Dog News, July 5, 2013

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Contents 56 Canine Counselors Heal Hearts In Newtown, CT

10 Editorial

By ranny green

14 The Way It Is - Failing Shows

by Sari brewster tietjen

58 True North: The Kennel Club That Could

18 Irving’s Impressions: Judges’ Critiques - Are They Worth It?

62 The Judges’ Choice: The Italian Greyhound

22 The Question Of The Week

68 Woofstock 2013

By allison foley

reprinted courtesy of the kennel gazette

By RonniE Irving

By Matthew Stander

By Kimberly meredith-cavanna

26 Babbling: The Perfect Kennel - A Possibility?

82 Papillon Club of America National Specialty

30 Brace Yourself: Minefield of Judging

94 The American Polish Lowland Sheepdog Club National Specialty

By sharon Newcomb

By geir Flyckt-Pedersen

By andrew brace

34 Bests Of The Week 38 Ten Questions Asked Of Ed Fojtik

BY ellen kelley

July 5, 2013 108 Our Beloved Bostons: 2013 Boston Terrier National BY carl E. gomes

111 Letters To The Editor

42 Juniors Speak: Caroline Clegg

114 The Gossip Column

BY kimberly silva garrett

44 The Wolf Connection: An Ancient Bond For A Modern Time

BY Eugene Z. Zaphiris

116 Click - Northern California (Lost Coast KC) & Southern California (Woofstock 2013)

BY sharon pflaumer

46 Rare Breeds of The World: The Anjing Kintamani

BY brandy nelson and sallie bernstein

by agnes Buchwald

50 Off The Leash: The NY Tiimes, The AR and The AKC By shaun coen

54 As Promised, The New “PR”Firm And More

122 Click - First Colony & Blue Crab Clusters BY carla viggiano

128 Click - The Way We Were BY leslie simis

By Matthew H. Stander

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IS IT A TOTAL FREE FALL? THE AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP CONUNDRUM While no official figures have been coming directly from AKC Last year the number of AKC Champions made up was 20,766 it is quite apparent that the continuing decline in registrations while in the UK the total for the year was 996. While numbers has reached a free fall magnitude. These pages have seen the can usually be twisted to arrive at most any conclusion broken monthly figures for the year 2012 which were given to us based down to its simplest terms one could say that one in 22 dogs upon an understanding that we would not publish them. They registered in the USA became a champion while in the UK are devastating in their downward trend although they did not the equivalent number was one in 238 dogs. That is based include mixed breed registrations which do seem encouraging upon 450,000 dogs registered in the USA per Mr. Irving and insofar as numbers and added income are concerned. Hardly 230,000 dogs registered in the UK again per Mr. Irving. Of reaching the Mark Dunn initially predicted figure which is alleged course whether or not this takes into account the quality of to have been in the ultimate area of 20,000 per month the the breeds here versus the quality of the breeds there is more mixed breed figures remain constantly lower although these may than debatable it is downright arguable and goes to the very rise due to the new social media efforts which have heart of our system which encourages and promotes begun. As to purebred efforts to recapture dogs earning their championships having never lost registrants and to develop new beaten an exhibit of the same sex--the Best people as constituents the sense of Winners approach, having beaten only here is that not only has this litter brothers and or litter sisters and been an absolute failure there having finished as puppies as well. Years may be a new acceptance of ago in an effort to reinforce the meaning living with and sustaining of an American Champion the Board and the 400,000 or so figure for Staff sent plans to the Delegates to rectify purebreds. Thereby becoming JUly 5, 2013 these situations. The motions were then the boutique registry so many roundly rejected by the Delegate Body. Since people have fought against for years. then as far as these pages are aware no new efforts While the Board and possibly Staff maintain were made to change these Rules and this Kalter-Newman led a totally different public face these pages are led to believe Board is hardly the kind of Board to raise such questions today. this is the practical and private consensus of those running the That does not mean the Rules and/or By-laws Committees of the ship. Else why the intense search for outside sources of income Delegate Body should ignore these problems too. If any action through the development of the social media. Not that social is to be forthcoming in these Championship requirement areas media automatically precludes the purebred owner since its those are the people to whom to turn to today. appeal is to all dog owners. However, the overwhelming positive reaction in the mixed breed owner in a comparatively short period AN FCI CORRECTIVE MEASURE of time seems to be leaning in the direction of the mixed breed The FCI as reported before its show in Hungary put an end owner. How The Edelman Group (the new ‘pr’ firm) with its two to a practise which made a total farce of its show system. As teams in NYC and the District will factor into this equation is some of you may recall at certain East European shows it was an unknown since no word from them as to their goals has been possible to earn not only the championship title of the country announced by either AKC nor Edelman itself. Also unknown is in which you were competing but for participating countries the magnitude of the scope of Edelman’s retainer and job as an hundreds even thousands of miles away. This was based on enhanced replacement for the old Rubenstein firm. Whether or a financial agreement with that country and its title could be not the Fancy and or the Delegates are to be kept in the loop earned as well. In other words for example your dog could as to what is happening in these critical areas remains to be become say a Philippine champion without ever leaving Europe seen. The constituency, these pages predict, will be told little if if a deal was struck between the two countries involved. At a anything whilst insofar as registrations are concerned the Board show in Bulgaria entitled the Black Sea winner no fewer than will continue to deceive the Delegates as to what is truly going 23 shows were held through July 4th which started sometimes on except of course unless “social media” and or Edelman or a with three shows per day. Great way to give judges assignments combination of both can succeed in reversing the current trend. wherein they receive no fees but have ALL expenses paid for a supreme holiday. Ten countries are participating which include A HOPEFUL TURNABOUT Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Colombia, One of the major criticisms of AKC throughout the years has Chile, Mexico and Taiwan plus the host country as well as been its failure to get its message across to the general public Moldavia and Ukraine. If your exhibit wins the CAC at both about all the good deeds it is involved with many of which have shows for any of these countries it becomes a champion of that been initiated by AKC and copied by animal rights organizations. nation without ever leaving the Black Sea! It makes these titles Indeed many of these organizations end up getting credit for totally meaningless. Finally the FCI has recognized this as well. these acts while AKC is totally ignored. This has been going on Effective April 1 next year this will no longer be permitted which for years now in many areas which include but are not limited to of course makes for a more credible title for a championship such varied happenings as catastrophic acts of nature, domestic award. Amazing to think it could ever have happened with violence situations and 9/11 reactions and help for people and which to begin isn’t it! dogs alike. Indeed both in Oklahoma tornado reactions and NYC domestic violence affairs the news media ignored AKC THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK as though it had done nothing at all. It’s hard to explain the Well THE NEW YORK TIMES banged the hell out of the ASPCA Oklahoma reaction but in cities such as LA and New York to last Sunday the 30th of June. Unlike the unjustified attacks name but a few the reporters tend to be pro-animal rights and on AKC and certain individuals contained in the TIMES during anti-breeders and anti-AKC so that their personal prejudices Westminster that hatchet job on the ASPCA led no doubt seem to interfere with the facts of the matter. These people

by Cindy Adams certainly magnified the shortcomings long must be re-educated and re-informed as to all of the good associated with the ASPCA. ANGST AT THE ASPCA was the things AKC actually does. Hopefully this is where Christopher title of the story and believe you me it struck at the heart of Walker and his team will step in as social media experts and many other of the animal rights organizations as well. Good get the pendulum to re-swing to the extent that at the very least job for a change, NY TIMES--too bad it was relegated to the our story will be heard and treated with equal respect in the Society Pages and not the general news area of the paper as national media and social media outlets as well. well!!!

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Failing Shows Active fanciers have long been saying, “There are too many dog shows.” They reason that too many shows means a dilution of overall quality of dogs at shows, leads to decreasing entries as exhibitors/handlers have many different options and directions to go when entering, and competition between shows for the same entries has not given us better events as clubs have seen their entries dwindle while their expenses are ever increasing.

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or the most part, all-breed conformation entries are down

with the average show being just under 900 entries. To a great extent, this is due to the economy. To a lesser extent, it could be said that dog owners have other interests and a greater variety of things to do that leaves little time or inclination to show their dog.

While dog ownership may be up, showing is not a prime consideration except in the minds of aficionados.

All of this leads one to surmise that smaller clubs may be reaching or have already reached the point where they will no longer be able to afford to put on a show.

In addition to financial difficulties, some of these clubs have difficulty attracting a younger membership. This results in little opportunity to train others to step in and keep the club viable when the older members are no longer able to hold the reins.

It is just a matter of time before financial and manpower attrition begins to take its toll and some of these clubs will go by the wayside – resulting in fewer shows. The cry that there are “too many shows” may, in time, cease to exist.

However, we must not lose sight of the main reason why conformation shows exist: namely, to maintain breeds as breeds.

This is what our forefathers had in mind when they began the practice of putting on shows that emphasize what breeds should look like using the written breed standard as a guide rather than just their performance in the field. Conformation mushroomed after World War II when there was more discretionary income, more time to partake in new activities, and more importance placed on a person’s possessions. Dogs became not just family members, but a measure of wealth

and value. Hence, the rise of the American Kennel Club as the registry of choice – long considered to represent the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” in everything related to purebred dogs.

However, in recent years AKC’s “Good Housekeeping” has been effectively tarnished by those who maintain that purebred dogs (and with it conformation’s purpose of maintaining breeds as breeds) are somehow less healthy and less reliable than mixed or designer breeds. This has further been eroded by the successful campaign to rescue a dog from a shelter instead of seeking out a responsible purebred dog breeder.

We all know that AKC’s registrations are down with a percipient decrease in the number of litters registered which, in turn, leads to fewer individual registrations.

To continue the downward slide, this also is another reason why fewer individual dogs may be participating in conformation dog shows. This takes us back to our original discussion – the fact that many smaller shows are falling, or will fall in the future, by the wayside.

Can anything be done? Should anything be done to help these clubs given the fact that we have long decried that there are too many shows?

Some clubs cannot be saved as putting on a dog show is a lot of hard work which usually falls on the backs of volunteers. The aging population of the average membership and lack of youthful interest means fewer and fewer people to do the work. It seems that the only way to attract younger people these days is to offer compensation or give them some “skin in the game.” This is where society is today – almost everyone scrambles to get something tangible out of

whatever they do in life and/or take immense pride in what they have accomplished on behalf of a particular goal.

Although forbidden by AKC many, many years ago, the reasoning behind permitting for profit, private membership clubs to exist needs to be brought back on the table for consideration.

Certainly some of our most successful urban clubs (Detroit, International, Golden Gate – to name but a few of the approximately dozen presently in existence) are AKC grandfathered privately owned for profit clubs. These are also clubs where the baton has been successfully passed to younger fanciers who recognize the need to sponsor viable shows in often difficult cities. Their goal is not so much to make money, but to make ends meet in having a quality event in their home area serving the purebred dog community and the public at large in spiking interest in purebred dogs. Can this concept be dusted off and considered for other clubs, other areas – urban, suburban and general countryside alike? With careful study, this is an idea whose time may have returned to the forefront.

In addition to rethinking the ban on for profit clubs, we need to take another look at territorial considerations, back-to-backs and even clusters to see if these concepts are the answers in serving the present day conformation dog community and home territorial population.

Conformation dog shows have grown topsyturvy in the past fifty years. We should no longer put our heads in the proverbial sand and just let things stand as they are. We should be taking steps today to pave the way for shows of the future.

While many doubters and old-timers have expressed sentiments of late that the best is behind us and question whether or not there will be shows in the future, there are others who maintain that someone/some organization will step in if a leadership void exists. The concept of maintaining breeds as breeds and the competitive spirit is all too strong to let the whole enterprise die on the vine!

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By Sari Brewster Tietjen

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IRVING’s impressions

By Ronnie Irving

Judges’ critiques – are they worthwhile?

Grading Not Likely In The UK

There has been some discussion recently in the UK on the merits or otherwise of adding an FCI type grading system to the judging process at British dog shows.

I personally have always been strongly against the concept and it seems to me that such a move is highly unlikely to be introduced.

The reason for my confidence that we are unlikely to hear much more about this in the near future is that TKC Chairman Steve Dean has recently written the following words on the subject: “Conclusions are some distance away”. I read that as kicking the issue into the long grass. There are many reasons why I think grading is a bad idea, but one of the most important is that nothing, in my view, would do more to discourage certain new people from exhibiting at dog shows than to be told week after week that their dogs are of inferior quality. My view has long been that a gentle realisation of that point as a result of a simple lack of wins, is a much more effective way of them coming to that conclusion. There is every hope that new people who are allowed to come gradually to the realization that their dog is not of the top flight, may by that time have developed a liking for the idea of dog showing and will not be lost to the fancy for ever. But tell them in words of one syllable 18 Dog News

at their first three shows that their dog is not up to the mark and they’ll soon decide never to come back to the sport.

Judges’ Responsibilities

But the subject of grading has led me to think about the different approaches to the duties and responsibilities of judges at shows. In the USA and in the UK, dog show judges are mainly just expected to place the dogs in what they believe to be their order of merit relative to one another – first, second, third or fourth. The possibility of not awarding championship points or challenge certificates also comes into it. There is otherwise no duty on the adjudicator to decide in absolute terms whether each dog is graded ‘Excellent’, ‘Very Good’, ‘Good’ or just ‘Satisfactory’. This is what has to happen under FCI Rules. (The last three of these terms incidentally are often euphemistic terms for ‘not so good’, ‘bad’ and just simply ‘awful’.)

So to that extent the US and UK systems are similar. Neither of them has grading. But when it comes to writing reports on the dogs there are other differences among the three approaches – under AKC, KC and FCI rules. In the USA no reports on the dogs are expected from judges but some breed specialties do ask the judges to make a written report on their winners, which will be made public in one or other of the club’s publications.

In the UK on the other hand judges are expected to write a fairly detailed

report on the first two or three winners in each class, which is then published in the canine weeklies. In fact so popular is this practice with the average winning exhibitor that a few years ago it was made an absolute rule by TKC that judges must, as part of their duties, provide such a report to at least one of the dog papers.

If they fail to do so they can effectively be struck off from judging.

Watching Paint Dry

It used to be that under FCI Rules a report had to be written on each and every dog at the time of judging. Now this seems to be optional on the part of the show.

This critique is normally dictated to a ring steward, who writes it down on a piece of paper and hands a copy of it to the exhibitor at the end of the day’s judging. This is still the case in many FCI countries, particularly in Northern Europe and especially in Scandinavia. However the FCI seems gradually to be abandoning this requirement. It always seems odd to me that the most frequent place for the dropping of this obligation is at the various FCI World or Section Shows, which are meant to be their prestige events. But the reason for this is entirely pragmatic.

Where you get big entries at shows, it is just about impossible to have reports on every dog. It would simply take far too long. To do so with a resulting maximum number of dogs per judge of 80 or 90 per day, means having a very large number of judges and an equally large number of rings and show space. It also slows the judging process up to a snail’s pace.

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What Criteria Do You Use In Determining Whether Or Not To Dedicate A Show To A Club Member Who Has Passed Away?

Nancy Wimer

takers are concerned about themselves for the most part - their

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wins, their losses and how they get the next big winner. The givers

The dedication of the member to the club and the

are most often the people in the trenches doing the work. They are

dog world.

the people who dedicate their time and commitment to all the jobs that make a dog show or a dog club work. They are the people on

Barbara Callaway del monte kennel club

We’ve never had a formal policy but as far

the show grounds at 6 a.m., after working the day before on show set-up. They are the people that are on the show grounds at 6 p.m. making sure everything is cleaned up and left in good order so the show will be wel-

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back as can be determined, we recognize any member who has passed away with a dedication in the show catalog. The full-page photo and verbiage is provided by an appropriate club member.

Bill

Totten-

roanoke kennel club

The Roanoke Kennel Club does not

have a set standard. When someone

passes away, the officers and board votes to

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comed back the next year. In specialty, or breed specific clubs, these are the people who work continually for the betterment of their chosen breed, whether on dog legislation issues, judges education, breed rescue, or any of the multitude of jobs that make a club function in an orderly and productive manner. They are the people who man the internet or

telephones to promote their breed in a fair

and just manner, and to stimulate the inter-

est of new people seeking information on their breed.

dedicate the show to that individual as long as

These people, the givers, are the unsung heroes in our sport. Gen-

they were a member in good standing. We typically

erally not seeking reward or acknowledgement from their peers.

dedicate the show to long standing members who

They are just there, silently in the background working to promote

have contributed to the club in some meaningful

the sport of purebred dogs, their breed, and/or the American Ken-

way or to the community.

nel Club. In most of the clubs I belong to this is usually a board decision based on a member’s long term commitment to the club,

Barbe Pessina

and to the sport in general. For me personally, it’s always the

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person who seems like they have been a presence in a club for-

I think most people involved in dogs can be classi-

ever - always there, always working, and always happy to be doing

fied in two camps - the givers and the takers. The

something for the sport they love.

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By Geir Flyckt-Pedersen

The Perfect Kennel –A Possibility?

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hope it does not come as a surprise, but the reason I am a part of this world of dogs and dog shows is that I really love dogs!

My very first dog was a mongrel that came into my life when I was about 8 or 9; she was my friend and followed me everywhere.

A few years later terriers came into the picture, eventually followed by (English) Cockers. The first Fox Terrier was shown whenever possible and we had a lot of fun without ever winning anything. I think at her 14th show a lady judge from Belgium gave her a very first CK (which means certificate quality), but never a CC. She also got a number of 2nd’s in quality- and I felt more sorry for her than for myself.

In due course she, named Lady Lou, produced my very first homebred champion, but as time went by and ambitions for more success came into the picture, the line was abandoned. So the Louline is not at all Lou-line any more, but it was a great learning experience.

