The World Union of the German Shepherd Dog - IPO 3 Championship - will be held in Steyr, Austria on Oct 3rd 2012 to Oct 8th 2012.

The GSSCC is asking for Team Captain applications for the 2012 Canadian Team.

The position of Team Captain is extremely important and the applicant must be prepared to dedicate several hours’ pretrial work prior to travelling to Europe.  It is important that the applicant be familiar with the rules and how a large event is run.  The ability to speak German is a real benefit but not a requirement.

Please forward a brief resume to Doug Deacon at deac090@shaw.ca 

In the resume please advise the following:

1. Full name
2. Home address
3. Home phone
4. Cell phone
5. E-mail address
6. GSSCC membership number
7. Number of years in the sport
8. A brief background of your participation in the sport

Deadline for submission is March 31,2012.

Looking forward to reading your resume.

Doug Deacon

Check out the latest submission on the Member Forum!

The Member Forum is an area on the website where you will find stories, articles and photos submitted by our members. If you have something to share on the Member Forum please contact webmaster@gsscc.ca.

Hello everyone,

Some of you have heard rumors about it… some of you may even know someone that says they have seen it...You have all been wondering about it, well wonder no more… The GSSCC Store  is Open.  Just click on the GSSCC Store banner on our website to enter the store.  You can now buy items on line through the store and for every item you buy, your organization gets a percentage donation.  I am confident that due to Ralph Gilby’s and April Lensen’s hard work, all will succeed and we will eventually be able to add more vendors to the store.

Happy Shopping

Dave Jantzen
President GSSCC

PS. Spread the word!   

Hi every one!

I just want to ensure that everyone is aware.....

You must have your Completed and Signed Waiver on file with the GSSCC along with your Current Paid Membership to be recognized as a member. And as such, all members training in a club environment and participating in GSSCC sanctioned events are covered by our Liability Insurance. If you need proof of insurance for any situation I am more than happy to get you the required paperwork. Drop me a line and it takes just a couple of days.

Happy training!
Susan Mullins
m.m.innes@shaw.ca

Attention all members

We are also looking for someone to take over the position of National Show Director. Please email me at dejantzen@telus.net if you are interested in taking on this important position.

Thank you again for your support.

Dave Jantzen
President GSSCC

Attention all members

Rachel Haslett is stepping down from processing breed surveys as of the end of 2011. I would like to do 2 things. First I would like to thank Rachel for all of the hours of work put in on all of our behalf.

Second, we need urgently, someone to take over this position. This is an important job that needs to be done. Please email me at dejantzen@telus.net if you are interested in taking on this important position.

Thank you for your support

Dave Jantzen
President GSSCC

Notice to all members

Please note that the date on the nomination form in the fall Shepherd Sports magazine should read January 28/2012, not 2011. If you will be using this form please cross out the year and write in 2012 or use the revised form from the website. 

Revised Nomination Form

Thank you for your cooperation

Dave Jantzen
Pres. GSSCC

Follow Team Canada in Kiev, Ukraine through the official WUSV 2011 website.

You will recognize the Tracking Judge as our own Head Judge Doug Deacon!

Best of luck to Doug, Jean-Paul, Dan, Raino, Nancy, Robin and Russ as you represent Canada!

Hi All,

On the Friday of the September long weekend, Andrea and Myself flew to Ontario. We spent the first few days visiting. We would like to thank the Saugeen Schutzhund club and the Durham Schutzhund club for their hospitality. Bev at the Durham club is probably the best baker in Ontario. Thanks also to Angie and Harold for giving us a place to stay.

We then drove down to Niagara. We went out to the event grounds, and found that setup was well under way. With only a couple of what I would call minor hiccups, which If you have planned any events you know these are unavoidable, the hosting committee took them in stride and put on a fantastic event. I think everyone had a great time, I know I did. I think this will be an event that the judges will be talking about for a while as well. They were treated with the courtesy and respect that they deserved, and they did a great job. Thanks to  Rinus Bastiaansen, Margit van Dorssen, Dave Grant, Jim Crisp, and Doug Deacon for helping to make this event a success.   For the first time in a while, I did not hear any major complaints from trial or show people about the way things went. I hope that we can live up to this year’s event in the future.  Thanks to Craig and Renee and the Niagara Hundesport/Police Dog training Club for doing a great job. This will be an event to remember. And yes the helicopter ride was a great end to the event.  I would advise anyone that goes to the Niagara area to take advantage of the Great View of the area that you get from Niagara Helicopters. Maybe Craig and Renee will have time to try it out themselves now that the work is done.

Congratulations to Team Canada and this year’s Universal team.

Hope you had a great time.
Dave

Congratulations to the Niagara Hundesport/Police K-9 Training Club for organizing a succesfull event! 

Trial Results   Show Results  

Click here for more pictures from the event.

