Three Rivers Kennel Club, Saturday, September 15, 2012

HAVANESE

Zeus - Select
Roché - Best of Breed

Thank You Judge Robert Hutton

BICHONS

Pumpkin - 1^st/Winners Bitch

Gracie - 2^nd/Reserve Winners Bitch

LuLu - Select Bitch - 1^st points towards her GCH

Betty - Best of Breed

Thank You Judge Doris Cozart

CERF and BAER Testing

The Ibizan Hound Club of America, in conjunction with their National Specialty this week, sponsored multiple health clinics including BAER (hearing) and CERF (eye) testing.  They opened it up to all breeds, so we took advantage of the opportunity as much as we could.

Havanese Zeus, Ike, Pure, Jack, and Boo all passed their BAER tests.

Havanese Ike, Pure, Jack, Boo, and Bichons Nurple, Archie, and Tunia all passed their CERF. 

It’s nice to have a parent club provide the opportunity, during their specialty, to obtain the OFFA certification that they recommends/requires.  Many OFFA tests are easy to obtain.  Some areas of the country are considerably more expensive than others, but most tests can be done close to home.  BAER testing is not readily available, and can be quite expensive.  To have it available at a show for only $50 was great.  Since the BAER test is required, by the Havanese Club of America, to obtain a CHIC, it would be wonderful if they could bring in someone and offer it at Nationals.  A CERF clinic would also be helpful at Nationals (Havanese, Bichon, etc.) because it does save a considerable amount of money to have it done at a show.  We got together 20 dogs to have CERFs done at the Kansas City Show this year because it was only $25.  The regular price in the KC Metro area is $65.  The savings of $800 was far too great to pass up.  We even brought in some of our old retired dogs (ages 12+).   

Health Clinics can be big moneymakers for the club and are something to be seriously considered.  More importantly, they provide a service to the exhibitors and promote health in the breed.

IBIZAN HOUND NATIONAL SPECIALTY, September 14, 2012

Congratulations to Dave, Quandry, & Bisque...

and Owner Judy Campbell, too!

Winners Dog and Best Puppy

Quandry - Aliki's I Wonder What She'll Come Up With Next?

Award of Merit -

Bisque - GCH Aliki's No Soup For You

    New Grand Champion, too!

THANK YOU JUDGE GARRY NEWTON !!!

Platter Does It Again

So Platter is up to his harassment again.
He emails the same person that he threatened before, via telephone.
He asks for her phone number and says that they need to talk.
It is obvious that he has her number because of previous dealings and his previous threats by phone call.
She emails him back says that the dog is finished and there is nothing to discuss.
He responds in big bold all capital letters, that THEY ARE FINISHED!!!!

Is that a threat or a promise?

So, was he on drugs the first time he called her, or this time?
Or, does he need to be?

If he didn't have so much money, we could all chip in and get him a little padded room.

It is too bad that his partner has lost so many friends because of Platter and his mean, erratic behavior.  

Many of us really do miss his partner, and feel bad that we cannot even call him, because Platter answers all phone calls and emails, and even intercepted the last card that I sent.

Congratulations Natalie & Rocky !

Congratulations to my niece Natalie Farley and her new husband Rocky Browder, on their wedding today!

Wishing you all the best for a long, happy, healthy life together. 

Love, 

Aunt Darlene

NEW CHAMPION !!!!!!!!!

Big Congratulations to Paula Bender and her Miss Ruby, handled by Kayley Kovar. 

Ruby:  New Champion Frontpage Majority Rule

Finishing with 4 majors !

Ruby is a beautiful Bichon bitch out of Paula Bender's Lexi:  CH MerryMaker FrontPage Exclusive and our Tunia:  AM GCH CAN CH That's A Royal Velet Tunia Wave

Congrats to all !!!

Tunia X Lexi Girls 03-15-10
THAT WAS THEN....

THIS IS NOW !!!
WOW

Understanding

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.

Scott Sommer Does it Again

You gotta love people who think, nay KNOW, that they are above the law.  In this case 'the law' is rules that the rest of us are held to, but others are not.  We see it every day.  At home, at school, at work, in the store, on the road, and say it ain't so...yes, even at a dog show. 

One current example:

Topeka dog shows.  5 days one weekend, 2 days off, 4 days the next weekend.  Reserved grooming.  If you reserve grooming by the deadline, for both weekends, you can leave your stuff, and even your dogs in the building on the 2 days off between shows.  When the judging program was published the entire main floor grooming was shown as reserved except for the glass walled entryway, which was free grooming.