I made the decision it was stupid to start at that level when I could save many generations work and breeding by buying a couple of bitches from already established and successful English breeders, which was what I did.

Having a kennel was never part of the plan, I wanted to have the dogs around and with me as much as possible, numbers were restricted, so I relied on “foster homes” for the puppies I decided to keep, but realized very early that this or co-ownership was not the way to go.

Whenever you “needed” them for any reason they were too thin, too fat, not in

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the condition you wanted, never came into season, if you wanted to use a dog he happened to be on holiday in a different part, etc., etc.

Well, as you know, there are situations when decisions are made for youand even if they normally get along, you would never leave 5-6 Fox Terriers unsupervised for any length of time. When I was home it was never a problem, but it became a problem when I was called home from school several times to interfere when 2 or 3 of them were having a serious discussion!!!

So for a while I concentrated on my cockers, I loved the fact that they lived together in perfect harmony, but still could not leave the terriers, so established a very successful partnership with a very sensible lady, Aase Tofte, a great horse woman, and had a lot of fun and great success with our Wires & Welsh in addition to making up the very first Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier in Norway! And as always, showing any other breed, terrier or not, for anyone who asked.

And of course the Schnauzer breeds were great favorites.

But I still had no plan to ever own a kennel.

Then I met this Swedish lady. She bred Cockers (English if you so insist), Norfolks, Welsh Springers and had just had phenomenal success with a Hamilton Stövare, plus that she had just imported the very first PBGV to Scandinavia from England. (Well, she found him in the pet department at Harrods, fell for him without even knowing what breed he was, and with the famous judge Carin Lindhe’s help got him into Sweden without the re-

quired import permit, etc. But he was confined to “home-quarantine” until all formalities were dealt with!)

Harry, (or Hubbestad Harrods as he was named) proved to be bred by the famous Basset breeders Seiffert & WellsMeacham and created some interest in the breed from other Swedish dog peopleand I dare say he started the breed over there. But never sired a single litter, I believe.

Anyway, I found this lady very interesting and was very flattered when, what I suspect was due to the fact that I was a good trimmer and decent handler, she decided to marry me and move to Norway.

Moving to Sweden- Me- Never!

But after a year or so in a house in Oslo with ½ acre of land, 10 Norfolks, 12 Cockers, a PBGV, a Welsh Terrier or two, the occasional Wire- I gave in and we moved to Hubbestad. A working farm in Sweden.

Now we were at the point where we had no choice. Had to build a kennel and it should be 100% perfect-more for the dogs than the people working there.

Planning, planning, planning. All the facilities you could probably want, 10 rooms, only 3 or 4 dogs in each, so you could get rid of the corridor effect (which I still hate) and make a cozy environment for all our dogs. Every dog had a pop hole to an outside, covered, run. Under floor heating. 10 huge exercise paddocks plus a yard where they could ALL run lose. A 120-foot long corridor. 5 feet wide, where we could watch the dogs up and back during show trimming.

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The Personal Minefield That Is Judging Whoever said that the middle of the dog judging ring can be the loneliest place in the world knew what they were talking about. Standing alone in front of some the severest critics of the dog world is not for the faint hearted and I believe far too little time is spent educating our would-be judges as to the psychology and implications of donning the judge’s mantle.

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f we start at the beginning, no one arrives on the dog scene as a judge. They begin their dog life as an exhibitor, possibly as a progression from being a pet owner of a breed that has taken their interest. They begin exhibiting and may experience success or failure. Oftentimes those to whom success comes rapidly tend to fall by the wayside if this success is not sustained. In my experience it is those who have struggled in their early days and resolved to get better dogs with which to win who stay the course more often.

Whilst exhibiting it is inevitable that friendships will be formed within the circles of someone’s breed, and logically the people to whom any exhibitor will gravitate are those who see the breed through similar eyes, admiring the same type of dog and possibly showing dogs of similar breeding. Eventually many exhibitors decide to become breeders, wishing to improve on their existing stock and to this end will put endless study into locating 30 Dog News

the best possible stud dog for their bitch, taking into account physical attributes and also pedigree. By the time someone gets to this stage in their development as a dog person, they will have researched their breed thoroughly and hopefully spent as much time as possible with the breed elders who are keen to pass on their knowledge of dogs of the past to those genuine enthusiasts who have never actually seen dogs that have proved to be pillars of the breed.

At some point they will be invited to judge. Traditionally judging appointments for those who were seen to be exhibiting and breeding quality stock tended to be at the behest of the senior figures in the breed.

They would often recommend someone they felt may be suitable and go along to watch their first assignment.

Sometimes they would merely sit ringside and observe; in some cases they would themselves exhibit – and not always their better dogs. Some of the tougher characters of my acquaintance would often take an “also

ran” to show under a novice judge just to see if they could judge knowledgeably and avoid the temptation to put up a well known face with an indifferent dog over superior specimens that were less “well owned”.

Before contemplating a judging career, before even accepting that first assignment at the lowest level of shows, it is vitally important that embryo judges are trained in the skills of judging cold.

It is imperative that all dogs are judged as they are seen on the day and details such as age, breeding, winning records and ownership are totally ignored. One of the toughest aspects of judging is dealing with dogs owned by personal friends. In a country such as the UK the vast majority of judges are also breeder/exhibitors. Most of our dogs are owner handled and our country is a relatively small one. Consequently it is common to see someone handling their dog at one show and judging at the next.

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4 Days in Santa Barbara 4 ALL-BREED SHOWS

& our 5th Annual Breeders Showcase sponsored by Simi Valley Kennel Club - Friday August 23, 2013 Santa Barbara Kennel Club - Sunday August 25, 2013 Breeder’s Showcase - Saturday August 24, 2013 Bullyganzga – Saturday August 24, 2013

Santa Barbara Kennel Club - Saturday August 24, 2013 Conejo Kennel Club - Monday August 26, 2013 Foreign Bred Competition - Sunday August 25, 2013 Sighthound Spectacular- Saturday-August 24, 2013

Art Work by Artistic Impressions by Terry d. Chacon

Our 5th annual Breeder’s Showcase is for you the Breeder.

You don’t have to own either dog – just be the breeder(s).

You don’t have to show either dog – anyone can.

This is designed for you the Breeder to showcase your breeding program Also join us for dinner on Saturday night compliments of our patrons For further information: Please visit out website www.sbkcdogs.com – (includes Breeder’s Showcase entry blanks) or contact one of the people below Breeder’s Showcase info: Desi Murphy –desichowman@gmail.com or Connie Miller – 269-375-8856 SBKC Show Chairman – Anita O’Berg – 805-685-5838 Superintendent: Jack Bradshaw – www.jbradshaw.com Dog News 31

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Virginia Terrier Club - Thursday Kettle Moraine Kennel Club - Saturday & Sunday Russell Terrier GCh. Goldsands Columbus Judge Mr. Norman Patton Judge Mrs. Anne Savory Bolus Judge Mr. Clay Coady Owners Mark Ulrich and Christina Areskough Handler Allison Sunderman Sandusky Kennel Club Dayton Kennel Club Lima Kennel Club English Setter Ch. Stargazr’n Wingfield Time Will Tell Judge Mrs. Houston Clark Judge Mrs. Gloria Geringer Judge Mrs. Faye Strauss Owners Don and Pat Coller and Eileen Hackett Handler Eileen Hackett Mt. Bachelor Kennel Club I, II, III Miniature Pinscher GCh. Marlex Classic Red Glare Judge Mrs. Christine Smith Judge Mrs. Charlotte Patterson Judge Mr. Terry Stacy Owners Leah Monte and Armando Angelbello Handler Armando Angelbello

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What person do you most look forward to seeing at the dog shows?

Laura King.

What is your greatest extravagance?

My dogs, what else?

What do you dislike most about your appearance?

Would like to lose a little.

What dog person would you like to see on ‘dancing with the stars’?

Nancy or Bryan Martin or both!

Questions

If you were forced to get a tattoo, what would it be?

THE Batman logo.

If you were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you want to have with you?

Plenty of food, a fishing pole and a TV

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When and where are you the happiest?

Out with my friends.

Other people think I am...?

Too serious.

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What did you want to be when you were growing up?

An NFL football player.

What would be your last request?

For my family to be taken care of.

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the Juniors speak Caroline Clegg Age: 12 Cincinnati, Ohio

By KimberlySilva Garrett

How did you become involved in the sport?

My parents have been in the sport for about 37 years and have been professional handlers, so I have practically been raised in the sport. My Mom won a group four at Westminster with a Kuvasz two months before I was born, so I was practically born at dog shows!

What is your favorite dog show moment, exclusive of a win?

When I was nine years old I showed a girl named Bella and won winners and the breed from the classes then went on to win a group four under Mrs. Bettyanne Hale.

What is the best advice you can give to potential and current juniors?

My motto is: “If you don’t have fun and love your dog then what’s the point?” Dog shows are about spending time with your dog and just having fun!

If you could change one thing that you feel would improve the sport what would it be?

If I could change something it would be the amount of respect some handlers have for their dogs and other people. I know people want to win, but that doesn’t mean you can’t love what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with at the same time.

What are your plans in the sport once you age out of juniors?

Well, I plan to go to a college –I don’t know which one yet because I’m only twelve–and become a vet specializing in animal reproduction because I’ve known everything about it my whole life. Then I hope to become a professional handler after and while I’m in college.

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Willow, a 2-year-old Grey Wolf dog mix, gravitates toward those who take the time to relax and clear their minds. Respect and patience earn Willow’s trust. Photo by Ken Ferber.

Gentle Rocky relaxing with some children during a community hike. Photo by Renee Dutcher.

The Wolf Connection:

by Sharon Pflaumer

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illow’s standoffishness around people reflects her wolf ancestry.

Her behavior changes, however, whenever the 2-year-old Grey Wolf dog mix is around those who hurt like youth with addictions.

“It’s as if Willow senses these youngsters are in need of something,” Teo Alfero says.

“We use her a lot at Wolf Connection Ranch during our programs for young people with addictions who need to work on energy levels. If they slow down, clear their mind and relax; invariably, Willow will come over and make friends with them. She can read these kids like a book and always picks the ones in the crowd most in need.”

The Wolf Connection is a youth education and empowerment program, with rescued wolf dogs at its center. With the help of these special creatures, young men and women at risk reconnect with nature, learn to be of service by responsibly caring for another being, and work towards becoming the kind of person they want to be. Personal growth is facilitated at camps, treasure hunts, potlucks and community 44 Dog News

hikes held at the facility. During these activities, youth interact with its wolf dog pack.

The Wolf Connection also is dedicated to improving the quality of life of large canines by providing rescue, sanctuary and behavioral enrichment for unwanted wolf dogs in order to strengthen the bond and collaboration between humans and animals.

The Culmination

In 2009, Alfero founded Wolf Connection, a 501c3 nonprofit organization located on a park like setting in Acton, CA. He grew up in Argentina after his Italian parents immigrated there. In the past, he did everything from mountain climbing to running several businesses. In recent years, he got involved with mentoring young people.

Alfero already was a coach and advocate for youth at risk, when a wolf dog puppy came into his life. While in search of a playmate for her, he was introduced to Tia Torres, the star of the Pit Bulls and Parolees television show on the Animal Planet Network. When he met Torres, she had just rescued a group of wolf dogs from a facility that closed.

Alfero was so touched by these animals also in need of help, he decided to open a sanctuary for

them and bought property to make it a reality. Wolf Connection Ranch is the culmination of his passion to help both youth at risk and wolf dogs in need of rescue.

“At present, there are 25 wolf dogs in the pack at our sanctuary,” he says. “We’re constantly taking in more. This year alone, we’ve taken in four so far.

A few came from situations where their owners had a change of fortune. They lost their jobs and homes and no longer were able to care for a wolf dog. Most of our pack members, however, came from people who got a wolf hybrid and realized too late they were in over their head. They got a nice looking pooch that turned out to be a lot more than they could handle.”

Bond Even More Intensely Than A Dog

Studies show 80% of the wolf dogs bred in this country end up being euthanized or in a sanctuary.

As a result, Alfero does not recommend getting one for a pet.

“They need attention 24/7,” he says. “If you work 9 to 5, you can’t have a wolf dog at home unless you retrofit your backyard like a zoo. Because they bond with their owner even more intensely than a dog does, they’ll try to find their owner if he leaves

A teepee and medicine wheel at peaceful Wolf Connection Ranch. Photo by Giulia Cappelli.

Teo Alfero (center) spends time bonding with some wolf dogs and volunteers. Photo

by Paula Ficara.

Guests tour the kennels and hear stories about each wolf dog. Photo by Ken Ferber.

home. In the process of trying to escape, a wolf dog will chew holes in walls and crash through windows.

If he can’t find a way out, he will chew up the furniture out of anxiety. Wolf dogs are large animals that weigh between 80 and 130 pounds. So, they are capable of doing considerable damage.”

As is the case with most sanctuaries, the wolf dogs that come to Wolf Connection Ranch are given permanent refuge. That doesn’t mean they will be confined in a cage for the rest of their life. Each has a one-acre pen in which to roam in a natural, wooded setting.

“After wolf dogs come to Wolf Connection Ranch, they go through an intensive rehabilitation program,” Alfero says. “They learn how to walk on a leash without pulling and go for a ride in a car.

They learn social behaviors like how to get along with other wolf dogs and be part of a pack. They learn how to behave around people as well and how to interact with them. Eventually, they’re well enough trained to calmly walk into a room full of strangers or even an auditorium filled with screaming kids.”

A Wolf Connection community hike.

Photo by Ken Ferber.

An Ancient Connection

An integral part of the programs held at Wolf Connection Ranch, these magnificent beings once in need of rescue themselves now help change the lives of young men and women at risk. Indeed, the youth from foster care, continuation schools and probationary systems who attend these activities often have a life changing experience.

“The benefits of animal therapy done with dogs, cats and farm animals are well documented,” Alfero says. “We believe the benefits from wolf dog therapy are even more intense because of the primal bond between humans and wolves. We have more than 130,000 years of shared co-evolutionary history with this animal because the wolf was the first species humans collaborated with. Some researchers believe the human race survived because of this millenniums old association with wolves.

Some also believe we have a primal connection with these animals at the DNA level now. That

means, when a person comes in contact with a wolf, he has an unconscious flashback on a primal level and, therefore, feels an intuitive connection to the animal.

“The mistreated, abandoned or ostracized kids that come to us connect with the wolf dogs on this primal level beneath all of the socialized hurt and learned behavior they’ve experienced.

For the few moments they interact with the wolf dogs; they’re free of the psychological baggage imposed on them. Because the wolf dogs accept them for who they are, they realize they don’t need to be anything more. They no longer need to act a certain way or wear certain clothes. They gain a new sense of their identity and come away with a feeling of being at peace with who they are.”

For more information about Wolf Connection and its programs, visit http://www. wolfconnection.org/

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are Breeds Of The World

by Agnes Buchwald

The Anjing Kintamani Kintamani Dog Of Bali / Indonesia

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hen I was a little girl, and for the following years, I cherished a little strange dancing figurine my mom was presented with from an uncle who visited Bali. The little dancer accompanied the family from Hungary to Italy, from Italy to Brazil, and from Brazil after mom parted, came with me to the USA. Today, dusting the little dancing divinity I decided to part from it and give it to my granddaughter as a souvenir from her grand grandma. A part of my life was gone with the little dancer, and as my farewell I decided to talk about this exotic place and its almost totally unknown dog breed.

Bali is a province of Indonesia. The province covers a few small neighboring islands as well as the isle of Bali. The main island is located in the western most end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, and it is one of the country’s 34 provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island.

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he New York Times finally exposed some truths going on behind-the scenes at the A.S.P.C.A., an organization that generally receives a free pass in the mainstream media. Among the revelations in the June 30th article were inflated salaries of top executives, business meetings at exclusive private clubs in NYC, possible misappropriation of funds, exorbitant fees paid to consultants without the board’s knowledge and/or consent, a botched lawsuit resulting in the payout of $9.3 million to Feld Entertainment, the owners of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and a mass resignation of Board members, one of whom (longtime television game show host Bob Barker) cited as the reason for his exit becoming disheartened by realizing that “ani-

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mal welfare was not the priority, fundraising was.”

This may not come as news to any purebred dog fanciers, especially those who were in attendance at this year’s Westminster Kennel Club dog show at the Piers, where the A.S.P.C.A. handed out fliers containing reprints of the infamous February 2013 NY Times article that questioned the American Kennel Club’s inspections program and its relationship with puppy mills, and generally condemned purebred dog breeders.

One wonders if Westminster officials would even allow the A.S.P.C.A. to have booth space at its future events, as like the Humane Society of the United States, it has a very different agenda than that of the Westminster and American Kennel Clubs. The one-sided article that the NY Times printed to correlate with American dogdom’s crown jewel, Westminster, left a very bad taste in purebred enthusiasts’ mouths and once again had the AKC on the defensive. Among the many inaccuracies printed was that forty per cent of the AKC’s revenue came from commercial breeders, to which the AKC’s Chairman, Alan Kalter, claimed, “We told them five per cent of our revenue comes from commercial breeders. They chose to print it was forty per cent. That’s not true.” He also said at the time of organizations such as the A.S.P.C.A. and the HSUS that “they want us to engage with them,” but the AKC by and large has elected to do what some would say is to take the high road and refused to do so, citing the stance of the NRA in the battle for gun control. “The NRA is only about protecting gun owner’s rights, and we’re about protecting breeders and dog owners’ rights,” Kalter said.

So the fight against these socalled animal rights groups has largely been left to individual dog owners and breeders, the mainstream media and HumaneWatch.org, a website created by millionaire Washington, D.C.-area lobbyist Rick Berman and his corporate-funded front group, the Center for Consumer Freedom.