On behalf of the National Board of the GSSCC we want to extend our congratulations to each of you.  We know how hard you have worked in the past twelve months to prepare your dog and yourself to become a member of TEAM CANADA 2011.  We want to wish each of you the best of luck and we know you will be wonderful ambassadors for not only the GSSCC but also for our country.

If we may suggest the following – enjoy the experience, try to relax and have fun as a TEAM.  Each of you is there because of your individual work ethic, but do keep in mind you are now with a TEAM so work not only for yourself but also for your TEAM mates.

We also want to extend a special thank you to JP for stepping up to the plate at the eleventh hour and not under the best of circumstances.  Dan, Raino, Nancy, Robin and Sylvie please look after our good friend JP.

Good luck.

On behalf of the GSSCC Board,

Doug Deacon

VP - GSSCC

Dan Waters, Raino Fluegge, Sylvie Stewart, Nancy Wong, VP - GSSCC Doug Deacon and
team alternate Russ Fox. Not pictured Robin Winter and team captain Jean-Paul Girard.

Please take some time to review the rule changes that will take effect January 1st. It is imperative that all dog handlers are aware of these changes. 

Details of the changes can be found here as well as in the Official Documents section.

On behalf of your Judge's committee.
Doug Deacon
Head Judge

It is with that we wish to emphasize that the Club Schutzhund Mirabel has completed the process of affiliation to the German Shepherd Schutzhund Club of Canada. Club Schutzhund Mirabel is composed of about twenty dynamics members.On 31 july the club held its contest certification. The participation of several members has found that this competition was excellent and everyone enjoyed a wonderful sense of friendship in bright sunshine.Members of the board of director of the Schutzhund Quebec Region would like to wish a warm welcome and a long life to Club Schutzhund Mirabel in the German Shepherd Schutzhund Club of Canada.

Sylvie Stewart

It is with regret that we learned of the passing of SV performance judge Michael Madacsi on July 16^th, 2011. Mischka (as he was more fondly known) became a member of the SV in 1957, SV judge 1970, had judged many times in Canada and the USA including the GSSCC SchH3 Championships. Michael was predeceased by his wife Frieda and is survived by his daughter Petra, son-in-law Jeurgen Reinhardt and two grandchildren Marco and Patric and the many friends he made in Canada.

Michael had bred a few litters under the kennel name ‘Zigeunerklause’ and placed 20^th at the 1980 BSP with Jonny von der Zigeunerklause.

The following were winners of the Canadian German Shepherd Dog SchH3 Championships with Herr Madacsi judging.

1983    Frank Mensing with Ulk vom Bungalow 97-93-96= 286                       
1990    John Lundin with Derry vom Bergblick 98-96-98= 292
1992    Lance Collins with Dune vom Bergblick 96-91-96= 283

A full tribute to Mischka will be in the next issue of Shepherd Sports.

Hello everyone.

The World Universal Competition in Austria is now over. Raino got V12 in the show and had 92 in tracking, 92 in obedience and would have had 97 in protection until there was a technical problem with the last out. His dog’s hearing aid battery went dead and so the dog did not hear the out command. Were it not for this little glitch he would have won the championship.

I would like to congratulate Raino on an excellent performance. He did not quite get the result he had hoped for this time but there is always next year.

Dogs, like Kids frequently choose the worst times to exercise their independence.

Have a great Summer.

Dave Jantzen

To all Non GSSCC clubs:

We have a new judges release form and process for all clubs that are not GSSCC or UScA clubs. Please see the new form on this site and follow the process when booking a GSSCC judge for your events.

Thank you for choosing a GSSCC judge.

Dave Jantzen
President

To all GSSCC Members:

RE: New Rules 2012

I want to inform our members about the actions that have been taken and what will be taken regarding the new rules coming into effect on January 1st 2012. First and foremost the title "Schutzhund" will no longer exist and our Schutzhund titles will be referred to as IPO 1, 11 and 111.

Your judge's committee is taking the approach of reviewing and then discussing each of the new rules.  This will be done in conjunction with one of the committee members attending a judges seminar in the United States.  Schutzhund USA is having a seminar with a gentlemen from Austria who was on the new rules committee and he is therefore fully aware of all the changes.

Once these tasks have been completed your judge's committee hopes to have a full report to the members of the GSSCC on or before the 2011 National Championship.  We will also be putting the rules on the GSSCC web site as soon as we confirm that the English version is correct.

On behalf of your Judge's committee.
Doug Deacon
Head Judge

Hi Everyone,

I just thought I would give you an update on some show stats. We were at the USA Sieger Show in Dallas, Texas from April 29^th to May 1st. Our GSSCC members did quite well and I would like to congratulate these members on a job well done.

