Poodle Papers Winter 2006

The Poodle Papers Official Publication of “ The Poodle Club of America ”

Winter 2006 2004-2006 OFFICERS & COMMITTEES President:Doris Cozart 1st Vice Pres.: Michael Wahlig 2nd Vice Pres.:Tom Carneal Corres. Sec.: Helen Tomb-Taylor [email protected] Record. Sec.: Doris Grant Treasurer: Scott Olund Variety Representatives Toy:Jack MacGillivray Mini: Barbara Furbush Stand.: Dr Samuel Peacock Publicity: Anne Rogers Clark AKC Delegate: Barbara Green Show Committee Chairperson: Glenna Carlson Performance Events Obedience Chairperson-Susie Osborn Performance Events Agility Chairperson-Jan Hopper WC/WCX Working Certificate Chairperson- Joyce Carelli Public Education Coordinator Arlene Scardo Affiliate Club Council: Tom Carneal PCA Foundation: Exec. Director Michael Wahlig Genectic Anomalies Committee: Director Michael Wahlig PCA Poodle Rescue Central: Kamilla Mazanec 513-607-9296 email:[email protected] Poodles in America: Editor:Betsey Leedy Breeder Referral: Poodleclubofamerica.org PCA Home Page Leslie Newing & Lisa Croft- Elliott www.poodleclubofamerica.org PCA Information Hal Kinne [email protected]

President’s Message I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and a Very Happy New Year. I always like the start of the new year. A time to plan for the future and remember the past. Last year was a year that weather played an important part in so many of our lives. Hopefully next year will be better. So many plans for this year are already in motion. Our National Show Chairman, Glenna Carlson has been working very hard to prepare for the 2006 National Specialty. This year we will be adding more performance events. The Poodle Foundation has had a very good year. Mr. Michael Wahlig will have more information about that in this newsletter. I hope if you attend the AKC show in Florida that you will stop by and see the PCA booth. Many volunteers are working to make it the best booth ever. I wish you all a very Healthy and Happy New Year. Enjoy your Poodles!!!! Doris Cozart, President

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P.C.A. AFFILIATE CLUB SHOWS . * Note this listing comes from Tom Carneal 2006 POODLE CLUB OF CENTRAL INDIANA RODNEY R. MERRY-CONFORMATION JUDGE TED LEE -VETERAN SWEEPSTAKES DAVID MAUREER-OBEDIENCE FEBRUARY 10, 2006 GREATER MILWAUKEE POODLE CLUB LUC BOILEAU-CONFORMATION JUDGE MARCH 3-2006 POODLE OBEDIENCE TRAINING CLUB OF GREATER NEW YORK APRIL 8,2006 WASHINGTON POODLE CLUB APRIL 21,2006 GREENSPRING POODLE CLUB APRIL 24,2006 THE ENCHANTED POODLE CLUB MAY 12,2006 MID MICHIGAN POODLE CLUB MAY 19,2006 POODLE CLUB OF HAWAII MAY 21,2006 GREATER CINCINNATI POODLE CLUB MAY 26,2006 MAY 27,2006 POODLE CLUB OF MASSACHUSETTS JUNE 2,2006

POODLE CLUB OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA JULY 6,2006 COLUMBIA POODLE CLUB JULY 13,2006 JULY 14,2006 POODLE CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO JULY 28,2006 GREATER PITTSBURGH POODLE CLUB AUGUST 3,2006 HEART OF AMERICA POODLE CLUB AUGUST 24,2006 AUGUST 25,2006 MID MICHIGAN POODLE CLUB SEPT 29,2006

WESTMINSTER JUDGES Mr. Kenneth McDermott, Newburgh, NY: All Poodles Dr. Harry Smith of Durham, NC (Toy) Mr. Roger Hartinger of Cincinnati, OH (Non-Sporting) Best In Show: James G. Reynolds

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The Board of Poodle Club of America voted to bestow the title of Honorary Members to Mrs. Anna Wanner and Miss Mary Elizabeth Turney.

Denny Blackie The Poodle Club of America would like to welcome back a former member. Del Dahl has requested for reinstatement of his membership. This request was presented to the Board of Governors at the meeting October 9, 2005 in St. Jo Missouri and it was approved. Welcome back Del!! Below you will find the contact information for Del. His reinstatement missed the printing of the new roster...So please add him to the "D" page of the 2005 roster...the yellow and green cover. Mr. Del Dahl 2003 E. Illini Airport Road Urbana, IL 61802 Phone # 217-328-3632 Email [email protected]

Denny Blackie, husband of Linda Blackie "Whisperwind" died Monday, October 31 after a long battle with lymphoma and leukemia. They were married for 38 years. Denny was a big fan of the dog shows and the many Champions Linda bred. He accompanied Linda to shows for years and early on showed some of Linda's first dogs. A few days before Denny died he told Linda of a dream he had walking Peter, Ch. Whisperwind's On A Carousel, on their front lawn. Denny had a very strong will to live and beat the odds of his grave disease even till the end. Now he can walk with Peter and all the other dogs he so dearly loved. Denny is missed by many. Barbara Deer

ID tags PCA will have ID tags with lanyards this year for any one interrested in purchasing one. It will be a blue and yellow Lanyard with a reusable Laminated ID TAG, the ID tag will be printed with you name, your Kennel Name and the PCA Logo. The PreOrder blanks will be in the Premiun list for the National Specialty. The Cost will be $5.00 Pre Order and $7.00 if ordered at the show. Supplies will be limited so if you would like to order one, please submit you order when you mail you order for Luncheon and Banquet tickets. We hope to have pre-payment for the lanyards go to the same address as the Luncheon and Banquet tickets. Hopefully, this will make it simpler. Helen Tomb-Taylor The Poodle Papers / Winter Edition

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PCA Board Members at the Regional “Early Morning in the field”

Interested in hosting a Regional ?

New Poodle Judges Dr. Vandra L. Huber-Woodinville, Wa Jon Cole-Nashville, TN James Hupp-Kokomo, IN

Contacted Tom Carneal for all the details. E-mail: [email protected]

Norman Kenney-Westford,MA

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Spotlite on a P.C.A. Member This Edition of the Poodle Papers shines it’s spotlite on Susie Osburn.

I was born and raised in Troy, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. At the age of 5 I started taking dance lessons and I was hooked. I danced 5 nights a week throughout my school years so I had little time for anything else. I was a member of the Contemporary Civic Ballet of Detroit for 6 years. I also was an avid tap dancer. I went to college in Mexico City and graduated with a degree in Dance. From there I moved to Las Vegas, where I currently live, to pursue a career in dance. I worked for 10 years on the Las Vegas Strip in several big production shows including Hallelujah Hollywood at the MGM Grand and The Lido de Paris at the Stardust Hotel. My first litter of puppies was born my first night of work at the Lido show so that is where my kennel name came from. After leaving the entertainment world, I got involved in cocktail service and bartending for a number of years. More recently I have been doing office work, and I am currently working as a financial planner. I have been married twice, divorced twice, and I am currently engaged to be married to prospect number three! I got my first apricot standard in 1980 from a local breeder, Millie Stephens, and I was hooked. I originally just wanted a pet but she said that the puppy I had picked out was show quality and needed to go to a show home. So I agreed to show him, not really knowing what I was getting myself into. He was barely a year old when I took him to his first show and he took winners dog and best of breed so I was hooked! He turned out not to be show quality and he never got another point! I purchased a couple of girls, one from the Mayfield kennel and one from the Croix kennel, and started showing them. A few years later, I got started in obedience and I took my first obedience dog, Lidos Miss Strawberry Pie all the way to a UDX. Since then, I have put many obedience

titles on several dozen of my dogs. Five years ago I decided to pursue becoming an obedience judge and today I really enjoy judging as much as I enjoy showing. I also show my dogs in agility and more recently, rally. And taking on the job as Obedience and Rally Trial Chairman for PCA for the last 4 years has challenged me but has also been alot of fun. I currently have a number of apricot, cream and red standards that I am showing. I also have 2 white miniatures and an apricot toy, Sunkiss Brandywine at Lido, that I recently put an excellent rally title on. She also has her CDX in obedience. I have bred a total of 15 American champions and many more in Canada, Mexico and Bermuda. My biggest win was with AM, BDA, MEX, FCI INTL CH OF THE AMERICAS, 1999 WORLD CH Lidos Tiger Lily AM BDA MEX CDX, NA NAJ RA. With 88 countries represented at the World Show in Mexico City in 1999, she took Best of Breed. Tiger Lily is also my most titled poodle to date, and at 9+ years of age, she is currently working on her excellent rally title which will make title number 17 for her. She is also a therapy dog, as many of my poodles are. I'm not quite sure how a person can be so actively involved with poodles and still have outside hobbies or interests. Between my job, my family, and the dogs, there is little time to sleep, let alone room for anything else. But I wouldn't change a minute of the past 25 years! Susie Osburn Lido Poodles

PCA Website Information is updated on a quarterly basis. The Quarterly updates coinside with the publication of the newsletter. Leslie & Lisa PCA Website

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AKC ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF THE 2006 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS New York, NY -- The American Kennel Club (AKC®) announced today the winners of the 2006 AKC Lifetime Achievement Awards. The awards will be presented to the winners by AKC President and Chief Executive Officer, Dennis B. Sprung, at the January 17, 2006 Delegates Meeting in Tampa, Florida, in conjunction with the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship. The winners will each receive an engraved Tiffany and Co. sterling silver bowl. A larger Tiffany and Co. bowl, engraved with the names of all recipients past and present, is on permanent display at the AKC Headquarters in New York City. The AKC Lifetime Achievement Awards were created to honor those individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the sport of purebred dogs on a national level. The recipients were selected by votes cast by AKC member clubs for nominees in each of the following categories: Conformation, Companion Events and Performance. The 2006 recipients are: * Conformation: Dr. Harry Smith From Durham, North Carolina, Dr. Smith started with Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, showing them exclusively in retriever trials. Dr. Smith acquired his first Pug in the 1950’s and owned the first black Pug to win the Pug Dog Club of America Futurity. Co-founder of the Pug Club of Greater Cincinnati, he served as the Pug Dog Club of America’s AKC Delegate for 10 years. Dr. Smith began judging Pugs in 1966 and added his final group, the Hound Group, in 1999, becoming an AKC all-breed judge. Dr. Smith has judged on five continents, with judging highlights that include the Toy Group at Westminster, the Non-Sporting Group at the 2001 AKC/ Eukanuba American Dog Classic, Best Bred-By-Exhibitor Toy Group at the 2005 AKC/Eukanuba National Championship, and all Groups and Best in Show at the Welsh Kennel Club Show.

