PDTE 2016 July Newsletter

“ Remember that our main common
goal is to work for the dogs, being
their advocates.
Board members at the 2015 Pet Dog
Trainers of Europe AGM held in Bad
Wimpfen, Germany
Winkie Spiers with her dog Dennis at
Hunter’s Inn walk down on the North
Devon coast, UK
The participants at the 2015 Pet Dog
Trainers of Europe AGM in Bad Wimpfen
Dear members,
First of all I will wish a warm welcome to
our new editor, Sindhoor, and looking
forward to getting a newsletter in my
hands again ! It has been missed.
I will also welcome all the new
members rolling in to our organization.
We sure are growing fast. Because we
are growing so fast and getting bigger
we might also be able to be more
influencial and powerful and be able
to change things in the dog world that
is still so sadly needing changes for
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the better. The drawback, of course, is
that we will lose some of that “village”
feeling of knowing everybody. That
can not be helped, It means we have
to depend on you, the members, being
more active in many ways. Thanks to
each and one of you who already are
active.
Remember that our main common goal
is to work for the dogs, being their
advocates. Fidgeting, complaining
and fighting about silly details and
personal privileges should be stored
away on the hat rack.
Let us all pull together in the same
direction and towards the same goal
- and put emphasis on education and
learning on the way.
See you all in Barcelona, Spain this
September !
Turid
Your President
Chairwoman’s
Hello
H
ello and welcome to the
first edition of the PDTE
Newsletter edited and
produced by Sindhoor Pangal. An
enormous thank you to Sindhoor
for volunteering to take over this
important role, a huge undertaking.
Behind the scenes the PDTE
Board continues to meet on the
last Wednesday of every month to
deal with administration, vote on
new members, updates on what’s
happening and generally keep the
PDTE moving in a forwards direction.
We are lucky to have Harriet Alexander,
(Country Representatitve for UK) who
designed and maintains our website
(www.pdte.eu) and oversee’s the
PDTE Organisation Facebook Page
along with the PDTE UK Facebook
Page and produces the monthly PDTE
Bulletin. In addition there are our
Country Representatives and other
members who contribute articles
and videos etc to help promote good
practice and increase awareness of
PDTE and what we do. It is heartening
that we have more members being
involved and giving up their time to do
some really great work. Thank you to
everyone who gets involved.
The New Year resolutions that many
of you contributed to were very
interesting, I hope that you have
been successful in implementing your
resolutions. I find that my changes
have worked very well for my dogs
and I. It was useful to look at what I
could do to make life even better in
2016.
Wishing you a fabulous summer and
look forward to seeing you at the
PDTE AGM in Barcelona.
Winkie
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