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ell as promised the new JRC went right to work and letters were sent on Friday, June 28th informing those who applied whether or not they received the breeds they should have heard about two months ago. Presumably every-

one got those breeds for which they asked as under the new system the ability of the person to perform as a judge is totally ignored while the major factor appears to be the individual’s ability to fill in the blanks correctly and to meet the requirements as set out. This will open the door to let everyone judge whatever he or she wishes which is probably the reason Edd Bivin resigned from the original JRC and Bob Indeglia is alleged to have refused to be a member of the appointed 12 sitting on the newly formed JRC. And to add insult to injury as I am writing this piece the picture I have of Ramona Van Court sitting on my desk awarding a bloodhound of mine her final championship points in June of 1971 fell over on its face. This was probably Ramona’s reaction to having read what I just wrote and had nothing to do with how cluttered my desk at home truly is. The problem being of course that most members of today’s Board who set up that kind of a precedent probably never heard of Ramona with which to begin much less knew her! That’s one of the reasons they have opted to ignore talent and endorse paper work, an attitude the most capable and trustworthy of judges such as Ramona Van Court Jones never would have permitted This photo of Ramona Van Court awarding my bloodhound her final Championship points in nor endorsed! Here’s the photo to en1970 which rests in a frame on my desk, fell dorse that point for sure. over on its face while I was writing about the goings-on at the JRC today. Was that a sign or what?

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trust and am hopeful the new ‘pr’ firm hired by AKC will eventually be a great help in furthering AKC’s image. And for the monies they are being paid, which I understand is a much greater sum than AKC was paying the old Rubenstein ‘pr’ firm, let’s hope my reaction is confirmed in fact and not a fancy of mine based on the Edelman Group’s size as the largest ‘pr’ firm in America if not the world. Size isn’t everything (or so some people say) but it certainly helps. Of course its reputation in the business world is as strong as they come and one can only hope that AKC’s interests will be properly served by this type of firm.

That Rubenstein did not work out for AKC was probably as much AKC’s fault as anything since the prevailing retainer under the contract between Rubenstein and AKC was minimal and based on an “as used” formula whereas Messrs. Kalter and Amen negotiated a much steeper monetary commitment to Edelman, which may or may not

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have been approved by the Board. If it works in re-creating and saving AKC’s falling image who cares what really is being spent now or whether or not the Board okayed the deal. but look at the tumult at the ASPCA, which I shall discuss after I tell you of my experiences with Edelman so far-UNHAPPY though they were.

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hen I first learned of Edelman’s hiring

by AKC, which was through Alan Kalter’s Chairman’s Report printed three or four issues ago, I contacted the Edelman Group to find out who the two team leaders-one in NYC the other in the District-- would be so that I could add them to our comp list. This we had done with Rubenstein and with other pr firms that have an interest in dogs as well.

For a solid week e-mails and phone calls were totally ignored by people at every level of the Edelman firm’s organization. From receptionists to top executives no replies to these requests of mine were made. In frustration I contacted the new social media man at AKC who kindly gave me the two names and addresses of these “leaders”. I sent them copies of DOG NEWS asking if they were interested in being put on the comp list. Again no replies whatsoever. I ask you is that how a top-notch ‘pr’ firm operates? I would think not but in fairness to them I will say it is early on in its relationship with AKC (only 12 working days as of this writing). Perhaps they were and are waiting to get their feet wet. Nonetheless the media is the media and one would have thought and hoped for a different, more positive attitude. Let’s see what the future will bring-I assure you I will keep you informed.

As to the ASPCA angst previously referred to The New York Times finally on Sunday, June 30th in its Society Section blew the whistle to the story we printed in our Letters to the Editor column three or four issues ago. No doubt spearheaded by Cindy Adams, whose photo with her two Yorkies predominates the first and introductory page, the article hits the ASPCA hard and where it should be hit - right in the guts. No friend of AKC nor the purebred breeder is that organization, which at the Garden this year passed out negative stories at the Piers about us all until the Westminster authorities stopped them for sure. It’s the ASPCA’s turn now to be the subject of a scandalizing report of mismanagement and alleged misuse of expenditures of money, which made the negative AKC stories of February written by the Times seem tepid in comparison. The difference between the two attacks is that in my opinion the ASPCA deserved what was written about them whereas the information written about the AKC and other individuals was basically incorrect and refutable by the real facts.

Let’s see how the ASPCA and its ilk react to this treatment by the press--should be an interesting scenario.

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Canine Counselors Heal Hearts In Newtown, CT

By Ranny Green Photography by Zak DePietro Ed. Note: The Newtown, CT massacre hit the dog show family directly, as longtime dog breeders and owners Tony and June Pinto lost their grandson Jack in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

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hey’re worlds apart – the clamor of a big-city dog show amidst the fervent quest for championship points or the subdued, more controlled setting of an idyllic New England town school – but for Juliette, Clarence, Rosie and Drago the sharp contrast is a blur.

There’s work to do, whether it’s impressing an American Kennel Club judge or healing the deep psychological scars of a troubled, needy, youngster. And for their dedicated owner-handlers the commitment in both arenas is represented by a wide-ranging hybrid of deep-rooted emotions of pride and passion.

Visitors at the Newtown Thank You Event for Dog Therapy Teams interact with Clarence and Rosie, St. Bernard therapy dogs owned by Bill and Laura Gordon, members of the Greenfield (Mass.) Police Dept. The two dogs also compete in conformation shows one to two weekends a month.

Brad Cole of Milford, Conn., and Spartacus, an Akita, were among the most popular therapy-dog teams at Reed Intermediate School from the day following the shooting until the final day of school. “Spartacus was the first dog in and last dog out,” says Cole, who helped organize the Newtown thank-you ceremony.

“Spartacus was like a God at Reed,” said another handler. “Everyone gravitated to him.”

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Two of the four were canine counselors in Newtown, Conn., for untold dozens of students in Reed Intermediate School, where a crisis center was established following the Dec. 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took 27 lives, including that of the perpetrator. The other two were there for first responders outside the crime site hours afterward.

About a couple of months later Juliette, a 3-year-old Bernese Mountain Dog, groomed, shown and exhibited by Danielle and Rachel Meyers, 13-year-old twins from Southbury, Ct., was a media celebrity and competing in the ring of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and several shows in the United States and Canada.

The twins and their parents, Lynn and Adam Meyers, were at the Reed Jay Smith, principal of Reed Intermediate School’s Crisis Center Intermediate School in Newdaily from Dec. 15 through the holitown, where the crisis center was quartered, holds a poster days, including Christmas and New made by students, thanking Year’s Day, and well into 2013. the therapy-dog teams that “In the beginning we broke up visited the school for months following the December shooting massacre.

A young girl relaxes on one of William and Laura Gordon’s St. Bernards at a Newtown Special Thank You for the Therapy Dog Teams civic event June 22. The Gordons, members of the Greenfield, Mass., Police Dept., brought Clarence and Rosie to Newtown immediately following the shootings. The dogs were huge therapy hits for the firstresponding firemen and law-enforcement personnel.

This therapy dog came in style with his owner-handler to the Newtown ceremony.

the day with breaks as needed for Juju (Juliette’s call name),” recalls Lynn Meyers. “We visited a couple of hours a day then returned to the counseling center at night for as long as needed.“ Because everyone – students, parents and staff – had a need for handson therapy the Meyers and other comfort-dog teams did not discriminate as to whom to direct their dogs’ attention.

“Juju would gravitate to people or viceversa,” adds Meyers. “There was a quiet, comforting flow at the center.” Initially, the dog tired easily and turned her focus toward her owners. But as visits continued she became more in tune with addressing others’ needs.

“She is able to jump into the show ring and perform as before her therapy visits,” says Meyers. “She understands and distinguishes her job in both settings. And she has become more social since Newtown and seeks out petting and attention from strangers.”

Asked about their most memorable experience in Newtown, Danielle said, “There was a little girl at Reed who was terrified of dogs.

We saw her looking at Juju and asked her if she would like to pet her. She just shook her head.

“Rachel and I got on the floor and Juliette laid down next to us. We were talking about her toys and the stuffed animals they were giving out at the center. We asked her what she would like and Rachel went with her to check out all the toys. She kept a curious eye on Juliette all the time.”

After the young girl picked out a small doll, Danielle let her know that playing dolls was formerly one of her favorite pastimes.

Then, she added, that playing with her dog was now No. 1.

“She had many questions about Juliette and we assured her that Juju was very gentle, just like a stuffed animal. She confided that

she was always afraid of dogs but would like to feel what it would be like to pet one,” Danielle adds.

The twins, who have been showing dogs since age 9, slowly introduced her to Juju by commanding the dog to remain in a down position, which maintained a comfort zone for the child. “Before she knew it, she was petting Juju,” beams Danielle. She returned for more visits and was soon at ease with the Berner, which opened a pathway for overcoming her fear of dogs. Her mother expressed her gratitude to see the positive impact the experience had on her daughter.

Bill and Laura Gordon and their St. Bernards Clarence and Rosie intersected in Newtown from an entirely different direction and perspective. Both are police officers in Greenfield, Mass., a town about two hours north of Newtown.

Because of their affiliation with law enforcement, they were requested by a priest of the Boston office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to meet with first-responding federal, state and local police along with local firefighters who needed a physical and emotional break.

Upon arriving at the Sandy Hook Fire Dept. station, the point site for all law-enforcement personnel and only several hundred feet away from the school, the Gordons were told that since there were no family members at the station, therapy dogs were not needed.

“We explained that we were not there for specifically for the families, but for first responders, too,” Gordon says. “As we tried explain why we were there, security personnel said, ‘Sorry, you’re not needed.’ When we turned to leave we noticed several firefighters in full gear on their knees, crying silent tears while hugging our dogs. I turned to the security and asked if they were sure we weren’t needed.

“Several minutes later, state police came running out into the parking lot and ushered us past security and provided us a full-access pass to the whole station where responders lined up to have their turn with the dogs. Some had smiles, some had tears, but all of them brought home a little drool. “ Gordon recalls a second powerful incident involving the 160-pound Clarence and 145-pound Rosie that compete one to two weekends a month in conformation events about New England much of the year. Rosie is a grand champion while Clarence has only recently started his show career, although he has a five-point major already.

“While we were in the fire-station parking lot a vehicle pulled up with a young woman and a child inside. The woman came out and explained to security personnel that her young son wouldn’t go to bed without knowing his firefighter daddy was OK. The firefighter came out, hugged his son and brought him over to meet the dogs. He told his son that the dogs were there to help him and that he could go to bed knowing that daddy would be OK. The boy hugged Clarence and jumped back in the car with his mother and headed home.“ Not as dramatic but equally compelling, at the command post an ATF agent was typing his report with one hand and rubbing Clarence’s head with the other. Clarence was giving him enough strength and psychological salve to write details of the investigation.

First responders, Gordon continues, aren’t accustomed to being cared for themselves. “What some of them saw will affect them for a lifetime. Taking a few minutes to decompress and pet Rosie and Clarence was a signature moment for all of us. I saw a relief on the faces of police officers and firefighters who just took five minutes out of their important work. There were some tears,

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Do you remember the little engine that could? Just because he thought he could?

Well here in the True North we have a Kennel Club that “could” as well!

The Kennel Club That Could

By Allison Foley

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rince Edward Island, the ‘Birthplace of Confederation’ for Canada is an island Province about the same size as the state of Delaware. Nicknamed the ‘Gentle Island’ its scenery is something to behold.

The population there is only 140,000 people, so small that the province doesn’t even have its own area code! They

do however get almost half a million people visiting there yearly most of them to see the fabled ‘Anne of Green Gables’ estate. As you can imagine with a population that small that the dog population is even smaller.

Small but mighty.

Two years ago the Abegwait (yeah, no one really knows how to pronounce it!) Kennel Club ran into financial difficulty. Spending money as they often did on getting judges from exotic locales (to bring a little flair and something different for the exhibitors) combined with declining entries had finally taken its toll. The Club was forced to shut its doors (so to speak).

In 2012 they in fact did not hold a show and the show was sorely missed. Now this has happened to other kennel clubs with a larger population base and those clubs have just become memories. But the good folk of PEI would not see that happen. They banded together, held silent auctions, raffles and even resorted to sending out form letters to the fancy in the slightly larger Maritime region asking for donations to help save this club (the biggest debt being fees owed to the Canadian Kennel Club).

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Judges’ Choice The Italian Greyhound Reprinted with permission from The Kennel Gazette

We asked a number of Championship Show judges to select their three greatest Italian Greyhounds of all time. The dogs could be from the past or the present and from anywhere in the world. We have asked our judges to avoid choosing dogs with which they have been closely associated. However, they can make reference to them if they are significant.

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What do you think of when you see a parking lot full of motor homes, tie-dye EVERYWHERE, peace beads, headbands, a bunch of hippies roaming around, great music and a bunch of beautiful dogs?

The WOOFSTOCK dog shows, of course!

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“Hairspray” for Vicky Abbott, “Dem Bones” for Pat Hastings, and then there was Larry Abbott, who was judging his first Toy group. Larry is umm… err… “follicle challenged”. With “Hair” playing in the background and the crowd and others judges laughing at him, I am sure he will always remember his first group assignment…. But he took it all in stride with a smile on his face. Bob also chooses very unique doggie songs for various breeds and group winners. Continued on page 131

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which also went around giving everyone smiling flower stickers.

Of course we play fabulous music throughout the day. This is really the signature of Woofstock and is all ably handled by “The Music Man” Bob Birdwell. Bob calls all of the group judges to inquire about their favorite songs and then also finds some rather comical ones to match the judge that surprises both the judge and the crowd. Some examples this year were:

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t is hard to believe that WOOFSTOCK 2013 was our sixth event! And what a party it was! Exhibitors told us that they thought this was “the best ever” and we have to agree.

Hosted by the Lake County KC of Northern CA on June 6th and 7th, and Contra Costa County KC on June 8th and 9th, we try to make the shows feel like one big party.

We have continually strived to make WOOFSTOCK all about the dogs and the exhibitors.

We have held our entry fees at $29 for all six years and have not increased motor home parking. We will continue to absorb increases and not pass them along to our exhibitors as long as we can. We almost doubled our tenting this year, which created more shade for the rings and grooming as well as adding a new look to the grounds.

Many of the exhibitors decorate their set ups/grooming areas and it is always a treat to walk around and check them out. Many of the vendors also decorate their booths and we offer a prize for the best dressed vendor booth. This year’s winner was RED BARN,

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trimming room and huge indoor facilities for puppies, thinking about severe winters, etc., etc.

The highlight of my day was actually in the morning, when all dogs were taken for a walk in the woods. 14-15 cockers, 6-7 Wire Fox terriers and 8-10 Norfolks. All together in peaceful harmony. But only if I was present.

Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it?

Life was wonderful. Was this Nirvana?

But then came the time to show these fabulous individuals bred here for the first time- and reality set in: They had hardly seen a car, only people they knew, were used to cows and horses, but Afghans and Newfoundlands were terrifying monsters.

Although they had the radio on in the kennel all day, the loudspeakers at the show were at a level that scared the daylight out of them! People in groups applauding, shouting, another person with a dog running behind them…Well most could handle all this, but the ones who had problems were always the BEST ones!!!!

Then we imported a couple of dogs which did not “mingle” well, so the walk in the park as a group was abandoned- a daily routine that I still miss, despite walking the small team we have currently every morning.

So all of a sudden there were problems in the Garden of Eden!

The farm was in the middle of nowhere.

Absolutely quiet. You could hear a sparrow flap its wings. Now a different regimen started. All puppies in to the local town from as close to 8 weeks as possible, seeing cars, traffic, bicycles, people, children, noise- and it all became hard work. No use of pop-holes any more, but carrying them individually in and out from kennel to run and vice versa .

The one thing we learned from this experience is that all the work you put into a puppy between the ages from 8 weeks to approximately 4 months, will pay you back forever!!

Even if you tend to forget them for a while after that!

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Then what has all this got to do with the perfect kennel?

Well, we made another few attempts, but just as when you finally build your perfect house, after a while it ain’t so perfect any more.

The fact is that if you want to get anywhere with a breeding program, you need to have a number of dogs and be able to breed a few litters from time to time. At the same time you want to be with the dogs- and you hope the dogs want to be part of your daily life and routines, despite living in a kennel.

It is possible, but at the same time takes a lot of planning and hard work!

Well after a lot of thinking, I came up with the brilliant idea that our next kennel would be built in a circle, with kitchen, office and trimming room in the centre, OPEN to all dogs and puppies, so all could feel they were part of what was going on and seeing whatever happened, radio and TV on, etc., etc. And if you only had enough land, you would have the chance to make huge runs in different directions with an individual door out from every room.

Sadly we never got the chance to fulfill these plans, which were hatched by this unique genius, myself!

But it was still on my mind for a long time!

Then came a shock: In English Dog World a few years ago they featured the kennel inhabited by the Poodles belonging to Janet Lange and Joe Vergnetti!!

For some reason they had a kennel that seemed more or less identical to the genius ideas I had come up with! And I’d never told anybody!

How the hell had this happened? Industrial espionage???

Well, I cannot tell you for sure. As I have never had the opportunity to admire this kennel—in other words – never been invited!!!!!

So I don’t really know if they followed my plans completely, but would understand if they did not: A kennel for Poodles does not require the same “set up” as if you are going to house a bunch of terriers.

Industrial espionage, well most likely not.

More likely that great minds think alike??

Did I hear someone cough??

But even with a set-up like that, puppies need to experience the outside world, which would still be a problem!

As I have mentioned before: In Scandinavia they still have vet control at most shows and only dogs entered are allowed in the door.

(A wonderful way to spread disease, as you are lined up sometimes for a long time- and then handled by the same hands…) I love the fact that you in this country can bring your young’uns along to shows. Even if not formally legal to take them into the show ground, they can get enough life experience round your RV and set up to be able to face whatever any dog show experience throws at them when the time comes.