* Companion Events: Rosalie Alvarez Mrs. Alvarez of Los Altos Hills, California, has been involved in Obedience since 1957. Ten of her Dobermans have earned Utility and Tracking degrees and she trained the first Doberman in the United States to obtain the UDT SchH 3 degree. She has numerous High in Trials to her credit, including two at the Doberman Pinscher Club of America’s National Specialty. In addition to Obedience, she has competed in tracking, flyball, agility events, and trained dogs for protection and scent work for bomb and narcotics detection. The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department recognized her with a citation for developing and training their canine unit. Mrs. Alvarez founded the Doberman Drill Team, which toured the United States and Canada for nearly 30 years giving demonstrations at hospitals and public events. She is an AKC Obedience judge and an active member of the Santa Clara Valley Kennel Club and the Northern California AKC Obedience Association. She is the training director of Town and Country and Deep Peninsula Dog Training Clubs. Mrs. Alvarez has helped to organize and present four AKC Obedience seminars and judged the AKC Obedience Invitational in 2001. * Performance: Marshall “Pete” Simonds From Morrisville, Vermont, Mr. Simonds got his start in Labradors in 1952. Simonds is an active member of five retriever clubs including the Labrador Retriever Club, Inc., for which he served as director and officer. He has judged retriever trials for over 40 years and has served as president and treasurer for the National Retriever Club. Mr. Simonds also served as the chair of the subcommittee on Rules of the Retriever Advisory Council for more than 20 years. He has been serving as a Delegate to the AKC for over a decade and has been chairman of the Delegates Committee on Field Trials and Hunting Tests from its inception. He has served as a Director of the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals and

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comers, creating the next generation of dog fanciers. ”

cont. from page6 had a major role in the planning and development of the Canine Health Information Center. Mr. Simonds has trained and handled Labradors across the country and has owned more than a dozen Field Champions and Amateur Field Champions. He has owned Brittanys, Pointers and English Setters. He owned the winner of the American Brittany Club National Gun Dog Championship in 2002. The American Kennel Club (AKC®), founded in 1884, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of purebred dogs. The AKC maintains the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world, oversees the sport of purebred dogs in the United States, and along with its nearly 5,000 licensed and member clubs, educates the general public about responsible dog ownership. More than 16,000 competitions for AKC-registered purebred dogs are held under AKC rules each year including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, coonhound events, hunt tests, field and earthdog trials. Affiliate AKC organizations include the AKC Canine Health Foundation, AKC Companion Animal Recovery and the AKC Museum of the Dog. For more information, visit www.akc.org

A breeder is chosen from each of the seven groups: Sporting, Hound, Working, Terrier, Toy, Non-Sporting, and Herding. The individual group recipients will receive a medallion in recognition of their achievements on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship, which will be televised live on Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel. At the end of the presentation, the AKC Breeder of the Year will be announced and presented with a specially commissioned award (original artwork by Originals By Springer). Additionally, a canine portraitist will be commissioned to memorialize a prominent dog from the recipient's kennel, and their name will be inscribed on a perpetual trophy and plaque on permanent display at the AKC headquarters in New York City. The group winners are:

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GROUP WINNERS NAMED FOR THE AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB BREEDER OF THE YEAR AWARD – “Breeder of the Year” to be Announced at AKC/ Eukanuba National Championship – New York, NY — Today, the American Kennel Club (AKC®) announced the seven group winners for the American Kennel Club’s 2005 Breeder of the Year Award. The award honors breeders who have dedicated their lives to improving the health, temperament and quality of purebred dogs.

SPORTING: Douglas A. Johnson Bloomington, IN, Clussexx Clumber Spaniels HOUND: Karen Staudt-Cartabona Swartswood, NJ, Majenkir Borzois WORKING: Dave and Peggy Helming Flemington, NJ, Pouch Cove Newfoundlands TERRIER: William and Rebecca Poole Hixson, TN, Rocky Top Bull Terriers TOY: Margery A. Shriver Balitmore, MD, Sheffield Pugs NON-SPORTING: Roberta Lombardi Camarillo, CA, Rufkins Lhasa Apsos HERDING: Michelle Ritter Saylorsburg, PA, Britannia Bearded Collies The American Kennel Club (AKC®), founded in 1884, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of purebred dogs. The AKC maintains the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world, oversees the sport of purebred dogs in the United States, and along with its nearly 5,000 licensed and member clubs, educates the general public about responsible dog ownership. More than 16,000 competitions for AKC-registered purebred dogs are held under AKC rules each year including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, coonhound events, hunt tests, field and earthdog trials. Affiliate AKC organizations include the AKC Canine Health Foundation, AKC Companion Animal Recovery and the AKC Museum of the Dog. For more information, visit www.akc.org AKC® is a registered trademark of the American Kennel Club.

"Dedicated breeders are crucial to the sport of purebred dogs, as they have the responsibility to preserve each breed’s unique heritage," said Ron Menaker, AKC's Chairman of the Board. "The breeder of the year awards allow us to honor those who have worked to uphold standards of excellence in producing quality purebred dogs and shared their knowledge with new-

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. -Anonymous

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AKC ADOPTS NEW DNA REQUIREMENT FOR IMPORTED DOGS INTENDED FOR BREEDING New York, NY – The American Kennel Club (AKC®) announced today that any imported dog or bitch registered with the AKC on or after March 1, 2006 will be required to have an AKC DNA profile prior to registering their first litter whelped in the United States. The policy will require any imported dogs or bitches that sire or produce an AKC-registered or FSS-enrolled litter to have an AKC DNA profile on file before their litter applications will be accepted into the AKC registry. However, from March 1 - May 1, 2006 there will be a limited phase-in period. During this time AKC will register affected litters without delay and notify the owner of the new requirement. “AKC’s DNA consultant Elaine Ostrander and I met with the AKC Board in December 2004 to begin reviewing our DNA program,” said AKC Assistant Vice President of Compliance Tom Sharp. “This new DNA requirement for all imported sires and dams was a new initiative the AKC Board approved this year. As a result, AKC will be able to verify all progeny from imported animals moving forward.” This requirement does not affect any foreign dogs registered with the AKC before March 1, 2006. To make their imported breeding stock eligible to sire or produce AKC-registrable puppies, breeders will need to follow the following steps:

* Obtain a DNA test kit, available at the AKC Store at: www.akc.org/store and collect cheek swabs samples from their dog or bitch. * Send the DNA cheek swab sample along with the required paperwork and fee to the AKC in the envelope provided in the DNA test kit. * To eliminate delays in processing litter applications, the completed DNA test kits should be submitted in

advance of the litter application. The American Kennel Club (AKC®), founded in 1884, is a notfor-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of purebred dogs. The AKC maintains the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world, oversees the sport of purebred dogs in the United States, and along with its nearly 5,000 licensed and member clubs, educates the general public about responsible dog ownership. More than 16,000 competitions for AKC-registered purebred dogs are held under AKC rules each year including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, coonhound events, hunt tests, field and earthdog trials. Affiliate AKC organizations include the AKC Canine Health Foundation, AKC Companion Animal Recovery and the AKC Museum of the Dog. For more information, visit www.akc.org AKC® is a registered trademark of the American Kennel Club.

Poodle stats for 3rd quarter 2005 OptiGen is happy to share the following information with the Poodle Club of America for Poodles tested at OptiGen the 3rd quarter of 2005 (July 1- Sept. 30, 2005): Total Poodles tested - 470 Total Toy Poodles tested this period - 248 Normal/Clear - 171 Carrier -66 Affected - 11 Total Miniature Poodles tested this period- 222 Normal/Clear - 147 Carrier - 71 Affected - 4 If you have any questions, please feel free to email me. Sincerely, Becky Iddings Administrative Support Associate ********************************************** OptiGen, LLC Cornell Business & Technology Park 767 Warren Road, Suite 300 Ithaca, NY 14850 phone: 607-257-0301 fax: 607-257-0353 email: [email protected] web: www.optigen.com

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It's Official! The First Poodle to Earn an AKC RAE Title Is . . .

AKC Rally was inaugurated as a title series on January 1, 2005. Through the December issue of AKC Awards, 328 Poodles have earned the Rally Novice (RN) title, and 86 of these went on to earn the Rally Advanced (RA) title. A total of 32 RE titles have been published for Poodles, including those of the three RAEs named above.

. . . standard Poodle Sukie's Gift Of Gab CDX RAE NAJ. Owned, trained and handled by Susanne Rally classes have been offered at the PCA national Butterfield, Gaby completed her Rally Advanced specialty since 2004, first as nonregular Obedience classes and then as regular classes in a Rally trial Excellent (RAE) title on September 22. run concurrently with the Obedience trial. With its To earn the RAE, a dog must first achieve the Rally relaxed atmosphere and emphasis on dog-handler Excellent (RE) title and then qualify 10 times in communication and teamwork, Rally has proven both the Rally Advanced B class and the Rally to be a popular event for young Poodles just startExcellent B class at the same trial. ing out in Obedience or Agility, for those making a cross-over from Agility to Obedience, and for Only two other Poodles-both standards, one female "retirees" not quite ready for life on the sofa. and one male-have since completed RAE titles: Barbara Rooney's Blackberi Jubilee UDX RAE, With such an auspicious start, it seems certain that on October 15, and Joann Smith's Lord Einstein Poodles will continue to "Rally On!" Of Timberlake UDX RAE, on October 23. - Kathryn Foran

PCA Foundation Start the New Year off with a donation to the PCA Foundation. You can contribute to this worthy cause by simply filling out the form below. The Foundation acknowledges all contributions. I wish to contribute $ ________________ to the Poodle Club of America Foundation, Inc., in the name of ______________________________________________________________________. This contribution is made in memory/ honor of _____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ I wish this contribution to be used for _________________________________________ (Please specify a specific area, i.e. PRA, Hips, SA, vWD, or to the General Fund)

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Canine Pregnancy Canine pregnancy lasts nine weeks and then you have approximately 8weeks of rearing to do. I have identified and defined the stages we go through in this process: Week one: Was he the right one? Typified by agonizing over whether you chose the right stud. Week two: Was she fertile? Indicated by mildly threatening thoughts directed at your bitch and concern about wasted $$$. Week three: Oh lord, we missed her...stupid sterile stud dog. Week four: Vet appointments fix everything. You schedule a vet visit for a sonogram and wake up the morning of the planned test to discover she looks like she ate a watermelon! Week five: Not enough food in the world to feed this bitch... Week six: Oh lord she's lost some babies...when really she has just moved them around a bit and now she is hanging down more than spread out like a watermelon. Week seven: Dreams of glory featuring puppies with the best parts of both parents. Week eight: Nightmares of disaster featuring puppies that look like the neighbor's dog. Week nine: Maximum guilt...how could you do this to this sweet little girl, she can't eat or sleep and neither can you. Labor, Stage One: Now, is it now? No she is just rehearsing AND she has picked out one fake place for puppies, one real place and just rolls her eyes at the lovely new whelping facility you built for her. Stage Two: Well the fake place (the closet) has been passed up for the bushes in the front yard and you cannot convince her that her humongous butt is clearly visible to all passersby...her head is hidden, she thinks she is in a den and to h*** with you, you have no idea what you are doing. Your job is to get her into the whelping box without stressing this delicate little dog mom to be or calling in the crane or forklift. Actual delivery of babies: At this point Time is not on your side...it races, then crawls, races then crawls. Do you

call the vet, do you wait. You have lighter moments...the bitch trying to crawl into the laundry basket with the babies. Puppies Day one: Hubby comes in to view the litter, points at one and says "Wow is he cute". He is half the size of the other babies. Puppies Week One: Looking for heads in all the wrong places...now you KNOW better than to look for heads when they have smushed up muzzles from nursing. Puppies Weeks Two and Three: You do their stress activities, monitor weights and every day hubby comes in to check on his boy...yes he is cute... fast, too. Easy to be fast when you are long as a freight train with long legs to match. You've picked out the best rears and tails from watching them nurse.During week three you discuss devotion to motherhood with your bitch when she announces the darn things have sharp teeth. Week Four and Five: They really are cute and you are caught thinking they are cute, because they are now on solid food and you are fast running out of clean paper. Hubby plays with his boy child and begs you to stack him up and tell him what you think...you develop really good diversionary strategies. Week six: You are starting serious evaluation and start taking pictures...you notice while doing the photographs that hubby's pick is now the same size as his littermates. The litter looks really good...aren't you glad you got that generic sperm and they all look like your bitch, who is perfect in every way. Week seven: While analyzing the photos you keep coming back to one striking male who is very balanced and very proportioned...this cannot be happening, Could this be the "little " male your hubby liked.. THAT can't be... Week eight: The puppy party where all your friends and some of your enemies come over to pick your little darlings apart in great detail and make rude remarks about the faults that nasty stud produced. Their decision is unanimous...pick of the litter is a strong handsome boy who trots wonderfully, comes when called and thinks your hubby hung the moon. AUTHOR UNKNOWN

