How Many ALASKAN Retriever Folk?

AmiableLabs · Jun 24, 2009

It seems like lately almost everyday I see a new RTFer from Alaska!

How many Alaskans do we have on RTF?

How many retriever folk are there in Alaska?

Juli H · Jun 24, 2009

quite a few..for the size of our state!

I would guess that the NAHRA (MSGDA) club has 50 members give or take...there were about 35 dogs entered in our last test..of course some of those had the same handler...

I am sure someone from AWRC, RCA, FRC, or IAGDA could give you approximate membership of those clubs (of course many people have memberships to more than one club)

Juli

gsc · Jun 24, 2009

I don't know how many RTF's from Alaska there are, but if you count the number of households that own a retriever, that would be almost all of them (averaging for those who own many of them). I own three labs... so far...

RN · Jun 24, 2009

Not enough, I could use one in this town!

BonMallari · Jun 24, 2009

I dont know how many but there were three Alaskan dogs qualified for this yrs 08 national Amateur...2 with Howard Niemi, 1 with Roy McFall

Frenchy · Jun 24, 2009

BonMallari said:
I dont know how many but there were three Alaskan dogs qualified for this yrs 08 national Amateur...2 with Howard Nieto, 1 with Roy McFall

Roy Redifer of Alaska also Qualified for and competed in this years National AM.

I'm not in AK any more, but would say the retriever group up their is relatively small, with many belonging to multiple clubs. I think it would be safe to assume that the number of people actively training their retrievers for HT/FT is WELL below 1000, and more like 250. Just a guess though.

Howard N · Jun 24, 2009

The Alaska Working Retriever Club has about 100 members as I believe the Retriever Club of Alaska has, most of us the same people.

There's a lot of us for the size of the population of the place.

Rod, if you didn't live so far away from the population centers of the state there'd be someone else in your town. Heck, you're about as far away from the mainstream as poor Jennifer Teed in Yellowknife.

Look at Mary Bixby. AFAIK she's the only competitive retriever person on the Kenai Peninsula.

And Frenchy, thanks for mentioning Roy R. I wonder if we have 250 people training for HT FT's. Not in any one year all at the same time.

Blipbug · Jun 24, 2009

Howard N said:
Rod, if you didn't live so far away from the population centers of the state there'd be someone else in your town. Heck, you're about as far away from the mainstream as poor Jennifer Teed in Yellowknife.

I feel so isolated *cries.

But I was born and raised in Whitehorse, YT, so I am familiar with the Alaska neck of the woods. Used to go there all the time for sport tournaments and weekend trips. Heck I even went there for my honeymoon

RN · Jun 25, 2009

Jennifer Teed said:
I feel so isolated *cries.

But I was born and raised in Whitehorse, YT, so I am familiar with the Alaska neck of the woods. Used to go there all the time for sport tournaments and weekend trips. Heck I even went there for my honeymoon

Hang in there Jennifer, maybe I'll hit the road with my camper sometime and throw you a few marks!

DEDEYE · Jun 25, 2009

Howard N said:
The Alaska Working Retriever Club has about 100 members as I believe the Retriever Club of Alaska has, most of us the same people.

There's a lot of us for the size of the population of the place.

Rod, if you didn't live so far away from the population centers of the state there'd be someone else in your town. Heck, you're about as far away from the mainstream as poor Jennifer Teed in Yellowknife.

Look at Mary Bixby. AFAIK she's the only competitive retriever person on the Kenai Peninsula.

And Frenchy, thanks for mentioning Roy R. I wonder if we have 250 people training for HT FT's. Not in any one year all at the same time.

Considering that our first trail we only had 84 entries total with 40 handlers, I would say that not even close to 250 people training... Haven't had a hunt test, but can say that alot of the trialers run master, so it's the same people... And then out of all of them, only a handful actually work at events....

helencalif · Jun 25, 2009

I just heard that Frank Kashavarof and his wife sold their place in WA and moved to Alaska last week... and I also heard Frank's got a Chopper pup now.

Helen Graves

John Robinson · Jun 25, 2009

DEDEYE said:
And then out of all of them, only a handful actually work at events....

I think thats called the 80-20 rule where the same 20% volunteer to do the work of any organization, it seems to be universal and certainly is with every retriever club I have ever seen. Year after year you see the same person working as head marshall, club secretary, whatever. I thank all of you who do volunteer, without you guys there would be no FTs or hunt tests.
John

Frenchy · Jun 25, 2009

Howard N said:
.....I wonder if we have 250 people training for HT FT's. Not in any one year all at the same time.

I was trying to think about all the people that run NAHRA/HRC/AKC, and included all those that may only go as far as JH. But yeah, 250 may still be on the high end.

WRL · Jun 25, 2009

helencalif said:
I just heard that Frank Kashavarof and his wife sold their place in WA and moved to Alaska last week... and I also heard Frank's got a Chopper pup now.

Helen Graves

I talked to Frank a few weeks ago.

He said the place in WA was too big. They wanted a smaller place. Plus, wanted to spend more time in AK. They've owned a place there for quite some time.

My impression was, he will still be back and forth like he has in the past.

WRL

SeniorCoot · Jun 28, 2009

I lived in Fai 74-98 and we had about 35 folks in our club I'd guess- i had only one lab there BLF but 35 sled dogs which were far more useful and had a much longer season of use in my area where dux season was short and not always sweet.

How Many ALASKAN Retriever Folk?

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gsc

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