I know from personal experience, and many kennel visits, that many of the most successful and prominent breeders in the world do not have the perfect set up or kennel, but make the most of what they have, plus their God given ability to come up with “combinations” that work- and not least how to select the right ones to keep and prepare them for the big ugly world.

What we know as Dog Shows!

In an ideal world all dogs should be housedogs, just watching our own little flock enjoy themselves and our company is wonderful, but neither practical nor possible for all breeds.

Observing the interaction between a gang of Whippets is so charming. We used to have 6-or 7 squeezed together in the same bed, enjoying the “togetherness”: Needless to say: Wire Fox Terriers were of quite a different opinion and for some reason they seem to enjoy a more isolated lifestyle…

The Swedish system where an inspector comes along with a tape measure to check if your inside and outside runs are in correct proportion to the shoulder height of the breeds housed there, is something I hope you will never experience over here.

In no way a guarantee that a dog has a happy life.

And regarding show dogs: I don’t think you have a chance in hell to win with a depressed or neglected dog in this country- and it has been amazing over the years to witness the number of dogs with fabulous records in Europe or other parts of the world, who fail to make their mark here simply due to lack of temperament and enthusiasm in the ring.

Many of my European friends have of course other theories about why dogs over here are better show dogs than theirs- but we’ll save that for another time.

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tors may feel uncomfortable about showing to a judge with whom they regularly travel to shows, others would not bat an eyelid at so doing. It goes without saying that in such situations if an exhibitor has a successful day then cries of nepotism come from the crowd; lesser success is invariably greeted with not a word.

In a country such as ours there are many situations that occur that, whilst not actually breaking any rule or regulation, could be considered perhaps to be breaking the spirit of the rules. Here again much is down to the individual, some being less ethical and thickerskinned than others.

Oftentimes a criticism levelled at many of our breeder-judges is that they are putting up their friends. What is ignored is the fact that when these people first came into dogs they were total strangers. As I mentioned earlier, it is the type of dog they individually show and breed that helped forge the friendship. Ipso facto, when they come to judge they will invariably favour dogs shown by their friends, possibly coming from similar bloodlines with which they themselves work and there is nothing wrong with that ... provided the dogs are genuinely the best on the day and deserving of their wins. Sadly all too often one sees friends winning over exhibitors with more deserving dogs, in which case any criticism is fully justified.

The practice of showing under friends can lead to all sorts of complications and many so-called “friendships” have floundered on the rock of a less successful day than was anticipated. Clearly such friendships were not worthy of the term.

True friends will respect each other’s opinions and hope that when they judge they will do so without fear or favour. Certainly they will, if they decide to show to a friend, simply turn up and take what comes. They should also hope that their friend will be judging completely impartially.

Judges who take to the centre of

the ring need to be fearless and it is the courage aspect that bypasses so many. It takes great intestinal fortitude to demote a dog with 20 Challenge Certificates to a novice-owned dog you have never seen before, but who is obviously superior, that decision being made solely on the strength of one’s knowledge of the Breed Standard. Likewise, to not do well for a dog shown by someone who will be judging your own dog in a few weeks’ time requires great strength of character.

Judging cold requires every dog to be evaluated as if a judge is seeing it for the first time. All too often dogs win on form, even when they are not at their best and there is superior competition in the ring, simply because a judge does not wish to be seen as being “out of step” with the

at different ages, and the growth pattern for the breed. A 6 months Great Dane should never look as finished as a 6 months Chihuahua. It takes a thorough knowledge of a breed to say that a puppy is the best present on the day.

I remember some years ago interviewing Anne Rogers Clark when she confided, “I am often accused of finding the great ones before they are ready to be found,” and I could identify immediately with that sentiment. I have something of a reputation for giving puppies or dogs in the lower classes top honours when I feel they are the best on the day, but that is the key, they have to be the best on the day.

Thankfully most of them go on to fulfil their early promise; I have to admit that not every one blossoms with maturity.

At a recent show a fellow judge came up to me and asked if I was unwell as she had watched me awarding a Champion his 25th CC from the Open class. I pointed out that I had no problem adding to big winners’ success if they are deserving of it.

Not only should puppies be judged appropriately but so should veterans and it bothers me that some judges seem to walk past veterans and not take them seriously, yet they have as much right to be considered for top honours as any of the younger competitors. At a recent show I awarded what turned out to be a first Challenge Certificate to a Pembroke Welsh Corgi bitch who turned out to be 10½ years old. She was by far the best mover in the breed, radiated classic type and moderation and for me was the best of her sex so won accordingly. Afterwards someone suggested that took great courage ... why? Surely we are there to put up the best on the day regardless.

Judging dogs is a huge responsibility. It involves knowledge, strength of character and independence. When I first started off I remember so clearly Nigel saying to me, “ask favours of no one, because if you do you will be asked for two back.” He continued, with typical Aubrey-Jones wisdom, “Owe nobody anything. When you step into that ring, remember you owe it only to the dogs to do the best you possibly can, as it is they who have put you where you are.”

If we remember this every time we put on a judge’s badge we should not go far wrong.

“Judges who take to the centre of the ring need to be fearless and it is the courage aspect that bypasses so many.”

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majority. No dog starts its career with a winning record and they all had to have their first big win at some point. That is not to say that there is any virtue in launching a new one on the road to stardom just for the sake of it, when the form dog is clearly the best on the day. Giant killers are just as destructive as sheep!

Then we have the concept of sycophancy – we have all seen judges rewarding dogs for no other reason that they know that one of the high profile judges they admire, and want to think well of them, have done well for it. No two situations are the same and a dog could have won top honours under some stellar judge in rather weak competition.

All of these incidentals have no place in the judge’s mind.

Then we come to the question of age.

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the largest tourist destination in the country and is renowned for its highly developed arts, including traditional and modern dance, sculpture, painting, leather, metalworking, and music. A tourist haven for decades, the city has seen a further surge in tourist numbers in recent years. (Wikipedia) Around 2000 BC, Bali was inhabited by Austronesian nomad people arriving from Asia and Oceania through Maritime Southeast Asia. In fact the Balinese are related to the people of the Indonesian archipelago, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Oceania. Artifacts such as stone tools from this time have been discovered in Cekik, a western city on the island. Mostly India and China influenced the Balinese culture. The name Bali dwipa (“Bali Island”) has been found and interpreted from a pillar inscription, and the people’s religious and cultural traditions still in existence can be traced back to this period. The Hindu Majapahit Empire of Java founded the Balinese colony in 1343. In the 15th century when Java’s empire declined, the priests, intellectuals, and artists moved from Java to Bali.

In 1585 the fist European contact with Bali was when a Portuguese ship anchored at the Bukit Peninsula. Only in 1597 the Dutch explorer Cornelius de Houtman arrived at Bali and since then, the introduction of the Dutch East India Company began.

From 1602 to two and a half centuries later the Dutch control expanded across the Indonesian archipelago, and lasted until the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1906 the Bali-

nese people fought the Dutch invaders who had a large, and powerful naval and ground army, and won over the thousands of followers of Bali’s royal family who decided that a suicidal defensive assault would be better than facing the humiliation of surrender. A similar massacre occurred in other parts of Indonesia, but the Dutch governors forced the administrative control over the island. Surprisingly the Indonesians control over religion and culture remained intact.

In the 1930s, English anthropologists, artists and musicologists visited the island and created an image of Bali declaring that they found “an enchanted land of a special people that was living at peace with themselves and nature”. After this declaration the development of the western tourism began on the island.

Japan occupied Bali during World War II. On February 1942 the Japanese forces landed near the town of Senur, and captured the island. Following the surrender of Japan in August 1945, the Dutch immediately returned to Bali, to forcefully reinstate their pre-war colonial administration. This was resisted by the Balinese rebels who on November 29, 1946 made a suicide attack on the heavily armed Dutch. After many fights, in December of 1949 Bali was included in the “Republic of the United States of Indonesia” when finally the Netherland governors left, and the country’s independence was declared.

The rout to modern Bali was not lined with rose petals. The cast system and social division and the conflicts of social values caused internal turmoil. Bali, as all Indonesia, was politi-

cally divided into Indonesian Nationalist and Indonesian Communist party. The different goals led the followers to a civil war when about 80,000 persons were killed only in Bali. Resulting the 1965/66 upheavals, Suharto was able to take out Sukarno of the presidency, and the new president’s government reestablished the internal peace and relations with the western countries. Bali revived in a modern form, and the always growing tourism has increased the Balinese standards of life.

The Balinese people cannot exist in solitude. Much of the rituals require massive effort, which usually the villagers shoulder cooperatively. The women prepare the offerings, for their little shrines or for the village’s offering to the Mother Temple of Besakih. In short, life in Bali is never alone. You can observe this even in little children.

As their parents go to plant rice, the children play with their age group. The older ones will care for the younger ones. Fights rarely occur, and loud screams or cries are even scarcer. They have been taught to be at harmony with their surroundings. The Balinese also have a built in population control, the culture discourages having more than four children. (www.indo.com/culture/people.html) Definitively this is a small paradise full of cultural life, wild animals, nice people and great food. Bali is strategically located, the climate is tropical, and the island is formed by mountains, valleys, lakes, and flat areas with white sandy beaches and blue seawater. The island is well known for, besides its richness and beautiful Balinese Dancers, its magnificent panorama wherever you look.

Generally the tourist’s destinations to Bali are the beaches, diving and surfing or relaxing on the sand. The Elephant Safari Park in Taro is acclaimed as the world’s best elephant park and is a must for any visitor. The elephants will cross through the jungles of Taro, and if interested the tourist can attend an educational elephant presentation. There is also a fantastic museum in the park, with a restaurant overlooking the lake, and a luxury safari style lodge as well.

Dining in Bali is a unique experience not only because of the traditional Balinese cuisine, but also for the countless other options to choose from. The beachside restaurants offer some of the best food, and it is almost mandatory to see and taste the Volcano Pizza, which lights on fire before your eyes.

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Papillon Club Of America National Specialty The Papillon National was held in Louisville, Kentucky on May 22-25, 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel. The hotel was nice and the ballroom for the ring, very spacious.

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he listed judge was bred by Linda Foiles, Donna Clas, Michele Billings. Mrs. and Patty Gammill, back to Europe Billings was unable to with them to be specialed and to come and was replaced by Randy use in their breeding program. They Garren. There were 294 dogs brought a handsome young dog entered. Many exhibitors voiced here to be made up and eventually their disappointment that Mrs. they will swap back. What a great Billings was unable to come and ideal!!! I wish them all the best. send their warm wishes for her.

Liz Anderson, breeder, exhibitor, Best Of Breed was the Florida judge from Scotland, spent time in bred bitch GCH. Wildfire On The Houston kennel hopping before the Record, bred by Angela Pickett National and a week in New Mexico and Cheslie Pickett and owned seeing Indians, shooting guns,

by Nancy Shaw and Angela and shopping for supplies for her art Cheslie Pickett. Beautifully creations and touring Bandalier handled by Larry Cornelius.

National Park, where the original Kentucky was a breath of fresh cliff dwellers lived. air. The staff at the hotel couldn’t The seven-month-old puppy have been nicer. They were very bitch that was winners bitch was helpful to exhibitors and extremely certainly the crowd favorite. She dog friendly. Plenty of grass for toy was trained to perfection but not dogs was right outside the back over trained, every inch a Papillon door. We heard lots of good reports in silhouette and character. We about the surrounding restaurants. would have all been delighted to The Europeans in attendance were take her home. quite taken with the Southern Fried Chicken.

Visiting Papillon breeders from “across the pond” were Liz Anderson, Scotland and from Norway, Sandra Kristensen and Erling Rasmussen and a “herd” of Canadians, Linda 200 PRA1 tests done with the researcher Smith, Debra Robertson, who found the marker, Dr. Simon PetersenJones, MSU. Results of the 200 tests: Darlene Kelly, Lou Ann 2% affected, 15% carriers.

Hansen, Moira Ure and Olga Gagne. Such a cheerful, friendly bunch! Optigen did a discounted PRA1 test drive in conjunction with our National and Sandra Kristensen 70+ more Papillons have been tested. and Erling Rasmussen from Norway took Genetics seminar on NAD American Ch. Fiolin Neuroaxonal dystrophy. Doctor Urs Giger, Univ.

Fly For The Starsign, a of Pa. is looking for a marker for NAD believed beautiful young tri dog, to be caused by a simple recessive gene.

PAPILLON SPECIALTY RESULTS Winners Dog, best of winners, and best of opposite sex: InVolo Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’, bred and owned by Donna, Michael, and Gia Garofalo and handled

by Gia Garofalo.

Winners bitch: Disyre Stepping Up The Dream, bred, owned and handled by Diana Sayre.

Select dog: GCh. Wingssong Here We Go Again, owned and bred by Pat Jones and Chris Jones, Select Bitch GCh. Loteki In The Heat Of The Moment, breeder, owner, Lou Ann King.

Awards of Merits: First: The winners bitch, Disyre Steppin Up the Dream.

Second: GCh. Deanna’s See Spot Win, breeder Deanna Clark and Judy Hearney, owned

by Alicia R. Adams and Alicia N. Adams.

Third: GCh. Miracol’s Ace In The Matrix, breeder Colleen Kirby, owners, Dan & Donna Duppstadt and Colleen Kirby.

Fourth: GCh. Involo The King Of Pop, breeders, Donna, Mike and Gia Garofalo, owned

by Madeline Mosing & Gia Garofalo, Fifth award withheld.

Best Puppy: Disyre Steppin Up The Dream.

Best Bred By Exhibitor: InVolo Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’. Best Phalene Akai’s Dresden Green Diamond, Breeder, Marion Ford. Owned by Marion Ford & Paula Beckler.

Best Verteran: Ch. Namaste Cheap Trick, breeder, Lorelei Bacchus, Daniel Bayless, Brian Leonard. Owned by Colleen Kirby, Dan & Lorelei Bayless.

Best Brace: Ch. Blairwynn’s Raisin’s Jewel and Blairwynn’s Strom In The Night Sky, Breeder owners, Carla & Wally Gonyer, Carrie Blair Best Stud Dog: GCH Zelicaon Butch Cassidy At Draco breeder Forrest G. Johnson, owner, Anita Wright Best Brood Bitch: CH. MGL Tiger Lily Of VW, breeder Betty Winthers & Carlisle Peel, Owner, Jolene Clemmons Sweepstakes: (judged by Tracy Burdick) Best in Puppy Sweepstakes: Jazzbo’s Fortune (6-9 mo. bitch), breeder/owner Donna Clas best of opposite sex in Puppy Sweepstakes: Josandre’ PH Bronze Bobby, breeder/ owner Mary Jo Loye & Delores Swan Best in Veteran Sweepstakes: CH MACH5 Starstruck Moonstruck RN NF MXS2 MJB3, breeder Andrea Samuels, owner Nancy Andrysiak best of opposite sex in Veteran Sweepstakes: GCH Josandre’ International Playboy, breeder Mary Jo Loye & Carol McLaughlin, owner Mary Jo Loye & Tegan Stone

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velous place with its tigers, elephants, orchids, coffee and oranges exported to other countries. Bali is also famous for the Anjing Kintamani, a medium-sized spitz type dog. The dog was named after the Kintamani region of Bali where it was developed. This is a well proportioned, strong boned and resistant mountain dog.

Several hundred breeds of dogs are currently recognized around the world and new dog breeds are continuously emerging. As we get more and more information about Indonesia and Bali, we learn that the Kintamani dog is an evolving, indigenous breed. Genetic studies of the breed have shown that it has probably evolved from local Balinese feral dogs, and is distantly related to other Asian breeds. Folklore indicates that the Kintamani began with a Chow Chow centuries ago. Historians say that it is also possible that the Kintamani Dog arrived in Bali with the Javanese invaders in 1343 or with the Javanese immigrants in the 15th century. But of all the hypotheses about the origins of the Kintamani Dog, only one is really plausible: that sometime before the 16th century a Chinese trader called Lee landed in Northern Bali, bringing with him a Chow Chow dog which was bred to the local Balinese feral dogs. Lee settled in the Kintamani region and raised his family there. A Chinese temple has proof that the Lee family lived in Kintamani, where a few people of the Confucian faith still worships.

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tamani apart from the Bali street dogs is the gorgeous coat. The Kintamani coat is thick and long (the street dog of Bali has a short, and fine coat). Until today many native breeders confine the puppies in caves near the Kintamani volcano, because they believe that the dark and the cold temperature inside the cave are essential in the development of the dog’s thick white coat.

A fiercely independent breed, the Kintamani dog can be aggressively territorial. While most dog breeds do not climb, the Kintamani will climb roofs, sitting or sleeping atop of them or on the top of a garden wall.

Also known as Anjing Bali, Anjing Kintamani, Anjing Kintamani Bali, Bali Dog, and Kintamani Dog, the height of males is of 18-21.5 inches (45-55 cm), and females of 15-20 inches (40-50 cm). The dog’s flat cheeks and flat forehead is similar to that of a Chow Chow. The healthy looking coat resembles the coat of a Samoyed or a solid white coated Malamute. This medium-sized dog has a very elegant appearance. The long thick coat is predominantly white although black or brown coated dogs and bicolor (black and brown) dogs can also be seen. The tip of the ears, the tip of the tail and the hindquarters usually have red-orange or apricot colored hairs. Long hairs on the shoulders form a frill. The back of the thighs are covered with longer hair. Thickly coated tail curls over the back and appears very similar to the tail of a squirrel. This breed’s head is broad, the forehead and the cheeks are flat. The length of the strong and big muzzle is proportionate to the size of the head. Medium sized almond shaped eyes are dark brown in color and have an alert and sharp expression.

