Prairie State Dog Club

Prairie State Dog Club is a WDA afffiliated schutzhund club located in Marengo, Illinois. Prairie State trains year round at the training grounds of My BodyGuard Dogs. We offer Schutzhund training on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday each week. Dean Salamone is our training director.

Prairie State Dog Club would like to thank everyone who participated, donated gifts, raffles, and food to the club, and to everyone who supported all of our events in 2011. We're looking forward to another great season in 2012!!!

If you would like to come out and train with us, just give us a call, (815) 568-0484 and ask for Julie.

2012 Trial and Show Schedule

  • April 2012: WDA Nationals - St. Peters, MO
  • June 8-10: Combined Qualification Trial for the Selection of the USA 2012 WUSV Championship Team
  • June 22-24: PSDC Club Trial -- SV Judge Harald Hohmann
  • September: PSDC Club Trial -- Judge TBA
  • October: PSDC Club Conformation Show & Breed Survey -- Judge TBA

Our accomplishments

Over the last three years, Prairie State Dog Club has successfully hosted six Schutzhund Club trials, one Regional Schutzhund trial, three Conformation shows, and under the guidance of our training director, Dean Salamone, handlers and dogs training at Prairie State Dog Club have achieved over 130 Schutzhund titles!!  We look forward to many more events and success in the year's to come!