Vale Wendy Craven 06/04/1958 - 07/01/2022
The story of Wendy and AG. Ch. Holly ADM, ADO, JDM, JDO, SPDM, GDM, SDM, Queensland and Australia’s First Agility Champion.
Wendy started dog training in the 1980’s with a Shetland Sheepdog and competed in Obedience gaining her first obedience titles. This was Wendy’s introduction to all things dog. It wasn’t until some time later that she moved to Ingham and joined the WENDY AND HOLLY Ingham Dog Obedience Club with a new “red dog” Kelpie pup, Holly. Holly Not long after starting with the club Wendy was was from a working bloodline but didn’t have introduced to Agility. Wendy had never heard of “papers”. Unfortunately, this meant that Holly Agility and the instructors were only able to tell the couldn’t compete with the purebred dogs under participants about the end result but were unable the Canine Control Council (CCCQ) rules of the to tell them how to achieve it. So, Wendy was time. self-taught through a dog training magazine called Holly was a very intelligent dog and was full of Clean Run and videos that she had borrowed. energy but if there ever was a difficult and chaotic Eventually she entered her first trial. Holly barked dog with attitude, it was Holly. Wendy started her way around the course missing half of the Obedience training with Holly at a very early age obstacles, then played tug with the rope exclusion and struggled with the training. Holly would often zone and decided that contacts were not her thing. bite Wendy when she tried to put her in the drop position and Wendy had to crash tackle the lead as By the end of 2003 Holly had gained her nonHolly zoomed past on her recalls. pedigree Masters Agility and Jumping Titles as well as her Companion Dog and Endurance Trial titles with at least another 10 or so qualifiers. On the 1st July 2005 ANKC / CCCQ introduced the Associate Dog Register for crossbreeds and purebred non-papered dogs. This was the introduction of the officially recognised achievements in the ring.
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However, this now meant that the new Associate Registered dogs had to start the process again from scratch. Holly had gained her Novice, Excellent and Masters Agility and Jumping titles by the end of 2005.
