If you intend to compete in Pro Sports, or even if you just own a dog, first things first, do plenty of socialising THEN PLENTY of obedience and do get help, you can enrol in classes with professional people and once all that goes well if you have further interest in going on to Sports of any kind you can make arrangements with a trainer to do so. I can recommend the methods used by these trainers, there are others out there some good some not, it is very important to find the right trainer, anyone using ALL positive or too ALL negative corrections is not likely to get the best result a balanced mixture is the way to go with these alpha type dogs.

What a great weekend we all had at the training seminar and second Pro Sports meeting held at Woodford show grounds on the weekend starting on the Friday the 12th of Ocober 07.

Butch Cappel once again flew out from Texas USA to be there, and we were very pleased to also meet and welcome Brisbane trainers Craig A Murray and his wife, I would hope these two very capable people will get involved with the group of people form around their area who attended and who would also like to see this great sport take off. And if the Japanese Students who could only come for day one, liked what they saw, who knows, we might wind up with an event in Japan!!

All who came went home with very improved dogs and the building blocks of training skills to do even better in coming weeks, Butch once again took several semi obedience trained dogs and got them going so well that not only could they compete in the competitions by the third day, but even win places!! with more training these dogs will be as good as any to be found anywhere you want to look, of htis I have no doubts at all!

We saw some very unusual dogs in the Dutch Shepherds bought long by CK9-SAS and Rodga's Central Asian Shepherds, whilst protection away from home is not much to the Central Asians interest, they are quite stunning looking dogs and are VERY territorial and need no encouragment to guard their own area.

The Dutchies were great, very much into protection and very fast, agile dogs who would be as alert and ready to fire after an all night patrol at their handlers side as when they started, and no doubt that had a lot to do with why their owners have them as they work with them in the protection business.

Two Abcalert Neapolitan Mastiffs went away as placegetters in Pro Sports, I am told they are the only ones in the WORLD to even compete!! I am proud to have bred both of these young dogs although I no longer own them.

For those who came all the way from NSW both to judge, help with training input and even to entertain with yarns of the highest quality, or just to compete, a big thank you. If you live within Coooeee of Tamworth you are on the doorstep of a great trainer, if your dog is not up to scratch, don't make excuses, contact the man and find out about getting some proper training.

Pro Sports is NOT just about protection work, great emphasis is placed on obedience, without which no dog is as safe as he can be, we hope to hold training days when it can be arranged to concentrate on this aspect of our dog's training, without good obedience no dog can win at competitions.

FIRST PLACE IN TRAINING SECTION WENT TO ABCALERT ARDUU, ONE OF THE TWO NEAPOLITAN MASTIFFS TO ATTEND, THIS DOG IS STABLE AND VERY FREINDLY, ANYONE CAN APROACH AND PAT HIM WITHOUT FEAR, YET HE WILL PROTECT AND FAST, THEN, WITHIN SECONDS, IS BACK TO BEING A MATE OF ALL AGAIN. SHOWN HERE WITH HIS OWNER BEA, AND BUTCH CAPPEL.

THE UNDISPUTED STAR OF THE WHOLE SHOW, THIS DOG, AN ABCALERT NEAPOLITAN MASTIFF, SHINING RUBY, NOT QUITE ONE YEAR OLD HERE, THIS GIRL WAS A TOTAL SURPRISE TO ALL OF US NOT LEAST, HER OWNER THEY WENT FROM BARELY OBEDIENT ON THE FIRST DAY TO COMPETING AND TAKING THIRD PLACE IN PROTECTION BY THE THIRD DAY, I'M SURE ONLY BUTCH COULD BRING A DOG UP SO FAST AND ONLY A GREAT DOG WOULD RESPOND SO WELL!.

TWO PROUD NEAPOLITAN MASTIFF OWNERS, RUBY AND BEA,THE FIRST EVER TO ENTER A COMPETITION AND TAKE AWAY MEDALIONS TO BOOT. AND OF COURSE GUESS WHO ELSE IS OVER THE MOON, ME, THEIR BREEDER!

RYAN AND BUTCH WITH TZU A SOUTHERN CROSS BRED DOG WHO CARRIES THE BEST OF BOTH TRUBLUE AND SOUTHERN CROSS LINES AND WINNER OF TWO DIVISIONS, PROTECTION AND PATROL DOG.

DID NOT ASK THE NAMES OF THESE DUTCH SHEPHERDS, MOST INTERESTING DOGS, AND NEW TO THIS BUT GOING GREAT. I THINK THEY MAY WELL COME TO OUR NEXT MEET AND KICK OUR BUMS !!

COREY AND ANGUS, BELIEVED TO BE OUT OF A TRUBLUE BITCH, I PERSONALLY DOUBT THAT DAD WAS AS COREY WAS TOLD BY HIS BREEDER, BUT NON THE LESS ANGUS IS A DOG OF A QUALITY SELDOM SEEN, HE IS ONE TO BE WELL PROUD OFF, NOT MANY CAN TAKE THEIR DOG AFTER PIGS ONE WEEK AND TAKE A PLACE AT A PRO SPORTS MEET THE NEXT !!

TERMINATOR (ABOVE) AND HIS BROTHER DIESEL (BELOW) LOOK NOTHING ALIKE, 'NATOR IS A ONE OFF, SMALLER AND LEANER BY FAR THAN MOST OF MY TRUBLUES, HE DOES FIT NICELY ON THE PASSENGER SIDE OF MY VAN AND SELDOM DROOLS, AND, AFTER HIS DEMONSTRATION AT WOODFORD PRO SPORTS, HE SURE AS HELL WILL DO AS SHOT GUN GUARD FOR ME!, DIESEL WAS TESTED BY BUTCH FOR HIS OWNER AND HE ALSO HAS THE GOODS, HE IS A VERY NICE LOOKING DOG, SOLID AND IN TOP CONDITION, WITH THE GOOD SQUARE HEAD, THICK SNOUT AND SQUARE JAW OF MOST TRUBLUES.