COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL March 9, 2016
ing to earn titles or aspiring to
qualify for a world team. This
sport benefi ts pets and people
on an emotional, social and
physical level. Our dogs are our
pets, companions and partners.”
www.DogWorks.ca
Wendy’s oldest Border Collie,
Phoenix, won the 2012 National
Championships, and her current
competition dog is a red merle
Border Collie, ‘Red Hot Chlli
Pepper’. Chili has an im-paws-
ibly high drive for paw-for-
mance. Fitting of any paw-fes-
sonal athlete, Chili is on a raw
food diet, receives acupuncture,
and visits a chiropractor keep-
ing her healthy and fi t.
Last year, in Chili’s fi rst
World Competition, she placed
fi fth! Her resume includes com-
peting in most of Canada’s 10
provinces, coast to coast, across
2,800 miles. As a world traveler,
she enjoys the scenery in Cali-
fornia, Florida, Oregon, Wash-
ington, Austria, Belgium, Croa-
tia, France, the Netherlands and
Italy — and like any typical
tourist dog, she wants her head
out the window!
At the AAC Nationals, Chili
qualifi ed to represent Canada in
the 2015 World Agility Champi-
onships in the Netherlands and
the World Agility Open in Italy.
“Upon arriving in Europe,
Chili had jet lag,” said Wendy,
“but after a few days of R & R
she sprang back. In Italy, she
shifted into an entirely new
and yet undiscovered gear and
speed. It was brilliant witness-
ing her among the 400 dogs rep-
resenting their 34 countries.”
Chili’s career titles: Agil-
ity Trial Champion of Canada,
Versatility Silver Award and
podium fi nishes in regional and
national championships. In the
USA, she competes at the US-
DAA’s Master Level.
“But titles don’t really mean
a thing!” said Wendy, “Running
on course with this beautiful, in-
spirational, and amazing team-
mate is reward enough!”
While interviewing Wendy,
we were suddenly interrupted
by frenzied barking. No matter
how well-trained her four dogs
are, when they see the mailman,
they explode into “mailman-
mayhem” — just for the fun of
it!
Wendy at “work”:
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“Chili in Italy”
Destiny is amusing. When I
read a Canadian newspaper ar-
ticle on Wendy and her World
Team member, Border Collie,
Chili, I resolved to feature them
in an article. Five days later, at
the beach in a city of 3,000,000
people, I randomly started talk-
ing to a woman, Anne, Wendy’s
mother! That is how I miracu-
lously connected to Wendy for
this article!
Destiny also guides Wendy’s
life.
“When I was four-years-old,”
said Wendy, “I played ‘dog train-
ing’ with my uncle’s two Gold-
en Retrievers, teaching them to
jump over obstacles that I made.
I rewarded them with treats. I’d
never heard of the sport, but in
my innocence or inner knowing,
my actions were paving the fu-
ture!
Growing up you assume that
you have to earn a living doing
something practical, but life is
measured in doing things that
you love. I love dogs!
With toddlers and working
part-time, my dogs were not
getting much attention, so when
I read an article on dog agil-
ity, ‘we’ signed up. I instantly
‘knew’ this was my destiny, Nir-
vana — a place of perfect hap-
piness surrounded by dogs and
dog lovers watching canines ex-
citedly paw-forming!
Witnessing dogs mastering
a variety of obstacle courses is
a fl uffy fl uid metaphor of life
about meeting obstacles head-
on, barking at them and keep on
going.
That was 15 years ago, ‘back
in the olden days’ of dog agil-
ity. The sport was so new that
there were only 2-3 competi-
tions a year held great distances
apart. Over the years, the sport
exploded! When I registered my
youngest dog, Crush, with the
Agility Association of Canada
(AAC), her number was in the
22,000’s!
This sport is fun! Dog guard-
ian’s ages range from 5-90 years
old. Participants have one com-
mon denominator — they all
LOVE canines.
In 2010, I began teaching
dog agility. I was fi nally doing
what I loved! Now I instruct
12 weekly classes, plus private
lessons. My clients vary from
those who enjoy spending time
with their dogs to those striv-
Douglas G. Maddess, DMD
FAMILY AND GENERAL DENTISTRY
Brightening Lives One Smile at a Time
ODFW: Kids now
need fi shing license
at age 12
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Courtesy Photo
Wendy and her champion, Chili, have competed in the
World Agility Championships in Italy — twice! Here, the
winners are enjoying a mountain hike along with Chili’s
buddies, Crush and Phoenix.
