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Show It's your dog's day Park City's canine consciousness con-sciousness is going to be raised this Saturday at City Park. It is the first annual Dog Day Afternoon and all local purebreds and mongrels mon-grels (and their pets) are invited. The day's activities will begin with a professionally-organized professionally-organized obedience fun match. According to Judy Ann Boles, who is coordinating coordinat-ing the event with the Park City Recreation Department, Depart-ment, the match will be open to everyone from local novices to out-of-town experts. ex-perts. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and the entry fee is $3. Judging will begin at 11 a.m. Canine contestants in the novice class will be asked to heel both on and off their leashes, stand for examination examina-tion by a judge and stay until recalled by their owners. The dogs and their owners will be judged according to KC rules, Boles explained. There will also be a number of experienced contestants con-testants in the open and utility classes. "These are great events for spectators to watch," said Boles. The dogs in the open class will be required to jump over obstacles, ob-stacles, to retrieve objects and to sit and stay while their handlers are out of sight. The entrants in the utility class will be further required to work without voice commands, and to discriminate between objects ob-jects handled by their owners and other people. But if all that sounds a little too rigorous for your lovable but-not-exactly-obedient pup, there will also be a frisbee contest, a kid's dog show and a food toss contest. Boles, who teaches the Good Manners Plus obedience classes at the Memorial Building, would like to see a lot of locals participating. Entrants in the Kid's Dog Show will be judged in a variety of categories. Judges will be looking for the best costume, the longest tail, the best tricks, the biggest, the smallest, the most colors and (look out Rover) the best haircut. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Keith Lund, D.V.M. of White Pine Veterinary clinic will be giving rabies vaccinations vaccina-tions (for $6) and during the afternoon Animal Control Officer Barry Shoda will be on hand to sell Summit County dog tags. The Recreation Department Depart-ment asks that all dogs who attend be leashed and under control. |