Wild Rose Chapter North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association

Chapter News

The Chapter's NAVHDA tests will be held at Bigelow Dam on August 29 & 30. Registration details are available in the 2009 Test Information Package.

Join fellow club members on June 20, 2009 for the next training day. Training begins at 8:30 am sharp at FeatherQuest. More details are on the Activities page. Be sure to register for this training day and pre-order birds by June 18th. Contact Vito (vitoc@telusplanet.net) with your name and the number of birds you'd like (maximum 4 per handler).

The Calgary Pointing Dog Club is offering Ronnie Smith Training Seminars in Sylvan Lake in the early fall. Foundation level is Sept 4-6, 2009 and Intermediate level is Sept 10 - 13, 2009. For more information, visit the Calgary Pointing Dog Club website.

The Saskatoon NAVHDA Chapter will hold a 2 day NAVHDA-sanctioned test event on September 12th and 13th. More information is available in the PDF announcement.

What is Wild Rose NAVHDA?

Wild Rose, a sanctioned local chapter of the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association, was founded in 2003 and comprises members throughout the province of Alberta.

The North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA) is a legally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering, improving, promoting, and protecting the versatile hunting dog in North America.

What do we do?

Alberta’s Wild Rose chapter is a small but vigorous group of versatile breed owners dedicated to honing the natural abilities of our dogs as well as increasing the training knowledge and skills of ourselves as dog handlers in order to develop excellent hunter and hunting dog teams. Our goal is to help our members become better handlers and to fully realize the potential of our versatile hunting dogs.

The chapter organizes training sessions and sponsors NAVHDA tests. We also provide a forum to share our challenges, knowledge and experiences and to strike up local training partnerships to allow us to become better dog handlers and trainers. Wild Rose has a wide mix of breeds currently represented in our chapter: Cesky Fousek, German Shorthaired Pointer, German Wirehaired Pointer, German Longhaired Pointer, Brittany Spaniel, Small Munsterlander, Large Munsterlander, Pudelpointer, Vizsla, Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, and Weimaraner.

Want to find out more about the NAVHDA versatile breeds? See the San Diego NAVHDA website for a description and picture of each breed.

Interested in joining the Wild Rose Chapter? Want help with training and advice on problem areas? For information contact the WIld Rose Chapter President at vitoc@telusplanet.net

German Shorthair retrieves from water

Young LM gets the pheasant

Longhair Pointer with handler