 

As observed in the grooming room at Topeka:

On Thursday, August 16, Scott Sommer whines his way into the reserved grooming room and gets the people in charge to move spaces and shrink some people’s reserved space down, so that he can be in the main room.  Spaces reserved for one weekend were outlined in one color tape.  Spaces reserved for both weekends were outlined in another color.  Well, come Monday evening, anyone that has not paid for both weekends, has to leave the building.  Scott gets into a heated discussion with the club people trying to get the room set up for the upcoming show.  He refused to leave, again saying that he is entered for both weekends, and why not just move these people, and these people, and he could put his stuff in Spot X.  This still did not work for the guy in charge, as he had not reserved space and that room was full.  Yay, for the guy in charge!  

But, that is not the end of the story.  Scott was NOT going to take "No" for an answer.  He went in search of Jesse James Show Chair and AKC Judge Karen Mc Farlane.  Mrs. McFarlane arrives, has a chat with the grooming room guy, and then they move around the spaces that were already reserved, Scott gets to stay in the building, and gets the space he wanted, without making a reservation.  Some of us paid well in excess of $200 for grooming space smaller that he used.  This has been standard operating procedure since these clusters started doing the back-to-back weekends at the Topeka Show Site.  This is not a new policy, nor is Sommer new to this arrangement.  So Scott Sommer got the space he wanted, got to stay in the building, didn’t have to send a reservation, and who knows if he even paid for the space?  Maybe he did, maybe he didn't.  I didn't see that part.  This is a factor because the clubs have to pay for security and insurance for the building with all of our equipment and dogs there.  I guess if you know who to suck up to, as with anything, you can get what you want. 

What these people, especially those with ‘the power’ don’t stop to think about is how bad this looks to those less seasoned (or grizzled).  The other people that were in the same situation, were forced to leave, and did so without any argument BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE RULES.  How does this look to those new people who still think that this ‘sport’ is fun, or even the old people who obeyed the rules only to see someone getting preferential treatment, AGAIN?  
It just makes me sad.

Well, before noon on Sunday, Scott took all of his toys and went home.  

Scott was heard to say "I'm so sick of this building and this show..."
Gotta love those good sports!

Ya know...I think there are other shows this same weekend closer to home for you Scottie boy.  If you choose to go there next year, I can't express how much you, and your cheerful attitude, will be missed by all. 

From Thomas Jefferson

Thought for the day, and the election, from Thomas Jefferson:

"A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is big enough to take away everything you have."

Unsportsmanlike Conduct or Just Plain Bullying?

With regard to bullying and unsportsmanlike conduct:  

It seems like the Topeka show brought out some really bad behavior by more than one ‘couple.’  Unsportsmanlike Conduct does not just refer to your bad conduct on the show grounds.  

A long time breeder/handler really went overboard on a dear friend after returning home from the first Topeka weekend.  Let's refer to this person as 'Platter.'  Platter called up this dear woman at home, at night, and actually yelled at her because she had hired someone other than himself to finish her dog.  This woman is now afraid to attend shows where this man might be present.  Platter had her in tears, afraid of what he would do to her.   

Well, Platter, the handler that she hired, did what they said they would do:   Showed the dog when they said they would, AND finished the championship on her.  Maybe if you had followed through when you had the chance, she wouldn't have hired the new guy.  In fact, YOU still owe her.  Still, IT'S A FREE COUNTRY!!!  Anyone can hire whomever they want.  

We all want to win every time but there is no excuse for this type of behavior.    Platter, this is definitely not behavior that the PHA or the AKC Registered Handlers program emulates...so you big bully remember that.  

If it were me, I would be writing a formal complaint letter to the AKC Registered Hander Program about this behavior.  

Remember, several years ago, when I saved your life at Outback when you were choking on a piece of steak?  Then the next year, or so, we went to dinner at the San Bernardino Show.  I was in a conversation with your partner, asked him a question about a dog that he had bred, at which point you came across the table, steak knife in hand, threatening me, for insulting your dogs!!!  It was a question, not to you, but to your partner, about something that occurred when you were not even present.  Then you came up to me in tears at the show the next day apologizing because you were SO in the wrong.  How soon they forget.

I could go on.  And I think I will...

Remember when you came looking for a really good bitch puppy for one of your clients that was a ‘long time dog show person.’  They have really done a lot in multiple breeds, you said.  You lied.  I trusted you and then found out that you had just finished their first show dog.  A dog that we would have neutered and placed in a pet home.  Long time show dog people, huh?  Then when you couldn’t finish the bitch we sold them, and we did, that really pissed you off.  But I guess when you spend that much time trying to finish a big clunky dog, and telling the judges how good he is, when you bring out a smaller elegant bitch with an awesome coat, now what do you do?  She is definitely not anything like the dog, so if you tell the judges she is good, what does that make the dog?  And what does it say about your ability to evaluate the breed?  

