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Okay here's my whinge, Exhibitors complaining about camping. The camping fees are no way affiliated with the Kennel Clubs in NSW, the ground owners (in this instance, the showground trust) organise the camping, we do not collect any profit from it. Don't like it, don't camp. We can no longer collect camping! The ground's owners must, or someone affilliated with the grounds. This show in question is very reasonable! I can tell you from experience (I am the secretary of the club holding the show the week prior), clubs TRY to keep the cost of camping down. The owners of the grounds could charge whatever they want if they could! Trust me!! We're dealing with that at the moment!! I live 40 mins away from this show in question, yet I'll still be camping! So will all my family! (there's about $100 in camping fees for the weekend!) Go another 200kms down the road to Gunnedah (with is the central hub of showing in Northern NSW) and you pay $10 a night PER PERSON for powered, you're all using the some amount of power from the same power outlet!! And $8 unpowered, yet every show the camping grounds are PACKED!! We DO NOT discourage interstate exhibitors, infact, one year I sat down and addressed 100+ envelopes to send schedules out to the QLDers who had exhibited at our show the year before... In Northern NSW we actually get more Qlders coming to our shows that people from further down, why? because it's 5 hours + for sydney people to come up, whereas, it's sometimes just a hop over the border for Qlders, why would we want to discourage them? JMHO

Well you do insist on having Danes!! Stewards breaking rings for people so they can show one breed in the another ring without missing showing their breed in the ring being broken. Find a handler like everyone else if you're gonna clash!

*bump* No one? C'mon! Someone has to be going!!

Hi, Is anyone (or knows of anyone) travelling from the Brisbane area to the Inverell dog show on the weekend and has room for a griffon? We have a girl who needs to come home this weekend. Your help will be greatfully appreciated =)

Griffons

Yes, it could have been the breast cancer, that is what Phil had said to them, but what about the other mating done? Pity there was no 'control' so to speak, as the other mating was done at a different vet, if it may have been done at Chermside and it was successful, we could put it down to the breast cancer, if it was not, well back to the drawing board! I don't think they believe they've had a bad experience, there has never been an AI litter from frozen semen in our breed before in Australia (and as I said, I've never heard or seen any resulting puppies from a litter in the world, but then I could be wrong, I wouldn't believe people would sell frozen semen if they knew it wasn't going to work). They're hard enough to breed naturally! So really it's the luck of the dice. Just have to keep the final straw for a rainy day. The sire passed away last week (he was just a month short of his 6th birthday), so we can't just 'get some more' if it doesn't work again.

Not that I know of, when they took her back to see if it took they found that she had breast cancer, so she had that cut out and then was desexed. There's another thing that boggles me.. Is there such thing as breast cancer in dogs? Or was the vet just getting money out of them?

Thanks for your help. t-time, Friends did use him, he's their local vet. Thanks Aspyre, what breeds were they? Do you know? The bitch who went to Chermside was tested, I don't know where the other one went, but I'm sure she would have been tested too. Both weren't maiden bitches, infact the bitch who went to chermside had a litter before she was imported, and then had a litter of 7 with us when she came to Australia.

2 of them.. Chalan Flash Romeo Ch Chalan Make My Day Yay! Thanks!

Sway any Sealys entered?

I'm not down there this year! Uni comes first *sigh* Unless the weather is better never doing Kyneton again! Iggies hated it, and so did I!

BOB Griffon Bruxellois 'Shigriff Slap N Tickle' 'Layla' My mum's absolutely over the moon, Judge was Bruce Owen who is a Griffon Specialist! Don't know the rest of the results.. Relying on Facebook as I don't have a phone!

Hi all, Just curious, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any toy breeders who have had any luck with frozen semen AI litters? If so, and they're in Australia.. Vet PLEASE!! Friends of ours have brought in semen from overseas and both of them have had failed matings from viable semen. A fellow breeder of my breed in the US has said that he has had successful litters from frozen semen, but we haven't seen any of the puppies. And I myself haven't heard of any. Your help is appreciated =)

Hounds on Monday were Std Dachie (Went BIS!), and Beagle

I am! (Both going and silly enough to camp!)