south central schutzhund training

2007 SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL MEETING MINUTES

Regional Meeting February 24, 2007
Triple Crown Training Academy
Hutto, Texas
7:30 p.m. Call to order per Regional Director Steve Cobb.

ROLL CALL

SCR Regional Board:
Regional Director-Steve Cobb Here
Assistant Regional Director-Michael Booker Here
Regional Sec.-Betty Thomas Here
Regional Treas.- Mary Lee Grasso Absent
Regional Breed Warden-Jennifer Aguilar Here
Regional Training Director-Rob Dunn Here
SCR Regional Clubs:
Ark-La-Tex Schutzhund Club-Melanie Cobb Here
Austin Schutzhund Club-Danny Grayson Here
Buena Vista Working Dog Club-Adrian Ledda Here
Central Texas Schutzhund Club-Hilde Taylor Here
Coastal Bend Schutzhund Club-Peggy Lamb Absent
DFW Working Dog Club-Chris Bettin Here
Greater Houston Schutzhund Club-Dr. Dena McGowan Here
Greater New Orleans Schutzhund Club-Will Jackson Absent
Lone Star Schutzhund Club-Jessy Gabriel Here
OG North Texas-Stan Covington Here
San Gabriel Hund Verein-Dave Kroyer Here
Texas Working Dog Club-Laurie Tollifson Here
Affiliate Club:
Bayou City Schutzhund Club-Sandy Shaner Absent

APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MINUTES

Motion by Dena McGowan to accept 2006 Regional Meeting minutes as is.Second by Hilde Taylor. Motion passes unanimously.
Special Rules of Order:
Discussion limited to 3 minutes per delegate. Must be a representative to speak or vote.

OFFICERS’ REPORTS:

Regional Director-Steve Cobb

Welcome to everyone and it is great to see everyone at the 2007 meeting. I wish everyone the best success at the 2007 Regional Championship. I would like to thank our judge, Elmar Maness, for coming to the U.S. and judging our regionals. Thanks to Lynn Simpson for organizing the track laying and thanks to the track layers. Thanks to all the helpers. Thank you Lone Star Schutzhund Club and Austin Schutzhund Club for hosting our regionals. Also, a big thank you to Triple Crown for allowing us to have our regionals here. Congratulations to Randall Hoadley for becoming the new Vice-President of USCA. Thanks to Michael Booker for taking the Asst. Regional Director job. Thanks to the board of the South Central Region for all their hard work.

Welcome to the two newest clubs, Ark-La-Tex Schutzhund Club and San Gabriel Hund Verein. Thanks to all clubs in our region. They do a wonderful job in supporting Schutzhund and bringing new members to the sport. Please keep up the hard work. The regional board would also like to send condolences to the Wayne Taylor family. His passing is a great loss to the sport and he will be greatly missed. Thank you for allowing me to be regional director. Good luck for this year and I hope everybody achieves all of your goals for this year.

Assistant Regional Director-Michael Booker

I appreciate the opportunity to serve as Asst. Regional Director. The good thing about this region is everybody works together even though we have our differences and when it comes crunch time, everybody pulls together. The people involved encourage growth thru helper seminars, by continuing the education of grooming new helpers. Thanks to Lone Star and Austin Schutzhund Clubs for having the regionals this year.

Regional Secretary-Betty Thomas

Thanks to everyone for all the help and encouragement that you have given me. I always feel welcomed at any event I attend. I was lucky enough to go to Nationals this year and I would encourage you to attend if any way possible. You will see great dogs and great handlers. We have many from our region competing. It is worth the trip.

