North K9 Lost Dog Tracking Dogs
This week Shirley Buchanan told us about the work she does with May, Fleetpaw First Lady, helping to track, search for and find lost dogs throughout the North of England, she said,
‘We are part of the North K9 Lost Dog Tracking Dogs so sometimes we are contacted by our page but mostly we are contacted by Mandy Butler from the local Lost Dog Trapping Team or tagged locally by people who are aware that we can help.
We have been out in all sorts of areas from Northumberland, Teeside, and York. Claire is hoping to get more dogs trained around this area as currently there is only May, so a lot of time we are on our own, depending on owners or other lost dog people to come with us. A couple of times one of the other teams have travelled over to work with us. It’s better if there are at least 2 teams working together.’

We’re sure you’ll agree this is such worthwhile work. Just knowing that there are people and organisations available and willing to help others going through the absolute heartache of having lost their dog, their family member…

Barn Hunt Workshop, Essex
Charlotte and John Bailey took Oakie – Lizallwood Sunny Jim, to a barn hunt workshop in Essex on Saturday.
This is what they said about the day,
‘Oakie was the first curly coat they have had and they were lining up to meet him.
Oakie is very good at find it games indoors and the barn hunt seemed a great way to hone his skills.
Barn Hunt is a brand new sport to the UK. It uses natural instincts to find hidden tubes and we had to learn to read Oakie’s signals to know when the tube has been found.
The event took place in a fully fenced ring full of straw bales, which Oakie could climb on, go through tunnels and obstacles whilst using his nose to sniff out the tubes.
Oakie had a great time and enjoyed the interactions with the other dogs that were friendly and of course getting strokes from anyone that would offer.
We got some good praise and we were told we should consider Oakie taking it further and competing as he aced the beginners course completing it in some fast times.
We ended the afternoon with a final treat of going to the beach where Oakie took a particular fancy to the ice cream van.’

Barn Hunt Workshop, Central Scotland
Jean Cummings and Nova – Molokain Enchanted One, have also been at a Barn Hunt this week, at the other end of the country. They received a Certificate of Achievement for completing an Introduction Barn Hunt Workshop.