Show Name: Greater Fredericksburg Kennel Club Location: Fredericksburg VA Show Date: Friday, January 11, 2013 Total Entry: 977 Best In Show Judge: Mr. Charles Trotter Dog Reg: GCh. Meadowlark Simply Sinful Breed: Border Terrier Handler: Karen Fitzpatrick Owner: Kiki Courtelis. & Karen Fitzpatrick Reserve Dog Reg: GCh. Kiarry Pandoras Box Reserve Breed: American Foxhound [...]
By Amy Fernandez Last week the ax came down on the ASPCA Sandypets emergency boarding shelter in Brooklyn and the media is bombarding us with announcements that owners must pick up their pets NOW. It looks like about 100 of them won’t be claimed. Personally, this didn’t surprise me. Leaving pets at the shelter was [...]
Show Name: Kennel Club of Niagara Falls Location: Hamburg, NY Show Date: Thursday, January 10, 2013 Total Entry: 941 Best In Show Judge: Mr Kenneth Buxton Dog Reg: GCh Blackhawk Finnegans Wake Breed: Standard Schnauzer Handler: Jody Paquette Owner: L and K Studley Reserve Dog Reg: GCh Sandstorm Blue Nile Bubbles Of Jatara Reserve [...]
48 – Annual, 2012-2013 By Lee Canalizo This month’s column allows us to look back in a different way. With the Holidays approaching, let’s look back and remember the retired and emeritus judges that we no longer see officiating week after week in the rain, cold or blistering heat. It might surprise you that “officially” [...]
102 – The Annual, 2012-13 by Kerry Rushby During the warm UK summer, I had a very exciting trip to undertake. The opportunity to travel to the Emerald Isle otherwise known as Ireland to exhibit my dogs presented itself and I jumped at the chance. Let me tell you a bit about the ‘Munster Circuit’. [...]
114 – Annual, 2012-13 By Gay Dunlap Some weeks ago I found myself once again facing the agonizingly grim task of putting one of my beloved dogs to sleep. If a bitch can be called a lady, Mikaela was that. She never once lost her temper. Sharing her life with me for over 16 years, [...]
144 – Annual, 2012-13 By Fran Reisman photo by Steve Surfman Many years ago, I think it must be at least 30 by now, my sisters and I went to the then-“must-go-to-show” – The Kennel Club of Philadelphia. Accompanying us was a surprise visitor from California and his famous Borzoi who was entered at the [...]
260 – The Annual, 2012-13 By Chris Robinson One crisp fall morning a few years ago, hunting upland birds on my late partner’s conservation reserve program land in central Nebraska, I was tuned in to the tinkling of the melodious Swiss sheep bell on my Brittany. The bell was a necessity because the cover in [...]
306 – Annual, 2012-2013 text and illustrations by RIA HORTER The FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale), the World Canine Organization, includes 86 member countries and contract partners (one member per country). Each issues its own pedigrees and trains its own judges. The FCI ensures that the pedigrees and judges are mutually recognized by all FCI members. [...]
336 – Annual, 2012-13 by Kimberly Silva Garrett What made you decide to become a judge? I started to judge matches and sweepstakes back in the early ‘80s. I found I enjoyed learning about new breeds and searching through an entry for the one that really pleased me. Who, if anyone, has influenced your [...]
