Magpies Mackay & District Obedience Club

Magpies Mackay & District Obedience Club Promote and encourage responsible dog ownership by educating all members in the training, care and welfare of their animals. We teach YOU to train YOUR dog.

Pursue a positive community image by the promotion of all facets of the function and activities of the club. Magpies Mackay and District Obedience Club (MMADOC) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting responsible dog ownership. If you have a puppy or dog you wish to train, then come and join us on Monday evenings at our grounds at the Magpies Sporting Club, Glenella Road, Glenella. Your membership with the club includes a social membership at Magpies Sporting Club and regular updates to keep you up with what is happening in the club. Our instructors all work on a voluntary basis and have trained dogs. Individual problems can be discussed with your instructor or one of our senior instructors before or after classes. Your instructor may not have all of the answers, but collectively, the instructor team has many of the answers. Your instructor will show you how to train your dog. It is not their role to teach your dog, as you would not then have the skills to handle or control your pet away from your instructor. It is important to remember that first, your dog learns to learn from you, and the respect and rapport develops as your training expertise improves! This is when dog training gets exciting because you can then teach your dog almost anything. It is our wish for you to be a happy and proud dog owner made possible with obedience training and support you to train kindly but firmly and consistently

Members learn how to achieve an obedient dog which will heel beside them, come when called and stay when told. Training activities are available to suit all dogs of all ages and include OBEDIENCE, AGILITY, JUMPERS, TRACKING, and RALLY. The Magpies Mackay and District Obedience Club is an affiliated club of Dogs Queensland (CCCQ). For more information on Dogs Queensland, you can visit their website on www.cccq.org.au. A full listing of Obedience Clubs affiliated with Dogs Queensland is also available from their website. As an affiliate of the Dogs Queensland, the club conducts official competitions in Obedience, RallyO, Jumpers & Agility, Tracking and Endurance. MMADOC is also one of 10 affiliated clubs of the Magpies Sporting Club in Mackay and you can visit their site at: www.magpiesmackay.com.au. Our club is also involved in events in the promotion of responsible dog ownership.

🐾 SEPTEMBER INDUCTION – THIS THURSDAY! 🐾Register Herehttps://www.mackaydogobedience.com/new-member-pageReady to get star...
21/09/2026

🐾 SEPTEMBER INDUCTION – THIS THURSDAY! 🐾

Register Here
https://www.mackaydogobedience.com/new-member-page

Ready to get started with training at Magpies Mackay & District Obedience Club? 🐶

Our September Induction Night is happening this Thursday, September 24th!

Whether you’re looking to improve your dog’s manners, build better communication or simply strengthen your bond, our induction is the first step to joining our training classes. 💛

📅 Thursday 24 September 2026
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 Abbott Park, Casey Avenue, South Mackay

Come along, meet our trainers and learn everything you need to know to get started with MMADOC.

🐾 NO DOGS ON INDUCTION NIGHT
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Once off membership fee of $50 single, $65 dual membership followed by $7 per class
🐾 Dogs must be 4 months of age and fully vaccinated

Thanks to Nigel Dalton MP for his support of our club and attending our open day.
16/09/2026

Thanks to Nigel Dalton MP for his support of our club and attending our open day.

16/09/2026
🐾 Great to see the Magpies Mackay & District Dog Obedience Club's new ATV in action!This $7,500 project was funded throu...
16/09/2026

🐾 Great to see the Magpies Mackay & District Dog Obedience Club's new ATV in action!

This $7,500 project was funded through the Gambling Community Benefit Fund, and now Round 127 is open, with grants of up to $35,000 available for local not-for-profit groups.

If your club or community group has a project that needs a helping hand, now's the time to apply!

Interesting research!
05/09/2026

Interesting research!

New research! 🔥
Excited to see new research from Jade of Animal Behaviour Matters out this week! These two studies were undertaken with the Scent Detection Research Group at the The University of Waikato in New Zealand.

🦴 Dogs were given breakfast before or after completing a scent-detection task.

❌ When working prior to eating, dogs made significantly more false alarms.

🐺 Being hungry may cause a mild increase in frustration-related behaviour during scent work for some dogs.

🐕 Dog’s hunger state can influence both scent-detection performance and behaviour.

Yee et al. (2026) found that dogs working before breakfast produced more false alarms, suggesting hunger may increase dogs' tendency to respond to non-target odours.

Fountain et al. (2026) found that unfed dogs showed more whining and interaction with the equipment, indicating mild frustration associated with hunger. However, frustration behaviours were generally infrequent and varied between individual dogs.

Links to both of these open access articles will be in the comments or search them on google scholar/research gate.

Fountain, J., Yee, J., Hazel, S. J., McWhorter, T. J., McNutt, T., & Edwards, T. L. (2026). Effects of feeding on dogs’ frustration-related behaviours during a laboratory-based scent detection task. Behavioural Processes, 105430.

Yee, J., Downie, I., Fountain, J., & Edwards, T. L. (2026). The breakfast effect revisited: Dogs’ scent detection performance before and after a meal. Learning and Motivation, 95, 102328.

Thanks to Andrew Wilcox MP for his support of our club for the grant to install our solar and battery system.
04/09/2026

Thanks to Andrew Wilcox MP for his support of our club for the grant to install our solar and battery system.

Our open day event made it on 7NEWS Mackay Thank you for the support!🐾 THIS SUNDAY! 🐾Bring the dogs and come along to ou...
27/08/2026

Our open day event made it on 7NEWS Mackay
Thank you for the support!

🐾 THIS SUNDAY! 🐾

Bring the dogs and come along to our Dog Open Day for a fun-filled morning at Abbott Park! 🐶☀️

📅 Sunday 30 August
⏰ 9am–12pm
📍 Abbott Park, Casey Avenue, South Mackay

Doggy stalls, local businesses, activities and plenty of four-legged friends! 💛

Everyone welcome - we can’t wait to see you there!

Heather is also one of our beautiful volunteers and leads our scent work workshopsCongratulations Heather, well deserved...
25/08/2026

Heather is also one of our beautiful volunteers and leads our scent work workshops

Congratulations Heather, well deserved ✨️

🐾 AUGUST INDUCTION – THIS THURSDAY! 🐾Register Herehttps://www.mackaydogobedience.com/new-member-pageReady to get started...
23/08/2026

🐾 AUGUST INDUCTION – THIS THURSDAY! 🐾

Register Here
https://www.mackaydogobedience.com/new-member-page

Ready to get started with training at Magpies Mackay & District Obedience Club? 🐶

Our August Induction Night is happening this Thursday, 27 August!

Whether you’re looking to improve your dog’s manners, build better communication or simply strengthen your bond, our induction is the first step to joining our training classes. 💛

📅 Thursday 27 August 2026
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 Abbott Park, Casey Avenue, South Mackay

Come along, meet our trainers and learn everything you need to know to get started with MMADOC.

🐾 NO DOGS ON INDUCTION NIGHT
🐾 Once off membership fee of $50 single, $65 dual membership followed by $7 per class
🐾 Dogs must be 4 months of age and fully vaccinated

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Casey Avenue
Mackay, QLD
4740

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Tuesday 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Thursday 6:30pm - 8:30pm

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