10 TIPS - FLYING
WITH A DOG
1. Avoid hot or cold weather.
In summer, fl y at night.
2. Contact the airline. Ask
EXACTLY what is required.
3. Arrive at the airport in
*plenty* of time with a well-
exercised, pottied, comfortable
pet. After checking in, take the
pet out one more time.
4. Mark your crate with fun
colors so it can be spotted from
a distance. Tape the pet’s name,
photo, fl ight information, and
contact information to the ken-
nel.
5. Don’t get on the plane un-
til see that your pet is loaded or
have the gate attendant verify
that they have loaded your ani-
mal by them telling YOU its
name, not by you asking. Some
airlines hand you a chit when
your pet is loaded — these air-
lines are preferred. If in doubt,
call the fl ight attendant. If they
don’t respond, stand up! A
plane can’t take off if you refuse
to sit down.
6. Fly direct if possible, even
if it is more expensive.
7. Secure the kennel’s door
with a zip tie and tighten all
screws. Kennels pop open in
transit!
8. Strap a pouch outside the
kennel containing; quick clean
up wipes, treats and water/food.
9. Medicating a pet for air
travel can be dangerous. Pets
can have a reaction or aspirate.
10. Place a puppy pee pad on
the crate’s bottom and carry ex-
tra for emergencies.
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s families venture to the
outdoors this spring, the
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife remind parents that
youths between the ages of 12
and 17 need a license if they
plan to hunt, fi sh or shellfi sh.
Although fi shing now requires
a license two years earlier than
in the past – at age 12 instead of
age 14 – the cost of the license
is signifi cantly less than it was
in years past. Now a combina-
tion youth hunting/fi shing/shell-
fi shing license costs $10. For $5
more, youngsters can also pur-
chase a tag that will allow them
to catch salmon, steelhead, stur-
geon and halibut. The $15 com-
bined cost of a youth license
and tag in 2016 compares to a
cost of $41.75 last year, a cost
reduction of 64 percent. Accord-
ing to ODFW, youth license was
developed to simplify the youth
license requirements for hunt-
ing and fi shing.
Under the new fee structure,
a single license permits youth
license holders to take part in all
three activities – hunting, fi shing
and shell-fi shing. Previously, a
separate license was required
for each of these activities.
There is no distinction in the
fee structure between resident
and nonresident youths – they
pay the same for hunting/fi shing
licenses and tags.
Indie folk duo fi nds
healing in song
LeMaster Abrams to perform here March 19
T
he Northwest indie folk
duo of Lori LeMaster
and Alex Abrams came together
via grief, and they are still fi nd-
ing hope and healing through
their music. LeMaster Abrams
will be performing at Cottage
Grove’s Axe & Fiddle on Satur-
day, March 19 at 8:30 p.m.
LeMaster said she came upon
the gruesome scene of her 26-
year old daughter’s accident two
years ago. Ironically, mother
and daughter had partnered to-
gether to run a grief group for
teen girls who had lost a parent
to a death.
After Aimee’s death, friends
and family encouraged LeMas-
ter to write from the heart so
that healing would come. How-
ever, LeMaster was still dealing
with PTSD, and so the thoughts
needed for creative lyrics would
only strike up traumatic images
in her mind.
After many attempts to gath-
er lyrics, she put songwriting
aside. One year had passed and
Lori found herself on her way to
a Christmas dinner. It turns out
that the limo driver assigned to
her was Alex Abrams, and as
LeMaster and Abrams struck up
a conversation, she soon learned
that Abrams was a professional
cellist who also teaches at the
Shedd in Eugene. It was af-
ter this meeting LeMaster and
Abrams blended their talents.
“There was something about
Abrams’ cello playing that liter-
ally struck a chord and pulled at
my heart strings. His passion in-
termingled with the cello strings
and literally broke the ‘emotion-
al dam’ which allowed the tears
and words to pour out of me,”
says LeMaster, who has since
written many catchy tunes. The
duo now performs throughout
the Northwest, sharing LeMas-
ters’ originals as well as cover
songs.
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