[Michael Romanos]

This may interest some members. New Zealand has an unofficial agility team over in Australia who will be competing at two meetings next week including the national Australia agility champs in Adelaide. The team is dominated by members from my region and the training club I belong to. I have just teed things up with several newspapers and have to produce an article for one of them today. Taylor and I could have been part of the team but the cost was a bit steep. I did jokingly remark that they should pay me to be in the team because I can act as the publicity officer and media liasion. Seems I am now doing this from home (sigh).
These meetings in Aussie are the first time ever any Kiwi (NZ) has competed at agility overseas.

Some members fo the NZ team wanted to take their dogs to an Adelaide beach yesterday but were warned by locals not to because of sharks and puffer fish lurking in the shallows. But they went anyway and found the beach full of dogs with many of them swimming merrily in the sea.