Welcome to the official website of the Dr. John E. Flaherty Field Trial Club Association (a.k.a. Flaherty FTA). Working together with member dog clubs and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, we oversee, maintain, and schedule field events at the 500 acre tract of grasslands, fields and forest located at Tromley Road in East Windsor, CT known as the Flaherty Field Trial Area. The property is intensively managed to provide quality conditions for field trialing, dog training, and other compatible recreational activities such as hunting, bird watching, hiking and cross-country skiing.

 

Flaherty FTA has developed this website as a means to communicate with our members, and to educate others on the important role we play in managing one of the crown jewels within the CT Wildlife Management Area system. Please browse our web pages to learn more.

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"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. 
You are his life, his love, his leader. 
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. 

You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
~ Unknown