KELLY MALONE HERDING clinicS
HEMLOCK, NY
**AUGUST 10 & 11, 2023** in Ashville, NY
september 6 & 7, 2023 ** in Hemlock, ny
August 10 & 11: will focus on herding trial competition strategies for ISDS Novice field trial runs. Learn the rules, the exercises and develop a better plan to run your dog in trials! This clinic will take place in Ashville, NY
September 6 & 7 is a Shepherd's Clinic - Learn how to read the livestock, their body language and how to maneuver them throughout a course. No dogs = this is people only clinic working geese. This clinic will take place in Hemlock, NY
September 6 & 7 is a Shepherd's Clinic - Learn how to read the livestock, their body language and how to maneuver them throughout a course. No dogs = this is people only clinic working geese. This clinic will take place in Hemlock, NY
KELLY MALONE - My job, sport passion and life has been dogs. Since 1980 I’ve worked as a pooper-scooper, bather-dryer, groomer, trainer, instructor, clinician, author, manager and owner in various businesses. I’ve managed a conformation show/boarding kennel, a training/boarding kennel and was the animal operations manager for a Humane Society. During this time, I’ve had my hands on almost every breed out there—never mind the countless All Americans. I’ve had the personal care and training of $60,000 show dogs as well as dogs that were thrown away in garbage cans.
I started my performance career first putting a CD on my very first GSD and then training and handling to their CD’s the finished Champions that were standing at stud during my time at the conformation handler’s kennel.
My first herding lesson was on Labor Day of 1994. With that first dog, Dru, I went on to win HIT at our first trial held at the 1996 GSDCA Nationals. Since then, working with my own and client dogs working in Obedience, Rally and Herding I’ve earned 180 titles, over 50 HIT’s with countless placements and seven Championships.
All these years and trials have allowed me to express my second passion—that of teaching. I love teaching almost more than anything except my dogs. Teaching allows me to give back to the sport of dogs all that it has given to me.
My goal and satisfaction is helping my students learn how to be calm, knowledgeable Shepherds who are Captains of their own team in whatever venue they want to explore. When herding, all dogs are started on a long line both for safety’s sake and to help the dog know exactly where to be. Lessons focus on helping you understand what skills we are trying to develop in your dog, what you need to know about the stock’s mindset and how it affects what you want to accomplish and what you need to know to successfully achieve your trialing goals.
My goal when working with a dog is to enhance the instinct and talent that I see in the dog while instilling enough obedience in him to get him to understand that his talent and instinct needs to be used to accomplish my game plan for the stock. The most talented dog in the world is useless if he will not partner with me to get the job done. I never want to turn out a dog that looks like a remote control car…one that simply follows commands “Forward, Back, Left, Right” I want a dog who hears me say, “Shhh” and knows to go out, gather his stock, lift them quietly and bring them in a straight line with no further word from me.
- Learn more at http://karmaperformance.weebly.com
I started my performance career first putting a CD on my very first GSD and then training and handling to their CD’s the finished Champions that were standing at stud during my time at the conformation handler’s kennel.
My first herding lesson was on Labor Day of 1994. With that first dog, Dru, I went on to win HIT at our first trial held at the 1996 GSDCA Nationals. Since then, working with my own and client dogs working in Obedience, Rally and Herding I’ve earned 180 titles, over 50 HIT’s with countless placements and seven Championships.
All these years and trials have allowed me to express my second passion—that of teaching. I love teaching almost more than anything except my dogs. Teaching allows me to give back to the sport of dogs all that it has given to me.
My goal and satisfaction is helping my students learn how to be calm, knowledgeable Shepherds who are Captains of their own team in whatever venue they want to explore. When herding, all dogs are started on a long line both for safety’s sake and to help the dog know exactly where to be. Lessons focus on helping you understand what skills we are trying to develop in your dog, what you need to know about the stock’s mindset and how it affects what you want to accomplish and what you need to know to successfully achieve your trialing goals.
My goal when working with a dog is to enhance the instinct and talent that I see in the dog while instilling enough obedience in him to get him to understand that his talent and instinct needs to be used to accomplish my game plan for the stock. The most talented dog in the world is useless if he will not partner with me to get the job done. I never want to turn out a dog that looks like a remote control car…one that simply follows commands “Forward, Back, Left, Right” I want a dog who hears me say, “Shhh” and knows to go out, gather his stock, lift them quietly and bring them in a straight line with no further word from me.
- Learn more at http://karmaperformance.weebly.com