The nose has black pigmentation. Set on high, the ears are strong and erect. Complete set of teeth meet in a scissor bite. The tongue may either have blue spots or have a solid blue color.

The body is of average size with strong and level topline. The broad chest has oval shaped ribs and the brisket reaches the level of the elbows. (From the Standard).

The Kintamani dog is an alert, vigilant, very territorial, and reliable watchdog. The dog would

attack any other animal that enters its territory, and it is not friendly with strangers, and certainly would attack if it perceives the slightest sign of danger for its adored human family. This is not only a beautiful breed, but is also friendly and very loyal to the people who care for them. The Kintamanis are playful and lively, and in great demand for being easily trainable, and loving companions. The Kintamani kept as a pet would need a well fenced large yard. This is a hardy breed, therefore the owner must ensure that the dog would have opportunities to use its pent up energies. Being a curious dog, a bored Kintamani could be a very destructive pet. The education and training must begin at a very early age.

The result of the scientific analysis of the Kintamani dog demonstrates that the dog of Bali is closely related with the Australian dingo and distantly related to AKC recognized breeds of Asian but not European origin. Annual Kintamani competitions are held in the Bangli Region to promote the breed, and to prepare the way for its international recognition.

About 12,000 Kintamani dogs exist throughout the Bangli Regency (one of the regencies in the Bali province).

Really great effort is applied from the Indonesian Kennel Club to have the official breed of Bali recognized by the FCI. Hopefully the world’s fancy will take the breed under its protective wings, working to save the breed from extinction and to end the casual breeding made by lesser knowledgeable breeders.

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Perhaps the tide is beginning to turn in the battle to present the truth about these organizations. The media recently uncovered that IRS official Lois Lerner had long been stonewalling Congressional requests for an investigation of the HSUS because she was an active member of that organization and even made personal appearances and gave speeches on its behalf. For its part, the AKC has replaced its PR agency at the time of the NY Times Feb. attack, Rubinstein, which sat down with the Times’ reporters before those stories were printed, and hired the largest PR firm in the world, the Edelman Group. It has ramped up its online social media presence and hired an expert in that area, Christopher Walker, to lead the charge. And now, could it possibly be that the mainstream media is willing to investigate and reveal what’s really going on at organizations such as the A.S.P.C.A. and the HSUS? When the NY Times printed its February hatchet job on purebred dog breeders and the AKC, I asked the article’s co-authors, Mary Pilon and Susanne Craig, whether or not they were aware of the amount of money that the HSUS and A.S.P.C.A. brought in and what it paid out in the way of hands-on treatment of animals in shelters. They replied, “On the A.S.P.C.A., we have looked at their financials and contributions,” and of the HSUS, “Yes, we have reviewed their financials.

You’ll note that in the story we point out that the Humane Society ‘does not typically support the regular operations of local shelters financially.’” Yet, they didn’t report their findings in depth and both authors maintained that they were not members of either the A.S.P.C.A. or the HSUS even though their articles seemed to further the 88 Dog News

causes of those organizations at the expense of the AKC. But, nearly five months later, thanks to author Jacob Bernstein (the son of famed Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein and recently deceased journalist/author/screenwriter/playwright Nora Ephron, whose play “Lucky Guy” starring Tom Hanks as the hardhitting, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Mike McAlary is currently on Broadway), the NY Times finally scratched the surface of what the general public needs to hear about these animal rights organizations.

I am awaiting Mr. Bernstein’s response to see if he is aware of the fact that the HSUS spends one per cent of its $100 million war chest on the hands-on care of animals in local shelters, and if he is planning on writing an article on the behind the scenes goings-on there as well. He certainly has the pedigree for writing such material and much more needs to be exposed, especially about the HSUS and its shadowy fund-raising schemes and paltry payouts for the handson care of animals in shelters. It’s hard for the public to hear or see anything over and beyond the animal rightists’ advertising and PR campaigns. The aching voice of Sara McLachlan that accompanies the pictures of malnourished and diseased dogs in itself is responsible for raising over $30 million in one year alone for the A.S.P.C.A., which saw its fund-raising reach

levels never before seen. Thanks to the Canadian crooner, annual contributions more than doubled in two years, from nearly $50 million in 2006 to more than $112 million in 2008.

The HSUS and the A.S.P.C.A. are joined at the hip when it comes to antidog owning and breeding legislation at the state and federal level, and both urge potential dog owners to adopt rather than seek out a purebred dog with a predictable size and temperament from a reputable breeder, regardless of the fact that there is a shadowy underside to the adoption business, which oftentimes involves transporting diseased dogs from out of state and out of the country to meet demand in other areas. As former chairwoman of the A.S.P.C.A., Marsha Perelman, told Mr. Bernstein, “No one else other than H.S.U.S. and the A.S.P.C.A. can afford the legislative work that needs to be done.” The A.S.P.C.A. brought in one of the HSUS’s lawyers to boost its aggressive move in legislative efforts and they are pressuring Governor Cuomo to sign into law a puppy mill bill that passed the NY State Assembly and Senate. Combined, these organizations present a formidable opponent for the AKC and its Government Relations Department, which is inundated with canine legislation at every level in every state. Education and information can bring great leverage in the canine legislation battle, and truthful investigative reporting is essential. Public opinion as well as that of legislators can and must be swayed in these areas, to reveal who are the real champions of animal welfare and who are the pretenders. The ability to continue to responsibly breed and own dogs of one’s choice depends on it.

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but they were more tears of relief and love toward the dog. The healing that a dog can provide in five minutes during or following a critical incident is just as important as the long-term healing it can offer.

“I made a pact with the ATF priest,” adds Gordon, “that he would bring God and I would bring the Saints to Sandy Hook. I think we both held up our end.”

The dogs’ welfare and enjoyment of all

activities are the top priorities for the law-enforcement couple. “One way we balance conformation and therapy work is cycling the dogs,” explains Gordon. “At the moment, Rosie’s daughter is being used as a Special and is used mostly in conformation work, where as Rosie is used as my PTSD service dog and for therapy when she accompanies me to critical incidents.”

In June, Rosie and Clarence were added to the Greenfield Police Dept. K9 First Responder Program that provides care and comfort for those in need, ranging from scenarios like Sandy Hook to simply providing comfort to a child that is a victim of a crime and is being interviewed by the police or other government officials.

For Lauren Friedman, a Milford, Conn., AKC Good Citizen evaluator, AKC Pointing Breed Hunting Test judge and Therapy Dogs International evaluator responsible for certifying therapy dogs, the on-site dynamics at Reed Intermediate School was an emotional bumpy ride with her Spinone Italiano pair, Drago and Siena.

The Adam Meyers family of Southbury, Conn., with their Bernese Mountain Dogs, take a Drago has excelled in the conforbreak on the lawn at the Newtown Thank You mation and obedience rings, along with Event for Dog Therapy Teams June 22.. the field and therapy settings. Drago was awarded the TDI Gold Award certificate for more than 500 documented visits to elderly health-care and special-needs children’s facilities.

Friedman lives about 40 minutes from Newtown. Two days after the shootings, she packed up both dogs and headed to the site, which was to become almost a second home for weeks.

“Drago knew exactly what to do,” she recalls. “Be there, give love and ask for nothing in return. That Spinone face won everyone over, whether it was in the hallways, classrooms, cafeteria or counseling rooms. Drago interacted These are among many of the thank-you messages written by Newtown students to directly with two of the children (there were the therapy-dog teams. six) at Reed who lost siblings and made a big difference with each.”

For the most part, Friedman simply followed the lead of the dogs. “They would approach people and either get attention or be ignored. When they didn’t receive a reception they would stay close and wait, and often after a minute or so the person might accept the offer of the dogs’ gentle love and compassion and begin petting it.”

A crowd of several hundred listened to several speakers who were instrumental in the success of the therapy-dog healing process in the town’s schools.

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Throughout the months-long recovery process, Friedman focused totally on therapy needs instead of conformation or obedience events. “There is a lot of personal satisfaction when you accomplish something with your dog in the show or obedience ring, but bringing smiles and hugs to these hurting families is more important and gratifying.”

Like their human owner-handlers, dogs reach physical and psychological limits, too, in the intense, sobering environment of the Crisis Center. “You must watch your dog’s body language carefully,” Friedman explains, “and recognize when it needs a break. It might begin licking its lips, yawning, looking away or simply lose interest in the person alongside. That’s when it is time to pull back and give it a break.

It might be for a few minutes or a few hours.”

The resilient furry counselors added a dimension far beyond what any human could provide. “These dogs became confidantes to the children,” emphasizes Victoria Bosse, a family and marriage counselor who was a member of one of the death-notification teams in the immediate aftermath. “I saw each of them as a teammate during the grieving-and-recovery process. When they’re around it’s hard not to lower your defenses and start to breathe again.”

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fter watching students’ reactions for six months following the shootings, a Reed Intermediate School teacher said on the final day of school June 21, “Grief has no timetable and neither do these dogs. No matter their breed, size or background, they have an incredible sense of knowing when to step up in a time of need.”

Emmet, a Reed sixth grader summed it up equally well: “I think the therapy dogs are just terrific because every time they come into the room smiles pop up faster than a cheetah on steroids.”

Or Keeley, another sixth-grader: “This year has been a struggle in so many ways. The one thing that helped me so much is the dogs. Everywhere I look there is one cuter than the next.

They have made my heart grow bigger and bigger.

“The love they give me just warms my day. Even though this is hard for me, with the therapy dogs here, I will get through this with their help. . . . My heart is filled every day by my new dog friends. I love them so much I couldn’t imagine our school without them. I never want them to leave. They place their love into my heart.”

“The resilient furry counselors added a dimension far beyond what any human could provide.”

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As the storms cleared from the skies above Chicago on June 13, 2013, members of The American Polish Lowland Sheepdog Club (APONC) gathered from around the country for our National Specialty and two days of supported entries in the Chicago suburb of Grayslake, Illinois. Every member was anxious to see the large gathering of Polski Owczarek Nizinny (PON), and reconnect with our fellow breed aficionados.

TheAmerican Sheepdog Club National

By Ellen Kelley

Photos by Ellen Kelley, Margaret Korzienowska & Lisa Press

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e are a relatively small club, our breed is ranked 155th by AKC, and only a few shows have multiple entries of our beloved breed This weekend gave us the opportunity to watch 47 entries compete in sweepstakes and conformation classes, and to attend herding instinct evaluation and judging. What an experience!

Our Specialty Committee, headed by Bozena Tieszen, opened a wonderful hospitality suite the evening before the shows began. This was a wonderful opportunity to visit with those we see only infrequently and to admire all our beautiful PONs. This was followed by a pizza party and more chances to visit. This committee also arranged for us to have access to a dog washing facility for those who needed to tackle the arduous task of bathing and drying their PON. On Friday, at the supported entry at Little Fort Kennel Club of Waukegan, our sweepstakes judge was Mrs. Gayle Gold Creasman, a judge with many years experience judging at Rare Breed Shows and now licensed to judge six breeds with provisional approval for 3 other breeds, including PONs. Mrs. Creasman had the task of choosing from a wonderfully diverse entry.

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Polo Land (which is a beautiful campground with restaurants and a boardwalk) this year’s shows were a definite success! The weather was gorgeous, the judges gracious and the exhibitors enthusiastic! To see how happy the club members were that they actually pulled this club away from extinction was clearly infectious.

A sad note to start the weekend was that Warren Hood, who together with his wife Arlene had founded the club 50 years ago, passed away the night before the shows began. During the moment of silence to honor Warren the sobs of many could be heard.

Our condolences to the Hood family.

In other news the Canadian Kennel Club has set out new directives for judges regarding the use of ramps. Apparently there are many CKC judges who choose for whatever reason to not use the ramp. The directive from the CKC simply reads, “Notice to Conformation Judges Regarding Ramps At the March 2013 meeting, the CKC Board of Directors approved a directive, which strongly recommends, that effective immediately the

judging of Bulldogs and Basset Hounds should be performed on the ramp.

This will become mandatory effective January 1, 2015. ” The question is why is it not mandatory until 2015 and why Bassets and Bulldogs and not all ramp breeds?

Also, as conformation numbers dwindle the new numbers for Permit judges are also out- again from the CKC. “Notice for Conformation Judges Regarding Required Permit Numbers in 2013 Effective January 1, 2013, any judge who is issued a new permit is required to judge the following number of dogs in order to complete the permit requirements:” Group 1 Full Group = 119 Half Group = 59 Group 2 Full Group = 70. Half Group = 35 Group 3 Full Group = 115 Half Group = 57 Group 4 Full Group = 56 Half Group = 28 Group 5 Full Group = 99 Half Group = 49 Group 6 Full Group = 72 Half Group = 36 Group 7 Full Group = 94 Half Group = 47 Happening now in the True North the top dogs as of April 30, 2013 according to Canuck Dogs are: 1 West HIGHLAND WHITE TERRIER

Ch. Whitebriar Jawdropper 2 Afghan

Ch. Polo’s Air Force One 3 YorkSHIRE TERRIER

Ch. NikNak’s Second to None 4 Basenji

Ch. Ahmahr Nahr’s The Lost Angel Gabriel 5 NOVA SCOCTIA DUCK TOLLING RETRIEVER

Ch. Roaneden’s Int’l Harvester 6 AffenPINSCHER

Ch. Champagne Charly Tani V Kazari 7 DobeRMAN PINSCHER

Ch. Goldgrove High Intensity 8 MalAMUTE

Ch. Mytuk’s Technical Knockout 9 PomARANIAN

Ch. Valcopy Jamel Sir James Crystalton 10 AusTRALIAN ShepHERD

Ch. Hearthside Riveredge Sure Is Summum That’s it for now in the True North.

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Some of the Foreign Boston Terrier Exhibitors/Judges/fanciers at the National

Four Judges for the Boston Terrier of the Year

Boston Terrier of the Year Winner GCh. Kennedy’s Poetic Justice for Brickhouse CGC

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Our Beloved Boston Terriers

Best of Winners: Candar’s This Girl Is On Fire

Best In Specialty Show Winner GCh. Guther’s Gussied Up Edna

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hicago, Chicago -- that toddlin’ town,’ as the late, great Frank Sinatra would describe it.

Western Boston Terrier Club, the oldest Boston Terrier Specialty Club in the country, was our host for the 2013 National. The Chicago club pulled out all the stops to make the occasion truly memorable. The National Specialty is the fountainhead of any breed club.

It gives breeders, exhibitors, novices and well wishers the opportunity to show off new puppies, compare and evaluate youngsters and render their prognostications on the future of the breed. This annual trip to the

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National should be made at least once in a lifetime.

The week of Monday May 13, got of to a rousing start with Mrs. Cindy Pagurski judging the host club entries. She found her Best of Breed in GCH.Gunther’s Gussied Up Edna, breeder/owner/handled by Mrs. Brook Berth. The next day the second Host Club Specialty was judged by Mr. Chad Howard. He reached into the Veterans Class to select GCH. Keynote’s Knockout Kid as his Best of Breed. This handsome looking dog is owned by Gwen Weyandt/Janet Harner/Connie McCord and Venita Prater. He comes from the famous Keystone

Best of Opposite Sex Winner GCh. Rio’s Ocho Locho with his Owner-Handler

Kennels owned by Dr, Ellen Kennedy, who had bred a long list of winners.

Wednesday was an extremely busy day as we witnessed the judging of Puppy Sweepstakes by Mrs. Ola Jeanne McCollough and the Futurities by Mr. John Johnson and Mrs. Barbara Rooney. The Best in Puppy Sweepstakes was awarded to Tara Oaks Lil Miss India, bred and owned by Stella Jowers and Sue Trivelpiece, who was also Best In Futurity. These classes all drew good entries.

The Annual Judges Education Seminar was well attended with individuals who sought to become future judges of the breed and breeders/exhibitors who felt the need to solidify and grasp the subtle nuances of breed type. The Seminar and Specialty drew visitors from around the country and the world.

They came from England, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, Finland, Spain and Japan. A welcome visitor to the festivities was Jeff Marginean, with a life long interest in the breed, dating from his father who owned Boston Terriers. Jeff is the creator/host of MY BUDDY BUTCH, a nationally syndicated radio show on MBB Radio Network out of North Canton, Ohio. It was great to see John LoPorto once more, a true icon of the breed. Although blind, John sat attentively at ringside as friends on both sides gave him a description of the exhibits as they came by his position. He was absolutely thrilled.

The Boston Terrier of the Year judging was held on Wednesday night drawing the top dogs and bitches from around the country. The eventual winner was GCH Kennedy’s Poetic Justice for Brickhouse CGC, a truly outstanding representative of the breed, owned by Kelly Feickert, Sarah Kennedy and Margaret Noble.

The Top Twenty seems to have become a popular presentation at most National Specialties as it should be. It gives recognition to the top Boston

Terriers, where each exhibit has the stage under the lights amid thunderous applause.

On Thursday May 16, Judge Ken Roux stepped in to judge the class entries. Alexander’s Oh Sonny Boy took the very first class of 6-9 Puppy Dogs and Reserve Winners Dog. He is a very promising youngster sired by Ch. Sunglo’s Sparkling Wine Cooler who is proving to be a dominant sire when bred to different lines of bitches. When the history of the breed is written, the names of Linda and Jim Alexander will be accorded lifelong recognition for their magnificent contribution as breeders.

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n 9-12 Puppy Dogs, the winner and eventual Winners Dog was Maria del Rocio Nadal’s Copacabana Boston’s Quincas. Maria is a veterinarian from Sao Paulo, Brazil and well known to fanciers here in the United States. In the Open Dog Class Over 15 lbs., the winner was Kennedy’s Wild Rock N’ Roll With Hessenvilla, who was the Best of Breed at Crufts earlier this year. He is owned by Ms Corina Muench of Germany and bred by the Kennedys (Vicki and Sarah) and Ann and Bradford Dunn. We have truly gone international in a big way, over the past two decades.

