Competitive
Events
Cliffside Bird Dogs proudly
posts an impressive winning record.
Let us help you develop your champion.
Every spring, fall, and late winter Cliffside Bird Dogs hits
the road with a string of dogs and horses. The season starts in late
winter around mid January and runs through mid May. The season may
contain both field trials as well as hunt tests, depending on the
dogs in-kennel at the time.
Then
the competition dogs go home for the summer.
The fall season
starts the first weekend in September and runs through Thanksgiving.
Again, the dogs
go home for early winter.
There
are more events throughout the summer and winter if you’re willing
to travel for them, but our dogs work hard and we feel the time
off is important. During the off season, we are still very
busy with dogs! We turn our attention to the dogs that come in for
a variety of training needs, whether that be as a hunting companion
or for evaluation as a competitive prospect.
Think
you have a competitive prospect? Want to Find Out?
The typical
program for a good puppy prospect would be:
Come in for
in-kennel training at approximately
6 months of age.
This first
stay should be for 2 to 3 months. During this time we will enter
the puppy in the trials and get it exposed to the road and different
grounds. The pup should go home then and just be a pet. We gather
the string back together mid Feb & mid August.
The dogs that
are campaigned will follow this schedule for 3 or more years. We
take the dogs to find birds in many different places around the
country and they look forward to it.
The rates for campaigning
your dog are as follows:
In-Kennel
Training
The fee is $18.00 per day per dog, 30 day minimum.
Entry
Fees
Typically, a dog will run in one event during a weekend. There are
a few times during the dog’s campaign when it would be entered
twice per weekend. The fees range from $20 to $40 per stake entered.
The host club sponsoring the event dictates these entry fees. National
events typically run more.
Travel
Expenses
A flat rate charged per dog based on destination. The following are
locations which typically host events:
| Clear Spring,
MD |
$10.00 |
|
| Poolesville,
MD |
$10.00 |
|
| Rossville,
PA |
$10.00 |
|
| West Virgina |
$15.00 |
|
| Petersburg,
DE |
$15.00 |
|
| Summerduck,
VA |
$20.00 |
|
| Orange,
VA |
$20.00 |
|
| Medford,
NJ |
$30.00 |
|
| Assunpink,
NJ |
$30.00 |
|
| Rimmersburg,
PA |
$30.00 |
|
| Long Island,
NY |
$40.00 |
|
| East Windsor,
CT |
$40.00 |
|
| Indian
Creek, OH |
$40.00 |
|
| Kildeer
Plains, OH |
$40.00 |
|
| Noorwood,
NC |
$40.00 |
|
| Falmouth,
MA |
$50.00 |
|
| Hopkinton,
NH |
$50.00 |
|
| Ionia,
MI |
$50.00 |
|
Prices are approximate and subject to change.
Handling
$25.00 for each
stake handled.
Proper handling
of the dog in the events is an important part of the long-term development
of the dog.
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