Welcome to the Southern Tier Chapter of NY NAVHDA. Our long established chapter is one of the most highly recognized in all of NAVHDA in regards to quality of training, testing and comradity of members.

We have about 35 active members who participate in monthly training days as well as our Spring and Fall Test weekends. The experience ranges from those with their first pup to some who could “write the book” on training of the versatile dog. Most of us started out wanting to learn how to train our own dog to hunt and leave it at that. Others of us started there and then got bitten by the challenge of testing in the NAVHDA system, progressing from Natural Ability through to Utility and even Versatile Champion levels. I hope to foster this same quality of training and testing and I personally invite you to come out and join us.

Regards!

Don Rottmann, Southern Tier NAVHDA President