Our Facilities
We are located about 15 km west of Hope, BC in a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains. Our scenic facilities offer a variety of amenities including a creek for the dogs and handlers to cool down in after their work out.
Downriver offers a 60' round pen complete with several holding pens attached to it. This allows for easily changing groups of sheep and can provide your dog with invaluable experience working in tight areas which helps your dogs:
- build confidence;
- learn how to do pen work; and
- learn self control.
We also have three arenas.
- 100' x 200' Trial arena complete with take and exhaust pens, and several holding pens.
- 110' x 230' Trail arena accessible through the round pen, allowing for a variety of exercises for both handler and dog.
- An arena built to the legal duck arena size for ASCA and CKC trials. It is approximately 100' x 100', but the fencing is designed to hold sheep and ducks.
Our Livestock
There are usually sheep available all year long. The sheep are accustomed to being worked by dogs. There are many different breeds of sheep to allow for different stages of your dog training: some are very heavy and dog broke for beginners, some are lighter for the more advanced dogs, and some are in between the two levels.
On a much more limited basis, Downriver may have cattle and/or ducks available for lessons or practice (by appointment only).
If you would like more information about our facilities, training services, clinics, or "All Breed" herding dog training videos and DVDs please contact us (604-869-7656).