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This subject has been discussed before and is available under the thread Pointing Dog Trainer recommendation? in 2013.

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FACT SHEET-DOG TRAINING REGULATIONS
Items in bold type represent new regulations.
DOG TRAINING
1. Individuals who, for gain or reward, train dogs to hunt or rt;trieve game birds (commercial dog
trainers) are required to annually obtain a commercial dog training permit. Applications for a
commercial dog training permit are available at any Fish and Wildlife Service office.
2. Commercial dog training is prohibited at all times of the year within the area of Alberta
encompassed by Townships 1-8, Ranges 1-11, W4M (sage grouse range).
3. An individual training his/her own dog to hunt or retrieve game birds does not require a dog training
permit.
4. An individual dog trainer (non-commercial dog trainer) training his/her own dog is prohibited from
training his/her dog on all public land within the area of Alberta encompassed by Townships 1-8,
Ranges 1-11, W4M during the period of April1 through July 31 each year.
DOG FIELD TRIALS
I. A person shall not, in a prescribed area, hold field trials for dogs for the purpose of hunting wildlife or
retrieving game birds without a permit authorizing him to do so.
• The 'prescribed area' identified in #1 refers to all of Alberta except privately owned land, land under the
control of the Department of National Defence (Canada), public land held under a grazing lease issued
under the Public Lands Act, and, land in a Metis settlement or on an Indian reserve.
• A person who wishes to operate a dog test or trial on privately owned land, land under the control of the
Department ofNat!ob.iu Defence (Canada), public land held under a grazing lease issued under the Public
Lands Act, or, land in a M~tis settlement or on an Indian reserve, may do so without a dog trialing permit.
2. The Minister may issue a dog trialing permit to a person who wishes to operate a dog test or trial
sanctioned by an organized group of persons involved in dog training or trialing.
3. Field trials for dogs are prohibited at all times of the year on all public land within the areas of
Alberta encompassed by Townships 1-8, Ranges 1-11, W4M.
4. As a matter of policy, persons wishing to hold a 'shoot -to-kill' field trial, during which birds are shot, have
three options:
• Conduct the field trial on a licenced game bird shooting ground,
• Conduct the trial using animals that are neither classed as wildlife nor controlled-animals under regulations
(chukar partridge, bobwhite quail, pigeons), or
• Conduct the field trial during the open hunting season for the species being shot, with shooters confined by
hunting regulations pertaining to licences and bag limits.
OTHER RELATED REGULATIONS
1. Individuals who, without killing birds, train a dog to locate live, wild upland game birds as a part of
dog training are exempt from the strict definition of 'hunting.'
2. Organizations who retain legally harvested game birds for dog 'training events (field trials) and
. individuals who use thes.~ legally harvested game .birds for dog training purposes are exempt from
the regulations prohibiting wastage of the edible portion of game birds.

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