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Rescue at Katrina: A Story of Canadians "stepping up" to Help I was first contacted by a newly formed animal rescue team called CAAT (Canadian Animal Assistance Team) from Vancouver, British Columbia. It was 3 weeks after Katrina. This 100% non-profit group had formed in the face of the Katrina disaster. Three days later, I found myself on a plane heading to New Orleans, along with three other Veterinarians and 13 Animal Health Technicians. We were the second team to be deployed, (funded by CAAT), via the benevolent public on both sides of the border. We had no idea if we would be housed or fed and, at one point, were warned to have enough Power Bars on hand to last one week. Water was now available and bring tents just in case. We arrived at Gonzalez d(about 40 mile north of the city) to a converted Equestrian Centre which had 5 barns (with 5 or 6 rows of stalls in each barn) which were housing 1200-1500 dogs and 800 cats and many exotics as well as 300 Horses. FEMA had an emergency tent where all volunteers could sleep on army cots. Volunteers had come from all over the USA and Canada. After one restless night we faced one of the major shocks of our live-the size and scope of this disaster. The size of this rescue operation overhelming. The Humane Society of the U.S. did its best to organize the rescue in the city but what was going on in the shelter was crazy. There were supplies everywhere, on palates, in the first two or three box stalls with absolutely no organization at any level. The box stall of drugs were being rumage through by all the medical team and often lo-

cating the supplies was the biggest challenge in treating an animal. Animals were being dropped in cages by resue teams, with appropriate paper work with the approximate address (where they located the animal) and each one was microchipped (We poodle breeders need to realize the importance of microchipping to getting your lost animal back). Most of the animals that we were examining had not had food nor water for the better part of one month and were still alive! The amazing stories that unfolded would reduce you to tears. Dogs that had been tied to dining room tables for the month, animals locked in rooms and they were still alive. There were both cats and dogs that could no longer stand-up. It was our jobs as the Canadian Veterinary teams to triage and decide who needed what. There were political complications that I will discusss later. I believe most of the public wasn't aware that in those downtown areas there wasn't a soul around except armed guards and animal rescue trucks. It looked like a setting from some outerspace movie- to look down the interstate from an overpass and there isn't a car for as far as one can see. The police and guards and army kept everyone out of three quarters of the city for fear of looting, and it didn't matter if there were animals trapped in houses or not. It looked like a war zone of a third world country. I felt like there was an untold story, and was it politically motivated or did the media just assume that the public had such a short attention span, that they needed to move on to the next story. There were probably a hundred rescue vans that were all clearly marked so that when they headed into N.O. to break into houses that they were shot as looters! The HSUS had arranged that animal rescue people could

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cont. from page 11 break into any house in which you felt there could be an animal trapped. These trucks and resue teams made trip after trip for 6 weeks. Every trip freed more animals. I admired all the animal control people who had dedicated their lives to catching animals and had the finess and skill that most us will never attain. The politics that was alluded to, was back at the shelter in Gonzales, where there was too much work to do, but the hired Veterinarians (VMAT) by FEMA were very concerned about having volunteer Veterinarian working along side of them- like we might take their job!!, I am not sure . When I arrived the first morning, I , and a volunteer Veterinarian from Kentucky were told that we were not needed even though there were hot animals in cages on the pavement six deep, that needed Veterinary atten-

tion. Dr. Caroline said, "Oh! to pay no attention to them!" We cleared some tables and organized a bit and started. 80% of the animals brought in were PitBulls and 80% were unaltered and 75% of them were heart worm positive ( as reported by the VMAT group). Fleas were a huge problem (locked in houses for a month in humidity), as were many types of fungal infections. There were puppies and kitten in the hospital area, bitches and queens in labor. Parvovirus was surfacing in the barns and just the logistics of feeding and watering was a disorganized nightmare. Then we were evacuated for Rita! 16 wheeler trucks were lined up to load animals and supplies and the anouncement was that the authorizies were "cutting us loose"- a version of every man for himself. When the Next hurricaine passed, we were all back at it- it was then that the Canadian group decided to do triage for the animal resue teams in downtown N.O. so that we could get more animals rescued per day.

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cont. from page 12 On our last day there, "team two" triaged over 300 animals in deciding who was critical and who need fluidsCAAT had organized a 16 wheeler refrigeration truck and we just kept loading patients until there was no more room. The comminity and the resuers were so appreciative. As part of the experience, I helped to break into houses for animal rescue. Some houses were untouched and other were totally ruined. We entered some place where black mould was growing up to the ceilings and the floor had greasey black oozed that make it difficult to walk. Windows were covered with mould and flashlights could barely shead enough light to avoid the nails and the glass. One could tell by the smell if you were getting close, and one hoped that it wasn't human (they were still finding bodies of all sorts one month after). In one particular case, we followed the smell down a dark hallway and into what was the bathroom and there was a Cocker Spaniel too weak to stand ,with only four poops in the room and all the water drank out of the toilet. He was laying in urine waiting to die. We approached with caution, he growled, then quietened as he realized we were not going to hurt him. (insert Picture) I lifted him carefully to daylight and he blinked in confusion. He drank and ate for the first time in one month. I needed to go for a walk while the technician talked with him. It certainly wasn't like me to become distressed!but who couldn't help it! We needed to move on because curfew was at 6PM and the city had to be vacated. Crow bars were essential for tearing the steal bars off of some of the windows or doors. We found a cat that had rifled through every cupboard looking for food. He was thin but alive and happy to see someone. As I carried him out to the van, I showed the technicians the inside of my arm. There were fourteen fleas sucking a new blood meal. We chuckled-it

wasn't important. Two puppies were brought to the triage centre just clinging to life. They looked about three or four weeks old. They had been found with their mother and three siblings which were dead- starved to death inside a house. These puppies were staying alive by continuing to nurse and chew into the mammary glands of their dead mother.

In all of this , I am happy to report that I saw only three Standard Poodles ( one black in Baton Rouge, at the Vet School, and two browns in Sidel. If they had tatoos or microchips, they would have been reunited with their owners in short order.) , Two black miniature poodles and no toys. I hope this is a testomony to the Poodle Club of America, that encourages responsible breeding and ownership. The triaging of some 1200 dogs and cats during our week there was a testomony to the great work that CAAT (Canadian Animal Assistance Team) does as a cont. on page 14

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100% volunteer society dedicated to moving animal trained personnel into sites around the world where helpis needed. CAAT send a total of six team to New Orleans and succeeded in making many animal lives better for their efforts. They have recieved support both from the USA and Canada and need your help! Please consider donating to this great group and check out their web site. www.caat-katrina.org CAAT (Canadian Animal Assistance Team) 1635 W 4th Ave Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1L8 Contact : Donna Lasser AHT 1-604-562-6644 Written with heart and soul by Dr. Terill Udenberg "TEES Standard Poodles" 1-250-549-0402 for any questions/answers 2700-30 Ave., Vernon, British Columbia, Canada

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A Gift That Keeps on Giving This past July, 2005, I went to Maine with my two miniature Poodles, Macey and Bud, to visit my eldest niece and her husband. This is a special niece who had come to Massachusetts to play the cello at my husband Jim’s burial in November of 2004. Because of my husband’s illness, I had not previously visited Julianne and her husband Carl in Maine. Carl is much older than my niece, and has been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for 17 years. They have no children. Once they had bought this house, having sold their condo for one-floor conveniences, they wanted a dog, but the fencing of the yard stymied them. When I arrived, I suggested a pen arrangement in part of the yard and this opened up a whole new area for their consideration. Julianne and I saw to setting up a pen. Now, the question was, what dog to get? Well, Carl had had Dachshunds in his youth and that was an option. However, considering their tendency to dig and bark, they rethought this choice. How about a “pound pup”? Nothing wrong there, except with Carl’s special needs they thought perhaps they should consider a dog whose lineage and breed characteristics were known. Meantime, as we spoke, Macey settled on Carl’s lap, and whenever Carl moved, Bud “escorted” him, as he had done for my husband, in case Carl needed his help. It should be noted that Macey is not a lap sitter. She and Bud, however, are certified Therapy Dogs, and both were always good about sitting on laps for patients during visits. She knew Carl was in a sense a patient, and sat for him to pet her. It was no surprise to me that after two visits the question now was “Where can we get a mini Poodle?”. As luck would have it, Leslie Newing of Random Wind Poodles had the answer. She had just had a 2 year old spayed female of her breeding come back to her due to the owner’s having to go to a nursing home. Leslie was good enough to trust Julianne and Carl with Abby, and this past September, Macey, Bud, and I escorted Abby home when Julianne came to Connecticut to meet her.

Abby immediately settled in and won their hearts. Not only that, she has, in the short time there, made an amazing difference in Carl’s well-being. Julianne notices that he is much more verbal, and when she arrives home from teaching music in the Portland schools, he can’t wait to tell her all that Abby has done that day. He is also more mobile – getting up to open the back door to the pen area, and waiting for Abby to come back in for the treat he is sure to have in his hand. He has even started to walk her on their dead-end street. Carl pushes a wheel chair for balance and Abby proudly walks beside him on her bright red leash. Carl is a retired orchestra conductor and violinist. He delights in playing the violin for Abby, and singing to her. As he sings, he holds her front paws and

“dances” with her. All of this activity, and interest, is a joy to Julianne since Carl’s Parkinson’s is causing the need for more assistance as the months go on, and he was beginning to show signs of sadness over it all. In the mornings, Abby will not go out until she has checked Carl’s room to see that all is well. When Julianne arrives home from school, Abby is at the door to greet her. In Julianne’s words, “Abby has made us a family”. Some things in life we cannot plan. They just happen. They are gifts. That is what the arrival of Abby was for Julianne and Carl. She is a beautiful Poodle in confirmation, but even more so in temperament and heart. She not only filled a need for her new family, she saw their needs as well. One can only wish them “many happy years together”. Patricia McElaney

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American Kennel Club FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: November 8, 2005 Contact: Daisy Okas Phone: 212-696-8343 PET ANIMAL WELFARE STATUTE OF 2005 SPONSORS AND AKC COOPERATE TO EXEMPT FANCIERS -- AKC Chairman Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee On PAWS -New York, NY – The American Kennel Club (AKC®), working in cooperation with Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and other co-sponsors of the Pet Animal Welfare Statute of 2005 (PAWS), today testified in support of PAWS as it will be modified by additions and clarifications described by Sen. Santorum at the opening of the hearing. These modifications include an additional exemption for breeders who sell dogs or cats only at retail and are in compliance with certified kennel inspection standards. Dealers will also have the option of a third-party compliance inspection. At a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition and General Legislation of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, AKC Chairman Ronald Menaker spoke in support of PAWS, including the additional exemption provision, and how the bill aims to regulate imported puppy sales and high volume breeders who sell dogs over the internet.

* Sell not more than 25 dogs to the public, or * Sell the dogs from six or fewer litters, or * Sell more than the threshold numbers, but comply with kennel inspection standards of not-forprofit organizations, such as the AKC, as certified by the Secretary of Agriculture. * Are an animal shelter, rescue organization, or individual working with dogs as long as you do not import dogs for resale or operate for profit. The additional exemption for those in compliance with standards of not-for-profit organizations, such as the AKC, whose kennel inspection programs and standards are certified by the Secretary of Agriculture would apply to persons selling dogs and cats solely at retail. The kennel standards certified by the Secretary must be at least equivalent to those required by the United States Department of Agriculture under the Animal Welfare Act. This new provision will permit the USDA to focus its inspection activities on currently unregulated high volume breeders and brokers without imposing federal regulation on hobby and show breeders already in compliance with equivalent or higher standards. ### The American Kennel Club (AKC®), founded in 1884, is a notfor-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of purebred dogs. The AKC maintains the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world, oversees the sport of purebred dogs in the United States, and along with its nearly 5,000 licensed and member clubs, educates the general public about responsible dog ownership. More than 16,000 competitions for AKC-registered purebred dogs are held under AKC rules each year including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, coonhound events, hunt tests, field and earthdog trials. Affiliate AKC organizations include the AKC Canine Health Foundation, AKC Companion Animal Recovery and the AKC Museum of the Dog. For more information, visit www.akc.org.

