OTTER Tales
MARCH 2009
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MEETING NOTICE
MARCH 9, 2009
The WLRC March meeting
will be held at the
Olive Garden Restaurant
6367 E. State Street
Rockford, IL
Phone: (815) 399-3176
Board Meeting: 6:30 p.m.
General Meeting: 7:30 p.m.
OPEN MEETING
GUESTS WELCOME
DIRECTIONS:
Exit I-90 at State Street. Go west on State Street. The Olive Garden is on the south side of State Street in a strip of stores.
(Look for Office Max and Marshall).
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY
QUOTE FOR DOG LOVERS
“A dog is like
an eternal Peter Pan,
a child who never grows old
and who, therefore, is always
available to love and be loved.”
- Aaron Katcher
A Recipe for Your Dog
Labrador Crumpets
Makes approximately 24 mouthwatering jewels.
TREAT LOYALTY WITH A GRAND
BIT OF ROYALTY.
THIS IS THE PERFECT SNACK FOR THOSE TIMES WHEN
YOUR LITTLE PRINCE OR PRINCESS DEMANDS THE VERY BEST!
2 1/2 cups cornmeal
1 1/2 cups white flour
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 egg
3/4 cup honey
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/3 cups water
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix all ingredients together thoroughly.
Spoon into muffin pans three-quarters full.
Bake for 35 minutes then cool on a rack and serve.
Store in an airtight container.
Something to
Howl About!
Candlewood’s Ribbonquest
Amiable Applause Inherited
“Peggy” and “Gina” both Q’ed on 4 of 6 of their runs at the Tri County Agility Club of Missouri on January 30-February 1, each earning a placement every single run!
“Peggy” also completed the
new title MXJP2.
Owners: Tim & Anne White
Summerlin’s Charmed
and Dangerous WC
“Potter” went WB/BOS at the Chain O’Lakes KC show for a 3 point major on January 26.
Breeder/owner: Kristin Stefek
CH. Kaltrav Caribbean Cruise
“Calypso” completed his AKC Championship by going WD and BOB at the Keomah KC show on February 15. “Calypso” finished with 3 majors and a Best Puppy in Specialty.
Breeder: Kathy Turbett
Co-owned and loved by Cindy Tripp
& Pat Kroll.
Dunn’s Marsh All That Jazz
JH, NA, RA
“Jazz” finished her Rally Advanced title on February 15 at the Lakeland Dog Training Club trial.
Breeder/Owner: Deb Hamele
LItter box
THE LISTED BREEDERS ARE MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING OF WLRC, BUT IN NO CIRCUMSTANCES DOES WLRC GUARANTEE THE SERVICES OF SAID MEMBERS. BUYERS SHOULD REVIEW ANY CONTRACTS AND/OR GUARANTEES WITH THE BREEDER.
Kennel: Special Occasion
Breeder: Diane Wehrheim
Phone: (262) 594-3219
Due: February 5
Color: Black & Yellow
Sire: Special Occasion Double
O Seven
Hips/Elbows: Prelims Good/Clear
Eyes: Optigen Normal
Dam: CH. Special Occasion Dream
Come True
Hips/Elbows: OFA Excellent/Normal
Eyes: Optigen Normal/Full Dentition
Kennel: Special Occasion
Breeder: Diane Wehrheim
Phone: (262) 594-3219
Due: February 16
Color: Yellow
Sire: CH. Lubberline Martingale
Hips/Elbows: OFA Good/Normal
Eyes: Cerf, Optigen
Full Dentition, Cardiac Clear
Dam: CH. Special Occasion
Champagne Edition
Hips/Elbows: OFA Good/Normal
Eyes: Cerf, Optigen, Full Dentition
Kennel: Special Occasion
Breeder: Diane Wehrheim
Phone: (262) 594-3219
Available: 2 year old yellow male
OFA excellent/OFA elbows/
eyes Cerf. Good with other dogs, housebroken, leash trained, full dentition.
Pet home only.
