CBCA Executive

President GELLINGS, Dennis Box 931 Dawson Creek, BC V1G 4H9 250 786 0303 dgelling@telus.net		Vice President GONNET, PETER Box 43 Broderick, Sask. S0H 0L0 (306) 867-2107 ppgonnet@sasktel.net
Directors
BRUNNER, Holly RR 1, C 31, Moser Rd Falkland, BC V0E 1W0 250 379 2952 hollybrunner@xplornet.com	LABELLE, Nathalie 1140 Concession 10 Alfred, ON, K0B 1A0 613 679 4953 borderpup2000@yahoo.ca
SAVAGE, Lorna RR1, Elginburg, ON K0H 1M0 613 541 0296 savagel@kos.net		THOMPSON, Mary 9782 Charlton Dr, RR 1 Denfield, ON, N0M 1P0 519-666-3750, mary.thompson2@sympatico.ca
Secretary-Treasurer Kelly Knowlton 1687 8th Concession Rd W Cambridge, ON, N1R 5S2 secretary@canadianbordercollies.org

Getting to know your executive:

Mary Thompson, Director East (2010)

I innocently stumbled into sheepdog herding 13 yrs ago.   For many years I had been heavily involved in the world of competitive show jumping, eventing, and hunting with hounds.  Seven days a week of breaking and training young horses had left me with bad knees and an equally painful lower back.  The doc said “do something else for a while”, so I sold my show hunter and decided to take a 2 yr break from the horse industry, fully expecting to return to it once my aches and pains subsided.   I’d always loved dogs and when my collie x heeler  passed away I decided to purchase a lovely Scotch collie and a Border collie to keep her company.  That’s when the first border entered my life,….and oh what challenge she was!  Coca is gone now, but the trials and tribulations that we had, provided me with many of the skills I use today to solve the varied problems associated with competitive herding.    

I’ve been an Open Handler now for 10 yrs with many successes on both sides of the border.  I currently have 6 border collies of which 5 are trialing competitively in USBCHA sanctioned trials.  The 6th, one only being 17 months, is training up well.  There have been many memorable moments; National Finals Oklahoma with a 14th place finish in a field of 114 Nursery Dogs, the Overall Championship at Grass Creek Park Kingston, the Double Lift Final at the Kentucky Bluegrass, the National Finals in Gettysburg 2007, an completing an international shed in 2008 and placing 7th.     I expect there to be many more as I’m truly hooked on the sport.  As you may have guessed, there was no permanent return to the horse industry, although I do still ride and train for friends occasionally.     I breed my own line of trial dogs under the kennel name of Hawk’s Landing Border Collies, and own a small flock of Scottish black face in southern Ontario, just 20 minutes west of London

>Mary Thompson
Hawk’s Landing Border Collies

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