EAST IS EAST
The Eastern Counties Cavalier Society held a successful show at St Ives near Cambridge on 13th April with 238 Cavaliers in the catalogue for judges Sue Brooks and Michael Hegarty. Apart from enjoying the dogs there was more ways to spend a satisfying day.... Tombola, Raffle, Heart testing, trade stands, refreshments all day. Ming and Katherine Li and Team Pascavale were celebrating their 3 new Champions by supplying cake and bubbly for the masses. Sian Watts had another gorgeous cake for her 50th Birthday. All in all....even if you didnt win in the ring there were other ways to bring a smile. This was the first of 2 shows being hosted by the Eastern Club. They are organising another event on 7th July when it is their turn to host the Joint CKCS Championship show. More details are emerging and these will appear next week. Now for a flavour of the show last week.....
Doris Irvine (Shenlyn) aged 94 years enjoying the day with some old friends
Cesar Cortes
Ros Loades, June Hazeltine. Sheila Hunter, Melissa Evans
Pauline Roberts
Becky Jamarillo, Michelle Chapman, Becky Wileman, Ann Stocks
Anne Hedger and a friend!
Hilda Brewer looking after the Cardiologist
Ming Li ?? ??
?? ?? Sue Richmond
John Hall has an early lunch or late breakfast!
crowd scene
Sue and Jem Sutcliffe, Tina Homes
Norma and William from Singapore
Just good friends...Bill Moffat and Rick Aldous!
Happy 50th Sian (Watts) ...the cake was delicious!
3 new Champions, 2 smashing image cakes, X number of bottles of vino collapso =party time
Ming and Katherine Li with Michael Levy, