Test Prep Clinic

The Yankee Test Prep Workshop will focus on handlers’ actions and options in the field and at the water. We won’t be teaching any “tricks” or ways to “beat” the testing system. We will present practical and effective handling advice for both the Natural Ability and Utility Tests, The workshop is lead by Yankee Chapter members who are NAVHDA judges and pro trainers. Yankee’s VP will moderate the session, and there will be two handlers with dogs to demonstrate handling.

What’s the format?
The workshop will cover Natural Ability in the morning and Utility in the afternoon, approximately three hours per session with a break in the middle of each. Participants can attend both sessions or just one. This is a people clinic, not a dog clinic -- you won’t be working your dog. We will have two handlers and their dogs to demonstrate, as needed.

The workshop is free of charge to all Yankee members. Non-members will be asked to pay $10 and can apply that to a Yankee Chapter membership ($20) if they’d like. There is no limit on participants.

Participants should bring something to sit on. Full-day participants should bring their own lunches, beverages, etc.

You may also like the following events from Yankee Chapter of NAVHDA:

• Next month, 14th February, 09:00 am, 2026 Yankee Chapter Indoor Clinic-details below in Phippsburg
• This March, 27th March, 10:00 am, Volunteer at the Yankee Chapter Booth for the Maine Sportsman Show in Augusta
• This April, 10th April, 12:00 pm, Yankee Chapter Women’s Apprentice Hunter Program in Phippsburg

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