WCFO US Member Clubs
(Listed alphabetically by State)
| Arizona | SouthWest K9 DanceSport Club |
| CONTACT: Loren Jensen Carter lorenjc@bigplanet.com Tel: (520) 299-8600 Cell: (520) 906-9939 |
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| Our SouthWest K9 DanceSport club was established in May 2006. Our home base is in Tucson, Arizona and we have satellite clusters of freestyers throughout Arizona, Southern and Mid California Our primary focus this past year has been to develop our name, by-laws, mission statement, logo and begin to grow our membership. We are actively involved in demonstrations in Arizona and Southern California. In addition, we provide on-going freestyle classes to Beginner and Intermediate students. We teach a Performance and Competition class, as well as a Handler’s Only Class. Many of our members have certified therapy dogs and enjoy sharing freestyle with the patients of many facilities. |
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| California | Redwood Empire Doggy Dancers (Northern California) |
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February 16 - 17, 2008 2 World Canine Freestyle Organization Titling Events (Entry deadline Jan. 21) |
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| Colorado | Mile High Musical Tails (Denver, CO) |
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http://www.milehighmusicaltails.com Mile High Musical Tails was founded in November, 2002. We started with just five members. Over the past years we have been working hard having fun teaching our dogs freestyle. We have promoted this fun team sport through quarterly club newsletters; newspaper articles; by doing numerous; and performing at the National Western Stock Show; and the like. |
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| Connecticut | Unleashed Dance Company (Stamford, CT) |
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| The Unleashed Dance Company is located in the Stamford Connecticut area. We get together to practice on an occasional schedule, renting space in a local training facility. People new to freestyle or interested in learning about training, demonstrations or competition are welcome to contact us about opportunities. | |
| Florida | The Sidekicks (Lakeland, FL) |
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| Florida | The Canine Fancy Dancers (Daytona Beach, FL) |
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| Illinois | Prancing Paws Freestyle Club (Chicago, IL) |
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| Maryland | Chesapeake Rock N' Rovers (Beltsvill, MD) |
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| The Chesapeake Rock N’ Rovers is a freestyle club based in Beltsville, Maryland. The club holds its meetings mostly at the Canine Training Association building in Beltsville. CRR presently has approximately 15 members from Maryland and Northern Virginia. Members attend a freestyle class at the same location on Saturday afternoons and enjoy helping each other train their dogs and develop their routines. Several CRR members are WCFO judges or judges-in-training. We also work with a Northern Virginia 4H club and have a 4H freestyle class in Virginia. We are hoping to encourage more 4Hers in the Washington Metropolitan area to try freestyle. Most of our members are also involved in other dog sports as well, including field, agility, conformation, obedience, herding, and flyball.
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| Massachusetts | Southeastern MA Canine Freestylers (West Dennis, MA) |
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| Michigan | The Freestyle Fanatics (Davisburg, MI) |
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| We are a fun loving group and love to share our passion of freestyle and our dogs. Anyone is always welcome at any of the events that we do! To Support and help fund one of the Freestyle Fanatics events, You many purchase an Ad in the event program or a sponsor Sign that will be displayed at the event. For more info, contact Freestyle Fanatics Vice Pres./Advertising, Gloria Voss. |
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| New York | PAWS Over NIAGARA K9 Freestylers (Buffalo, NY) |
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| We are located in the Buffalo, New York area. We actually got together after a reporter from the Buffalo Evening News contacted me and wanted to do an article on freestyle. I was just a freelancing beginner and tried to get him to contact someone with experience and all, but he was insistent on doing a local piece and tailored the article to also include the fact that we are looking for others in our area to start a club and bring the sport of freestyling to Western New York. So.... he actually inspired the formation of our club and now I am actually giving freestyle lessons at an area Dog Academy to help others get started, and then this allows them an opportunity to meet the three of us (albeit beginners) that got the club off the ground. Once we are a bit more established, I’m going to give our reporter a call and see if he’s interested in what he started. :o) There are so many people wanting to try it out and play and dance, I didn’t realize we’ve started a monster I think. I’ve been developing and working on and using a curriculum to fit our 8 week set for our Exploring Freestyle sessions and the next session will be doing actual routines, choreography, music editing and addressing costuming. We have found a dance friend who is a great choreographer with a lot of fantastic suggestions and ideas to come in and give us a hand on what we can do to jazz up the human side of the partners, so we compliment our furry partner. It’s a long journey toward an actual routine, but we are well on our way and we all go home having had a great time with our very tired dance partners curled up asleep by our side. |
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| Ohio | The My-T Dogs (Bucyrus, OH) |
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| Crawford County Humane Society sponsors the My-T Dogs. We are located in Bucyrus, Ohio. Bucyrus is located about 50 miles from Columbus, Ohio. About 80 miles from Toledo, Ohio. Welcome to all doggy people, we have obedience, agility, and are trying very hard to build a group of WCFO dancers.
