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 We
started the talk with an introduction by our chairman Mike welcoming
everybody and explaining it was based on Mick and Anne’s experience of a two
day training course at the home of Jan Fennell the “Dog Listener”.
He then handed over to Mick who gave
a short account of how Jan Fennell developed her methods by studying the
behaviour of wolf packs and working out how this could be adapted to help in
dog training.
Anne followed this with a very
informative talk, which started by asking us questions to get us thinking
such as why we
had our dogs. This was followed by examples of the pack /family structure
with the objective of dog/s recognising the handler as being the pack leader
(alpha). The various techniques to achieving this were then covered
prompting a number of questions from the audience of about thirty-five.
Mike with thanks to Anne and Mick
concluded the talk. 
 So
it was then out of the hall to the barbeque with near perfect weather and a
good spread everybody was soon tucking in. The sausages, beef burgers,
rolls, salad, melon followed by various gateaux's were all very tasty. A big
thank you to all who helped.
 Tea
and coffee was served before drawing the raffle, which together with guess
the number of sweets in the jar raised about £40. Mary did
 very
well to guess the exact number, 155, to win the sweets.
 Thanks
again to the helpers for all their hard work putting on the event and
everyone who supported it.
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