new students and several who have learned to Fly! Our club went to its second NAFA tournament in December. We took two teams again: Tails on Rails and Four on the Floor - and many of the members came away with new titles. Willow, Ellie, Beebe, Benny all now have their NAFA Flyball Dog Excellent titles! It was this time last year when they all were taking classes and learning to be HotDogs!

New SuperDog! Kaiser - SuperDogs are running full runs and begin practicing with the club members to gain more experience passing dogs on an actual flyball course.
New HotDogs: Monica, Roxy, Maddie and Chelsea - HotDogs have all learned to go over the 8 jumps, retrieving the ball with excellent recall.
New Students: Keira, Lucy, Eddie and Wolf - they are learning to fly!

We move into our new location and begin our 2011 season on January 9th at Four Paw Sports in Lynnwood.


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Lucy

1st NAFA Tournament!

In October we took the whole club to the Auburn tournament and we have several debute dogs that received their first NAFA titles:

Benny = FD and FDX

Willow= FD
Beebe = FD
Ellie = FD and FDX

Go FlyDogs!

Kaiser - the newest HOTDOG!

Kaiser - the newest HOTDOG! We are looking forward to seeing this Pitty continue mastering his full runs this winter! He is a FlyDog in the making!

Congrats to Marty and Morgan

It's been a crazy summer for students with all our demos cutting into practice time. But two dogs in particular wagged their tails to the finish line!

Today Marty achieved SuperDog and will begin practicing with the FlyDogs for passing drills and we also recognized Morgan today as he received his HotDog certificate!

The boys, Kaiser and Troy are sailing through the full run drills now at only a few weeks into our program and our new girls Maddie and Zoe are hot on their heels! Go FlyDogs!


Marty




Morgan

New HotDogs!

Monica, Marty and Casey all 3 received their HotDog Awards! Go FlyDogs!

Lots of New Students!

Over the last few weeks we've introduced a few new dogs to our curriculum.

Zoe, Toy Aussie
Morgan, Golden Retriever
Troy, Belgian Tervuren
Kaiser, Pittie
Maddie, Lab mix

Mill Creek Public Festival - Saturday, July 17th

Bring your family and join us for another summer public demonstration!

http://www.millcreekfestival.com/petplaza

Saturday, July 17th
11:00 - 11:30 AM Olympic Disc Dogs - Disc Dog
11:30 - 12:15 PM Seattle FlyDogs - Flyball
12:15 - 1:00 PM Trina with A Canine Experience Inc. - Teach Your Dog to Find
1:00 - 1:30 PM Musical Squares - Game
1:30 - 2:00 PM Olympic Disc Dogs - Disc Dog
2:00 - 2:45 PM Seattle FlyDogs - Flyball
2:45 - 3:30 PM Unleashed Pet Wear - Pet Fashion Show
3:30 - 4:00 PM Olympic Disc Dogs - Disc Dog
4:00 - 4:45 PM Seattle FlyDogs - Flyball
4:45 - 5:00 PM Best Pet - Owner Look Alike - Contest
5:00 - 5:15 PM Best Singing Voice - Contest
5:15 - 5:30 PM Wackiest Pet Trick - Contest
5:30 - 5:45 PM Recall Relay - Game
5:45 - 6:00 PM Jelly Bean Spoon Race - Game

Upcoming Public Demonstration Next Saturday:

June 26th at Bonnie Lake's Alan Yorke Park
Bark in the Park
10am-2pm
Everyone is welcome!

Allan Yorke Park
Location: 7203 W Tapps Hwy

http://www.ci.bonney-lake.wa.us/section_community/parks_recreation/special_events.shtml#bark

Demo success turns out new club dogs!

Tac, a mini Aussie veteran of flyball has joined us as a SuperDog for 2 weeks and will hopefully join us as a team member in June! Please welcome him and Kristen!



Meka, a 1-year old mini toy Aussie joined the student classes with John and Alyx and she is already flying over the jumps and retrieving the ball! WoW! Go FlyDog!

We wouldn't have met either of these wonderful dogs had we not been to the demo. Thank you to John, Alex and Kristin for coming over to talk to us! Welcome!

Another great outcome to our demo was meeting the Labradoodle breeder that we picked up a our most recent addition to the Foss family - Lucia "Lucy"! She's only 11-weeks old now and will begin her training in another 10 months! Meanwhile she chases the cat and torments Siena.

Auburn Demo was a Great Success!

It takes a whole club to put together a successful demo and we did just that! Thank you everyone who attended the Petapalooza last weekend. It was so much fun! We have another public demo June 26th at Bark in Park!

