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Issue No. 2 December 2010
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M O NTHLY
Springwood District Dog Training Club Inc.
Know your President and another Committee Member By Ann Lenehan (president) & Julia Lawrie
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i, Julia and I have been members of SDDTC for ten and a half years. How we came to be members of our club goes back twelve and a half years. Julia and I had found a new member to introduce to our family at Katoomba’s RSPCA, a little black puppy we named Jeremiah. He was a little black ball of fluff with a white blaze down his chest, which resembled an upside down crucifix and one white paw. We had Max, a Pomeranian x Red Cattle Dog who could climb anything (ladders, fences, gates) and did! Banjo, Rottweiler x Mastiff who loved tennis balls and usually had three in his mouth at a time which he had caught one by one only putting down one to catch another! That’s right he would catch the third with two already there. He would race down the 17 back steps, jump over the dry rock wall and hope one of us would throw the balls to him from the back verandah – which of course we did. Jeremiah fitted in immediately. He was the most amazing dog who left everyone he met with a story about him, full of mischief, love, innocence, determination and always humour. There was only one person in the universe who didn’t love him and she is why we began obedience training at Lomatia Park. Banjo was Julia’ handler and Jeremiah was mine. The first night we started we walked a lap of the park before class but by the time we got back to the car park Jeremiah thought he needed a higher vantage point so he jumped up on to the little white fence and tottered along there until he saw the bonnet of
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cars which were much more fun to leap from, one to the other. Ooops. Apparently no-one saw him and he didn’t leave any claw marks behind either. Not even on the windscreen he slid down after checking out the roof racks on one car. Now you know why the club insists all dogs are on lead………..and we tell you it’s for safety……… mmmmmm. You decide…………….. Anyway both Jeremiah and Banjo did really well at obedience. Until one terrible day in March when Jeremiah was destined to be on the Rainbow Bridge before lunch…That day a part of both Julia and I died with him. We were truly devastated ……. the accident still to this day brings heartache. Duly on Thursday night we brought Banjo to training. His world was in upheaval as well. His best mate was gone too. I sat in one of the pagodas while Julia and Banjo worked in their class. After a short time Dot came in and asked why I wasn’t in class with Jeremiah………..I burst into tears and went through the disaster. ‘What are you going to do?’ Dot asked. I shrugged. ‘Will you get another dog?’ ‘Dunno, I suppose something will drop from the sky.’ I didn’t know Dot all that well and when she asked me to go to the back of her car and have a look I thought ‘Why not……maybe she’ll stop asking about Jeremiah’. I walked to her car with her and she said, ‘Will you take him for a walk for me, he’s been there all night….’ I unlocked the door slowly put my hand in and patted this gorgeous black and white skeleton, called Echo. You poor thing, you look a sad as I feel. I picked him up and gently placed him on the ground. Dot was back. ‘Want him? He’s yours.’ ‘What? I dunno. Banjo and Julia will have to meet him. If he gets on with Banjo…..I suppose….. but how?’ ‘He’s a rescue dog, he needs a home tonight.’ So onto the oval we walked. 10kg of Border Collie and me. We Abbie