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It's been while since I've bragged on the Arizona Great Dane Drill Team, not for lack of pride (or accomplishments), but more from lack of time. We're still going strong, marching along and having a great time playing with our dogs. Our purpose is to help encourage and educate the public about the benefits of obedience training for all dogs. We firmly believe that obedience trained dogs are much less likely to become just another number in the unwanted/abandoned animal statistics. We feel that if only one person who sees us perform takes their dog to a training class or checks out a training book from their local library then we have succeeded.
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n October we performed at the Great Dane Club of America 2002 Nationals,
incorporating many excellent obedience dogs from throughout the country
mixed in with our team dogs and handlers. We had 5 fun filled days
of squeezing in practices amongst all the hustle and bustle of events and
competitions to teach the "new" members a choreographed routine to the
song "Elephant Walk" and work out pieces of the show to highlight what
obedience training is all about. We preformed for about 45 minutes
showing off various obedience routines, comic skits and musical numbers.
It was quite a exciting challenge as we not only had new handlers and dogs
to work with but some of our team members were working with borrowed dogs,
one of which was just 6 months old!