See dog run. See dog fly. FlyDog Fly.

Seattle FlyDogs invite you to our 1st Public Debut of our Flyball Club this Saturday, May 22!

This is a public event, so feel free to bring family with you.

Auburn's PetAPalooza
Game Farm Park; 3030 R Street SE, Auburn WA 98002

We'll be in Field A. We will be performing every 30-40 minutes all day!

Bring List:
Camping Chair for yourself
Clothing: Layer. Wear Blue!

There are food vendors, but bring a cooler and some snacks and anything else you are wanting to eat.

Restrooms are close by, but could likely be sani-cans.

Hope to see you there!

Two New Students are Learning to Fly

Marty, a very tall Golden Retriever and Murphy, a happy Schnoodle both joined us a couple weeks ago and were recently heard telling their friends that flyball is the coolest! Welcome to flyball bootcamp kids!

Flying Dogs

So, after only 12-16 weeks of lessons, Willow, Max, Charly and Beebe join forces with Taben and Benny in a clean run! See the video here!

Exciting News for FlyDogs!

Some of you may not know that Beebe has graduated and is now an official Seattle FlyDog! Congratulations to her handler Lindsay for all the successful training they did together. We are really excited to have Beebe join our team and they are eager to check out a tournament!

Please stand up for these SuperDogs! They will all be joining the FlyDogs at regular practice to enhance their passing skills even more! Congrats to Willow, Max, Charly and our newest duo, Joyce with Ellie!

Pictured Below: Torey, Beebe, Willow, Max, Charly, Casey, Gracie, Taben, Siena, Benny, Tiffany, Callie and Ike!

We've got a New NAFA Flyball Dog Champion Silver - Torey! (He's napping above - being Silver is hard work!)

Willow, Max and Charly have all earned a Seattle FlyDog HotDog Certificate which means they will soon be running in practices with the club dogs and Beebe, after running with the team as a SuperDog for 4 weeks is ready to Graduate at our next practice! And our newest addition to the mix, Casey the Springer Spaniel above, after only 2 lessons has the hurdles all figured out! And Gracie, the Golden is our newest passing evaluation.

We don't have a club photo yet, but I just had to show y'all how many wonderful dogs we have every week! Go FlyDogs! We are so excited to have each and every one of you!

Seattle FlyDogs Debut in Cloverdale

Well the time has come for our community club racers to leave the bench and make their way back into the tournament ring. This weekend, our FlyDogs, Taben and Siena who have enjoyed a long hiatus join up with class act racers, Tory and Callie in Cloverdale and with them all they bring a new FlyDog - BENNY!

Is Benny ready? Well, we're confident no dog is ever ready for their first tournament. Siena ran out of the ring on her first run in 2007. Hilarious. But, she's an old pro now - little slow - but we love her nonetheless.

We are all really looking forward to running as singles and pairs at our first ever UFLI Tournament. www.u-fli.com

Come up and see us!

Drum roll please? Presenting our newest HotDog!

Congrats to Krista and Willow for earning their Seattle FlyDogs' HotDog title today! Willow came to us only 8 weeks ago and has this flyball thing down. Krista is an amazing handler and together they are a rock solid team. We are so happy they found flyball together!

And also please join me in welcoming two new students: Denise with Gracie and Sharon with Casey! Check back soon for their photos!

New Student! Curly Charly

We welcomed our newest students this last week at evaluations. Jay handling a Curly Coated Jack Russell Terrorist, Charly. Charly comes to us with several weeks of training already and has been advanced into the training process and is right in line with the amazing progress both Max and Willow have made. We are looking forward to awarding this flyball natural with the HotDog certificate in only a few weeks! Welcome aboard!

Beebe the SuperDog!

Beebe has achieved her SuperDog Certificate after 16 weeks of training. She will begin practicing with the club members to further her passing skills, box technique and multi-dog dynamics. Congratulations Lindsay and Beebe!

Welcome Max!

Max is a natural - born to FLY! He and Erika are our newest students now in their 3rd week and you'd never know by watching this HotDog in the making.

Riddle: How do you start a community flyball club?

Answer: you paint one hurdle at a time!

Taben joins the Club!

After a long hiatus from flyball, Taben and his masters Bill and Jean join the Seattle FlyDogs. We are so excited to have them. Bill comes with lots of training expertise and Jean and Taben are ol' pros on the flyball course! Welcome to the club.

Welcome Willow to the Student Class!

Willow and her handler, Krista are our newest students and after only one lesson Willow already jumps all hurdles retrieving the ball! She's a HotDog in the making! Thanks for joining our classes.