Best paw forward

No dog and no owner can fail to benefit from canine obedience training, an enthusiastic supporter believes. Ann Evans might well add that no distance is too great to get that experience - she, after all, thinks nothing of the two-hour return drive she has undertaken from her family's backblocks Ohingaiti sheep farm to Feilding almost every Monday evening for the past four years.

It's not just her, of course.

Always passengering in her RAV4 will be at least one of her three Golden Retrievers - pack patriarch 11-year-old Toby, three-year-old Sophie and the promising young gun, 18-month-old Oak.

Feilding Dog Training Club regulars are presently brushing up their skills for a special dance display they'll present at the Eukanuba National Dog Show at Manfeild on October 1-6, as well as at the Feilding Rural Day tied into that event. MORE>>