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Tili is 15
Ch Ima Wicked Red Tattoo Outback Maverick of Dragonstones (Imp:GER) CGC(Gold)

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Turtle Hatchling detection dogs in training.
Drake, Eria and Jagera have been imprinted on the scent of turtles, have worked on searching for that scent and have met turtles at the Two Oceans Aquarium.
All this is inpreparation to assist with the rescue of beached turtle hatchlings - the autumn storms wash the hatchlings ashore entangled in beach detritus, it is hoped that the dogs will increase the percentage of turtles rescued.
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'Dragonstones Turtle Dogs' 

Dragonstones Jagera Fire CGC(Bronze)

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Jagera qualified Canine Good Citizen Bronze at 10 1/2 months. This is his heel work for qualificaiton.

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Drake, Eria and Aly all qualified for
The Western Province Top Dog Invitational event.

Eria has learnt how to find snares set out for wildlife and to alert on them - as you can see she is very pleased with herself

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Water dogs
We train on several farm dams where we are kindly given access.
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Search & Rescue training keeps the dogs busy

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searching a dry stone wall for HR                  searching the river for HR
searching a dam for submerged HR             searching a rock face for HR
trailing a missing person                                  searching a rock face for HR
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Drake - a qualified wilderness search and rescue dog is adding find HR (human remains) to his skill set and focussing on water edge searches.

Alyxia, Ione and Hedraian are learning to be water dogs. Searching for drowned people from a boat and searching water edge on foot. During training we are doing a fair amount of dry searches to hone their skills.

Hedraian is also doing some man trailing.
There is a man up this tree - K9 Drake

For fun all seven dogs are working their way through the KUSA Trick Dog program - Tili, Cali, Drake, Eria, Hedraian, Ione and Alyxia - I am their biggest handicap.

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Oudtshoorn Shows 2024 
Drake, Ione and Alyxia

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DECEMBER 2023

Dragonstones, Australian Cattle Dogs, South Africa
Haple and Huxley from the H-litter went to sheep training. Both showed good working instinct and promise as working dogs





Haple - 9 months a promising dog
Dragonstones, Australian Cattle Dogs, South Africa
Dragonstones, Australian Cattle Dogs, South Africa
Dragonstones, Australian Cattle Dogs, South Africa
Dragonstones, Australian Cattle Dogs, South Africa
Dragonstones, Australian Cattle Dogs, South Africa
Dragonstones, Australian Cattle Dogs, South Africa
Huxley
Dragonstones, Australian Cattle Dogs, South Africa

Drake & Eria have spent lock down learning to detect and indicate aviation fuel. Drake works Avgas and Jet A1 while Eria works just Jet A1. They need to find the fuel source on various substrates and of various ages.

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Drake is not just a pretty face, he passed his BH test on 22-3-20
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Drake, a qualified wilderness Search & Rescue dog, finding a patient during a training exercise.
- you can see him working the scent to identify where his patient is
- he finds the patient
- returns to me and indicates he has made a find
- he then leads me back to the patient

Dragonstones Australian Cattle Dogs, South Africa - Born & Bred in the Boland

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