Regional Treasurer-Marylee Grasso

Marylee sent an email. In 2006 we collected $550.00. $450 in club dues and $100.00 from Arturo’s helper seminar. We will pay John Carter $50.00 for the regional website hosting. Current cash balance as of today is $2571.00. Of that amount, $165.00 is donated to the Wayne Taylor Memorial fund. The donors were Dena McGowan, Austin Schutzhund Club, Danny and Julia Grayson, Carla Griffith. 2006 club dues were received from the following clubs: Ark-La-Tex., Austin SC, Buena Vista WDC, Central Texas SC, Coastal Bend SC, DFW Working Dogs, Greater Dallas WDC, Greater Houston SC, Greater New Orleans SC, Lone Star SC, OG North Texas SC, San Gabriel Hund Verein, Texas Working Dogs. Best Wishes and I hope everyone has a safe and fun regional championship.

Regional Breed Warden-Jennifer Aguilar

2006 saw progress over 2005 in the Conformation and Breed areas in the region. There were two shows and breed surveys as well as a Conformation Seminar. The 2006 Regional Sieger is a dog bred in our region.

Regional Breeders in the spotlight:

Mellodee Middleton, vom Germelhaus, breeder of Rocky vom Germelhaus owned and trained by Ricky Hagood, winner HOT Championship.

Donna Bovee, vom Fruhlingsbach, breeder, owner, trainer of Gipper vom Fruhlingsbach, placing fourth in the HOT Championship.

Bill Fleischer, vom Fleischerheim 2006 USA Sieger Show

V 10 Sergio vom Fleischerheim-Working males

V8 Sadie vom Fleischerheim-Working females

VP3 Kimon vom Fleischerheim-6-9 month males

Congratulations to these breeders, handlers and owners for their accomplishments.

Maren Friedhoff a Texas Working Dogs Club member has a dog that placed V2 in the BSZS in the HGH Class. She is working with a club that wants to form a HGH club here in the Region. We need to support their efforts and bring them into USA rather than see them form a WDA club.

I am asking for all clubs in the Region to show your support in any way that you can to the 2007 Regional Conformation Show that is scheduled in March. Lone Star Schutzhund Club has taken on both the Schutzhund and Conformation Regionals this year and is to be commended for their efforts.

Also, Dave Kroyer put Rasta on the FCI team.

Regional Training Director-Rob Dunn

First of all, I would like to say good luck to all the participants at this years Regional Championship. This has been another extremely successful year for our Region as a whole. I would like to congratulate all the members that had success with their dogs at the club, regional, national and international level this year. Congratulations go out to Randall Hoadley for becoming USA’s VP and earning his Judges license!

Congratulations go out to our new Regional Director Steve Cobb and Assistant Regional director Michael Booker. Some of our members did a fantastic job at the F.C.I. World Championships this year. Donna Bovee and Gipper, Clement Dang and Arkan, Ricky Hagood and Rocky and Dave Kroyer and Rasta. Congratulations Donna and Dave for representing USA and the SCR-we applaud your efforts! Clement and Ricky were slotted to go as well, but could not due to other commitments. Congratulations to Dave Kroyer and Rasta on being the 2006 SCR Regional Champions and for their 2 nd placed finish at the AWDF championship. Our region dominated this years HOT tournament with the winner being Ricky Hagood and Rocky, third place Clement Dang and Arkan and fourth place Donna Bovee and Gipper and the youth champion Drake Freeman and Eva. Congratulationhs to all of you! We had five members compete and do a fine job representing our region at this years USA Nationals in Alabama. Competitors were Donna Bovee, Clement Dang, Rob Dunn, Ricky Hagood, and Dave Kroyer.

I welcome San Gabriel as the newest club in our Region, congratulations to you. I would like to thank all of the clubs that hosted Helper Seminars and to all the newly certified helpers in our region. SCR had a strong showing at the National Helper Seminar with four of our teaching helpers present. Arturo Barajas, Danny Grayson, who is on the National Helper committee, Randall Hoadley and myself. Without helpers we would not be able to participate in the sport we all love. A big thanks to all of the handlers that brought out their dogs for the helpers to practice on, we are truly grateful.