When the bitch came in season at 18 months of age and the owners wanted to breed her to their male, we said “No” for multiple reasons.  One reason was that she was 18 months old!  Not old enough to have all of her OFFA health certifications completed.  Another reason was that they wanted to breed her to their Champion pet dog, that you finished.  The contract required us to choose the stud for the first two breedings, and both must pass all of their health certifications first.  A few months later we received a card from this owner saying that she hoped this news would cheer us up a bit:  “Ally is due in a few weeks with Bandit puppies.”  After discussions with her and why she blatantly broke the contract, she said that YOU had said it would be fine and we couldn’t do anything about it.  You cost her a lot of money and the loss of her dog and the litter.  You talked her into breaking the contract, and then made us out to be the bad guys.  Well, we are not in the business of breeding puppies to sell puppies.  We breed to improve the breed, and abide by the contracts that we sign.  

Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we could all just get along?

NO HANDLERS ALLOWED!!! WHAT???

So, now we can’t do a favor for a friend?  

A friend with a Toy Fox Terrier was at the Topeka show and she was coming down that crud that is going around.  Her puppy was being a real puppy, and she felt so ill that she was just going to pull him.  Dave had a tight schedule but told her not to worry, to just rest, and he would make sure that her dog made it to the ring.  Well, Dave, going above and beyond the call of duty, didn’t just make sure that her class puppy made it to the ring:  5 minutes before the ring, Dave takes the dog, gaits him a bit, (this being the very first contact that Dave had with the dog) and goes into the ring for the puppy class.  Well, 1^st in his class, and Winners Dog came next.  That led some ‘local’ people, former president and board members of a local club, to approach our friend with an almost threatening tone.  Why would she hire a handler?  We don’t appreciate handlers in this breed.  This is an ‘owner-handled’ breed!  

This is only our friend’s first or second show dog.  She still considers herself an amateur, and she is trying to learn.  This type of behavior by ‘old-timers’ does not make anyone feel welcome.  We should be embracing new people and helping them, not chastising them because a friend helped out in their time of need. 

No one likes to get beat, whether it is by a professional handler, or an owner-handler, but if it is a good dog, it is a good dog.   To this couple, and you know who you are: either buy or breed better dogs, or have more confidence in the ones you exhibit, and do a better job at presenting them.  It is extremely unsportsmanlike behavior to bully people. 

When you make your entry, you take your chances.  We never know who is going to show up and we all want to believe that the judges are judging the dogs.  That is what keeps us coming back. 

Since professional handlers do this full time they are just better, sometimes, at getting the most out of our dogs in performance and grooming.  

Not that it is anyone’s business, but Dave did not charge her for showing her dog.  He was just helping a friend.  But the people that chastised our friend, have inquired about hiring a handler but were too ‘cheap’ to do so, and would rather spend more money, in the long run, on travel and entries taking many months longer to finish a dog, than to pay a handler.  That is their prerogative, but don’t put down people who do choose to hire someone to show their dogs.

Topeka Kennel Club, Topeka, KS August 26, 2012

Havanese -
Selena - Best of Opposite
Zeus - Select Dog
Thank You Judge Dorothy Macdonald

Bichons - 
Gracie - Yoshi's Gracie Show Me Something Special - 
Winners Bitch - MAJOR !!!
Thank You Judge Denny Mounce

Manhattan Kennel Club, Topeka, KS August 25, 2012

Havanese -
Piper - That's Her Serene Highness - Winners Bitch,  NEW CHAMPION !!!
Thank You Judge Dawn Hansen

We just can't express how good it was to see Adam King.
He never fails to disappoint. 

Bichons - 
Gracie - Yoshi's Gracie Show Me Something Special - 
Winners Bitch - MAJOR !!!
Thank You Judge Sonny Ambrosio

More Havanese Puppies

Another big congrats to Jeannie & Philip Woods
Tina X Quincy 
3 girls, 2 boys

CH THAT'S TIMELESS ELEGANCE
'TINA' is breeder/owner/handled by David Scheiris
Thank you Judge Mildred Bryant
Tina is now owned by Jeanne & Philip Woods

CH THAT'S MY SWEET RIVER CITY BLUES
'QUINCY' is breeder/owner/handled by Darlene Scheiris
Thank You Judge Harry Bennet
Quincy is owned by Vicki Thompson of Lenexa, KS and available at stud to approved bitches. havanesevicki@weshowdogs.info

Topeka Kennel Club, Topeka, KS August 24, 2012

Bichons - 
Sparkle - 1st/Winners Bitch/Best of Opposite  MAJOR - NEW CHAMPION !!!
Thank You Judge Dawn Hansen

Havanese - 
Selena - Best of Opposite
Zeus - BEST OF BREED  
Thank You Judge Jan Mercer

Black Russian Terrier -
Sam - Best of Breed - Made the cut in Group ! 
Thank You Judge Donald Gill

Ibizan Hound - 
Quandry - 1st/Winners Dog/Best of Winners/BEST OF BREED
over the specials!!!
Thank You Judge Dana Cline

Manhattan Kennel Club, Topeka, KS August 23, 2012

Bichons - 
LuLu - 1st/Winners Bitch/Best of Opposite  MAJOR NEW - CHAMPION !!!
Thank You Judge Janis Mercer

Havanese - 
Selena - Select Bitch 
Congratulations to Harry & Lotus for their Breed win.
Thank You Judge Denny Mounce

Black Russian Terrier -
Sam - Best of Breed - Made the cut in Group ! 

