ANDREW
AND CAROL DICKER
Both Andrew and
Carol have been training dogs for many years. The pinnacles of both their careers
have been competing at Crufts - Andrew in Obedience and Carol in Agility. Both
of them are regulars at Discover Dogs, held at Earl's Court in November where
they demonstrate Flyball and Agility as part of the THAMES DOG TRAINING CLUB
demonstration team.
Andrew’s current
Obedience dogs are Jed, who competes in Championship level C or “Ticket”
and Tag, who competes in “A” and “B” in Obedience. He competes with Tag in
Agility as well and in July 2009 they qualified into Advanced (Grade 7) by
winning 4 Grade 6 Agility Classes. Barney, the Cairn Terrier
has also had several places in Novice, Intermediate and Open Agility. Martin
also competes with Barney!!
Jed Barney
Tag
Andrew’s young dog,
JayJay, has started Obedience training and competitions and competes in Novice
& “A”. He started training Agility seriously in January 2007, once JayJay
was a year old. Now they are competing regularly in the Grade 4 classes.
JayJay
Carols older dog,
eight year old Xada is starting to do well in Obedience and in Agility she has
also qualified into Senior (Grade 6) She has had one
win in Grade 6 and several high places.
Xada
Carol’s puppy, Mali,
has started Obedience training and competitions and competes in Novice &
“A”. She started training Agility seriously in January 2007, once Mali was a
year old. Now competing in they Medium sized dogs class, Carol and Mali have
won into Grade 7, and regularly competes in the Championship Class.
Mali
As mentioned before,
Andrew has competed at Crufts in Obedience as part of the Southern England team
in 2000 where they took the title and Andrew was the overall individual winner
in the B section.
Andrew competing at the Inter Regional
Competition at Crufts 2000.
(Picture by kind permission of Les Perry - Obedience UK www.obedienceuk.com)
Andrew was also part
of the very successful Thames Agility Team who came
2nd overall at Crufts 2009. They have also qualified for Crufts 2010.
The Thames Dog
Training Club Agility Team - Crufts 2009
(L to R) Amanda Rogers
(Judge) Andrew & Tag, Dave Jolly & Moss, Kate Austin & Mirk,
Jeff Holloway &
Meg
Andrew is very proud
to have been elected as a Full Member of the Kennel Club in 2006.
He is also a fully
qualified and registered Kennel Club judge and regularly Judges both Nationally
and Internationally from Europe to Singapore at all levels up to C on the
Obedience circuit, and all levels from Elementary (Grade 1) to Advanced (Grade
7) on the Agility Circuit.
He has also
stewarded at the highest level and was privileged to be the Ring Steward at the
Crufts Obedience Championship in 2003 and in 2008, as well as the Ring steward
for the World Championships at Crufts 2006. (Those of you who saw him
interviewed by the BBC at Crufts will never forget “Speedy”!!)
Kim Innes being stewarded by Andrew at Crufts 2003
(Pictures by kind
permission of Les Perry - Obedience UK www.obedienceuk.com)
“The 2003 Team”
Sandy Wadhams (Crufts Judge), Paula Pitcher (Team Manager),
Andrew (Steward – Bitch Day)
Sue Garner (Scribe), Brian Wadhams, Brian King (Steward – Dog
Day) and Lesley Pugh (Assistant)
As serious
competitors, Andrew and Carol understand the importance of physical condition
and health. Swimming is a great form of
cardiovascular exercise, increasing stamina, moving joints easily without the
risk of high impact, and with the added benefit of increasing muscling on the
dogs.
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