Category: News

All members:

If you have a crate stored in the building in the front obedience room, please remove it and take it home during our break between sessions. The crating area is for obedience instructors only, and at last count, there were 22 crates there, which seems a bit excessive. Instructors may continue storing crates there when the new session starts, but PLEASE put your name on your crate somewhere.

Also – the same goes for the agility room crating area. That space is for instructors only, so if your crate is stored there, please remove it at your earliest convenience.

Thanks so much, everyone!

The Membership Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 1 at 7 pm. Please disregard the first email. Membership minutes from last meeting can be read here: https://gcdoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Membership-Meeting-Gem-City-Dog-Obedience-Club-minutes-February-2025.pdf

There will be a General Membership meeting on Tuesday April 29 at 7 pm. Previous memberhip meeting minutes can be read here: https://gcdoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Membership-Meeting-Gem-City-Dog-Obedience-Club-minutes-February-2025.pdf

Hey everyone!
It seems there is a lot of interest in our new Competition Obedience class, which is AWESOME! This is just to advise anyone who is interested that if you plan to show in obedience at Gem City’s June AKC Obedience trial, you should NOT sign up for the class. Our fabulous teacher, Pam Murn, will be the judge at that trial, and AKC prohibits exhibitors to show for their teacher in AKC events within a certain time period. So please consider that as you’re registering for classes soon. Hopefully this class offering will be repeated and you could take it next time, OR take it this time and just don’t enter the trial.

Gem City is so excited to be offering CONFORMATION run throughs again!
Each session is $5 and will require you to complete a waiver (if we
don’t already have one on file). If we have enough interest, we hope to
add a conformation class back into the schedule! So far, these run
throughs will be at 7:30pm on the following Wednesdays:
April 23
May 7
May 21
June 4
No signup/pre-registration required; just come have fun with your dog!

Huge thanks to Leah Schiller, Heidi Farmer, and Bonita Fichtenbaum for offering their time and expertise to make this happen!