Kennel: Rumbling Ridge
Breeder: Vic Zander
Phone: (608) 798-4145 or
(608) 843-5906
Whelped: January 5
Color: Black & Yellow
Sire: Riverroad Keebler
Hips/Elbows: OFA Good/Clear
Eyes: Cerf annually
Dam: Cedar Springs Rumbling Ridge
Breeches
Hips/Elbows: OFA Good/Clear
Eyes: Cerf annually, full dentition
Kennel: Sonlight
Breeder: Garry & Sue Seehawer
Phone: (815) 633-4366
Whelped: January 14
Color: Yellow
Sire: CH. Cabin Creeks Monsieur
Saracen WC TD
Hips/Elbows: OFA Prelim
Eyes: Clear
Dam: Sonlight’s Miracle in Motion
WC JH
Hips/Elbows: OFA Excellent/Clear
Eyes: Optigen by Parentage
Kennel: Summerlin Labradors
Breeder: Kristin Stefek
Phone: (815) 331-6999
Due: March 1
Color: Black & Yellow
Sire: Am/Can CH Snowberry Blackthorn Bravissimo
Hips/Elbows: OFA Good/Normal/OFA Heart
Eyes: Optigen Normal/Clear Cerf
Dam: Summerlin’s Waitin’ For Change
Hips/Elbows: OFA Excellent/Normal
Eyes: Cerf
Kennel: Hoffmann’s Labs
Breeder: Ruth Hoffmann
Phone: (262) 634-3720
Whelped: January 1
Color: 5 Black females
Sire: Nipntuck Stocking Stuffer
Hips/Elbows: Prelims Good/Normal
Eyes: Cerf AnnuallyOptigen Normal/
Clear by parentage
Dam: Hoffmann’s Stormy Hit
Hips/Elbows: OFA Excellent/Normal
Eyes: Cerf annually/Optigen Normal/
Clear by parentage
Kennel: Hoffmann’s Labs
Breeder: Ruth Hoffmann
Phone: (262) 634-3720
Due: February 10
Color: Black & Yellow
Sire: CH Hoffmann’s Late Night Rush
Hips/Elbows: Prelims Excellent/Normal
Eyes: Cerf annually/Optigen Normal/
Clear by parentage
Dam: Hoffmann’s High Anxiety
Hips/Elbows: OFA Good/Normal
Eyes: Cerf annually/Optigen Normal/
Clear by parentage
Kennel: Kaltrav
Breeder: Kathy Turbett
Phone: (608) 253-6206
Due: Mid February
Color: Black
Sire: CH Kaltrav’s King of Rock
Hips/Elbows: OFA Excellent/Clear
Eyes: Optigen B
Dam: Kaltrav’s Stellar Storms
Hips/Elbows: OFA Excellent/Clear
Eyes: Optigen Normal
Kennel: Ania
Breeder: Anna Hausmann &
Yoshi Tanaka
Phone: (847) 989-0178
Due: End of March
Color: Black & Yellow
Sire: CH. Windfall’s Pipe Major
Hips/Elbows: OFA Excellent/Clear
Eyes: ACVO Clear/Optigen Carrier
Dam: CH. Sunchase JP’s Innocent JH
Hips/Elbows: OFAGood/Clear
Eyes: ACVO Clear/Optigen Normal
Kennel: Charm Labradors
Breeder: Charlene & Jerome Moser
Phone: (563) 255-2561
Due: Mid March
Color: Yellow
Sire: Chestnut Hill Titan Ale WC, JH
Hips/Elbows: OFA Excellent/Normal
Eyes: Cerf annually/Optigen Normal
Dam: BIS Int., Nat., Can., Am. Ch. Charm’s Dancing To The Music
Hips/Elbows: OFA Good/Normal
Eyes: Cerf annually
Kennel: Charm Labradors
Breeder: Charlene Moser
Phone: (563) 255-2561
Due: Mid March
Color: Yellow
Sire: Chestnut Hill Titan Ale WC, JH
Hips/Elbows: OFA Excellent/Normal
Eyes: Cerf annually/Optigen Normal
Dam: AKC & UKC Ch. Charm’s
Dancing In The Wind
Hips/Elbows: OFA Fair/Normal
Twenty Basic Breeding Principles
By Raymond Oppenheimer!
1. Don’t make use of indiscriminate outcrosses. A judicious outcross can be of great value; an injudicious one can produce an aggregation of every imaginable fault of the breed.
2. Don’t linebreed just for the sake of linebreeding. Line breeding with complimentary types can bring great rewards; with an unsuitable one, it will lead to immediate disaster.
3. Don’t take advice from people who have always been unsuccessful breeders. If their opinions were worth having, they would have proved it by their successes.
4. Don’t believe the popular cliché about the brother or sister of the great champion being just as good to breed from. For every one that is, hundreds are not. It all depends on the animal concerned.
