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You wrote

>Does anyone know how these new laws effect dog obedience training a
>dog off lead.  My labrador is in the second highest class of our club.
>We need to do some training off lead.

we are a group of Dog trainers from the croydon club who outgrew the 
abilities of the trainers there and started training at Lilydaye lake. 
The laws there state that your dog must be on lead at all times, we 
asked ot the council if we could train our dogs off lead in an area 
where the public generally don't use. The council gave us the OK as long 
as the area was free and the park ranger gave his OK. We spoke to the 
park ranger and he also gave us the OK if the area was free.

We used this facility for quite some time and now the next group of 
ex-Croydon trainers are working there as well.
Basically all I suggest is to ask and get it in writing, the councils 
are usually reasonable, it is some of the residents who are the problem. 
We have a grandmother who is lobbying at the moment to have dogs banned 
totally from the Lake because of droppings on the paths, if she haddn't 
already lobbied to ensure the dogs were on lead at all times, they 
wouldn't have to crap on the paths !

We also used to train at Melbourne Water places like Maroondah dam and 
the upper Yarra dam, these areas are beautifull and if there is not a 
crowd the rangers will let you train there off lead, just ask. We asked 
if we could set up a ring and train 4 dogs in UD, the rangers suggested 
an area we could use and we ended up with a fair crowd 10-20 children 
watching and enjoying the training session.

There are Melb water places all over the place where dogs can be run off 
lead, while under voice control, around the subburbs. In the basin at 
the bottom of mount Dandenong there is a Melb Water park on liverpool Rd 
 with a lake and paths for walking. 

There is a magnificent park in upway Melways 84 A-2, there is a lovely 
path along the side of the creak that leads to a large dam with a park 
around the edge. The path continues down the other side of the creek 
back to the car park. There is a gate at the entrance that is closed at 
dusk and opens, i think at 8am, drive through this and about 1km to the 
car park. There is a shelter with BBQ which you can book if you are 
having a get together.

We have now started training in tracking, even more open space needed 
but the dogs are in a harness.
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