Working Class Male - VA1 Utah v Bullinger
Owner: Tracy Bullinger
I know this is a big honour for Tracy. For those of you who don’t keep up with the show information, this means Tracy and Utah won the show. Tracy also placed VA3 with her female Ira v Bullinger and V4 with Beate v Bullinger. Tracy had other dogs in various classes that also did well, but these two dogs are the top.
 

Other members who placed were:

V7 - Konie Feetback
Owner: Guy Palanuik

V10 - Maxx v Bullinger
Owners: Randy and Ruby Panaich

V11 - Griff v TeMar
Owner: Karen Sinclair
Karen also received one of the trophies for her dog’s bite work. 

Congratulations to all of you. I know how much work goes into the showing of your dogs.

Have a great summer
Dave Jantzen
President, GSSCC

CORRECTION

Due to an error in deciphering a score the Top 10 Dogs in Canada results have changed.

Congratulations to:

TOP SCHUTZHUND 3 DOG FOR 2010
Moira Sutherland and Hector de Lupus Saevus
 


Full results will be reprinted in the next issue of Shepherd Sports.

Diane Carnegie
GSSCC - Awards Coordinator

Hello  Everyone

Once again we find the nationals coming up very fast. I hope all of you have had the training you wanted to help you get there. I would like to thank all of the people that have stepped up to help us get things done, and there have been many. This includes the others on the GSSCC board. They have given up a lot of their time to the job, as we meet on Skype every week. I would like to also thank all the regional directors for taking the time to be involved in the meetings 1 time every month so we can keep up on what’s happening across the country.

These meetings have been working very well, and have brought many new ideas. Some of these ideas have been put to use on the National website. If you haven’t been on it for a long time you should check it out. The web team has been doing a great job. Once again if you have articles that you would like on the website, in French or English please send them in. We always need new info to keep the site current.

We are moving ahead with the introduction of the new RH title. This new title has its basis in Rescue Work. Information and rules on this new sport title will be available soon. This is an exciting new title that you can do with your dog without the protection phase of schutzhund. This should work for some of the club members that have either retired their dog from schutzhund, or possibly have a dog that is a great tracker and obedience dog, but is not great at the protection work. We will keep you informed on this title as the information is available.

Hope to see you in Niagara.

For the sport
Dave Jantzen

Hello Everyone,

Another year is upon us. For us out west we can continue with training as we don’t really have winter. I wish everyone good luck for the upcoming trial season.

The GSSCC board once again will have some proposed changes to vote on in the spring, please exercise your right to vote on them.

If you have been on the website lately you will likely notice some big changes. Our new web team has had some great ideas and is working very hard. The French side of the site is being built and material is being added to it. Translating is a lengthy process so I thank you in advance for your patience. If you want to place articles on the site and can produce them in both languages it would be a great help. I would like to thank Fred and Anick, and their helpers, for the translations I know this takes many hours to make sure that the ideas make sense after the translation.

We have now added Sarah Barnes, Cathie Pierson and Jamie-Lynn Pitts to our Web Team, so if they contact you for information please help them out. Without a steady flow of information the website can’t be kept current. I would like to thank Anthony Hartelaub for his years of work on the website and for continuing to help with the transition period for Sarah to take on the position. Thank you to everyone that has worked hard to make this organization move forward.

For The Sport,
Dave Jantzen
President GSSCC

The minutes from the 2010 GSSCC Annual General Meeting are now available in the Members Section.

The GSSCC Policy/Procedures Manual has been updated, the new version of the document can be found in the Official Documents page.

Direct link: GSSCC Policy/Procedures Manual

Dave Jantzen

Ontario Region members, please refer to the Ontario Region web site for recent changes http://www.ontarioschutzhund.com/

On October 1st, 2010, the board approved the new Quebec Region.
Details of regionals contacts and clubs can be found here. 

Please note that effective May 1, 2010 Wayne Carnegie will be taking over the roles of Treasurer and Membership Coordinator for the GSSCC.  Wayne's contact information can be found on the "Contact Us" page of the site.

The GSSCC Board

$60,0000.00 Long Term Partnership confirmed ……………………

The GSSCC Executive Board is very pleased to formally announce the successful completion of a Long Term Service Agreement between the GSSCC and DogSport Gear of Aldergrove BC.

The negotiations with the GSSCC Marketing Committee, captained by Ted Gerela took 6 months and involved discussions with 6 manufacturers of quality dog training equipment.
The 6 year partnership agreement provides financial support that will benefit all the members at every level.

In addition, DogSport Gear will provide blinds, dumbbells c/w stand, helper pants, sleeves and jackets, tracking articles for every championship, Regional and National.
The equipment will be utilized to generate funds to support the championships at every level. Dog Sport Gear will provide the Team Canada Uniforms for the WUSV World Championship Team.

Ted Gerela was quoted as saying that “this is only the beginning and with the members full support there is a great opportunity to use it as a template to build more partnerships”.

More information about the bid in Members only section