“We are delighted by this additional provision and proud that our input to the Senator throughout the AKC® is a registered trademark of the American legislative process is resulting in an extremely ef- Kennel Club. fective bill that can be supported by a range of animal-interest organizations,” said Menaker. The most recent additional provision and clarifying language to PAWS will ensure that you will be exempt if you:

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -Ben Williams

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When I am Old...

From Susie Osburn

I shall wear Turquoise and soft gray sweatshirts... and a bandana over my silver hair..... and I shall spend my Social Security Checks on Sweet Wine and My Dogs...... and sit in my house on my well worn chair and listen to my dog's breathing.

The new year is upon us and plans are being put into place as you are reading this for PCA 2006. We intend to make it the biggest and best specialty ever! The 2006 panel is as follows:

I will sneak out in the middle of a warm Summer night and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow... and when people come to call, I will smile and nod as I show them my dogs... and talk of them and about them...

Mrs. Marie Huffman-OPEN B Mr. William Huffman-OPEN A & UTILITY B Mr. Kenneth Nagler-NOVICE B

The Ones so Beloved of the Past and the Ones so Beloved of Today.... I still will work hard cleaning after them and mopping and feeding them and whispering their names in a soft, loving way. I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat, like a jewel and I will be an embarrassment to all... and my family... who have not yet found the peace in being free to have dogs as your Best Friends.... These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall... and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep, to greet you as if you are a God. With warm eyes full of adoring love and hope that you will stay and their big, strong necks... and kiss their dear sweet heads... and whisper to their very special company.... I look in the Mirror... and see I am getting old.... this is the kind of woman I am... and have always been. Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me, accept me for who I am, my dogs appreciate my presence in their lives... when I am old this will be important to me... you will understand when you are old.... and if you have dogs to love too.

Mrs. Evelyn Vanuden-NOVICE A & UTILITY A Mrs. Marilou McCloskey-ALL RALLY CLASSES Our non-regular classes will include the following: Pre-novice Grad-novice Grad-open Veterans Brace Team Versatility Make plans now to be in Salisbury, MD, on June 13th, 2006, for the best obedience and rally on the planet! And plan to stay for our judges dinner after judging is completed.

Susie Osburn Obed & Rally Trial Chairman

~Author Unknown

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Whats in a name? How did you come up with your kennel name you use? That question will be asked to breeders in each variety for the Poodle Papers . This issue we have asked Barbara Green :I have always loved English courtroom film dramas. One of my all time favorites is The Paradine Case. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock,produced in 1947.It stared Gregory Peck,Charles Laughton, Ethel Barrymore. Looking at the entire courtroom, the Judges, the Attorneys. One sees on their heads, wigs (Perriwigs); if you will. If you use your imagination you can see that they very much look like the headpieces of poodles. Hence, my kennel name. Perriwig. Barbara Furbush: My kennel name is named after my father's middle name; it was Bevan. It was his grandmother's maiden name and they all lived on Gurnsey Chanel Island where my father was also born. I loved the name so much that I added the "ton" on the end and my very first "homebred" Poodle was "white" and Bevanton! Joan McFadden : My first show dog was a bitch from Barbara Johnson's kennel Aleput. She named all her litters by the alphabet and when I got my first show girl from her she was on her "U" litter. They had named her when I got her and her name was Ch. Aleput Utterly Unique, finished by Gail, my first champion, so when I started breeding it was from her and to honor her I decided my kennel name would be Unique.

MOVING? Please if you have moved please email me your new address so I can update it to keep you getting the Poodle Papers. I only get one update a year otherwise so your issues of the Poodle Papers will drop if I don’t have an up to date address on you. Email [email protected]

What I have Learned Showing Dogs I've learned that if you wear gold lame shoes while showing your dog, no one will remember the dog but they'll never forget your feet. I've learned that everyone else looks like their dog, not me. I've learned that the most attractive outfits, the ones that make you look 15 lbs. lighter and three inches taller, don't come with pockets. I've learned that the words, "Congratulations, you have the better dog," doesn't sound anything like those words when you clench your teeth and swallow your tongue as you say them. I've learned that if the words, "Congratulations, you have the better dog," are said to you, they're never said loud enough. I've learned that your dog's performance in the ring is directly related to whether or not you have friends coming to watch you. Just how badly you and your dog do has everything to do with how many witnesses are present to watch you. I've learned that there IS no graceful way to recover from a fall in the ring when your dress flies over your head and catches on your front teeth. I've learned that when you have a dog that's on a winning tear, you suddenly have friends who are people you don't know. I've learned that when you make a major mistake in the ring, clutching at your chest and yelling, "It's the big one" doesn't fool anyone, least of all your dog who only looks embarrassed. I've learned that W.C. Fields had it right when he said to avoid working next to children because they steal the show. I've learned never to tell a judge they have food in their teeth, particularly when they're examining your dog's

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I've learned that large dogs make fools of people unused to showing a dog of that size while toy dogs are quickly dispatched by people accustomed to showing a far bigger dog. I've learned that next to needlepoint stores, dog show vendors are the most trusting when it comes to taking personal checks. I've learned that picking up your own dog's waste with a skimpy PCA paper 2005 towel isn't as revolting as picking up someone else's dog waste with a front loader.

2005 marked the end of a 20+ year effort to conquer prcd/PRA in Toy and Miniature Poodles. Optigen announced that it found and tested the definitive mutation test for prcd/PRA. Toy and Miniature breeders have been taking advantage of this major advance in genetic testing and now have a clear path to follow when considering breeding plans for their Toy or Miniature Poodles. This is clearly the most exciting "win" in genetic testing for Poodles to date.

During 2005 PCAF paid out over $41,000 in grants. Those grants included $13,375 for epilepsy research at The University of California, Davis; I've learned that the very best parking spaces have or- $10,000 for Addison's research at The University of California, Davis; $7,000 for eye research at The ange cones saving them for someone else. University of Pennsylvania; $6,000 to The UniI've learned that orange cones crush pretty easily. versity of Wisconsin for cruciate ligament research, and $5,000 to The University of Missouri for reI've found that the very best people - and the very worst search on Neonatal Encephalopathy in Standard - can be found in our sport. Poodles. My dogs have learned that someone else's bait is al> ways tastier than what I give them.

“Unknown”

Submitted by Betsey Leedy

2005 Foundation Wrap Up

Thanks to all who contributed money, time and expertise to advance the cause of Poodle health and education in 2005.

The completion of the sequencing of the dog genome in 2005 will lead to many great advances in 2006 and beyond. Thanks to the generosity of many, The Foundation will be there to make sure that Poodle health issues are addressed and re2005 was an exiting year for The Poodle Club of solved. America Foundation. In addition to the grants the Foundation made in 2005, it continued its educa- Michael Wahlig tional commitment with sales of educational videotapes of past Foundation Seminars and the 2005 Foundation Seminar that was headlined by a presentation on Poodle Pedigrees by Anne Rogers Clark. Poodle breeders continued to provide blood samples for many important research projects. At

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -Ben William

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Page 23 AKC Hunt Test and WC/WCX Events at the Poodle Club of America, Inc. Regional Specialty, Oct. 10, 2005 Written by Mia DiBenedetto The Poodle Club of America, Inc. sponsored its firstever AKC Retriever Hunt Test, at its Regional Specialty Show, Monday, Oct. 10, 2005 at Smith’s Fork Park in Smithville, MO. Dogs were judged in two divisions; Junior and Senior. The PCA also hosted the WC/ WCX Working Certificate events on the grounds following the tests.

hill and parallel to a short tree line beyond which was a bowl shaped open area. The go-bird or flyer was thrown uphill about 80 yards out from the line. The line to the flyer required the dog to run directly across the face of the hill. The line fell off to the right in cover 18-to 20-inches high and crossed two small drainage ditches along the way. With the wind blowing from right to left up the hill, a great deal of suction was created to pull the dog off line down the hill toward the memory-bird.

An impressive number — 35 poodles were entered into the day’s events. Entries represented each coast — California to Rhode Island, the Gulf and southern states as well as Minnesota and Florida. The weather was perfect — brilliant sunshine with cool temperatures could not have been better. And the enthusiasm supporting the poodle as a working retriever was perfect! I think Kudos should be given to everyone who participated — it truly was one very successful event! Senior Hunt Test Four Standard Poodles participated in the Senior Hunt Test judged by Sherie Catledge and Fay McCaleb. The Senior dog is judged on double marked retrieves both on land and in water, must be able to deal with blind retrieves, honoring another dog’s retrieve, be steady off lead and deliver to hand. The dog in general must exhibit those qualities, which must be expected in a finished and experienced hunting retriever. The land marks consisted of a double-retrieve, each about 100 yards from the line which was near the crest of a hill. The double marks looked very much like an open hip-pocket setup. The first or memory-bird, was thrown right to left diagonally across the face of the

The line to the memory-bird was diagonally downhill through cover and across a small drainage ditch. Momentum and an open area beyond the fall tended to pull dogs to the right and past the mark. The blind retrieve was about 60 yards across the crest of the hill through a patch of waist high cover to the left of the flyer station. This tested the dog’s ability to push through cover and shows a judge the dog’s ability to be handled. The flyer station off to the right and down wind provided a great deal of distraction. The water portion of the test, which proved to be very

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difficult for most dogs, was in an area with high cattails to the left of the line and overhanging willows along the right side of the pond. The back side of the pond had similar cover. The memory bird was a left-to-right bird going down the shore across the pond about 60-yards and landing under some overhanging bushes. The go-bird was also across the pond about 75 yards out going from right to left. The line to the go-bird took the dog from a closed in area out into open water — this tends to pull a dog offline either to the right or left. A tall line of cattails was on the left of the line of the memory-bird pushing the dog off-line to the right. As soon as the dog cleared the cattails the pond opened up — this also tends to pull dogs off-line. The water blind was only about 50 yards but the line to the blind was across tree limbs in the water and under overhanging willows which were parallel to shore. Two dogs, Lonetree’s Go Bang, SH, WCX, owned by Jack D. Combs and Mia DiBenedetto of Rhode Island and Bounce N Deau Rey, CD, SH owned by Sheree Stone Melancon of Tx, qualified in the Senior division. The water portion of each of the four tests was true hunting water, much more difficult than the training water we have seen the past two years at the PCA National Specialty. The presence of cover, such as cattails, over-hanging willows, brush along the shore, and obstacles in the water serves as demanding environment and major obstacles to all but the most experienced dogs. Junior Hunt Test Nine poodles were entered into the Junior Hunt Test, judged by Rene Yates and Tim Landecker. The Junior dog is judged on four single marks, two on land and two on water. Junior Hunting dogs shall not be handled on more than one mark, and if handling is required, it must be accomplished crisply and cleanly. Dogs shall be steady but may be brought to the line on

the leash. A dog must retrieve to hand. A dog may be encouraged to hunt, but excessive noise in encouraging the dog suggests a lack of hunting desire and a low grade in Perseverance is required. The land and water marks for the Junior dogs were the same marks as in the Senior test, but dogs picked up each mark as a single bird rather than the double-retrieve required in Senior. Judges for the Junior Hunt Test said they were very impressed with the poodle work on the tough land marks. At the end of the day the water marks were a bit too demanding for all but Dayspring’s Lonetree Dolly, owned by Eileen Jaskowski of Co. . She was the only Junior dog that received a qualifying score.