5. Don’t credit your dogs with virtues they don’t possess. Self-deceit is a stepping stone to failure.
6. Don’t breed from mediocrities. The absence of a fault does not in any way signify the presence of its corresponding virtue.
7. Don’t try to line breed to tow dogs at the same time. You will end by line breeding
to neither.
8. Don’t assess the worth of a stud dog by his inferior progeny. All stud dogs sire rubbish at times. What matters is how good their best efforts are.
9. Don’t allow personal feelings to influence your choice of a stud dog. The right dog for your bitch is the right dog, whoever owns it.
10. Don’t allow admiration of a stud dog to blind you to his faults. If you do, you will soon be the victim of autointoxication.
11. Don’t mate together animals which share the same fault. You are asking for trouble if you do.
12. Don’t forget that it is the whole dog that counts. If you forget one virtue while searching for another, you will pay for it.
13. Don’t search for the perfect dog as a mate
for your bitch. The perfect dog for every bitch does not exist – never has, never will.
14. Don’t be frightened of breeding from animals that have obvious faults, so long as they have compensating virtues. A lack of virtues is by far the greatest fault of all.
15. Don’t mate together non-complimentary types. An ability to recognize type at a glance is a breeder’s greatest gift. Ask the successful breeders to explain this subject – there’s no other way of learning. (I’d define non-complimentary types as ones which have the same faults and lack the same virtues.)
16. Don’t forget the necessity to preserve head quality. It will vanish like a dream if you do.
17. Don’t forget that substance plus quality should be one of your aims. A fool can breed one without the other.
18. Don’t forget that a great head plus soundness should be one of your aims. Some people can never breed either.
19. Don’t ever try to decry a great Terrier. A thing of beauty is not only a joy forever, but a great terrier should be a source of aesthetic pride and pleasure to all true lovers of the breed.
20. Don’t be satisfied with anything but the best. The second best is never good enough.
(Raymond Oppenheimer (Ormandy Kennels in Berkshire, England) was a breeder of Bull Terriers and was one of the most influential and successful breeders of Bullies. His stud dog, Bar Sinister was one of the top Bull Terriers of all time. Ray Oppenheimer appreciated the genetics of dog breeding no matter the breed of dog. Reprinted from the Greater Denver LRC newsletter – Iroquois LRC newsletter.
UPCOMING EVENTS
All Breed Shows & Obedience Trial
Date Show Supt. Closing
4/4 KC of Yorkville Roy Jones 3/18
& 5
4/11 Steel City KC Roy Jones 3/25
& 12
w AGILITY w
Paw Power Blues Agility Club of NW IN
Hallmark sports Club II, Merrillville, IN
April 18 & 19, 2009
Website: www.pawpowerblues.org
Closes: 4/1
Beth Elliott, Event Secretary
(847) 741-7229 –
SPECIALTIES
SPECIALTIES
Dallas Ft. Worth LRC
April 3 & 4, 2009
Denton County Fairgrounds, Denton, TX
Website: www.dfwlrc.org
Closes: 3/18
MBF – www.infodog.com
Judges: (4/3)
Regular Classes: Pauline Mortier (Lubberline)
Sweepstakes: Alfredo Vallejo (Alvalley)
Obedience: Floyd Harding
Judges: (4/4)
Regular Classes: Julie Bedford (Croftsway)
Sweepstakes: Alexandre Chanan (Preton)
Obedience: Helen Smith
LRC of the Potomac
April 8-10, 2009
Frederick, MD
Website: www.lrcp.com
Closes: 3/25
MBF – www.infodog.com
Judges:
Intersex: Barbara Nowak (Broyhill)
Dogs: David Craig (Davricard)
Bitches: Lynn Minchella (Abbeystead)
Sweepstakes: (Dogs)
Rebecca Jack (Nipntuck)
Sweepstakes: (Bitches)
Linda Schiele (Linray)
Obedience: Suzanne Hemminger
& Donald Levinson
Rally: Suzanne Hemminger
Hoosier LRC
April 18 & 19, 2009
Vigo Cty Fairgrounds, Terre Haute, IN
Website: www.hlrcinc.com
Closes:
Roy Jones, Super.
www.royjonesdogshows.com
Judges: (4/18)
Dogs & Intersex: Denys Janssen
Bitches: Jill Ickowski (Wiscoy)
Sweepstakes: Allison Bates (I Spy)
Judges: (4/19)
Dogs & Intersex: Jill Ickowski (Wiscoy)
Bitches: Denys Janssen
Sweepstakes: Donna Reece (Ridgeview)
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