To Be or Not to Be?
My tenure as a delegate, representing my breed’s parent club, could well go down in history as the shortest lived ever. I lasted but a year. In retrospect, I probably never should have accepted the position.
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Remembering Denise (Denny) Kodner
I knew of Denny long before I ever met her as she was a legend in the German Shepherd breed as a great handler and a successful breeder.” She and her husband Les reared their family (David and Peter) in the mid-west and no matter where she went she carried a strong and true Midwest demeanor. In dogs she didn’t shoot from the hip on anything. She told it like it was and never gave it a second thought if she believed in what needed to be said.
A Tale of Two Beaucerons
Much is demanded of show dogs – they must be adaptable, calm, and tolerant in addition to meeting the requirements of their breed standards. Two Beaucerons, both champions and exhibited at the 2011 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, have show careers that are secondary to their day-to-day work. For Beaucerons Gideon and Elias, ribbons and trophies take a back seat to the life-saving work they perform every day.
Now Hear This, Dogs!
This is the Captain speaking. With the winter holidays nearly upon us, it has been brought to my attention by the Command Master Chief of the Household that certain liberties were taken by the canine crew of this command during the last holiday season that shall not happen again this year. Henceforth, the following actions and activities will be expressly forbidden.
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too!
Horses and dogs just naturally seem to go together. When I was riding jumpers and galloping racehorses, there were always dogs around the stables and at the boarding facilities. The horse owners almost always brought their dogs along when they came to ride. Horse people just seem to love dogs and many dog owners feel the same way about horses. However, other than Foxhounds and Harriers, nowhere in the dog world is this mutual love affair more apparent than with Dalmatian owners who give their dogs the opportunity to do what the breed was intended to do.
Rebuttal to It’s All About the Spots
I read with interest the article by Ms. Gretchen Bernardi entitled “It’s All About The Spots”, published in your September, 2010 issue. Her stated reluctance to “discuss controversial matters that pertain to breeds other than my own and about which I have only limited information” is duly noted and I wonder what moved her to jump into the business of a Parent Club membership and a complex issue about which a great deal of inaccurate information has been spread through the pages of almost every major dog magazine in America.
It’s All About the Spots
A battle is being waged regarding the registration of backcrossed Dalmatians. It is an old battle, but new technology and research have made it front page again and the opinions on both sides of the issue are as strongly held as ever and the arguments even more complex.
Knowledge-Based Breeding
Successful breeders know that they must be practical and patient in estimating the time and number of litters it will take to solve a problem or produce a special dog. Thus, when a planned breeding occurs there is usually the expectation for something good.
Sociologic Ruminations
Hence this revisit to the themes and variations of how we interact with each other and how we relate to the sport and to the dogs themselves. This subject is, of course, multidimensional and no attempt is made herein at comprehensively examining behavioral patterns or exhaustively exploring motives.
A GC Follow-Up
As could well have been expected (and was), a number of communications, mainly by e-mail, have been received in response to the article published in last month’s issue of The Canine Chronicle concerning the Grand Championship program and how it has been variously received by the Fancy and by judges in particular.