Working Certificate and Working Certificate Excellent The Poodle Club of America, Inc. allows any registered Poodle over six months of age which meets the performance requirements to receive the Working Certificate and the Working Certificate Excellent. The purposes of these Certificates are to test the natural working ability of the Poodle and to demonstrate his interest in birds, his ability to take direction from the handler, his marking ability, his willingness to enter the water, and his trainability.

Working Certificate Excellent (WCX) Nine Poodles entered the WCX event with 5 dogs qualifying for a WCX Certificate. Those qualifying were: Lontree’s Go Bang SH, WCX owned by Jack Combs and Mia DiBenedetto of R.I.; HR Cosmic Mountain Scout JH, owned by Gary and Helen Scovel of WI; Bounce N Deaux Rey CD, SH owned by Sheree Melancon of Tx; Ch. Kallista’s Silver Sails Aloft VCD2 AXJ, owned by Suzi Cope and Marlene Miller of Tx; and Lonetree’s Eskimo Pie SH, owned by Eileen Jaskowski of CO.

Working Certificate (WC) 13 Poodles entered the Working Certificate event judged with 5 dogs qualifying for a WC Certificate. Those qualifying were: Ch. Ascot For Your Eyes Only owned

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Page 25 cont. from page 24 by Claudia Straitife and Dana Stewart of NC; Ch. Kallista’s Silver Sails Aloft VCD2 AXJ, owned by Suzi Cope and Marlene Miller of Tx; Cosmic Mountain Scout JH, owned by Gary and Helen Scovel of WI; Bounce N Deaux Rey CD, SH owned by Sheree Melancon of Tx; and Penmars Play It Again CDX, owned by Penny Cavallaro of CA.

Many Thanks Many thanks to the Officers of the Poodle Club Of America Inc., who were present the entire day to help and support the participants. An especially big Thank You is extended to PCA Treasurer Scott Olund for his excellent “Water Retrieves.” Scott worked tirelessly all day as a Bird Boy, going over and above the normal tasks and even going INTO the water to retriever the ducks! Bravo Scott— you certainly are one Game Guy! Hunt Test Secretary Tom Carneal did a terrific job in selecting a site that was perfect for both the Hunt Tests and WC/WCX events. Smith’s Fork Park offered beautiful fields and a nice pond as well as a pavilion for awards and registration. Eileen Jaskowski and Sheree Stone Melancon who served as Hunt Test Chairman and WC/WCX Event Secretary did a wonderful job of organizing the event and encouraging members to participate. Cassandra Benton was an awesome committee member! Sandi supplied the delicious food, took care of registrations and served as Hunt Test steward and “all-around” helper. I’m sure there were many others who helped with this great event. My personal thanks to everyone for showing us such a great time! The event was such a success because of your efforts. Many Many thanks. I am looking forward to the next event and hope the support shown for Poodles as a Working Retrievers will continue!

Do you have your reservations for PCA in June YET ?

Welcome to Rally- Part II. This is the second installment of Carolyn Wray’s series on Rally. Part III will appear in the next Poodle Papers. REGULATION CHANGES I hope by now that many of you have tried rally and found it to be as much fun as I do! I think in reviewing the Rally Regulations, the most important thing to keep in mind is the requirement “The team of dog and handler moves continuously at a brisk, but normal, pace with the dog under control at the handler’s left side. There should be an sense of teamwork between the dog and handler both during the numbered exercise and between the exercise signs…” By now most exhibitors are aware (or should be!) that the first changes to the Rally Regulations became effective 10-01-05.. These changes can be found on the AKC web site at www.akc.org. The changes delete the reference to the “2 foot area;” This was an awkward phrase that was misinterpreted by some and it’s removal helps to clarify that the AKC intends for the dog and handler team to be working together not just being within a specified distance. A sentence has been added that clarifies “Any faults in traditional obedience that would be evaluated and scored as a one point deduction or more should be scored the same in Rally, unless otherwise mentioned in the “Rally Regulations.” This again clarifies that half point errors in rally are “forgiven.” Another modification is the change in the number of dogs per hour scheduled to be judged from 30 to 22. Keep in mind that this is an all inclusive figure that includes breaks, verifying scores, awards, photos, course changes, etc. It is now mandatory that the judge allows a 10 minute walk through after each two hour period of class judging. If an exhibitor in a large class chooses to arrive at a time later than the published start time, they will now be assured that they will have a walk through period. HOWEVER keep in mind if you do this that the 22 dogs per hour is a “scheduling” matter and may not necessarily be what actually happens on the day of judging. Fast courses, excellent stewards, absentees and other factors may result in a faster day and a late arrival may appear ringside to discover that the class has been concluded. There are a few scoring changes, including a limit of TWO re-tries per station. The 1- 10 point deduction

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Page 26 cont. from page 25 area has been enlarged to add: lack of briskness and handler error. The Non-Qualifying section has added uncontrolled barking, using a jump as an aid in going over, and failure of the dog to go over the jump in the proper direction SIGNS Rally folks know that the “signs” including the written description of how each exercise is to be performed is in a separate AKC booklet. It is VERY important that exhibitors have a copy (preferably several!) of the booklet and study it carefully. The brief “sign” is not enough to show the details of the exercise. Think of the “sign” as being just a reminder, not the entire exercise. I always take my Rally sign book to the trials with me so that I may refer to it. Often other exhibitors, instructors and even judges will disagree on how an exercise is to be performed and it helps me to get out my book and look things up! A few ground rules: in Rally, the exercises assume that the dog “sits” automatically on all “halts” and “fronts” unless otherwise stated. For example, Ex # 31 “HALT-Down-Walk Around Dog” requires that the dog SIT before he Downs; if you leave out the Sit, you have not performed the exercise as written and an Incorrect Performance (IP) of 10 will be deducted. The first few exercises are pretty simple. Note that exercises are to be performed ‘near the designated signs, either directly in front, or in front and to the left of said signs.” The 270 and 360 turns are to be tight but NOT around the sign. FRONTS AND FINISHES The “Fronts and Finishes!” Exercises 13, 14, 15 & 16. These are FUN exercises but the handler needs to be sure that they understand what each sign requires. On 13 & 14 the handler is to “move forward while commanding the dog to change from the front position…..” It goes on to make it clear that the dog does NOT sit before moving forward with the handler. This has been discussed and ‘cussed at AKC rally seminars and there is not a complete agreement between judges and AKC Reps as to exactly how to score these two exercises. Some judges and Reps feel that if the handler fails to move forward WHILE giving the command, an IP is due. Other judges are a bit more lenient and allow a slight pause to give the dog time to get moving; if in

doubt, ask your judge! 15 & 16 are easier as there is no doubt that the handler must wait until the dog is sitting before continuing on. 20 Moving Side Step Right. This exercise is pretty simple but for some reason a few people have difficulty. In my mind they key is in the Regs” The handler takes one step diagonally to the right and continues moving forward…..” Just think of it as if you were walking along a sidewalk and altered your path slightly to avoid some broken glass. 21 and 22 The Spirals Both are fun exercises and can be challenging to perform well. In training take care that you develop teamwork with your dog, and perhaps additional commands and body language to help the dog to not lag behind on the outside loops or crowd on the inside loops. It may help the handler who gets dizzy to focus on a distant object. Remember this is a “paper clip” either to the inside or the outside. 23 & 24 Weaves—for fun and direction change, or maybe not! Be sure to verify which exercise is being done! Check the path of the exit as some courses will have the handler angle as they leave to set up the approach for the next exercise. 25 & 26 The “Counting” Exercises: not hard, but the handler has to concentrate on counting the required number of steps. There is no requirement in the Regulations that the size of the steps be consistent, but it makes things very clear to the judge if they are. It is always a good idea to “help” the judge by presenting clean, even steps. 29 The Left About Turn: my favorite as well as many other judges. My dogs love this one and you will find it on many courses. It is easy to teach and cute. 30 & 31 The Walk Around exercise: Regs require that the handler PAUSE in Heel Position…what a shame to have an IP –10 for the handlers mistake, but it happens way too often

COURSE ANALYSIS Here are a few things that may help you. Review the course map if provided or the map posted ringside BUT be aware that the judge may change things as they tweak

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Page 27 cont. from page 26 the course so double check during the briefing to be sure that there have not been any changes! I find that I do best if I walk the course a couple of times to find the flow and then look for the challenges! Look for slippery spots, mat edges, uneven ground, congested areas etc. Make sure that you know where you want to set your dog up (at or before they start sign); know where the finish is relative to the exit so that you can leave the ring quickly but under control. The judge is still watching until you are out of the ring so it is NOT a good idea to allow your dog to jump around too much, grab the leash or bite at you while still in the ring; save the partying until you are completely out of the ring and be considerate of the next working dog. Walk the course again and look for any signs that may be more difficult for you or your dog; review the wording on any signs that are unclear to you (you did remember to bring your “sign” book didn’t you?). Finally, walk the course over again in your mind and “see” you and your dog moving around the ring, smoothly and continuously, displaying teamwork and enthusiasm. Next time, some comments on Rally after one year and letting go of the leash—moving up to Advanced In the meantime, rally on with your poodles and have tons of fun!

Carolyn Wray Carolyn can be reached at [email protected] – your comments and questions are welcome!

JR,/SR HUNT TEST MANY OF THE MEMBERS-READERS AND BOARD MEMBERS WANTED TO TELL ME WE DID NOT OR COULD NOT HOLD A JR,/SR HUNT TEST WITH THE REGIONAL WE DID AND IT WAS GRAND-THE RESULTS ARE PUBLISHED IN THE DECEMBER,AKC EVENTS REPORT CONGRADULATIONS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED TOM CARNEAL

FROM THE FIELD The article below is written by Dudley Fontaine of Fletcher, NC, and details her first duck hunt with Keen, her standard poodle. Keen (UCD HR Avivim Peppita de Sergio VCD2, UD, AX, AXJ, JH, WCX) has been training with Dudley for field work for several years but this is her first true hunting experience. It is a wonderful story of how “addicting” this aspect of training can be and how talented poodles really are! “WOW!!!! I am so excited. For the first time EVER, I went on an actual duck hunt. It was completely unplanned on my part... husband Greg and I and the dogs had driven to my parents home in KY for Christmas. Talking to my dad after dinner, he again told me how much his friend (and my childhood dentist) Dr. Maddox, wants to take me and my poodle duck hunting some day. I said I’d love to go and Dad replied ‘Why don’t we call and see if he’s going tomorrow?’. So he called and sure enough, duck hunting was on tap for the next morning. They picked me up at 5:40 am and we headed to the small pond in a dark cow pasture, but with plenty of light from the stars and the half-moon. It was cold... 14 degrees... but no wind. Dr. Maddox used a big metal pole to break up ice around the edges and then he set out the duck decoys. Bennie, Dr. Maddox’s friend and a field guide, and I set up the gunner blind, stools, etc. We had everything in place just as it was barely getting light. Bennie told me we should have good luck as this particular pond is spring-fed and doesn’t freeze all the way over. He then went on to tell me if the ducks are coming, they would be there by 7:15AM. How’s that? Ducks who work on the clock! So.... of course I didn’t have any of my ‘stuff’ with me... why would I? Luckily I did have along my whistle and Ecollar as I planned to train Keen on some blinds on the golf course while I’m here. And I happened to have a pair of camouflage pants that live in my luggage. I had to borrow some waterproof GOLF BOOTS from my dad... his long underwear, Dr. Maddox’s camouflage jacket, (which hung to my knees) and hat and gloves. Anyway... back to the blind... although I thought Keen would have no trouble being steady during shooting, I didn’t want to take any chance of ruining anything so had her at heel on my left side, seated and on lead. Gunners were on my right. 7:14 am, nothing... Bennie used a duck call like I couldn’t believe. 7:15 am ... nothing.... 7:16 am, in they came. Talk about excited!!!! I was thrilled. Both guys shot and hit two of the five mallards. Those guns are LOUD and I was totally surprised by the muzzle-flash. Keen sat like a ROCK. We waited as they explained to me there were probably more ducks in the area and sure enough, after a little

