Dogs NZ Dog Training

The results of the April 2023 Voting round were as follows.  Full details will be posted here: https://dogobedience.dogsnz.org.nz/voting%20and%20discussion%20items/

 General (200 votes)

• Item 1: Voting on regulations changes regarding judging matters: 77.78% (Pass)
• Item 2: Change of date/time of year for the NDTA to early May: 42.64% (Fail)
• Item 3: Change to DTC Secretary regulation: 96% (Pass)
• Item 4: Addition of Treasurer regulation: 97.5% (Pass)

Obedience (221 votes)

• Item 1: Allowing the use of coats in the Obedience ring: 50.68% (Fail)
• Item 2: Removing one of the heelwork exercises from Test A: 71.62% (Pass)
• Item 3: Choice of which heelwork exercise to remove if Item 2 passes: 82.49% for removing on-lead heelwork

This means that from 1 January Test A will only have off-lead heelwork (no on-lead)

• Item 4: Awarding a Test C challenge for 3^rd place if on 295 points or more: 66.97% (Pass)

Rally-O (101 votes)

• Item 1: Combining Excellent A and Excellent B into a single class: 42.57% (Fail)

The items that passed will come into effect on 1 January 2024.

The voting register can be viewed through the Dogs NZ website by following this link: Obedience Voting Register

If you are not logged on to the NZKC site it will direct you to the log-in page and then take you back to the register once you are logged in.

You can check whether you are on the registers you think you should be on (Obedience, Working Trials and Rally-O) and also check your details.  If any of the Voting Register details are wrong (or you are missing from a register) there is an option to email your region rep to get your details updated.  There is also an option to request a change of your Dogs NZ member details (address, email, phone etc.) and this will send an email to the Dogs NZ office with the requested changes.

A survey on competition obedience was held in late 2022.  We had over 220 responses.

The results of the multi-choice questions are posted below.  The document excludes most of the comments to reduce the size of the document (the full document is 57 pages) but there were some very useful comments.

There were some common themes across the comments including:

• Encouragement for new handlers
• New/novelty classes
• More ribbon trials
• Obedience back at the National Dog Show
• Positive, non-judgemental support between all competitors
• Better support for clubs by Dogs NZ
• Better promotion of Obedience - Dog World, public promotion (including demonstrations at schools etc.)

The Dog Training Committee is investigating ways of meeting some of the suggestions to improve and grow obedience and we hope to implement some of those ideas soon.

Nov 2022 Competitive Obedience Survey Results

The draw for the Central Dog Obedience Region Raffle to raise funds for the 2023 National Dog Training Assembly was drawn on Wednesday 21 December at 3 pm under police supervision.  The results were:

1st Place: Ticket 3218 - Jono Cox

2nd Place: Ticket 0217 - David Marshall

3rd Place: Ticket 2825 - Rose Graham

4th Place: Ticket 0862 - Kelly Burn

Congratulatoins to the winners. I will be in touch in the New Year to arrange the delivery of the fuel vouchers.

Geoff Collins
Central Region Representative

The Police rtaffle draw confirmation document can be found here: Police Draw

The results of the October 2022 voting round can be found here: October Voting Results

The Obedience Top 20 competition whcih was was suspended after 2019 is now back!

This allows people to see how they are doing each year relative to others around the country.  There will unfortunately no longer be a $1,000 prize for first place but we hope to have some sponsor's product for the winner each year. 

The rankings for the current year and previous years can be seen here: Obedience Top 20

Lists of Obedience Champions up to 15 May 2015 can now be found on this site under Information/Champions.

You can also access a current list (back to 1996 only) off the Dogs New Zealand website at this link:
https://dogsnz.org.nz/obedience/champion-listing

As a result of the April 2018 voting round the Obedience awards for achievement in each of the obedience classes has been introduced from 30 June 2018.  This requires interested competitors to keep their own record of their achievements (scores of 95% or over) for each test and get these verified and signed by the show manager.  The region representatives have been issued with record cards to distribute to competitors who want them.  These are also available on request from the Dogs New Zealand office or you can print out your own using the file here.

The Dogs New Zealand club handbook contains useful informaotin for clubs and can be found on the NZKC website here: https://www.dogsnz.org.nz/pdfs/club-handbook.pdf

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