Membership & Entering Trials
Rules
To enter a Trial conducted by a Dogs Australia affiliate, you must be a member of a State Affiliated Council. In Queensland this is Dogs Queensland. The membership application form can be downloaded from the Dogs Queensland website.
Your dog must also be registered. If your dog has a Pedigree then it will already be registered with the council responsible for the State in which the dog was born and you should have a Pedigree certificate for the dog. Ensure that the certificate is in your name i.e. you are listed as the Owner. If you are not the owner, then the owner of the dog must be a member and will be required to authorise all trial entries.
If your dog has no papers, for example, you rescued him from a shelter, then you will need to register the dog as an Associate.
"Working" Dogs without "ANKC" pedigree papers may also qualify to be recognised on the Sporting Register, check this out.
When you become a member of Dogs Queensland you will receive a membership card which contains your membership number. As trial entries are lodged using an online entry platform, you need your membership to be current to enter any trials. Trial are normally advertised 2 months prior in the Dog World Magazine which can be found online.
Understanding a Trial Advertisement can be difficult at first, but after a while it all seems very easy. An explanation of an Advertisement can be found here.
Trials are entered online via Top Dog Events, Showmanager or similar. The trial schedule will list the online entry platform that the club is using for entries.