The Gossip Column: May 6, 2022
The reaction from breeders and exhibitors subjected to the latest set of rules for exhibiting dogs in Germany has prompted the cancellation of several events due to uncertainty about the enforcement of these new regulations and the added expense for exhibitors. These new rules include requiring new health certificates for every show entered, and for nearly 40 breeds, on-site health inspections by health officials to determine whether your dogs will be shown that day. This wave of health inspections and isolating certain breeds from competition sweeping across Europe should alarm us all, as animal-rights people in the States will rally around their European counterparts and start to try and impose those rules on us. The time for us to act is now. ...
In the latest installment of “What goes around comes around,” JANE MYERS, the former American Kennel Club field representative who was based in Reno, has now been rehired to replace CLIFF STEELE in the Northeast. CLIFF retires at the end of this month, when he returns to the ranks of professional handlers. There is an opening, as the position left vacant by retired JIMMY MITCHELL in the mid-Atlantic States still has not been filled. I doubt that there is a rush of applicants for the field-rep job: It has morphed into four and five days a week at the dog shows; then add travel time and the volumes of paperwork that need to be done. It’s a lot of work. ...
DOG NEWS columnist and world-famous Whippet breeders, authors and publishers BO BENGTSON and PAUL LEPIANE along with IVA KIMMELMAN are off to attend the 7th WHIPPET WORLD CONGRESS, which will take place in Italy. ... DENISE FLAIM made a quick trip to England to judge a Rhodesian Ridgeback specialty. ...
All of us at DOG NEWS were saddened to hear that LOIS MAGETTE has passed away. LOIS, along with her daughter, PAMELA MAGETTE, were the successful mother and daughter duo breeders of Whippets and Chins. Our deepest sympathies to PAMELA and family. ...
Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries ... SARAH & RICHARD LAWRENCE and MARIE & TOM NUTTIG. ...
Celebrating Birthdays … RANDY GARREN, BARBARA MILLER, TIM LEHMAN, TORIE STEELE, HEATHER JOHNSON, COREY KRICKEBERG, MELISSA BRUCKER, GREG REYNA, ELAINE PAQUETTE, TOOTIE LONGO, CHERIE VIRDEN, HOWARD ATLEE, NANCY SPELKE, PAM LAMBIE, JIM REYNOLDS, DYLAN KIPP KEITH, LESLIE NEWING, BETH FINK, BARBARA WALDKIRCH, PATTY LAPINSKI, BARBE LYNCH and LINDA KINGSLEY.