Havanese Puppies

Congratulations to Jeannie & Philip Woods on their new litter:
Imelda X Zeus
1 cream and white boy
1 black and white girl

Greater Emporia Kennel Club, Topeka, KS Monday August 20, 2012

Bichons 
LuLu - Winners Bitch & Best Of Opposite
Thank You Judge Charlotte Patterson 

Havanese 
Selena - Best of Breed
Zeus - Best of Opposite
Thank You Judge Norm Patton

Jesse James Kennel Club, Topeka, KS, Sunday, August 19, 2012

Show Results:

Bichons:  

LuLu - 1st/Winners Bitch/Best of Winners 3 Point Major!!!

Thank You Judge Monica Canestrini

Havanese:
Piper - 1st/ Reserve
Rembrandt - Select 

Zeus -  Best of Opposite

Selena - Best of Breed  

Thank You Judge Chuck Winslow

Greater Emporia Kennel Club, Topeka, KS Saturday August 18, 2012

Show Results:

Bichons:  

Sparkle - 1st and Reserve

Thank You Judge Chuck Winslow

Havanese:

Zeus -  Best of Opposite

Selena - Best of Breed  

Thank You Judge Charlotte Patterson

Jesse James Kennel Club, Topeka, KS August 17, 2012

Show Results:

Bichons:  

Sparkle - Winners Bitch and Best of Winners for a 3 point major!

Thank You Judge Suzanne Dillin

Havanese:

Zeus -  Select Dog

Selena - Best of Breed 

Thank You Judge Faye Strauss

MO-KAN TOY DOG CLUB, August 16, 2012

CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVE, SELENA AND PIPER!!!

Piper - That's Her Serene Highness - 
Winners Bitch for a 3 point Major

Selena - GCH That's Adorabull's Dreaming of You - 
BEST OF BREED and a GROUP 2 !!!!

Thank You Judge Robert Hall.

Female Havanese Puppies Available

Two girls left.  
Want Black and White or Gold and White?
Both parents are AKC Champions with Successful OFFA Health Certifications

Black and White Parti Belton Female
Beautiful neck, coat, and angulation. 
Outgoing and loving.
Available to a show or pet home:

   

Panda X Matthew puppy girls still available about 12 weeks old!

Gold Sable and White Female
Beautiful conformation, coat, and attitude.
Would be a great addition to any family and breeding program.
Dave's pick of the litter
Available to show home only:

Available female to a show home:

Contact Dave at Dave@WeShowDogs.com

or 816-213-8100

AKC 4 to 6 Month Puppy Class

The AKC’s 4 to 6 month beginner puppy class seems like it would be a lot of fun, but I wouldn’t know.  Dave and I, or any other person that has ever been paid to show a dog, is excluded from this class.  (Except that at Havanese Nationals this year, there were no less than 3 people exhibiting in this class, that I know for a fact have received payment for showing dogs).   They even allow dogs in Foundation Stock Service (FSS) to participate in some of those competitions.  I recently bought a puppy, Dudley, that is registered with the AKC FSS.  I have had to take him to other clubs IABCA, etc, to get him in the show ring, or we have to show him in fun matches, after we have all had a long day at the show.  I don’t understand not being able to hire a handler to show in those classes, but really who wants to spend the money on that?  And what professional handler wants to be stuck with a 4 month old puppy in the ring, unless they are just doing it for the money?  That’s when you tell the owners to get out there by themselves and have fun with their puppy.

When I cannot even show my own puppies there is something wrong with the AKC regulations. 

Since the AKC is so concerned with money, do they realize how much money they and the clubs are missing out on by restricting these entries?  Hell, they even let in mixed breed, or ‘breed unknown’ dog, and we know that wasn’t for their love of dogs.

This also gives an unfair advantage to those dogs who are being regularly shown between the age of 4 and 6 months.  When I can’t bring my own dog in the ring until 6 months, they are going against dogs who have had ring experience, and also could have another title on their name Certificate of Merit.  Just because I have accepted compensation for showing a dog, my own personal pets are being discriminated against.   

This is just another way that AKC isn’t looking at the big picture.