Newsletter – June 2010
PELHAMS DOG FUN PARK
NEWSLETTER NO. 6
JUNE 2010
Hello everyone, summer is here!
The dog swimming pool is will be open on Tuesday 13th July 2010. I hope members don’t mind, I am charging a fee of 2 euros per dog for the use of this for as long as you are at the park. This fee is to cover the running costs. Every other week I am getting a water bowser in to fill the pool with new fresh water. I have a proper filterisation system on the pool and am not going to use sea water.
There will be no chlorine used in the pool, we are using a special anti-bacterial solution suitable for dogs.
I believe every dog can swim. I have made it low enough so you walk your dog up the steps, down the steps and along to teach him to swim. If you want to get in with your dog to help him – that’s fine with me. This is a great exercise for every muscle of your dogs body. If your dog has had an injury this is excellent rehabilitation.
While the dogs are cooling in the pool, I have had a freezer installed with cold drinks on sale to cool down their owners.
I know that the weather is turning very hot now, but we do need our members to continue to support this dog club during the summer months to keep it open. Hopefully, with the advent of the dog pool and some cold drinks on sale this should be a good incentive to keep you coming.
The field is being sprayed every Saturday morning for Sandfly but do still ensure that your dogs are all also wearing their sandfly collars.
I hope everyone that took part in the classes enjoyed them, don’t forget to sign up for the next course which will be starting at the end of September. I hope you have all learned something and carry on practising during the summer months. It takes a long time and plenty of patience to train a dog so please try and practice 15 minutes per day. I can see that every class I take has made big improvements and I hope you can see that yourselves.
Due to the heat there won’t be any group classes during the summer months but I will be concentrating on one to one sessions for owners that have specific problems with their dogs. If anybody wants to book any of these sessions give me a call on 99449644.
We had hoped to arrange a BBQ in July but because of the heat a lot of our members advised us to wait until September/October so we will let you know what date we have decided on nearer the time.
We have had a lot of enquiries about boarding and are now very full so you must book early if you want to use this service. We only board the dogs of members so that we are familiar with the dogs before they come and we ask that you fill in a Dog Boarding Form and pay a 50% deposit on booking. The form can be downloaded from our website www.pelhamdogtraining.com or collected from the office.
As the dogs stay with us in our home when not at the park it is essential that the dogs are house trained and used to staying indoors and sleeping with the family. This is not a service for dogs that are used to living in a yard. Prices are as follows:-
Large dogs: 20 euros per night
Puppies: 20 euros per night
Small dogs 15 euros per night
Please note that the daily rate is chargeable for the day of pick up and the day of collection. All food should be provided by the owner and the dogs can, of course, bring any bedding, toys etc. that they are used to having at home.
As there are no classes during the summer we are going to open the park from 6 p.m. till 10 p.m. every evening (closed on Mondays) during July and August as any earlier is just too hot.
We hope Geoff and Nadia’s dog Sierra is recovering well after her accident. Sierra was a regular visitor to the park and we hope to see her up and about again soon, she is a lovely dog andwe miss her a lot.
On the subject of injured dogs. As you all know Valerie helped us a lot at the Pig Roast. Valerie’s dog Missie was poisoned recently and was close to death but is now recovering well. Again, we wish Missie well and hope she has a speedy recovery.
Valerie is looking for a home for Missie as she is frightened that this may happen again. Missie is a one year old Golden Labrador, she is very good natured and well trained (at Pelhams Dog School). So let me know if you think you could help.
I was not previously aware of this but legally in Malta your dog should be registered with the Police every year at a cost of 2.33 euros. The reason for this is that if anyone makes a complaint against your dog or you need to make a complaint about another dog the Police have the dog’s details on record. I only found this out this week as one of our members had a complaint made against them and as the dog wasn’t registered the owner had to pay a fine.
In England we have to buy a dog licence for our dogs, but I wasn’t aware of this law over here. However, I thought it worth while bringing it to everyone’s attention.
The monthly draw winner for June is Member No. 28.
Some people are still opening two gates at the same time. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CLOSE THE FIRST GATE BEFORE OPENING THE SECOND. If you meet a friend entering the park as you are leaving have a chat outside the park not between the gates!!!!!!
If you would like to have a look at some of the pictures of the Pig Roast they are now on our website. www.pelhamdogtraining.com Click on events, then click on Pig Roast.
Many thanks to Jenny and Bruce (Roo) for providing us with the generator – we now have power!!!!
A big thank you to Sylvester (and Dora) for donating the water tank to the school. This will certainly make life a lot easier for us.
Thanks also to Arthur and Zoe (Bobby and Alfie) for helping us arrange a plumber for the pool and for donating a jar of coffee biscuits etc.
FINALLY, PLEASE NOTE WE WILL NOT BE OPEN THIS SUNDAY EVENING – 11th JULY – AS I WILL BE WATCHING THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP FINAL
And lastly, apologies for the late sending of this newsletter but I wanted to make sure the pool would definitely be open before sending.
That’s all folks.
Best wishes,
MARLON
Pelham says:
Don’t forget – take me for a swim, it’s great exercise and it cools me down!
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