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more expert duck calling by Bennie, they arrived. The guys shot three more, two of which were wounded, not dead. Then it was our turn to show our stuff. I had already explained that my poodle might very well not get in the icy water at all and both the guys were very understanding. All the retrieves were blinds for her as we sat behind the gunner blind and didn’t get to mark any falls. First bird is short... maybe 20 yds out into the water. There was a bit of a channel through the ice as Dr. Maddox had beaten it up to plant his decoys. I lineed her up, she saw the lovely, belly-up bird, I sent her ‘Back’ and I’ll be darned if she didn’t get in that water and go right to the bird. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big pieces of ice were floating all around and she either pushed them aside as she swam or went over them. Next bird was about 30 yds away, floating back up, in the decoys. The ‘channel’ through the ice was to the right of the proper line. I lined her up to the bird, thinking she’ll plop into the channel then I can handle her over. Nope, bless her heart but she tried to go straight... got about 5 yds out on top of the ice before she broke through. She tried to break it up and go forward but it was too difficult. I called her in, relined her a bit toward the channel, and resent. Back in she went (she was shaking a lot) and I was able to actually ‘handle’ her down the channel then over to the bird. Talk about exciting. Last bird in the water was straight ahead, 40 yds, also floating back up and between a couple of stumps. She lined up, shaking, and went when I set her. The previous blind sucked her toward the last bird and I got a couple of ‘scallop’ (crooked) casts. I then ‘No-ed’ her, gave her an ‘over’ which she took beautifully, then a ‘back’ put her on the bird. This was a gorgeous drake mallard. She came straight back which meant cutting through some ice that hadn’t been broken up for decoys. What a picture... MY GIRL busting through ice with her bird. I can’t tell you how proud (and amazed) I was to see my training actually work! We packed everything up then went looking for the two cripples. This pond was created by beavers and there was a ‘lodge’ and lots of holes. We found one duck hen in a feeder creek... Keen picked that up without having to get wet (her neck can be really long). We never found the other cripple... Bennie and Dr. Maddox said sometimes when they get hurt they dive into one of those beaver holes and that’s the end of it. Back to the truck to towel her off.... ha, ha, ha. All she did was ‘crunch’. The poodle was covered in ice. She wasn’t cold though, or shaking... running through the cow pasture had warmed her up and she was ready to run some more. I opened the door to the Varikennel in Dr. Maddox’s truck, put the towels in the bottom of the crate and told her to ‘ken-

nel up’. She did with no fuss. Both the gentlemen were delighted with her (no more than me!) and went on and on about how well-trained she is, how tough, etc. That ice was tough and the fact she kept going for me, well... I don’t have any buttons left on my shirt I’m so dang proud of her. They took along one of those disposable cameras, so I hope to get some photos. Of course now I want to learn to shoot. Seriously, even if I never learn to shoot, I would be thrilled to go and just be ‘pick-up dog’ again. What a wonderful, wonderful day.” Thanks, Dudley, for a great story about a very talented example of our breed!! Joyce Carelli PCA WC/WCX Chairman

HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is Christmas Day and, having procrastinated, I am now taking time to wish each of you the most wonderful year 2006 can possibly be! We have so very much to be thankful for - living in the United States, having families and friends to love and with whom we share life and Poodles - one of the best gifts of all. PCA National 2006 is a plan in progress. The most recent news to report is Mrs. Virginia Milroy, Wavir Miniature Poodles, has accepted the position of Veterans' Sweepstakes judge! We happily welcome Mrs. Milroy to the panel of judges: Mr. McCoy - InterVariety; Mr. Sabella Standards; Mrs. Tomb-Taylor - Miniatures; Mrs. Scott - Toys; Mrs. Clark - Junior Showmanship. Obedience judges are: Mr.& Mrs. Huffman,. Mr. Nagler, Mrs. McCloskey, Mrs. Vanuden. Agility will be judged by Ms. Chris Dewey. There is the possibility of Canine Good Citizen testing one day during National - more news on this subject closer to the show. With sincere best wishes! Glenna Carlson National Show Chairman

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Francis P. Fretwell Monfret Poodles, Moore, SC

Beverly Cobb December 2005

March 10, 1926 – October 28,2005

Dalwynne Standard Poodles Frank began his love of dog shows at the age of 10 when his favorite Uncle took him to his first show. He inherited a silver miniature poodle some years later and started, as so many of us have, with obedience training. His first Standard Poodle was Ch Colonel Mint Julip of the Nass, C.D., C.D.X., U.D. that he purchased in 1949 and from that point on he knew that Standards were the breed for him. The Monfret prefix was registered in 1956, and was proudly used on more Standard Poodle champions than we have room to list, and 4 Italian Greyhounds. The last champion to carry the Monfret prefix was a beautiful Borzoi, Ch. Monfret Stolen From The Wind. He was a member of The Poodle Club of America, was its President and held other board positions. He was the Editor of 5 editions of Poodles In America and a judge both in the U.S. and abroad. He was the longest serving delegate to the American Kennel Club, representing the Greenville Kennel Club and seldom missed a meeting from 1960 until last year. Perhaps his most amazing contribution to the world of dogs was his book collection, devoted entirely to books about dogs. The Monfret Cynological Library began 20 years ago and has more than 18,000 volumes, the largest known individual owned collection. He was devoted to his Poodles and always a delightful and loyal friend.

Sadly I must report that Bev Cobb passed away this morning. There will not be any services per her request. Bev and her husband Charlie were long time members of the Oakland Dog Training club. Bev was the moving force establishing the Santa Clara Valley Dog Training Club. She was also the person who put into format and action the WC and WCX programs for the Poodle Club of America. Bev also was a member of the Santa Clara Kennel Club and served as Show Chair many times, as well as Obedience Chair. She was also a member of the Mission Trail Poodle Club. In other words, wherever there was a dog activity in the San Francisco and San Jose area, Bev was likely to be or to have been involved in an active way. She was generous with her knowledge and was always available to help newcomers. Bev's life touched many others. Jacklyn E. Hungerland, Ph.D.

2006 AGILITY JUDGE WILL BE CHRIS DEWEY. JAN HOPPER

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Page 30 to do performance. I thought agility, but I did have an interest even then in retrieving with a poodle. I did not know to call it hunt train a poodle back then. Just that I wanted a poodle that would swim and fetch. I live on a lake so this seemed important. In my youth I had a standard poodle named Tisha. Though small, somewhere around 19 inches, Tisha loved water, thought baths were the best, and fetch? She was quite good at that. So I had an idea about what my poodle should I came into hunting a poodle much the same way do. In fairness, I thought all poodles would do as I came into showing poodles in conformation, this. I had no reason to think differently. So I by accident. researched and bought a poodle from a breeder with This is not surprising based whom I could relate and trust. She had some, but on the history my brown Stan- not a lot of formal performance in her pedigree dard Poodle, Mulligan, and I background – though there were many Champishare. Many have heard the ons. She did all the proper testing. And she hapstories of our adoption and pened to have a brown poodle which was exactly growing together as owner and what I wanted. dog. Suffice it to say, what I Call it good breeding, good socialization or have asked Mulligan to do, she good luck, but I got a dog that swam, fetched, and has tried. And in most cases, played just as actively as Tisha did. Frankly, I think she has been successful, in spite of me, her per- all three contributing factors come into play when son. you get a poodle, and that no one aspect gives you Back to hunting. I have been asked to write sev- it “all.” eral articles on “hunting” a poodle. This I can do. So 1st question: Does my dog have to be from Beyond, however, teaching a poodle to hunt, a performance line to do hunting? As my friend there is a story about my learning to hunt – and Dudley says, “Dance with the date you brought to within that, a story about my first time handling a the party.” If you have a dog, work with it. See shotgun. what instincts you can wake up. Who knows what There is a difference between an owner who you will find? Some of you will be pleasantly sur“trains” a dog to enter a WC/X, or UKC and AKC prised. Others will be going on to question #2. hunt tests, and an owner who trains to “hunt” and So you have to buy a poodle to do this. Where to to compete in “hunt tests.” start? Q#2: If you are buying a poodle do you There is a difference in the process of training look for hunting in the line? Heck yes, sort of. a dog personally, and using a trainer to train your Look for a breeder who has Obedience, Agility, or dog, or to supplement your hunt training. Hunting performance in their lines — or who has And, as in almost every venue I have found in dogs that have natural tendencies to fetch and working with dog training, there are many ways to swim. There are plenty of performance people approach it. You just have to choose a direction happy to share their “breeders” names, or to help and take the first step. Occasionally you will you identify a breeder who has been successful in choose to take a few side excursions. You may find producing solid all around dogs. that you circle back to your original path – or conQ#3: So I have the dog, and the desire, now tinue in a new direction. All this said. Let’s start what do I do? Foster the instinct on which you with finding the right poodle. are trying to elaborate. Sit on the floor, facing a I searched out my first poodle with an intention wall, or down a hallway, and toss a toy or ball. It’s cont. on page 31 The Poodle Papers / Winter Edition The Hunting and Retrieving feature in Poodle Papers will be hosted for the next four issues by Claudia Straitiff, of Denver, .N.C. Many of you know Claudia and "Mulligan" from the PCA National WC/WCX tests in Cheltenham and Salisbury - and may have met Claudia at her "Poodlephernalia" vendor's booth at the National. Claudia's straightforward, practical voice sends a message I find appealing - and I think you will, too!

Page 31 birds as long as you enjoy the process. It took me best to start with small distances, and control the a long time to figure this out. I’ve been doing inenvironment so that as the dog runs past to play formal agility for 3 years with Mulligan, and we with the prey, you can grab the toy to toss it again. have never seen the course at an event. It is just Do this periodically through the day. something else we enjoy doing. Finally, as you will hear me say any time I talk Once you have the drive on land – move it to water. If you have access to a pool, pond or other about training dogs, make sure you work on basic water, then take the same game to the waters edge. obedience including: Heel. Sit. Down. Stay. These If it is a puppy, I take it in myself. My neigh- commands are lifesaving behaviors that not only bors find no better entertainment during summer make your dog a pleasure to live with, but also a then watching me work in our cove with 5 or 6 pleasure to train with. week old puppies. Dana, my husband stands on shore while I am in the water (or vice versa), clap- In her next three articles Claudia will cover ping and cheering for splashing poodle blobs swim- Choosing a Training Program ming from point to point. At first the pups look Preparing for a formal Test like they could sink at any moment. But, by week Taking Your Poodle to Hunt 10 when I am letting them go, they are swimming Stay tuned for an interesting journey!!! - and let like little pros. I also have a friend who cheats the above pro- us hear your thoughts and opinions!!! Claudia cesses. He uses a fishing pole in the house, with a can be reached at [email protected] and Leslie wing or toy tied to the end of the line. He casts the Newing, our editor, at [email protected] object out into the middle of the floor. Once the Sent in from Betsey Leedy dog has the object in its mouth, he “reels” the dog in takes the object and casts again. When he takes The Dog who ate Christmas Our dog recently ate 7 ounces of Baker's chocoit to water, he doesn’t have to swim. He just “casts” late and a half-ounce of gourmet ground coffee and the bumper or toy out onto the waters edge and the dog goes into get. By slowly increasing the “cast” swallowed a marble, to boot. None of these things is part of recommended canine diet. Chocolate is toxic to distance over a period of time his dog teaches itdogs - a 1-ounce square of Baker's chocolate can kill a self to swim! 10-pound dog, and it's a wonder 7 ounces didn't do in What else can I do to start off a successful our 15-pound dachshund. Coffee holds the same danpuppy in hunting? We give our puppies the op- gers. portunity to chase quail at our house prior to their The whys and wherefores of this accident are being sent to their homes. You don’t necessarily irrelevant. Everyone feels badly enough already. The need a live bird, but consider getting duck wings upshot of the whole thing is that the vet bills totaled (you can buy them on line from Cabela’s if you more than $1,200. Coming on the heels of a rough year don’t have hunting friends who will give you and a recent layoff, our little dog effectively ate Christtheirs). The Cabela’s wings are very clean and tidy mas. On the way home from the vet with our pooch, compared to what you will see in tests, but at least groggy and sore after surgery to remove the offending they have the scent that drives the dog’s natural blue marble, we joked gently about all the things that prey instinct so the will give you a good start. Use $1,200 could buy. "Dexter ate a 24-inch flat screen LCD the wing like a toy, toss it and have the pup bring it TV," my husband said, laughing. "He ate a lot of video back. Or tie the wing around something else that games," my son chimed in. "He ate a used car," one of you can throw, and that the dog can carry. my daughters added. "A very old and very used one," cont. from page 30

her father started to correct her. But then we remembered we'd sold our old car for $300 and agreed that Dexter had eaten the equivalent of four old minivans. Once home, everyone fawned over our sick