The 6-9 Puppy Bitch class once again proved to be an easy win for Tara Oaks Lil Miss India.

This bitch is bred and owned by Stella Jowers and Susan Trivelpiece. She is from Ch. Alexander’s Hot Cup of Joe, a grandson of 1990 National Specialty winner Ch. Ri-Ja’s Bronco Billy owned by Richard and Jane Craven, who repeated the feat in 2006 with Ch. Ri-Ja’s Out Of The Shadows. On the bitch’s side of the pedigree, she is extremely well bred, coming down from the Hi-Society line of Cynthia Davis and Sandra Chrisman. Her movement appears to be flawless, with no foot faults.

The Winners Bitch and Best of Winners came out of the large class of Bred By Exhibitor Bitches Under 15 lbs. Candar’s This Girl Is On Fire

The Junior Showmanship Classes were judged by Michael Staley, who brought his inimitable style to a wonderful group of youngsters.

Best in Sweepstakes/Grand Prize Futurity Winner: Tara Oaks Lil Miss India

lived up to her name. Bred and owned by the Gerson family (Candace, Darius and Charlie), she represents proof that the breed is moving steadfastly to reclaim it’s rightful place in the dog show world. The Reserve Winners Bitch also came out of the Bred By Exhibitor Class. Tara Oaks Lil Miss Pitty-Pat made it an unforgettable National for Stella Jowers. She is also out of Ch. Sunglo’s Sparkling Wine Cooler and Ch. Jabos Melanie of Tara Oaks.

The Junior Showmanship Classes were judged by Michael Staley, who brought his inimitable style to a wonderful group of youngsters. Judge Roux then moved on to Best of Breed judging. It was truly riveting to watch the entries enter the ring to be noted, prior to the mandatory breakdown into small groups for individual judging. After the examinations and movement, Judge Roux whittled his finalists down to approximately twenty dogs and bitches. His eventual Best of Breed winner was GCH. Gunther’s Gussied Up Edna. This is an outstanding bitch of exquisite proportions.

Edna has an adorable face with eyes, which are wide apart, large, round and dark in color.

She has the ideal Boston Terrier expression, which is a most important characteristic of the breed. The Best of Opposite Sex was GCH. Rio’s Ocho Locho bred by Karen & Amy Beskau & Elizabeth MacDonaugh and owned by Lisa & Hanna & Jennie Wiersma & Karen Beskau. This dog looked quite impressive in the show ring with a strong, masculine head and the correct movement we all look for.

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he Select Dog was awarded to Ch. Motiff’s Unstoppable At Rio, bred by Richard & Suzanne Shiloh and owned by Amy & Karen Beskau. GCH Lannons Little Miss Sunshine, bred and owned by Janice and Bill Lannoon, was awarded Select Bitch. Awards of Merit were awarded to Ch. T-Bo’s Porcelain Doll, GCH Keynote’s Knockout Kid, Ch. Peja’s N Ken’s Saddle ‘Em Up for Suzie, GCH Weywood’s Outrageous Fortune, GCH Martini’s Hey Sugah, Ch. Bam’s Bostons Cute As A Button, Ch. Rio’s Dressed To the The Nines Dream, GCH Knolland King of The Road.

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LettersTo The Editor DOGS DESCENDED ON FERNDALE, CA FOR THE LOST COAST KENNEL CLUB 2013 SHOW Dog lovers from all over the country descended on Ferndale, CA for the annual Lost Coast Kennel Club show. These shows have become a way of life for club members, judges, superintendents and participants. Tall dogs, short dogs, fat dogs and skinny dogs have “put on the dog” to earn points and titles where over 400 dogs strutted their stuff on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Humboldt County Fair Grounds, 1250 5th street, Ferndale, CA. Hundreds of breeders and handlers were busy grooming, snipping, clipping and bathing their pedigree pooches for the coveted title “Best In Show.” The winners this year were some amazing dogs. On Friday the BIS title went to the Pharaoh hound GCH Farao Anubis Inferno, with reserve going to the Parson Russell Terrier GCH Dream Hi’s Lil’ Surfer Dude. Saturday drew even more dogs and new winners for the BIS title. The amazing Clumber GCH Clussexx Collaboration With

Traddies walked off the grass proudly with a BIS rosette and Mirador’s hand blown glasswork and the Harrier GCH Downhome Hitech Innovator was the reserve also winning a rosette along with some really cool handcrafted wooden coasters by local craftsman John Shannon. Sunday, day 3 was an amazing, energized day full of great competition that ended the Lost Coast Kennel Club’s annual show with a repeat of Saturday’s winners.

Attendance at the annual show was studded with top handlers, breeders and Judges. This year the Lost Coast Kennel Club got to welcome back Kim Russell and her talented crew handling some popular Poodles, among them CH Penndragon Owain who won an award of merit at the coveted PCA. Owain walked away with best of breed on Friday and Saturday and a group 1 on Friday.

Michelle Santana (2010 AKC working group breeder of the year) of Foxfire Dobermans brought her and Dave Miller’s co-owned CH Foxfire’s Tell Me About It and Foxfire’s I’m A Super star co-owned by the club’s own Irene Hetrick. Barbara House, who breeds and shows Siberian Huskies and Mastiffs,

said, “I’m from Nevada City, California and I have been coming to the Lost Coast Kennel Club show since it first started. I absolutely love this show; I love the town of Eureka and Ferndale. They are so welcoming and that is why this is one of our favorite shows.”

Rosemary Simpson, who shows Rhodesian Ridgebacks, said, “You guys are the friendliest dog show; people go out of their way to make you feel at home. The local restaurants always have great food and the weather is always nice.”

The Lost Coast show welcomed with open arms some amazing judges including Carolyn and David Alexander, and Donna and Kenneth Buxton. The one and only Bill Allen was our Chief Ring Steward.

This year also attending as a judge and not an owner handler was Vincent Mulligan, who had some pleasant words to say about the club: “I have been showing Great Danes for 45 years and I have been coming to The Lost Coast Kennel Club show since it was Called the Eureka Kennel Club and I think it is very neat.”

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Fun For Everyone!

BIS $$$$ each day Friday - $500; Saturday- $1000; Sunday - $500.

Prizes & Vendor Bucks – Armband draw each day for cash & prizes .

Refreshments each day including Pizza Party on Saturday .

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Wear your lucky “in-Seine” outfit for “dress up day” at the show on Sat., Aug. 10, 2013 and join us for the “Viva Las Vegas” Summer in Paris Night after the show.

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Summer In Paris Casino Night!

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Life’s a Gamble, Take a Chance at PARIS, Las Vegas Casino Evening to Benefit the AKC George Ward Scholarship Fund and Take The Lead

Put on your lucky “in-Seine” outfit on Saturday, August 10, 2013 and join us for the “Viva Las Vegas” Summer in Paris Night at the Keystone Cluster after the show. Help fund two great causes - the people in our sport who need help and the education of the future generation!

Karaoke & Costume Contests!

For your admission donation of $75, you will receive dinner, prize ticket and “funny money” to try your luck at games of chance. If you run out of luck, you can purchase more “funny money” or if you choose, you can just buy prize tickets with additional donations. There will also be a DJ to provide music for dancing and just sitting & relaxing. At the end of the gaming time, turn in your play money for more real prize tickets…all prizes will be raffled “Chinese Auction” style…

Every ticket stands an equal chance of winning. This year’s great prizes start with: FIRST PRIZE of $5,000!!! and other great prizes, which to date include: a week’s stay at a Mexican resort, a week’s stay in Aruba with airfare, AKC/Eukanuba package of tickets, hotel, dinner and tickets to Disney and Universal, 42” flat screen HD TV, iPads, Kindles, custom tack box, gift baskets from the Blue Crab Cluster and Keystone Cluster, two-page ad in Dog News, Working Dog Digest Ad, OFA evaluations, photo packages, photo shoots and more. The list of donated items is still growing thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and supporters.

Many Thanks To The Sponsors And Those Who Have Donated Items To Help Make This Event Possible!!

For advance ticket purchase, please send your check or money order payable to “PRKC Charitable Foundation” with “Casino Night” on the subject line to: Charles Olvis • 12040 Country Mill Dr. • Bristow, VA 20136 Prepaid tickets can be picked up at the door to the Casino Event on Saturday, August 10th, 2013 Dog News 113

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OG NEWS is honored to be dedicating our WESTCHESTER KENNEL CLUB issue dated September 6th to TAKE THE LEAD. TAKE THE LEAD will be celebrating its 20th anniversary on that weekend and this is one way to thank the organization for all the good works that they have done over the years. It was at the Westchester show that TAKE THE LEAD made its public debut. Congratulations to RONNIE IRVING, the former chairman of the BEALE & BETH SWEIGART attended English Kennel Club, Border terrier the Windsor Dog Shows in England last breeder and judge not to mention weekend, where they held a memorial DOG NEWS columnist, who has been for their late partner and Norfolk selected to judge best in show at terrier breeder ELIZABETH MARTELL. the 2015 Crufts Dog Show. Unlike Handlers STACEY & EVAN THRELFALL our system of waiting on pins and are moving from upstate New York to needles to see who will be judging their new home and kennel in New at the Westminster Kennel Club just Hampshire this week. Spanish all breed months before the event, the English judge XAVIER SANCHEZ was found announce their Crufts judging panels dead in his home in Spain. XAVIER, a years in advance. RONNIE heads breeder of Giant schnauzers and French a panel that will include CARLA bulldogs, judged on several occasions MOLINARI judging the Hound Group, in the States. Happy anniversary to CHRIS ATKINSON judging the Gundog PAT & DON RODGERS. Celebrating Group, MARTIN PHILLIPS the Terrier Birthdays‌MARIPI WOOLDRIDGE, Group, ZENA THORN-ANDREWS the BRUCE SCHWARTZ, JOSHUA Utility Group, BOB GREGORY the DESROSIERS, BOB SHARP, PHYLLIS Working Group, VIC SALT the Pastoral WRIGHT, DELORES BURKHOLDER, Group and STEPHEN BARDWELL the LINDA ROWELL, MARK THRELFALL, Toy Group. As for the 2014 Crufts CANDY CARSWELL, MICHELLE Dog Show, entries for postal entries STEELE, LAURA KING, JENNIE will be Monday, January 6, 2014 and WORNALL RANGEL, BILL DOTY, online entries will close on Monday, MATTHEW BETTIS, MARY ELLEN January 20th. All of us at DOG NEWS THOMAS, ROBIN GREENSLADE, send our best wishes to handler KATHY MCINDOE, TERRI GALLE, CHARLIE COOMES, who is recovering TRACY SZARAS, HEIDI GERVAIS, from open heart surgery replacing FRED BASSETT, DANA GABEL, GRACE his aortic valve last week. He is in ACOSTA, SULIE GREENDALE-PAVEZA, good hands, as wife LAURA plays BOB SHREVE and AMIE DONELSON nurse. Hope he is up and about as BERNARDIN. the COOMES are about to celebrate their wedding anniversary. PAM

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DOG SHOW CALENDAR AUGUST 1 - THURSDAY LA Kenner (I) BULLDOG CLUB OF LOUISIANA, INC. Pontchartrain Center 4545 Williams Boulevard CLOSES: JULY 17 Onofrio Dog Shows, L.L.C., SUPT T. McDermott: Breed Mrs. L. W. Bisso: Jr. Showmanship LA Kenner (I) METAIRIE KENNEL CLUB, INC. Pontchartrain Center 4545 Williams Boulevard CLOSES: JULY 17 12:00 p.m.

Onofrio Dog Shows, L.L.C., SUPT FEE: $27.00-1st/ $20.00-2nd Judges And Their Assignments BEST IN SHOW Mr. M. J. Dachel SPORTING Group: Dr. R. A. Indeglia J. A. Moses: Ret-Lab Mrs. K. Kahn: Set-Irsh Dr. A. C. Santos, M.D.: Brit, Pntr-GW, Ret-Ches, Ret-Flat, Ret-Nova Scotia T, Set-Eng, Set-Gord, Span-Clum, Span-Suss, Span-Wel Spr Dr. R. A. Indeglia: Balance of Sporting Breeds HOUND Group: Mrs. J. E. Treiber Mrs. K. B. Seriana: Dach, Whip Mrs. K. Kahn: Amer English Coon, Am Fox, Bluetick Coon, Eng Fox, Greyhnd, Harr, Port Pd Peq, Treeing Walker Coon Dr. R. A. Indeglia: Balance of Hound Breeds WORKING Group: Mrs. J. E. Treiber J. A. Moses: Grt Dane, Sam Mrs. J. E. Treiber: Balance of Working Breeds TERRIER Group: D. McCoy D. McCoy: All Terrier Breeds TOY Group: Mrs. K. Kahn J. A. Moses: Chin Cr D. McCoy: Pood Toy Mrs. K. Kahn: Balance of Toy Breeds NON-SPORTING Group: D. McCoy Mr. F. F. Fulton: Bulldog D. McCoy: Balance of Non-Sporting Breeds HERDING Group: J. A. Moses Dr. R. A. Indeglia: AustrlShep Dr. S. L. Bloom, M.D.: GSD J. A. Moses: Balance of Herding Breeds MISCELLANEOUS Group: Mrs. J. E. Treiber Mrs. J. E. Treiber: All Miscellaneous Breeds JR SHOWMANSHIP: Mrs. J. E. Treiber LA Kenner (I) UNITED STATES AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD ASSOCIATION Pontchartrain Center 4545 Williams Boulevard CLOSES: JULY 17 12:00 p.m.

Onofrio Dog Shows, L.L.C., SUPT FEE: $27.00-1st/ $21.00-2nd Mrs. L. M. Sorensen: Breed, Jr. Showmanship MI Marshall (I/O) JAXON KENNEL CLUB, INC. (S) Calhoun County Fairgrounds CLOSES: JULY 17 Roy Jones Dog Shows, Inc., SUPT FEE: $29.00-1st/ $24.00-2nd Judges And Their Assignments BEST IN SHOW Mr. D. R. Miller SPORTING Group: Mrs. C. G. Miller Mr. D. R. Miller: Brit, Ret-Curl, Ret-Gold, Ret-Lab, Set-Eng, SetIrsh, Span-Ckr, Vizs, Weim Mrs. C. G. Miller: Balance of Sporting Breeds HOUND Group: Mr. M. Sosne Mr. M. Sosne: All Hound Breeds

WORKING Group: Ms. M. Brocious Mrs. S. A. Redmer: Dobe Ms. M. Brocious: Balance of Working Breeds TERRIER Group: Mrs. D. Kniola Mrs. D. Kniola: All Terrier Breeds TOY Group: Ms. M. K. Miller Ms. M. K. Miller: All Toy Breeds NON-SPORTING Group: Mrs. S. E. Ellis Mrs. S. E. Ellis: All Non-Sporting Breeds HERDING Group: Mrs. S. A. Redmer Mrs. S. A. Redmer: All Herding Breeds MISCELLANEOUS Group: Ms. M. K. Miller Ms. M. K. Miller: All Miscellaneous Breeds JR SHOWMANSHIP: Mr. S. L. Wagner SWEEPS VETERANS: Span-Clum Mary Anne Brocious SWEEPS PUPPY: Span-Clum Mary Anne Brocious OH Canfield* (I/O) FORT STEUBEN KENNEL ASSOCIATION, INC. (S) Canfield Fairgrounds Rt 46 CLOSES: JULY 17 MB-F Inc., SUPT FEE: $28.00-1st/ $22.00-2nd Judges And Their Assignments BEST IN SHOW Ms. T. L. Hundt SPORTING Group: Col. J. B. Purkhiser Col. J. B. Purkhiser: Pointer Dr. J. A. Newton: Pntr-GS M. Wiest: Ret-Lab Mr. J. C. Walton: Span-Ckr Mr. R. D. Ennis: Ret-Gold, All Setters, Span-Eng Spr Mr. J. Richardson: Brit, Spin Ital, Vizs, Wirehair Ptg Grif Mrs. A. S. Bolus: Pntr-GW, Ret-Ches, Ret-Curl, Ret-Flat Mrs. A. D. Hearn: Span-Eng Ckr, Span-Fld, Span-Irw, Span-Suss, Span-Wel Spr Ms. T. L. Hundt: Balance of Sporting Breeds HOUND Group: Mrs. M. Purkhiser Ms. T. L. Hundt: Nor Elk Mrs. A. M. Billups: Whip Mr. G. K. Newton: B & T Coonhnd, Bgle (Over 13), Dach, Eng Fox Mrs. A. S. Bolus: Afghan, Amer English Coon, Am Fox, Basenji, Bgle (13 Under) Dr. J. A. Newton: Balance of Hound Breeds WORKING Group: R. H. Slay Mr. G. K. Newton: Berns Mtn Mr. J. Richardson: Alas Mal, Cane Corso, Dogue de Brdx Mr. C. T. Moore: AnatolShep, Blk Russn Terrier, Bullm, Dobe Ms. T. L. Hundt: Grt Dane, Grt Pyr, Rottw, Sib Hky R. H. Slay: Akita, Boxer, Chinook, Grm Pinscher, Gtr Swiss Mtn, Kom, Kuv, Portuguese Col. J. B. Purkhiser: Balance of Working Breeds TERRIER Group: Mrs. C. P. Patterson R. H. Slay: Airdle Mrs. A. D. Hearn: Kerry, Min Schn Mr. J. C. Walton: Am Staff, Border, Wst Highlnd Mr. J. Richardson: Fox Ter (Smooth), Fox Ter (Wire), Parson Russell, Rat Terrier, Russel Terr, Scotti, Sealym, Soft Coated, Staf Bull, Welsh Ter Col. J. B. Purkhiser: Balance of Terrier Breeds TOY Group: Mrs. A. S. Bolus Mr. R. D. Ennis: Peke Mr. C. T. Moore: Yorks Mrs. A. D. Hearn: Hava, J Chin Mr. P. Van Baaren-Grob: Pap, Pood Toy Mrs. M. Purkhiser: Min Pin, Toy Manch, Pom, Pug, Shih Tzu, Silky Mrs. A. S. Bolus: Balance of Toy Breeds NON-SPORTING Group: Mrs. A. D. Hearn Mr. R. D. Ennis: Shar-Pei Mr. P. Van Baaren-Grob: Pood Mr. J. C. Walton: Bichon, Boston Mrs. A. S. Bolus: Bulldog, Kees, Schip, Tib Ter, Xoloitzcuintli Mrs. C. P. Patterson: Balance of Non-Sporting Breeds Continued on page 126

