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    Bay de Noc Kennel Club   

                   

               

                         

 

 

 

The Bay De Noc Kennel Club is involved in several community service programs, including two activities involving children.  The first is a program on Dog Safety and Responsible Dog Ownership which is presented to elementary school children every spring.  Children are given information on how to properly care for dogs, and, in a hands-on demonstration, how to safely interact with dogs.  They also learn about training dogs and the many ways dogs are used in society.

The most recent addition to our community services program is the "Books with Bowser" reading program.  In this program, volunteers and their dogs are paired with second and third grade students who need help with their reading skills.  research shows that these students are often more willing to interact with therapy dogs than with people because it gives them a non-judgmental environment in which to read.  Most participants will show a marked increase in reading skills, some by as much as two grade levels, over the course of the school year.

     The Dog Safety Program

Let's Talk Dog Safety

When a strange dog approaches stand like a tree

Face Down is Safe

Volunteers from the Kennel Club at a local school

  Books with Bowser                               

Toby and Andrea being read to

Gert Moran with Misty and their reader

Cathy Peltin and Francis having a story read to them by Travis

Amanda Strom reading to Phoenix and Jean

Pat and Emmy being read to by Nick

                                                        

The Kennel Club in conjunction with the Delta Area Animal Society provided dispensers and mutt mitts for doggy-do clean up at Ludington Park.  A volunteer from the Kennel club checks the dispensers regularly and refills them as necessary.

For the past year, the Bay De Noc Kennel Club has been working in conjunction with the Delta Area Animal Society, Delta County Officials and other concerned animal enthusiasts to turn the Delta County Animal Shelter into the Delta County Animal Complex, Adoption and Training Center. 

We have totally renovated the current Animal Shelter Building and are in the process of completing a 33'X27' addition to the building, which will house a new lobby and office area, providing space for a  new cat quarantine room in the existing building.  

In April 2005, we will be breaking ground on a 60' X 80' training building, which will allow the Bay De Noc Kennel Club to offer continuing obedience classes, puppy classes, and other dog related activities.  In addition, the location of the training building will allow qualified dog trainers to assess and do basic training with shelter dogs, making them more desirable adoption prospects.  It will also allow a quiet and neutral place for persons looking to adopt an animal from the shelter to see what the animal is like away from the shelter environment.

                                                                      

 HOME OF THE BAY DE NOC KENNEL CLUB  which was done in 3 phases =. Phase I was painting the interior and exterior of the existing building. Phase II was adding a new office and lobby to the existing building and Phase III was the erection of a 60' by 80' training building.

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Our new office, storerooms and bathrooms

getting ready to put in ceiling insulation

                                                                                                                                                               

    

                                                                                                                               

 

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