SchH Club forming in Allentown, PA Area - Page 1

Have you been searching for a good Schutzhund training club? Have you felt unwelcome at the clubs you HAVE visited? Have SchH Club forming in Allentown, PA Area you been disappointed and/or disgusted with the training you have witnessed ? Have you been denied membership in, or just plain BOOTED OUT of another club? …OR TWO!? Well, fear not fellow sportsman… MISFITS and OUTLAWS S.C WANTS YOU! Misfits & Outlaws Schutzhund Club cordially invites anyone interested in joining our newly-forming training club to attend our first organizational meeting in Lehighton, PA. (25 mi. north of Allentown) We are a very high-spirited, progressive, diverse group, seriously dedicated to preparing our dogs for the highest level of competition they are capable of achieving, while still maintaining a light-hearted, novice, and visitor-friendly atmosphere. While primarily a GSD club, we warmly welcome all breeds. Our primary directives will include the following: · Welcoming visitors with southern-style hospitality · Promoting the future of our sport with a supportive team-oriented Junior Handler program · Providing a patient, supportive, nurturing environment for novice handlers · Developing young dogs into strong, confident, competitive adults · Hosting training seminars conducted by widely-respected, top-level foreign and domestic trainers · Promoting our sport in general with public-relations-sensitive demonstrations · Offering DPO title opportunities for law enforcement at our trials whenever possible · Minimizing club membership process (read: no probation period, no “in crowd,” reasonable dues, alternative payment options*) · Concentrating the majority of our energy on training our dogs (not organizational politics!) Sound good? Come join us! We look forward to meeting you. Food and refreshments will be provided at the meeting, “gratis.” RSVP: Shelley: 610-393-7197, srsdogs@ptd.net Melissa: 215-538-2304, k-9trainer@comcast.net *Discounts available for other clubs’ REJECTS ;)

Sounds like a concept, who's the helper?

Visitor Friendly?!?!?!?!?!? What a concept! If you were not so far from Lonoke, Arkansas, I'd drop in for a visit. Visitor Friendly?!?!?!? Reminds me of the 1980s, when I was stationed in Germany....and felt welcomed!

No "in crowd"......you're shittin me! Where is this place!

All kidding aside, sounds like you guys are on the right track, wish I were in your area.

We are just forming now, but we have been training in Quakertown one day a week and Lehighton one evening a week. Our first real "meeting" is tomorrow night in Lehighton, 5:30pm at Snyder's Tires on Rt. 443. One of our members owns the shop, which sits on 8 acres of commercial property, suitable for a training field/event location. I live about a mile up the hill from Snyders' shop, on 8 more acres. There are a lot of places around here for tracking. I think I even found some finely disked dirt down the street for starting young dogs and change of terrain for FH. In Quakertown, we have been meeting Saturdays (Sunday next week) at the Upper Bucks Working Dogs training field NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH UPPER BUCKS COUNTY SCHH CLUB: different place/people) After the first meeting we will probably change things some. Come on out. Bring your dogs, kids, friends, experience, successes, failures... but no greater ego than what might comfortably fit in an average-sized soda/beer can ;)

Who are your trainers/helpers? Are they experienced in Schh dogs? Police dogs? Have they titled anything themselves? Are they training helpers and/or trial helpers?

I'm all for new clubs. There seems to be a lot of interest in the region as well. I see there was a post looking for a club helper on this website from the club recently. Helper will be the main ingredient. If you don't have a qualified helper that knows how to read a dog and train it correctly, one that has expierience and results behind them, then you are probably doing more disservice than service to the organization. Clubs that have a volunteer put the sleeve on and work a dog have a dismal track record. Doug Wendling is in your area. He's a safe knowledgable helper that may be able to get you off to a good start. He can handle the range of dogs from new pup that needs encouragement to a working male.