This years Regional Training Seminar was hosted by Lone Star Schutzhund Club and was conducted by Mr. Gottfried Dildei. I would like to thank everyone that came out to support our region at this event. Although Gottfried was a little under the weather we all enjoyed the seminar and picked up a few pointers along the way. We look forward to the 2007 Regional Breed Show and Survey, so come out, show your dog, support our region, and have some fun!

In closing, I would like to say a big Thank You to all of our members, WHAT A YEAR! With all of the accomplishments, I apologize if I accidentally left anyone out. I truly believe we have a special region. This shows not only at the big events, but the incredible amount of fun that we all have at the local club trials. Keeping a club up and running is a very difficult task and it takes ALL of the members to do so. Hats off to all of you and I wish you the very best of luck in 2007.

CLUB REPORTS:

Ark-La-Tex Schutzhund Club: Just formed this past year. Over the years we have been training a lot of Handler Owned Trained dogs. We have put 82 titles on our dogs which is a big accomplishment.

Austin Schutzhund Club: We are a small club. Danny got a Schutzhund 1.

Buena Vista Working Dog Club: We are also a small club. We have 5 members. Four of our members got titles this year: Betty and Ana got an OB1 and TR 1 and Tommy and Betty got his BH. Rita got a BH with Kona and a BH with Nicka. David Green and Basso got a BH. Adrian and Elfie got a BH, AD, and OB1. Adrian and Jack got a SchH 2 and an OB3. That is a total of 11 titles.

Central Texas Schutzhund Club: A small club with 3 members in Texas, 2 in LA. And 2 in Mississippi. We keep going. Our May trial will be helped by DFW Working dogs. Randall will be judging and his whole club is bringing everything-the helper etc. I couldn’t have done this by myself.

Coastal Bend Schutzhund Club: no representative present.

DFW Working Dogs: Members trialed 35 times with 30 passing. We had 5 BH, 2 SchH 1, 7 SchH 2, and 12 SchH 3. Thanks to Randall Hoadley, a new USA Judge and VP of USCA. We have some young dogs coming up and new members coming out. We are looking forward to a great 2007.

Greater Dallas Working Dog Club: no representative present.

Greater Houston Schutzhund Club: We had a successful trial this year. We had 21 or so entries. Everyone had a good time. Charles qualified for Nationals and also, got an FH. Dena got a SchH 1 with Pax. Stuart got a SchH 3 and Larry got a SchH 3. Hopefully we will be doing more this year and we hope everyone will come to the party next year.

Greater New Orleans Schutzhund Club: no representative present.

Lone Star Schutzhund Club: We had a fun year. We have members that competed at club, regional, national, and international levels. We have the HOT youth champion, Drake Freeman, in our club. We hope to have another good year.

OG North Texas Schutzhund Club: Had a tough year, but we had an opportunity to watch a man walk thru life with dignity and grace. At our trial Birgit titled 2 dogs, I titled 1 dog, Marie titled 1 dog, and we had numerous BH’s. We also have some young dogs coming in. We are working real hard to keep this going. We had some tough days, but we will keep going.

San Gabriel Hund Verein: We are the newest kids on the block. Our affiliation trial was in October. Our first trial was in February. We had 22 entries. We have 6 club members competing with 8 new titles earned. I was on the FCI team with my dog Rasta. Mark earned a BH, Deanna a BH, Trish a BH, myself and Seta a BH. I had a young dog get a SchH 1 and Karen got a T2. Karen did a FH1. All our dogs are HOT.

Texas Working Dog Club: We had a small trial in February 2006. In Nov. we had a show and would like to continue having it yearly on the Thanksgiving weekend. We had about 30 enter including breed surveys. We do need a helper. We have young dogs who hopefully will be ready for a BH in November. We are looking forward to a good 2007.

Affiliate Club

Bayou City Schutzhund Club: Sandy sent a small report. To update people I train with-we have no new USA titles.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

None

NEW BUSINESS:

Regional Director:

Floor open for nominations. Melanie nominates Steve Cobb, Dave Kroyer seconds. No other nominations. Chtis Bettin motion to close. Dave seconds. By acclamation Steve elected.

