Mrs. Ainslie Mills
19084 87-A Ave., RR 15
Surrey
British Columbia, CN V4N 6E4
(604) 882-0820
Email: oriana@telus.net
Mrs. Ainslie Mills
19084 87-A Ave., RR 15
Surrey
British Columbia, CN V4N 6E4
(604) 882-0820
Email: oriana@telus.net
Oriana (CKC Perm. Reg.) Golden Retrievers since 1974. Ainslie has participated in conformation, rally and obedience with some interest in working certificate/junior hunter training and tracking. Ainslie and her husband Barrie have bred and/or owned over 60 champions/Obedience Trial champions, Group and High in Trial winners, as well as junior hunters, tracking dogs, guide dogs for the blind, therapy dogs, search and rescue dogs and avalanche rescue dogs. In 1993, Robbie, a black Labrador entered their lives, enriching it for over 14 years, educating them in the ways of Labradors and endearing them to this wonderful breed.
Ainslie is a Life member of the Canadian Kennel Club, Golden Retriever Club of Canada and GRCBC and a member of the Golden Retriever Clubs of America and England. She has held numerous offices with both the national and local Golden clubs, including GRCBC newsletter editor and, for 11 years, coordinator of the GRCBC Rescue and Adult Placement Service. She is presently Chair of the Breed Standard/Judges Education Committee for the GRCC and Chair of the Judges Education Committee for the Golden Retriever Club of America.
For eight years in the 1990s, Ainslie hosted and produced All About Pets, a monthly, live, one-hour program for Rogers Community TV, sponsored by the Western Federation of Individuals and Dog Organizations (FIDO). She is a former Board Member and volunteer with the B.C. Branch of Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind and is a founder of the Sporting Dog Spectacular weekend in British Columbia.
Ainslie applied to judge conformation in 1991 and is now approved by the Canadian Kennel Club to judge the Sporting, Hound, Working,Toy, Non-Sporting and Herding groups. She has had the privilege of judging throughout Canada and the United States as well as Australia, Indonesia and New Zealand. Ainslie has judged a number of sporting and herding specialties, including ASCA (Australian Shepherd Club of America) specialty shows, and sighthound show and go events, which combine coursing and conformation. She was very honored to judge at the Golden Retriever Club of Canada National Specialty in 1998 and 2002. In 2004, she judged a record entry of over 430 Goldens at the Australian Golden Retriever National Specialty and assessed over 300 bitches at the Golden Retriever Club of American National Specialty in California. She judged the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Club of Canada National Specialty in 2009.
Ainslie attended the AKC Judges Institute in 1992 and regularly attends Judge's Education programs. She is an approved tutor and presenter for the Golden Retriever Club of America and has presented Golden Retriever seminars in Canada, the USA, Australia, Indonesia and Japan.
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