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HERDING Group: Mr. G. K. Newton Ms. V. M. Jordan: GSD Mr. G. K. Newton: AustrlShep, Beauceron, Entlebucher Mnt Dog, Icelandic Shpdg, Pyre Shep Mrs. M. Purkhiser: Coll, Fin Laph, Nor Buhund, Shetld, Swed Vallhund R. H. Slay: Austrl Cat Dg, Bouv, Briard, Card-WC, OES, PembWC Mr. C. T. Moore: Balance of Herding Breeds MISCELLANEOUS Group: Ms. T. L. Hundt Ms. T. L. Hundt: All Miscellaneous Breeds OBEDIENCE TRIAL CLASSES Mr. J. Iermiero: Nov A, Nov B, Begnr Nov A, Begnr Nov B C. A. Knight: Grad Novr, Open A, Grad Openr, Util A, Versatility Mrs. C. M. Thompson: Open B Dr. R. H. Knight: Util B JR SHOWMANSHIP: Ms. T. L. Hundt SWEEPS PUPPY: Weim Peggy Roush SWEEPS VETERANS: Weim Peggy Roush SWEEPS VETERANS: Whip Harry Mlynar SWEEPS PUPPY: Whip Harry Mlynar

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VA Salem (I) JAMES RIVER KENNEL CLUB, INC. Salem Civic Center 1001 Boulevard CLOSES: JULY 17 MB-F Inc., SUPT FEE: $29.00 Judges And Their Assignments BEST IN SHOW J. G. Reynolds SPORTING Group: Mrs. G. Geringer Mr. C. G. Liepmann: Ret-Gold, Ret-Lab, Ret-Nova Scotia T, All Setters, Set-Irsh Rd&Wh, Span-AmW, Span-Irw Mrs. G. Geringer: Balance of Sporting Breeds HOUND Group: Mrs. J. Webb Mrs. J. Webb: All Hound Breeds WORKING Group: Mr. C. G. Liepmann Mrs. L. E. Hiltz: Bullm, Dobe, Portuguese, Sam, Sib Hky J. G. Reynolds: Akita, AnatolShep, Blk Russn Terrier, Boxer, Cane Corso, Dogue de Brdx, Grm Pinscher, Giant Schn, Grt Dane, Grt Pyr Mr. C. G. Liepmann: Balance of Working Breeds TERRIER Group: Mrs. R. S. Forsyth Mrs. R. S. Forsyth: All Terrier Breeds TOY Group: Mr. J. E. Frederiksen Mrs. R. S. Forsyth: Chihua J. G. Reynolds: Shih Tzu D. P. Cline: Bruss Grif, Cav KC Spans, Pood Toy Mr. J. E. Frederiksen: Balance of Toy Breeds NON-SPORTING Group: Mrs. L. E. Hiltz Mrs. R. S. Forsyth: Bulldog Mrs. G. Geringer: Chow D. P. Cline: Shar-Pei, Dalm Mr. J. E. Frederiksen: Am Esk Dog, Bichon, Boston J. G. Reynolds: Fin Spitz, Fr Bull, Kees Mrs. L. E. Hiltz: Balance of Non-Sporting Breeds HERDING Group: Mr. J. E. Frederiksen Mr. J. E. Frederiksen: Austrl Cat Dg, Briard, Entlebucher Mnt Dog, Fin Laph, Icelandic Shpdg, Nor Buhund, Pol Low Shp D. P. Cline: Balance of Herding Breeds MISCELLANEOUS Group: J. G. Reynolds J. G. Reynolds: All Miscellaneous Breeds JR SHOWMANSHIP: Mrs. R. M. Sager

CA Dixon (I) SIERRA GOLD BOSTON TERRIER CLUB (S) Dixon May Fairgrounds 655 S 1st Street CLOSES: JULY 17 Carolyn Goepner, SHW SEC, 3850 Ormsby Pl, Washoe Valley, NV 89704 FEE: $29.00-1st/ $22.00-2nd Mr. C. E. Gomes: Breed, Jr. Showmanship SWEEPS VETERANS Dona Powers SWEEPS PUPPY Dona Powers

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CA Dixon* (I/O) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DACHSHUND CLUB (S) Dixon May Fairgrounds 655 S 1st Street CLOSES: JULY 17 Ms. Bonnie Prato, SHW SEC, 5252 Shafter Ave, Oakland, CA 94618 Mr. D. A. Johnson: Breed, Jr. Showmanship SWEEPS PUPPY: Dach (Long) Mr. Thomas Sikora SWEEPS PUPPY: Dach (Smooth) Mr. Thomas Sikora SWEEPS PUPPY: Dach (Wire) Mr. Thomas Sikora CA Dixon (I) SIERRA GOLD BOSTON TERRIER CLUB Dixon May Fairgrounds 655 S 1st Street CLOSES: JULY 17 Carolyn Goepner, SHW SEC, 3850 Ormsby Pl, Washoe Valley, NV 89704 FEE: $29.00-1st/ $22.00-2nd L. E. Stanbridge: Breed

LA Kenner (I) BOXER CLUB OF LOUISIANA (S) Pontchartrain Center 4545 Williams Boulevard CLOSES: JULY 14 Onofrio Dog Shows, L.L.C., SUPT FEE: $27.00-1st/ $20.00-2nd Ms. S. Pretari Hickson: Breed Mrs. M. K. Busse: Jr. Showmanship SWEEPS PUPPY Mrs. Maralyn K Busse LA Kenner (I) CREOLE POODLE CLUB OF NEW ORLEANS Pontchartrain Center 4545 Williams Boulevard CLOSES: JULY 17 Onofrio Dog Shows, L.L.C., SUPT FEE: $28.00-1st/ $20.00-2nd Mr. M. J. Dachel: Breed LA Kenner (I) LOUISIANA KENNEL CLUB, INC. (S) Pontchartrain Center 4545 Williams Boulevard CLOSES: JULY 18 Onofrio Dog Shows, L.L.C., SUPT FEE: $27.00-1st/ $20.00-2nd Judges And Their Assignments BEST IN SHOW Mrs. J. E. Treiber SPORTING Group: Mr. M. J. Dachel Mr. P. B. Averill, D.V.M.: Pntr-GS, Ret-Lab, Set-Irsh, Weim Mr. M. J. Dachel: Balance of Sporting Breeds Continued on page 130

THE STEEL VALLEY CLUSTER AUGUST 1st -- AUGUST 4th, 2013 CANFIELD FAIRGROUNDS, CANFIELD, OH ENTRIES CLOSE: WEDNESDAY JULY 17th, 2013

Thursday, August 1, 2013 Fort Stuben Kennel Association

Friday, August 2, 2013 Columbiana County Kennel Club

Over 400 Majors in 2012!

Saturday, August 3, 2013 Beaver County Kennel Club

Sunday, August 4, 2013 Mahoning Shenango Kennel Club

The following breeds will be having specialties either in conjunction or preceding our cluster on our grounds: German Shorthaired Pointer, Labrador Retrievers, Weimaraner, Basset Hound, Dachshund, Norwegian Elkhound, Whippet, Bernese Mountain Dog, Great Pyrenees, Airedale Terrier, Kerry Blue Terrier, Miniature Schnauzer, West Highland White Terrier, Japanese Chin, Pekingese, Boston Terriers, Chinese Shar-Pei, Poodles, Briards and German Shepherd Dog Plus supported entries in many additional breeds! 40 breeds holding specialties and/or supported entries!

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS!!

• Bred By Exhibitor Competition - Thursday • 4-6 Month Puppy Competition held on Friday Obedience all 4 days (indoors) • CGC Testing on Sunday • Owner Handler Competition - Saturday • All Breed Eye, Heart, BAER & Optigen Microchip Clinics • AKC Registered Handlers Juniors Clinic on Saturday • Best Junior of Steel Valley Competition • Owner-Handler Series Breed/Group Competition • Exhibitor Armband Raffles • Friday night at the movies with popcorn Please visit our website @ www.steelvalleycluster.org for information on judges, schedules, RV reservations, hotels, etc....

Cluster Information 740 632-7140 For Motorhome & Electric Reservations (724) 846-0078 Vendors (By Invitation Only) (724) 846-0078

Show Superintendent MB-F Inc. 32351 Edward Avenue P.O. Box 9999 Madison Heights, MI 48071

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HOUND Group: Mrs. K. Kahn Mrs. J. E. Treiber: All Hound Breeds WORKING Group: Dr. R. A. Indeglia Dr. R. A. Indeglia: All Working Breeds TERRIER Group: Mrs. K. Kahn J. A. Moses: Am Staff Mrs. K. Kahn: Balance of Terrier Breeds TOY Group: D. McCoy Mr. D. L. Kittredge: Pood Toy D. McCoy: Balance of Toy Breeds NON-SPORTING Group: Mr. D. L. Kittredge Mr. D. L. Kittredge: All Non-Sporting Breeds HERDING Group: Mrs. K. Kahn Mrs. K. Kahn: All Herding Breeds MISCELLANEOUS Group: Mr. M. J. Dachel Mr. M. J. Dachel: All Miscellaneous Breeds JR SHOWMANSHIP: Mr. P. B. Averill, D.V.M. SWEEPS VETERANS: Set-Irsh Christine Raposo SWEEPS PUPPY: Set-Irsh Christine Raposo MA Greenfield* (O) IRISH RED AND WHITE SETTER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (S) Greenfield Community College College Dr CLOSES: JULY 17 Carol S. Brown, SHW SEC, PO BOX 6898, C/O JIM RAU DOG SHOWS, READING, PA 19610 FEE: $30.00-1st/ $20.00-2nd Mrs. G. Young: Breed, Jr. Showmanship Ms. E. Chase: Obedience SWEEPS PUPPY Mr. Frank J Washabaugh SWEEPS VETERANS Mr. Frank J Washabaugh MI Marshall (I) CLUMBER SPANIEL FANCIERS OF MICHIGAN (S) Calhoun County Fairgrounds CLOSES: JULY 17 Dennis Schultz, SHW SEC, 221 Crestwood St., Lake Charles, LA 70605 FEE: $27.00-1st/ $20.00-2nd Ms. P. Beisel-McIlwaine: Breed SWEEPS VETERANS Pat Howard SWEEPS PUPPY Pat Howard MI Marshall* (I/O) JAXON KENNEL CLUB, INC. Calhoun County Fairgrounds CLOSES: JULY 17 Roy Jones Dog Shows, Inc., SUPT FEE: $29.00-1st/ $24.00-2nd Judges And Their Assignments BEST IN SHOW Dr. J. D. Sillers SPORTING Group: Mr. B. Meyer G. Cooper: Pntr-GS, Pntr-GW, Ret-Ches, Ret-Gold, Ret-Lab Mr. B. Meyer: Balance of Sporting Breeds HOUND Group: Mr. D. R. Miller Dr. J. D. Sillers: All Hound Breeds WORKING Group: Mrs. C. Meyer G. Cooper: Newf Mrs. C. Meyer: Blk Russn Terrier, Cane Corso, Chinook, Kom, Kuv, Leonberger, Tibtn Mastiff Mr. J. D. Ellis, Sr.: Balance of Working Breeds TERRIER Group: Mrs. C. Meyer Mrs. C. Meyer: All Terrier Breeds

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TOY Group: Mrs. D. Kniola Mr. D. R. Miller: Pug Mrs. D. Kniola: Balance of Toy Breeds NON-SPORTING Group: Mr. D. R. Miller Mrs. D. Kniola: Pood Mr. S. L. Wagner: Bulldog, Shar-Pei Mr. D. R. Miller: Balance of Non-Sporting Breeds HERDING Group: Ms. M. Brocious Ms. M. Brocious: All Herding Breeds MISCELLANEOUS Group: Ms. M. Brocious Ms. M. Brocious: All Miscellaneous Breeds OBEDIENCE TRIAL CLASSES Mrs. S. S. Rose: Nov A, Nov B, Begnr Nov A, Begnr Nov B, PNOV, Grad Novr, Open A, Open B, Grad Openr, POPN, Util A, Util B, PUTL, Versatility To Be Assigned: Brace, Sub-Novice, International, Team 1, Team 2, Veteran, Nov Wildc, Opn Wildc, Utl Wildc, Adv Teamwork JR SHOWMANSHIP: G. Cooper ND Bismarck* (I) BISMARCK KENNEL CLUB VFW All Seasons Arena 1200 N Washington St CLOSES: JULY 17 Lori Ell, SHW SEC, PO BOX 25764, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73125 FEE: $27.00-1st/ $20.00-2nd Judges And Their Assignments BEST IN SHOW Mr. R. R. Hartinger SPORTING Group: Mrs. P. Hartinger Mrs. P. Hartinger: All Sporting Breeds HOUND Group: P. Gutierrez-Otero Mr. R. R. Hartinger: All Hound Breeds WORKING Group: P. Gutierrez-Otero P. Gutierrez-Otero: All Working Breeds TERRIER Group: Mrs. P. Hartinger Mrs. P. Hartinger: All Terrier Breeds TOY Group: P. Gutierrez-Otero Mr. R. R. Hartinger: All Toy Breeds NON-SPORTING Group: P. Gutierrez-Otero P. Gutierrez-Otero: All Non-Sporting Breeds HERDING Group: Mrs. P. Hartinger Mr. R. R. Hartinger: All Herding Breeds MISCELLANEOUS Group: P. Gutierrez-Otero P. Gutierrez-Otero: All Miscellaneous Breeds OBEDIENCE TRIAL CLASSES Mrs. L. C. Botko: Nov A, Nov B, PNOV, Grad Novr, Open A, Open B, Grad Openr, POPN, Util A, Util B, PUTL OH Canfield (I/O) BASSET HOUND CLUB OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA (S) Canfield Fairgrounds Rt 46 CLOSES: JULY 17 Edna Morris, SHW SEC, 209 RYAN DR, PITTSBURGH, PA 15220 FEE: $22.00-1st/ $22.00-2nd Mr. R. Lukins: Breed R. Damron: Jr. Showmanship SWEEPS VETERANS SWEEPS PUPPY

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This year we hosted three independent night specialties, 16 specialties, 64 supported entries, 259 (!) majors, with entries of 8,570 over the four days. These are conformation entries only.

Our specialties are due to the energetic and talented Eva Berg, who is ably assisted by Mireille Bischel. They work all year long with the specialty clubs to make their specialties as “special” as possible.

Motor home parking is handled by the always calm Bruce and Bert Rettick. Somehow they stay calm with a long line of motor homes waiting to enter the show grounds.

Ken Berg is the “money man” and of course is the judge’s favorite person. He has a big job and thank goodness is a wiz at excel, checkbooks and budgets and keeps us all on track.

Terry Kelso is our trophy chair and does an amazing job of setting up the trophy table full of Grateful Dead memorabilia, lava lamps and her handmade hippy dogs (they are fabulous!), which makes it look like it could be right out of a concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

Each year we offer collectable logo T-Shirts and sweatshirts for sale. The artist that does our logos each year is Matt Mignanelli from New York. His paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. This year’s logo was “Roger DOGtrey” from the Who. Club members Linda and John Roberts and Dana Esquibel are there at the T-Shirt booth all day with smiles on their faces helping everyone pick out which tie dye colors they want.

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t the back of the fairgrounds is what we have aptly named “Bulldog World.”

The Mother Lode Bulldog Club and the Northern CA Bulldog Club come together each year to host specialties and supported entries. We have breeder-judges for them and they are our largest entry at the show. What a great group of people the bulldoggers are! They clap and cheer and support each other. They come to groups and always support the bulldog, regardless of the winner. This year we had several different winners that topped the competition and all were spectacular.

I have always said if our politicians had the temperaments

of the Bulldogs and their owners of Flat Coated Retrievers, our world would be a much better place. We had bulldoggers from Hawaii, Mexico and several new faces from all over the US. The depth of quality in the groups was unlike anything I have seen in years. The judges all commented on the quality of their exhibits. Of course a quality judging panel draws quality dogs!

Woofstock offers many health clinics including CERF, 20/20 Optigen, AKC DNA, Cardiology and BAER hearing. The response to these clinics is overwhelming and expertly handled by Robin Remondi and her crew.

This year’s Saturday BIS judge was the loved and respected Michelle Billings. This was her last outdoor show (with the exception of Montgomery of course) so we wanted to make it memorable. She was dressed in a vision of pink and yellow Peter Maxx style print outfit with an empire styled top with flared sleeves and matching flared bell bottom pants. To top this off she donned rose colored John Lennon glasses.

Due to her rather sexy outfit, she entered the ring to Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady”. You still “have it,” Michelle!

Between the 2nd and 3rd groups we have our famous (or infamous) “Best Dressed Costume Contest.” People are crowded around the group ring for clapping, screaming and voting for their favorites. Each year I wonder how we can top the following year, but we always seem to.

We truly have the best, most creative exhibitors on the planet!

This year the winner for Best Dressed Male was Stephen Cabrall Dressed as a huge bag of Marijuana. For the run-off he proceeded to roll himself up in paper. Hysterically funny.

