Ciarraighe Thiar

Welcome to my kennel! Fáilte! Fáilte means ‘welcome’ in Irish. Irish is a language that I speak, and I'm happy to translate or answer questions about it. Message me and I'll get back to you when I see it and have the time and energy to respond. Some dog colour words for fun: Black - dubh; Chocolate (brown) - donn; Blue - glas; Red - rua; Tan - crón; Cream - fionn; Silver - geal-liath; White - bán; Steel Blue - glasghorm .............................................................................................................................................................. The Water Work and Dock Diving training areas at this kennel are used to train dogs to work on local fishing boats, tour boats, and to work with lifeguarding teams around the beaches and docks around here. Fishing is permitted in the Water Work pond by appointment, and the Dock Diving pool is open to the public according to the schedule kept updated on our website. .............................................................................................................................................................. The Herding training area is maintained in partnership with farmers from the surrounding communities who kindly provide us with livestock to work with! We send our best trained dogs out for a very small fee to any farmers in the region. Call us to book a dog one month in advance for a guarantee that we'll have one available. We also proudly supply herding dogs for the 'Grazed Green' programme, which keeps public greenspaces mowed via regular short periods of intense grazing (and poop scooping!) .............................................................................................................................................................. The Musical Freestyle training area here is the site of our dancing with dogs, stretches with pups and calisthenics with canines sessions, and we host group and individual therapy sessions as well as life enrichment sessions for a wide array of people to work with our therapy dogs. There are a few underground rooms beneath the field for these activities to continue year round and in all weather conditions. Alternately, we hold informal dog therapy/support sessions regularly at the Plants of Prehistory conservatory located conveniently an hour's walk northeast of us. .............................................................................................................................................................. The Tracking and Field Trial training areas serve as prep areas in our work to train good search and rescue dogs, and we are always staffed here by at least one person on call to make sure we can always supply local search and rescue teams with dogs who are trained to work in the local mountainous, boggy, and wooded terrains. .............................................................................................................................................................. We are proud to say that all our buildings are now fully outfitted with solar panels, except the chicken coop and the petting zoo barn. - Thank you for visiting!

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