Dog Training

Plans for a crackdown on dog owners who let their animals run dangerously out of control have met with a positive response, according to the MSP behind them.

When Natalie Boyles started volunteering at the Dauphin Dog Training Club in the mid-1970s, training director John Cirillo said he immediately recognized she had all the qualities of a good handler: gentleness, understanding and tireless energy.

The German Shepherd Dog Training Club of Chicago will hold its next Correctional April 25. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and judging starts at 7 p.m. Pre-entry fee is $5 plus $3 for a second entry of same dog. E-mail and gate entries are $6 plus $4 for second entry of the same dog.

A long-standing member of Pinal County Sheriff Chris Vasquez’s posse says he was booted from service because he supports Vasquez’s likely political opponent in the fall elections.