Best female was a family af-

fair winning with the most incredible hand-made “CANNIBUS” that was a real work of art. Inside the mini VW bus was their adorable daughter and flower girl, Reese, riding along with her dogs that were also dressed. I do not know how many hours were put into building the “Cannibus” but if they ever want to sell it, we will buy it!

Best Youth was the adorable daughters of Colton and Heather Johnson, Taylor and Cameron Johnson, who were flower girls. Not to be outdone, even their baby brother Dawson was in costume!

Best dressed dog(s) were two Spinonis with Stacey Belt with Mia and Becky Tevis with Floyd.

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s a “special attraction” we had the Hari Krishnas visit us at WOOFSTOCK! They paraded around the ring in their orange drapes, throwing flowers to the crowd. Just like it used to be at the San Francisco airport in the late 60’s!

During the groups Lake County provides local wines from their region and club members Danielle Green (who is a professional caterer) and Andrea Bridges (who is a gourmet cook) put out a spread of hors d’oeuvres that are as fabulous to look at as they are to eat!

Saturday night is the BBQ and a concert with a live band “Loose Blues”. This is a good time for everyone to kick back, dance and relax. The ocean breezes kicked in Saturday afternoon, so it made for a brisk evening. Woofstock provides free drinks and cake for exhibitors for the BBQ. The depth of quality at the breed level was outstanding, which made for beautiful groups and outstanding BIS line ups. Under judge Vicki Abbott, Thursday’s winners were: BIS to the current number one dog all breeds, Wire Fox Terrier GCH. After All’s Painting The Sky; RBIS was the Clumber Spaniel GCH. Clussexx Collaboration With Traddles. “Sky” took home the purple tie dyed BIS ribbon and 1,412 points.

Friday’s BIS under the discriminating eye of Bob Slay was again “Sky,” GCH. After All’s Painting The Sky. For this day she took home another tie-dye BIS ribbon and 1,621 points. RBIS went to “a dog to watch” the lovely Australian Shepherd female, appropriately named Woodstock’s Belle Star, which won the breed at Westminster this year and the National Specialty.

On Saturday the much adored Michele Billings, who looked like she walked out of Haight Ashbury, chose as her BIS the Giant Schnauzer CCh. Kenro’s Witching Hour “Dora,” currently the country’s number six dog all breed.

Dora was visiting from Florida and with this big BIS win she took home the bright orange tie-dyed BIS ribbon along with 2,136 points. RBIS went to “Sky”.

Sunday judge Jim Reynolds gave the nod to another super star skyrocketing to the top, Old English Sheepdog “Swagger” (the coolest name ever), Ch. BugaBoo’s Picture Perfect. Swagger was breeder, owner-handled by Colton Johnson and took home a hot yellow tie dyed BIS ribbon and 1,905 points. Swagger and the Johnson family were visiting from Colorado and the entire family was dressed for the occasion! RBIS went to the Giant “Dora”.

On behalf of Lake County Kennel Club of Northern California President and show chair, and Contra Costa County KC President and show chair Phil Freilich, we would like to thank all of our club members for their hard work and dedication for putting on one whale of a party. To all of our fabulous and creative exhibitors, YOU ROCK IT. Peace out and see you next year for WOOFSTOCK 2014!

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AKC and KC systems is scarcely a riveting spectator experience. Under the FCI system with reporting on each dog, it turns into a very boring experience for the ringsiders.

The alternative of watching paint dry would almost be an entertaining relief!

placing of the dogs as I go through the class. Stopping to write a report on each exhibit just interrupts that train of thought as far as I am concerned. Maybe if you are brought up with the system that it not so much of a problem.

Getting Away With A Lack Of Knowledge

The UK System Is Not Perfect

What of the merits and demerits of the various systems? The AKC system, where reports are required only rarely, has the benefit of speed.

It also means that life is much easier for the judges who neither have the problem of dictating a report at the show, nor of going home and writing up their comments. On the negative side it does however mean that exhibitors, apart from knowing their placing in the class, never really get the benefit of learning what judges think about their dogs.

It also means that judges can, on occasions, ‘get away with’ a lack of knowledge of the breed that would be very clearly revealed if they had to write up their views on the exhibits or give reasons for their placings.

Whether this encourages people to take on breeds that they ought to study much more before judging them, is a question that has, I suppose, to be considered. In my view under the AKC system the dog judge is protected far more from public scrutiny of his or her real knowledge of the breed, than it is under the other two systems.

Not Logical

As for the FCI system it seems to me that the logic of having a written report on each dog has to go hand in hand with grading. Having grading without a report seems to me to be totally crazy. For a judge to allocate a dog a grade without having to give the reason for that grading, must be totally unacceptable.

But whether writing detailed reports on each dog make sense does I think, depends on the quality of the judge and the quality of the comments written. Some comments are so tame and bland as to be a total waste of time. Another disadvantage of the FCI system is that for those not accustomed to judging dogs in this way, it doesn’t help the evaluation process. Stopping every ninety seconds or so to write or dictate a report on each dog does not help the judge’s train of thought. I know that when I judge dogs, I am mentally storing my views on the eventual

But turning to the UK system of writing reports for publication on the first two or three winners in each class, it is not perfect by any means. When it is well done it is very interesting and gives an insight into the way the judge’s mind was working and what he or she was looking for. It can paint a very good word picture of the dogs and can help the judge to explain why he or she put one dog over another. From the judge’s point of view it can however be very time consuming. I know that, even with dictating my reports into a recording machine at the end of each class, it can still take me three or four hours per breed after a judging assignment to do justice to the critiques.

Reports done badly (and unfortunately more often than not this is how they are done!) turn the system into a waste of time at best or are damaging at worst. Some are so bland as to be meaningless. Others are so critical as to be dangerous. The biggest problem is that if you have a class of say twenty dogs and are required to write up just two of them, you have to be careful not to damn one of your winners in explaining why you put it second and not first. After all the other eighteen dogs must have been worse in your opinion and you are not required to say anything at all about them!

In many ways however the benefit of the UK system is that it is often more revealing about the judge than it is about the dogs. Bland reports or reports praising what is clearly a fault - or condemning what is obviously a virtue – can certainly help to tell you all you need to know about some judges.

Ringside Reports

Today the reports published in the UK dog weeklies are all written by the judges themselves. There was a time when some such reports were written by ringsiders because certain show judges were contracted and paid to write exclusively for just one or other of the dog papers and they were not allowed to report

elsewhere. I myself well remember serving an apprenticeship in the 1960s going to shows and writing up reports on the judging for one of the dog weeklies (for a fee of course!). It helped me in a small way to pay for some of my university study but I sometimes wonder how I had the nerve as most of those who wrote exclusively for only one paper were reckoned to be the top judges of the day!

Those ringside reports had my name attached and therefore had to be reasonable but in the latter part of the 19th Century in the early days of dogs shows as we know them there were several anonymous writers of reports. What would present day exhibitors or judge victims think, I wonder, of the following report on Dandie Dinmonts at the Crystal Palace Show published in 1885, if it were published today?

Those Were The Days

“Major Howarth Ashton was appointed to judge, but owing to indisposition was unable to act, and the Rev E.J Mellor took his place. The dog Jethart easily beat Blitz in the Champion Class. There is little to find fault with in Jethart; he is a good coloured mustard, his chief faults are his ears which are a little too broad, and he might be two or three pounds lighter, and his head have more finish. In the Champion bitch class Border Queen was the only entry. She is still looking well notwithstanding her age and extraordinary show career. Open Class – Dogs – the three best dogs were thrown out of this class by the Rev W. J. Mellor, the judge, on account of their mouths. Tiger ll and Border Prince are both undershot and Finchet’s mustard Charlie is swine mouthed. Whether the judge was acting rightly in rejecting such otherwise good dogs is open to question and ought to be decided by the Club as soon as possible. Lancaster Jack’s body is too short, back straight, legs too long, eye very light, and bad forefeet; coat fair. Chucker Out is too rough and soft in coat; eyes small and too light, ears too rough; a very common low bred looking type as his name implies. Forceps who gained second prize has a big coarse head, and ears too broad; wants quality all over; has bare stubbly coat not at all like a Dandie’s, and no top knot.; in head, body, coat and color more like an Airedale Terrier and wants expression in eye.”

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dogs, Swancrest’s Silver Lining of Stonebrook owned by Beverly Wilson and Martin Cabral. Her selection for Best of Opposite Sex to Best in Sweepstakes was from the 9 to 12 month puppy bitches, StarPons Urokliwa owned by Cindy Czerechowicz.

Her choice for Best in Veteran Sweepstakes was from the veteran bitch 11 years and older, CH Rola at Elzbieta Tramperus, owned by Margaret Korzeniowska and Diane Engelking. For Best of Opposite Sex to Best in Veteran Sweepstakes, her selection came from the 7 to 9 year old veteran dogs, Polish Hill’s Heart Throb, owned by Karen Nielsen.

Judging the regular classes on Friday was Ms. Joanne (Jan) Paulk. Her selection for Best Puppy was Fryeeryk Chopin Kontext, a Polish import owned by Magdalena Hirata, and handled by Lisa Bettis. Winner’s Bitch was Sinclair’s Little Miss Zoee owned by Dave and Kelley Nottingham, Ryan Kerner and Cheryl Kerner. Selected as Winner’s Dog and Best of Winners, new Champion, was Snowhill’s Zak Misha z StarPons CGC owned by Darius Holloway, Robert Young and Donna Gray.

For Best of Breed competition, 21 Champion PONs entered the ring, along with the Winner’s Dog and Winner’s Bitch, an almost unbelievably large group of PONs in one ring. After careful examination and evaluation of each entry, Ms. Paulk selected her Best of Breed, the lovely bitch, GCH Stonebrook Mon Amie’s Chance Worth Taking, owned by Gina Klang, and presented by Martin Cabral. This beautiful bitch went on to place second in the Herding Group. Best of Opposite Sex was Ch Izaak Z Domlina, owned by Cherie LeClair, Kim and Roy Richmond and Michelle Ahmann.

After the first day of showing, it was off to our dinner and annual meeting in Mundelein, another suburb of Chicago. We got a sneak peak at the beautiful baskets donated for our raffle, all stuffed with wonderful goodies for our PONs and their humans. There were numerous silent auction items, all with a PON theme. It was yet another opportunity to visit and socialize with the members who had literally come from all corners of the country. Another resounding success thanks to our outstanding show committee.

Saturday morning it was an early start for the National Specialty at the Lake County Fairgrounds. Our judge for the Sweepstakes was Ms. Barbara Bruns, the esteemed breeder and judge from Germany. After carefully evaluating each entry, Ms. Bruns selected her Best in Sweepstakes, Stonebrook’s For Your Eyes Only, owned by Beverly Wilson and Martin Cabral.

Her choice for Best of Opposite Sex to Best in Sweepstakes was Swancrest’s Silver Lining at Stonebrook, also owned by Beverly Wilson and Martin Cabral. Best in Veteran Sweepstakes was CH Izaak Domlina owned by Cherie LeClair, Kim and Roy Richmond and Michelle Ahmann. Best of Opposite Sex to Best of Veteran in Sweepstakes was CH Rola at Elzbieta Tramperus owned by Margaret Korzeniowska and Diane Engelking.

Judging our APONC National Specialty was Mrs. Chris Walkowicz, award winning author of many dog-related books and respected judge with many foreign assignments. For winner’s dog, she chose the recently imported young dog Ponadto Amarant, owned by Sara Heavens. Winner’s bitch and Best of Winners was Stonebrook’s For Your Eyes Only, owned by Beverly Wilson and Martin Cabral. Best of Breed was CH Swancrest The Power of Love Eternal (Baxter), owned by Magdalena Hirata and Lisa Bettis and Ryan Wolfe. Best of Opposite was CH Swancrest Pons Lady Godiva. Mrs. Walkowicz awarded Grant Champion Select Dog to CH Snowhill’s Zak Misha Z Starpons (the dog who achieved championship the previous day), owned

by Robert Young and Darius Holloway and Donna Gray. Grand Champion Select Bitch was awarded to CH Swancrest Toast of the Town owned

by Magdalena Hirata. Award of Merit was awarded to GCH Ciacho Dziechinek owned by Judy Siudzinski-Torge, and GCH StarPon’s Mustang Sally Rae, owned by Cindy Czerechowicz and Donna Gray. Best Stud Dog was Tramperus Wawel owned by Margaret Korzeniowska and Ryszarda Zemela, and Best Veteran was CH Rola at Elzbieta Tramperus, owned by Margaret Korzeniowska and Diane Engelking.

Because this was a stand-alone specialty, there was no group judging so off we went to Lakewood Forest Preserve for a picnic catered by members of the Polish Community. Needless to say, the food was abundant and delicious. We had the opportunity to learn about PON yoga, a fun and beneficial activity for our PONs. We also had a PON yogurt eating contest, won by Ponavie Kahlua on the Rocks StarPons, owned by Miriam Frost. Following the picnic, there were seminars for judging PONs conducted by AKC judge Chantal Andrew, and a seminar on PON Health and PRA conducted by Liz Hansen and Barbara Bruns.

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n Sunday, we again had a supported entry at the Little Fort Kennel Club of Waukegan, where our Sweepstakes Judge was Mr. George Huffman. As the Sweepstakes winner, Mr. Huffman selected Swancrest’s Silver Lining at Stonebrook, a puppy dog owned by Beverly Wilson and Martin Cabral. Best of Opposite Sex to Best Puppy in Sweepstakes was Stonerook’s For Your Eyes Only owned by Beverly Wilson and Martin Cabral. Best veteran in Sweepstakes was CH Rola at Elzbieta Tramperus owned by Margaret Korzeniowska and Diane Engleking with Best of Opposite Sex to Best Veteran in Sweepstakes going to Polish Hill’s Heart Throb, owned

by Karen Nielsen.

Our Judge for the regular classes was Mr. Martin Doherty, who elected to use a ramp for examining our PONs. This was a new experience for many of our PONs, and Mr. Doherty was encouraging and understanding, making this a positive experience for both dog and owner. Mr. Doherty’s choice for Winner’s Dog was from the Bred by Exhibitor class, Tramperus Baltic Silver Knight, owned and shown by Margaret Korzeniowska. He went on to be declared Best of Winners. Mr. Doherty’s selection for Winner’s Bitch was also from the Bred by Exhibitor class, Stonebrook’s For Your Eyes Only, owned by Beverly Wilson and Martin Cabral. Best of Breed was awarded to Snowhill’s Zak Misha Z Starpons, owned by Darius Holloway, Robert Young and Donna Gray. This wonderful dog began the weekend as a class dog. During the three days of showing in Illinois, he completed his Championship, received GCH Select Dog at our National Specialty, and on the third day, won Best of Breed over a class of 20 wonderful Champions, and would go on to place Group 2 accompanied by cheers and applause. Best of Opposite Sex was awarded to GCH Sasquehana Malwa, a multiple internationally titled bitch, owned by Margaret Maciagiewicz.

The fun was not over. On Monday, there was a Herding Clinic at Magic’s Legacy Sheep Herding Farm in Genoa, WI. Thirteen PONs participated in the herding event and 6 received their first leg towards American Herding Breed Association Capability Tested (CHT), and one completed her second leg. This was a wonderful opportunity for our PONS, and an event which had not previously offered in conjunction with our Specialty.

Our adventure in the Windy City came to an end and we bid a fond farewell to our fellow PON fanciers and friends, both old and new. All agreed this was our best National Specialty since becoming recognized

by AKC in 2001, and we made plans to meet again next year. A big thanks to all members of the Specialty Committee. Your hard work resulted in this huge success.

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For 2013 the Lost Coast Kennel Club offered a Junior showmanship competition, separate obedience and rally rings, free conformation handling class and even a lure coursing demo and fun run. There was R.V. parking at the fairgrounds at an affordable rate of only $40.00 a day for water and electric sites and $33.00 a day with no hookups. Best of all were the entry fees ranging from only $8.00 to $26.00.

On week 26 of the year 2014 The Lost Coast Kennel Club looks forward to offering another fun-filled weekend of dog competitions. With the hopes of adding an earth dog trial, offering a larger “best in show size ring” for the German shepherd breed and a junior handler’s seminar.

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Papers are currently being sought for inclusion in the Canine Genetics and Epidemiology journal, which will be launching this autumn. It will boast an impressive international editorial board, including Jerold Bell from Tufts University, USA; Hannes Lohi from the University of Helsinki, Finland; David Brodbelt and Brian Catchpole from the Royal Veterinary College, and Claire Wade from the University of Sydney. The journal will be edited by Bill Ollier from the University of Manchester and Jeff Sampson, Kennel Club Genetics Consultant, and hopes to attract influential research papers from around the world.

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Head of Canine Genetics at the Animal Health Trust and editorial board member, Cathryn Mellersh said: “The current field of canine genetics and epidemiology is an extremely dynamic and exciting discipline to be a part of, but it is vitally important that all canine stakeholders, and not just scientists, can access, understand and ultimately implement the findings from all this research.

“A key, and unique, feature of CGE is its aim to make research findings accessible to veterinarians, dog breeders and owners, as well as scientists, I believe this aim will set CGE apart from other journals in the sector, and means CGE will play a central role in disseminating the research riches that the dog provides.”

The journal, which is currently accepting submissions, will address genetic, genomic and epidemiological research in both domestic and wild canids, relating to breed and species diversity, and canine evolution. Anyone interested in submitting a manuscript should visit: http://www.cgejournal.org/manuscript or email cgejournal@biomedcentral.com.

For further information about Canine Genetics and Epidemiology, and to access the journal when it is launched in autumn, visit: http://www.cgejournal.org/.

Laura Quickfall London, England Dog News 137

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