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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!)

At the time I was getting into shows my mother had a Great Dane and Shiba Inu she used to show for a friend, I used to practice with the Shiba but never showed her, and the Dane was a puppy and far too much for me to handle. I distinctly remember mum and I having conversations about what breed of dog I should get "A whippet, you could turn up to the shows in the middle of the day and not miss your call" "No not a standard poodle! I can't see you grooming it!" we finally decided upon an American Cocker Spanial (Really I think it was just an excuse for her to have one ). But the Yank never made it to the ring (He had constant battles with Cherry Eye as a puppy, and he then turned out having agression problems) so I never made it into the ring!! A year later my mother bought my grandfather a Dalmatian (she used to breed damnations back in the 80s, but gave them up when she had kids.. She ALWAYS said Dallies are like Children and she'd have one or the other, but not both!) my first handlers class I took him in as a 3 month old puppy. Worst. Experience. Ever! But anyway, I was hooked just for the love of dogs, not just for winning. I went in a few times as a 10 year old but stopped, and started again when we moved from SA to NSW as a 13 year old. My mother never lectured me on how to handle, she used to watch the dog show mums in SA pull their child aside after a class (if they hadn't come first) and sternly tell them what they did wrong and make them do it til they did it right. She wanted me to love it and not think of it as a chore, so I taught myself how to handle! I would watch other people show and just basically go from there, as well as what handler judges would tell me after a class. Within only a few months I went from non-placing to winning basically every heat up here I competed in (not gloating or anything, back when I was a junior only 2 or 3 people were in a class or 13-18 years, the same people every heat!) Then there came a time when I was beating my mother with her griffons, she wasn't impressed! And it was totally out of the blue that we were offered an Italian Greyhound from an old friend of mums (from back in the dally days), that gave me a breed to show! Mind you, I wasn't allowed to show her! Mum FINALLY gave her up for me to show when she was a Junior. Mind you, nowadays DOGSNSW offers regional workshops for junior, so they can fine tune their skills. Man I wish I had that oppurtunity! And the choice of choosing another breed would be up to the individual. I know that through the years of handling you do handle all sorts of breeds, and make friendships, and through those friendships your child could be offered their own dog to show! Just as long as you're willing to house and feed that breed! I wasn't allowed big dogs! "firstly they won't fit in the car, their poops are too big, they eat too much.."

Whoo!! Go Kaos! And of course Shimmer!! Who's the other Griffon? Oh! And the Iggys! Do you know?

I believe Jessica Walker did

Hey, Try getting hold of Natasha Weraduwage.. I know she was taking a HUGE amount of photos from the royal! I'm sure she has a few of Kyall too

I remember the days when I wore Doc Marten Boots into the ring! And it's not like I show big dogs.. I have toys!! Have you girls with the 'sore feet after a weekend of showing' problems tried the skechers shoes? They are basically runners, just more subtler... SUPER comfy (well atleast I find them, and I'm on the bigger side, and can no longer stand how pretty little ballet flats feel after a day of running around the show ring!) AND they come in any shape and colour (and some with that extra bling!)

=) Congrats to Erin, Sara and of course Rhonda!! and an awesome YAY for Jane and Trumpy for his BISS!! Just love that little guy!