-As everyone knows, because of the State of Florida commandeering the Volusia County Fairgrounds for COVID testing, we were left without a venue and had to cancel the September 19-20, 2020 dog show. Understanding that nothing happens in the snap of a finger, the West Volusia Kennel Club Board and show committee have been working […]
Do you ever look around you and think…the world really is going crazy? It seems that every day brings a story that makes you scratch your head in disbelief and ask, ‘how did we get to this point?’. Black is now white, up is now down, wrong is now right and our strong, long-held beliefs, traditions, values of decency and common sense are increasingly being turned on their head and subjected to scorn and ridicule. Increasingly many of us feel that the lunatics have finally taken over the asylum.
Many of us know Tom for his 40-year stint at Westminster Kennel Club including 15 years as show chairman. We also know him as executive director of Take The Lead. Most recently, he judged Best in Show at the 2017 Westminster Kennel Club where he awarded the great German Shepherd bitch, Rumor, Best In Show.
In today’s Virtual Dog Show, we are featuring three Wire Fox Terriers considered “great ones”, which also happen to be Best In Show winners at Westminster Kennel Club. Pictured below are “Lacey”, “Sky”, and “King”, which most longtime dog fanciers know simply by their call names. Today, we are asking our readers, which of these […]
In 1920, the late, great poet Robert Frost published a book of poetry titled Mountain Interval. Contained within this slim volume was his famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” which virtually every high school English student in the 1960s and ‘70s and probably to this day had to read, analyze and sometimes memorize.
It’s a story that sounds like a made for TV movie. In 2007, Dr. Roy Madigan was a veterinarian practicing in Spring Branch, Texas when he received a call from a local shelter to treat a dog with severe arrhythmia and a heart rate of more than 220 beats per minute. The dog died. A necropsy showed it had severe heart disease, but it wasn’t clear why, so Madigan sent samples off to Texas A&M University. The result stunned him: Chagas disease.
The Nasty Ring Steward – We all know that one ring steward. This latest episode of the “Cromicles” cannot be missed!
“Mom, I have no idea what you’re talking about. What pony?”
By: Brittany Bevis Here’s the story of a man named Bradshaw. Surrounded by four, very lovely girls. All of them had hair of gold, and teeth so white. E! said, “Let’s film a show.” He said, “Give it a whirl!” Here’s the story of a man named Bradshaw. Breeding Quarter Horses on his farm. […]
The Premium List for the 2020 Husker Valley Cluster is available online now. The Husker Valley Cluster consists the Cornhusker Kennel Club of Lincoln NE and various specialty clubs to be held in Lincoln, NE on Friday, October 2nd – Sunday, October 4th. Entries are limited to 1000 entries each day. Entries open on September […]