Assistant Regional Director:

Melanie Cobb nominates Michael Booker, Julia Grayson seconds. No other nominations. Chris Bettin motion to close. Julia seconds. By acclamation Michael elected.

Regional Secretary:

Julia Grayson nominates Betty Thomas, Melanie Cobb seconds. No other nominations. Chris Bettin motion to close. Melanie seconds. By acclamation Betty elected.

Regional Treasurer:

Melanie Cobb nominates Marylee Grasso, Hilde Taylor seconds. No other nominations. Chris Bettin motion to close. Melanie seconds. By acclamation Marylee elected.

Regional Breed Warden:

Julia Grayson nominates Jennifer Aguilar, Laurie Tollifson seconds. Melanie Cobb nominates Peter Betchley, Chris Bettin seconds. Julia Grayson motion to close and hear from nominees. Melanie seconds. Floor open to Jennifer: I am a breeder and have participated in many conformation shows, have worked on regional/club level to further the breed, have done translations for judges at trials and shows.

Floor to Peter Betchley: Thank you for having me here. I have been in training dogs since 1974, have several Schutzhund titles. I have judged the working breeds. Work with K9 Units in South Louisiana. I show on a regular basis and am an AKC representative. I have a DVG club in Louisiana. I do local training clubs for 4H kids and therapy dogs. I do a variety of things with dogs.

Motion for questions: Laurie asks if Peter is a breeder. He states he rarely breeds and when he does dogs have to have a Korung, hips xrayed good, but very rarely breeds. Hilde Taylor asks about breed registry and how do you plan on helping it grow? Peter states we need to have as much input as we can and keep it going. That is important to the longevity of the breed. More discussion. Julia Grayson calls for vote. Ballots handed out. Jennifer Aguilar remains Breed Warden.

Regional Training Director:

Chris Bettin nominates Rob Dunn, Julia seconds. No other nominations. By acclamation Rob elected.

Texas Working Dog Club would like to volunteer. Laurie Tollifson volunteers, Vicki seconds. Julia motion to close nominations, Melanie seconds. Vote unanimous.

Chris Bettin nominates DFW Working Dogs to host. Melanie seconds. Vote unanimous.

Hilde motion to table until next year. Julia seconds. Vote unanimous.

CHAMPIONSHIP HOST

Hilde motion to table until next year. Julia seconds. Vote unanimous.

Section 14 of the current SCR rules. Reason: The motions below are no longer applicable to the region. These motions would also move to the archives.

#14 Teaching Helper Status:

Laurie Tollifson seconds. Motion passes and will go into archives.

Championship. Julia seconds. Discussion follows. Hilde calls for vote.

Melanie seconds. Motion passes.

Neutral stadium or field. Dave Kroyer seconds. Discussion: definition of neutral-a field that is where a club doesn’t train regularly-it is going to be impossible to regulate. Melanie calls for vote. Motion fails.

club field. What is the rule? I would like to make a motion that the event must be held on something USA would recognize as a trial facility whether it be a stadium, a soccer field or the front room of Triple Crown.

Would like clarification on what USA recognizes as an event field for a regional or national championship. This motion puts you in a no win situation that now we have voted you don’t have to have it on a neutral field. Laurie states regional director has always approved field for regional championship and doesn’t understand motion. Motion dies due to lack of second.

ANNOUNCEMENTS;

Larry Vinzant gave the USA organization $3500.00. He has made several donations to USA.

Laurie Tollifson has been working on the data bases for the breed registry for USA. She is doing a great job.

Get a new regional jacket for $65.00.

Tips for tracklayers can be put in the tracking boot.

ADJOURNMENT;

Motion to adjourn by Chris Bettin.

Second by Julia Grayson.

Meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m.

Respectfully,

Betty Thomas

Regional Secretary

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