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The COA board would like to update members regarding the membership of the trainer/COA member in the recently shared video. The COA board has accepted the membership resignation of the member in question. The COA does not condone the harsh treatment of animals, nor does it condone cyberbullying and other hate speech that is so often seen on social…[Read more]

Hi Victoria,

Thanks for posting! The forums are meant to be a bit more focused on specific topics that members are interested in talking about. They are focused and searchable and any member can create any topic they’d like to hear other members discuss. Facebook is great, but is a bit more of a free-for-all (which has its benefits as well).…[Read more]

Thank you members for your responses. This topic is now closed to additional comments and the Board will take all responses into consideration and will deliberate later this week.

Thank you members for this thoughtful discussion. As an update, the COA Board is planning to meet in the beginning of August to allow us time to process all comments. Your discussion will help guide any actions taken against this member. It seems there are two related points that have been discussed: 1) the action to be taken against this…[Read more]

All great ideas! Chris, the “You know it’s a Chinook when…” could be a recurring article that we get different members to right about the silliness (or other personality traits) of their Chinook.

Taylor, in the past we made each previous edition of the CQ (not the current one, but the one before) available in its entirety to non-members.…[Read more]