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| Ohio | Dogs Rock Freestyle Club (Green Camp, OH) |
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| Ohio | Gems and Stars Freestyle Club (Dayton, OH) |
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COMING EVENTS: On April 13, 2008, JAN MAYR will be the presenter for an informative one day seminar at our indoor training facility in Dayton, OH. She has been involved in the sport of canine musical freestyle in the capacities of competing and instructing for 11 years. Jan has recently returned to doing workshops, and we are delighted that she will be sharing her expertise with us here at Gems and Stars. In addition, to the workshop on Sunday by Jan Mayer, we plan to have a 'really big show' on Saturday. This is not a competition, but a glorified show and go. We are going to call it our INNOVATION EXTRAVAGANZA. You will be able to use treats and toys, but discreetly. We want it to be a great training opportunity. Full costumes will be the order of the day. We want the dogs to think this is the International Finals of Freestyledom, while we can relax and have fun and surprise them if they need a boost. Final plans for this special weekend are in the works, so watch the list for more specific information. Hope you will hold this date, and plan to join us for a really fun day on Saturday, April 12, then a really informative, and fun learning experience with Jan on Sunday, April 13. Any questions please contact Morene Stickrod Wanagoreno@aol.com. |
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| Oregon | Dogs Gone Dancin' (Corvallis, OR) (North West & Canada) |
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http://dogsgonedancin.googlepages.com We are based in the Willamette Valley in Oregon but have members from Oregon and Washington. Dogs Gone Dancin' is the first and only WCFO club in the Pacific Northwest. Our members come from all over Oregon and Washington. We have a quarterly newsletter for members with up to date info on workshops, classes, practices, training tips and fundraisers. We host workshops, fun-meets and titling events. Dogs Gone Dancin' members perform demos at pet days, parades, nursing homes and other dog related events to help bring this new sport into the mainstream in the pacific NW. |
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| Pennsylvania | The DogHouse Dancers (Wilkes-Barre, PA) |
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http://www.geocities.com/greys4me/freestyle.html The Dog House Dancers are located in and around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. We meet once a month at members houses and try to practice weekly. We have members who are actively competing in WCFO events, giving demos and hosting a fun day. We hope to host a WCFO meet soon. |
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| Pennsylvania | Bark-A-Ritaville (Harrisburg/York, PA) |
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Bark-A-Ritaville Freestylers is located in the Harrisburg/York PA area. We get together Saturday nights at our training center and dance the night away. Currently we have 15 members in our club and we plan to grow. Our members are extremely talented, dedicated, and very fun. We also have a diverse assortment of talents which range from cooking to sewing! We are planning to host our WCFO event in Jan 2006. It will be called Dancing Away Again in Bark-A-Ritaville. We also host an annual Dog Fun Day which highlights some of the activities our dogs are involved in such as Freestyle, Obedience, Agility, and Rally–O. |
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| Pennsylvania | Y2K9S Freestyle Club (Wyndmoor, PA) |
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| South Carolina | Footloose in the Carolinas (Greenville, SC) |
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| The Unleashed Dance Company is located in the Stamford Connecticut area. We get together to practice on an occasional schedule, renting space in a local training facility. People new to freestyle or interested in learning about training, demonstrations or competition are welcome to contact us about opportunities. |
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| Tennessee | Appalachian Tail Spinners (Kingsport, TN) |
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| Texas | Paws-4-Freestyle Canine Freestyle Group (Austin, TX) |
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| Washington | Emerald City K9 Freestyle Dancers (Seattle, WA) |
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http://www.olypen.com/dncngals We are located in the Seattle, WA area and Olympic Peninsula.... During the summer we do numerous demo appearances at Dog Walks and Dog Shows in our area... We have monthly Fun Days where we meet to practice, learn new things, socialize and make plans for our future growth.... We would like to welcome anyone interested in learning more about Freestyle in our area to get in touch with us... We have an Emerald City Web site on part of my personal one.... Please go to it and have a visit.... There are some routines by Diane Kowalski on it that you will enjoy... |
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| Wisconsin | Dancers with Woofs (Mukwonago, WI) |
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(click on "Free Style Dance Class") http://www.forpetssake.cc Beginner and Advanced Freestyle Dance classes. For more information on classes, call 1-888-581-9070 or visit our website (above). |
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