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Page 32 cont. from page 31 little dog without reproach, glad he was home and on the mend, the $1,200 and abandoned Christmas gift ideas irrelevant. Because, truth be told, we're still in debt to Dexter for all he's done for us in the last couple of years. We adopted him as something of immersion therapy for our then-10-year-old son, who was suffering from an increasingly unreasonable and debilitating fear of dogs. Like many phobias, cynaphobia, the medical term for fear of dogs, doesn't require any negative experiences to exist. Our son's fears had grown to such proportions he couldn't walk down the street or ride his bike without heart-racing anxiety on just seeing a dog. When we adopted Dexter from a breed rescue group, he was a year and a half old, weighed 13 pounds and stood a foot high at the shoulders. Our daughters were delighted. Our son wouldn't come out of his room for three days. He crawled across the tops of chairs to get to the table to eat and then crawled back across them to return to his room. On the fourth day, he sat on a stool and observed the dog, who looked back questioningly with those irresistible dark brown eyes of his. At the end of a week, our son was carrying the dog around the house. After a few weeks, he was more comfortable with other dogs. Now, two years later, he still doesn't care for large dogs, but he's not fearful and he roams the neighborhood with a confidence that's carried over to other areas of his life. He's playing piano, riding horses, doing well in his studies and generally a happy-golucky kid with a dog.And that's just what Dexter did for our son. Each person in the family has a special and unique relationship with the dog. He plays gently and obligingly with our son. With my rambunctious, outgoing daughter, he races and wrestles. He leans against my quiet daughter like a cat, savoring her strokes. And while originally suspicious of men, Dexter adores my husband. They play wild games of chase and spend warm devoted moments snoozing. I had never owned a dog before and was concerned about how long I could be away from home; picking up after the dog in addition to the rest of the family, who at least could flush; annual shots; tags and whatever other dog ownership issues were bound to occur. But I found that walks took on new meaning with a little dog trotting at my side. An occasionally bizarre meaning, as we sometimes stopped every few

feet so Dexter could check what the girls called his "pee mail" at every post and trunk. But I walk more briskly and more often now. And coming home has never been so rewarding! No one else in the family greets me so ecstatically and with such genuine joy. Whether I've been gone 15 minutes or a day, Dexter is enormously and unapologetically glad to see me. He's a cuddler, shamelessly squeezing between the desk and my lap while I work, cruising from lap to lap while we watch TV at night. He won't crawl into his bed until the last family member is in his or hers, and he lies curled up beside us until morning, when he starts his equal opportunity doting all over again. He has taught us patience, charity and the value of forgiveness.He never holds grudges, whether his tail is accidentally stepped upon, or he's ordered out of the kitchen for being underfoot. He certainly didn't like the vet's office during the chocolate Incident. But when we came to take him home, he clearly didn't associate us with his aches and pains. Through the haze of drugs after his surgery, he wagged his tail vigorously when he saw us. Dogs aren't for the shallow and self-absorbed. They're childlike but without the growing cognizance and independence of children. We are always their heroes; they're always our friends. Even with three children and a quarter- century marriage, I didn't fully understand unconditional love until Dexter came into our lives. The obligation to live up to such devotion and loyalty can be a daunting task and a humbling experience. Yes, our dog ate Christmas. But the gifts he's given us are priceless and more enduring than anything we could ever put under the tree and more than we could ever repay. “ Unknown”

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.

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-Unknown

Page 33 Poodle Club of America 2005 Regional St Joseph Missouri

Results from Tom Carneal, Thanks! BEST IN VETERANS SWEEPS Ch Kaylen’s Cadillac Style

REGULAR CLASSES TOYS (JUDGE- SUE ELLYN REMPEL) WD: Nugne’s Dolca WB: Funny Ladies Forever BOV : Ch North Well Chako JP Platina King BOW: Nugne’s Dolca BOS:Ch. Broadbay Jump Shot BP:Nugne’s Dolca BBE:Cache’ Breakin All The Rules

MINIATURES (JUDGE- BARBARA FURBUSH) WD:Clarion Codiac WB: Sarbrae’s All About Me BOV: Ch.Kiyara The Intimadator BOW:Sarbrae’s All About Me BOS:Ch. Ebbtides Calicoat On Parade BP:Sarbrae’s All About Me BBE:Parade Toast of The Town Best Stud Dog: Ch Katelyn Just Like Leather

BOV:Ch Litilann’s Picture This BOW:Penhurst Solaris BOS:Ch. Greenwyn Connor Cameron BP:Oso Guapo Y Dandi BBE:Unique Daughter of the King Best Stud Dog: Ch Kaylen’s Cadillac Style Best Brood Bitch:Ch JJ’s Hi Society at Ramcrest BEST IN SHOW Miniature: Ch.Kiyara The Intimadator BOS to BIS: Ch Litilann’s Picture This BP in Show :Nugne’s Dolca BBE in Show:Unique Daughter of the King Best Stud dog in Show: Ch Kaylen’s Cadillac Style Best Brood Bitch in Show:Ch JJ’s Hi Society at Ramcrest

BEST JR. HANDLER: Aeberili Mackenzie HIGHEST SCORING DOG IN REGULAR CLASSES 198 Blanche Petite Chou D’Adnil

STANDARDS (JUDGE PAT HASTINGS)

TRACKING

WD: Unique Royal Trademark WB:Penhurst Solaris

Passed: Samali Isabelle UDX, TDX,AX,AXJ, VCD3 Passed: Willamarais Castanet OA,AXJ

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Page 34 Some cannot stand at all. Others manage to struggle Mapping the Gene for to their feet and walk with jerky movements, falling Neonatal Encephalopathy frequently. Seizures develop in most affected pups at 4-5 weeks of age. Attempts to control these seizures with medication have proven futile, and the pups Dennis O’Brien, DVM, PhD, Gary Johnson, DVM, die or are euthanized before they reach weaning age. PhD, and Liz Hansen, BS University of Missouri College Post-mortem examinations have been performed on of Veterinary Medicine some affected puppies. While no changes were found in the first brains examined, more recent examinations have found changes in organization of the porThe Summer 2003 issue of The Poodle Papers cartion of the brain responsible for coordination (the ried an initial report from our team on Neonatal Encerebellum) and possibly in the area of the brain that cephalopathy, a brain disorder in newborn Standard would produce seizures (the cerebrum). Poodle puppies. Evidence continues to suggest that this disorder is genetically inherited as a simple reWhat other diseases might look similar? cessive gene. Over the past few years, our mapping A number of brain diseases of young dogs could prostudies have narrowed our search for that gene to a duce similar signs, so it is important to avoid confussmall region on one of the canine chromosomes, taking every “funky puppy” with this specific disease. ing the field of potential genes causing the disease Low blood sugar can produce dullness and seizures from 30,000 to about 30. We are now proceeding to in pups who aren’t nursing well or who have connarrow the field even further. Once we identify the genital problems regulating their blood sugar. The responsible gene, we can develop a DNA test that will low sugar levels would be apparent on routine blood help Standard Poodle breeders avoid Neonatal Entests taken when the pup is showing clinical signs. cephalopathy in the future. Liver shunts can cause altered behavior, coordination difficulties, and sometimes seizures. Abnormal liver How Our Research Began function would also be apparent on appropriate blood tests, and the shunt would be found at post-mortem In 1997, we examined two five-week-old Standard examination. Hydrocephalus (water on the brain) or Poodle pups suffering from difficulty walking and other congenital malformations of the brain could seizures. Their littermates were developing normally. produce similar signs, but such problems would be Treatment of the seizures was unsuccessful, and the readily apparent at post-mortem examination. Infecaffected pups were euthanized. Subsequently, more tions either while in the uterus or immediately after than 14 litters with pups showing identical clinical birth can cause brain damage, but would typically signs have been identified by veterinary neurologists affect the entire litter. Inflammation would be apparin various areas of the country. ent in the brain at post-mortem. Certain infections of the dam (involving toxin-producing bacteria, for What is Neonatal Encephalopathy? example) also would be expected to affect a large “Neonatal” refers to the time immediately after birth. percentage of the litter. “Encephalopathy” refers to a disease affecting the brain. Thus Neonatal Encephalopathy means a disWhat is the evidence that this is a hereditary disease of the brain that becomes apparent soon after ease? pups are born. Affected pups have been weak, uncoSo far, no other explanation, such as infection, liver ordinated, and mentally dull from birth. If they surshunt or low blood sugar, has been found in spite of vive the first few days, they nurse adequately. They extensive testings of affected pups. Affected litters may not, however, be able to compete with stronger pups in the litter and their growth may be stunted. “…..we know we are searching among about 30 genes, not 30,000!” cont. on page 35 The Poodle Papers / Winter Edition

Page 35 cont. from page 34 map, researchers could begin using that map to find have been found in different areas of the country and genes responsible for canine diseases.* Dogs have thus very different environments. In litters with af- 39 pairs of chromosomes containing an estimated fected pups, close to 25 percent of the pups in the lit30,000 individual genes, any one of which potenter have been affected, males and females equally. tially could harbor a mutation that causes NeonaNone of the parents or older dogs in the households tal Encephalopathy. However, our gene mapping studies have narrowed the search to a small region of a single chromosome, so we know we are searching among about 30 genes, not 30,000! How can you help? If you have a litter with a puppy you believe might be affected, please contact us. We can help you determine whether or not this is the problem. In return, we would ask your help in collecting the samples and information necessary to continue searching for the gene responsible for this disease. This work has been generously supported by the Poodle Club of Southern California, the St. Joseph, Missouri Kennel Club, and the Poodle Club of America Foundation. Your continuing support will be necessary to achieve our Photo Caption: Pup with Neonatal Encephalopathy. The affected pup in the background is clearly smaller than her normal littermate goal. in front. She is unable to stand, and her movements are uncoordinated.

showed any neurologic diseases. Infectious disease, toxins or nutritional deficiencies would be expected to affect more pups in a litter and could affect older dogs as well. The 25 percent pattern of disease fits with what we would expect with an autosomal recessive inherited trait.

Any information provided to us will be kept strictly confidential. Dr. Dennis O’Brien Department of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery (573) 882-7821 [email protected]

Liz Hansen How do we find the responsible gene? Animal Molecular Genetics Laboratory Scientists have long known that genes are found within (573) 884-3712 chromosomes in the command centers of cells, and [email protected] that genes contain the code that programs everything * Editor’s Note: In the December 8, 2005 issue of the about an animal from coat color to how the brain funcjournal Nature, scientists reported on a more complete map of the canine genome—an exciting advance tions. Genetic disease occurs when a mutation interin the quest for abnormal genes that may even open feres with the ability of a gene to function normally. the way to mapping the multiple genes involved in With completion of the first draft of the canine gene polygenic disorders such as hip dysplasia.

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Page 36 self to jump, then he suddenly raises the neck to help launch his front end off the ground. Dogs such as conformation-bred Labrador retrievers are notoriously poor jumpers, and the low set-on and short length of their necks can provide clues as to why this is so. Generally-speaking, poodles longer, higher-set necks are part of why they are often very In Part 1 of this series, I talked about some aspects good jumpers. Also, dogs with low head carriage of a poodle’s conformation and how they might af- do not look as stylish or “happy” when they heel. fect a performance dog. This column continues this Judgment of this trait should be made in the puppy when he is standing or moving by himself, not when discussion. “strung up” on a leash or hand-stacked.

CONFORMATION AND THE PERFORMANCE DOG, PART 2

In Part 1, I talked about the deleterious effects of “over-angulation,” or what might be thought of as too-long bones in the rear legs. Other considerations in the rear legs of the poodle are bow-legs or cowhocks. Many young puppies (6 to 12 weeks) appear a little bow-legged in the rear, but they will have a fine rear when grown. I would avoid a dog for a performance prospect that I suspected was going to mature to be bow-legged in back, as this generally is going to result in lack of strength and maneuverability. A less-serious “fault” from a performance standpoint is cow-hocks or a narrow rear. Looking at pictures of wolves and other wild canine species, one often sees what we would call cow-hocks, which suggests that there is selective advantage to this configuration. Moderate cow-hocks are accepted happily in border collies, which are probably the Apremier agility breed. It is thought that cow-hocks in border collies enable them to change directions quickly when going at high speeds. Again, I would observe how the prospect moved and be sure that the condition was not so extreme that the puppy “knitted and purled” or that his legs rubbed together when viewed from the rear, and that he did not sit like a frog with back feet sticking out. Other than that, if I did not care about the conformation ring and only wanted a performance prospect, being a little cow-hocked would not put me off in selecting a puppy.

Concerning movement, I want straight-forward, business-like movement with good reach in front and adequate drive in the rear. Dogs which move in a hackneyed manner (“goose-stepping”) do what I call “catch too much air” when they move. Although one sees a lot of activity when they run, their momentum is up and down and not forward, and they will be inefficient and slow in agility. Be aware, however, that this cannot be judged in too young a puppy, as all puppies move this way when they first get up on their feet. A puppy’s movement might not start looking like the movement he will have as an adult until 10 weeks to 16 weeks of age. I have had puppies that eventually had good movement that seemed to do nothing but hop around like kangaroos until they were over 10 weeks of age. I put very little weight on “measuring” various angles and bones in a puppy. Some dogs look perfect standing still, but when they move it looks like a car with square wheels, or like two dogs spliced together— the front and rear movements don’t match. There are many more factors than just the bones and their relation to each other that affect movement. The configuration of the spine, the way the muscles attach to the bones, personality, and many other things affect movement. When it comes to movement, the proof is in the pudding—I judge conformation by watching a dog move. I try to have someone gait the puppy, which might be hard since they probably are not leash-trained. Patience is required. Smooth movement (not bouncy) with extension of movement at a trot is what I want. Smooth movement indicates good angulation in shoulders and rear,

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Page 37 ally roll back on their fannies, which causes them have to step back with their front legs, and the posiwhich means good “shock-absorbers.” Extension of tion eventually gets too uncomfortable, and they lie gait means a longer stride—the dog does not have to down. Dogs with long backs may have the problem work as hard to cover the same amount of ground, so in which their rear ends seem to slide back as their he will be faster than a dog with a shorter stride (if he back legs splay out, and pretty soon they can’ t mainalso has the mental “drive” to want to do it). tain a sit any more and settle into a down. Most puppies sit on their fanny in what we call Apuppy Side-winding, where the rear feet track a different path sits some of the time, as they have not developed than the front feet, is often caused by over-reaching. the muscles to hold themselves forward, but I would This means the back feet step on the front feet when avoid a puppy with a really sloppy sit. Out-of-sight the dog trots, so he adjusts his rear to one side or the stays are hard enough to teach and maintain without other to avoid doing this. Side-winding is very comthe exercise being physically hard for the dog to permon in poodles, as shorter backs and longer legs in form. I have found that a dog that has a nice erect sit relation to the size of the body is highly prized in the as an adult will be able to demonstrate it at 8 weeks, breed ring, and this trait brings the front and back legs at least for a short time. Sitting with splayed feet, closer together. Side-winding dogs may be extremely fanny-sitting, or hip-sitting are often functions of fast, but they can present many problems in obedience longer-backs, as they are extremely common in and agility. Dogs which side-wind can always turn longer-backed dogs of other breeds such as shelties one direction better than the other, and some refuse to and corgis. turn one direction at all—if they won’t turn right, for instance, they substitute a 270-degree turn to the left Although I don’t want an Italian greyhound dressed in order to go right. This can cause spinning on the as a poodle, as I am afraid they will be too prone to agility course, which uses up time and may cause a injury, I don’t want a dog that has too much bone for refusal to be called, if it happens too close to an obhis size, or too much “trunk” (chest or body) for his stacle. Dogs which find it awkward to turn to the left height. Clunky dogs are rarely fast, as they are handihave difficulty doing a “flip” finish in obedience. Stancapped by out-of-proportion weight, even if they are dard poodles which side-wind have problems keeping not allowed to become fat. Their jumping life will their hind feet on the dog-walk or teeter-totter, and after often be shortened, as the extra weight of this type stepping off a few times, may navigate these obstacles of dog puts more stress on their bodies lifting that very slowly. Dogs which side-wind may find it diffiweight when jumping, and too much strain when they cult to stay parallel to the handler when heeling in land. obedience, will have difficulty perfecting turns in one direction or the other, and tend to sit crooked when I want good, tight feet in my performance dog. I they stop. have never had a poodle with flat feet, but I see a lot of it in the breed ring, and I am told that the fault is When selecting a puppy for obedience, I always look evident when a puppy is very young. Flat feet canat the way it sits. I want the hind legs up under him in not offer good shock-absorption in a running, jumpa nice tight sit—I don’t want his back feet sticking out ing dog. Photos of dogs with good feet when they like a frog. This trait does not change much—if they are pushing off or landing while jumping reveal a do it as 8-week puppies, they will do it as adults. The flat-looking foot. If the feet are flat when at rest, frog-sitter will be unable to sit close to me when he then they are not providing shock-absorption when gets in heel position, and he will generally not look jumping, and all that “jarring” will cause wear and straight to a judge when he sits. I also want a dog that tear on all the joints of the body. In addition, dogs sits on his haunches and not on his fanny or hip. Dogs curl their toes and dig in with their claws when acwhich sit on their fannies or hips will have trouble celerating, as in agility. If the feet and legs do not doing the 3-minute sit-stays in obedience. They graduhave enough muscle and connecting tissue to keep cont. on page 38 The Poodle Papers / Winter Edition cont. from page 36

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Ginger Thompson

the feet arched when at rest, how is the dog going to “dig in” when he runs and jumps? It would be like a human running on his heels instead of running on the balls of his feet, or trying to run wearing a little set of swim fins or clown shoes. I shudder when a breeder says that a certain dog is not going to be A show quality, therefore, they will sell it to an obedience or agility home. First, does he think that an obedience or agility trial is NOT a dog show? The average agility trial has more spectators than the average breed show, and agility is becoming a popular television sport. Whereas a breed dog might be shown for a few months, until it finishes its championship, or the extreme of a Aspecial, that is shown for a year or two, the show life of a performance dog might be 10 years or more. Where is this breeder’s pride? The performance dog (if it is sound!) is often shown on a weekly basis, and thus viewed by the public, for years and years. As discussed in a previous column with respect to poodle temperament, the same type of temperament that contributes to success in the breed ring also contributes to success in performance events. The same general statement can be made in pointing out that the physical soundness that can contribute to success in the breed ring is often the same as that which gives the dog the best chance of success in the performance ring. Joann Neal

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Ginger Thompson, of De Lorch Poodles, Wauconda, IL passed away this fall after an extended illness. She had not been actively breeding for more than two years, but she and the De Lorch Poodles were a dominant force for more than 20 years. In all, she is listed as the breeder of 43 Toy Champions in Volume 10 of Poodles in America. Ginger’s early years with Poodles were spent largely at match shows in the Chicago area. Her first points came at the old Chicago International show under Mildred Imrie when a bitch she showed in the Bred-ByExhibitor class went Winners Bitch. Ginger was so excited, and tears streamed from her face as I hugged her when she left the ring. “Oh, Del,” she said. “She’s got points. Does that mean I can’t show her at the matches any more?” Two Poodles Ginger bred helped put all of those concerns behind her. However.. The best known was the marvelous black Toy sire, Ch. De Lorch’s Love Me Tender, better known as “Elvis”. Elvis sired 49 U. S. champions according to Volume 10, and was really the dog that made De Lorch a widely known name in the U. S. He is the No. 3 top-producing Toy Poodle sire in the U. S. But despite all that he did for Ginger and her breeding program, her first love was her multiple Best in Show winner—named for how Ginger felt about her— Ch. De Lorch’s This Love Of Mine. Her call name was Dinah, but when Ginger talked about her, it was always, “MY Dinah,” and she was the sire of Elvis. In addition to the considerable winning the De Lorch dogs did in the Midwest, they also found considerable success at the national PCA show. In 1988 De Lorch Hey Look Me Over was BOV from the classes under Mrs. James Clark. Elvis was Best Toy Stud Dog in 1987 and 1988, and Dinah was Best Toy Veteran Bitch in 1992 under Dana Plonkey and in 1993 under Mrs. Joan Scot. As a young woman, Ginger had a career as a professional singer in the Chicago area. That explains why most of the De Lorch dogs where given song title names. The kennel name “De Lorch” was chosen because the first Poodle Ginger owned was purchased from a man named De Lorch. She loved that dog so much she made its breeder’s last name her kennel name. Ginger was a great character and tremendous fun at Midwest shows. She enjoyed every win she ever got, and loved every Poodle she ever bred or owned. By Del Dahl

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Charlotte”Charlie” Holloway Charlotte”Charlie” Holloway was a life long poodle lover. She and Vicki bred over 30 Champion Standard Poodles under the Wessex Kennel name. Boasting many top producers including Ch. Wessex Celebration sire of over 50 American Champions. She also owned and finished 2 Toy Poodles that ruled the household . She was a long time member of the Orange Empire KC. The San Bernardino Riverside PC and Poodle Club of America. Charlie was a driving force and Past President of the San Bernardino Riverside Poodle Club.

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tics. She appreciated their beauty and respected their heritage. She lived her life surrounded by the famous family of Poodles that she created, protected, and loved.

Poodles Entry Breakdown 9 25 13

Poodles (Miniature) (4-5) Poodles (Standard) (15-10) Poodles (Toy) (5-8)

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OptiGen is happy to share the following information with the Poodle Club of America for Poodles tested for PRA during 2005. 4th Quarter Stats: Total Poodles tested - 582 Toy Poodles - 322 Normal/Clear - 233 Carrier - 79 Affected - 10

Miniature Poodles - 725 Normal/Clear - 485 Carrier - 222 Affected - 18 Countries testing during this period include: US, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, ,Spain Sweden, Switzerland, & UK. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Miniature Poodles - 260 Normal/Clear - 176 Carrier - 81 Affected - 3

Sincerely, Becky Iddings Administrative Support Associate

Total Poodles tested for 2005 - 1690 Toy Poodles - 965 Normal/Clear - 659 Carrier - 273 Affected - 33

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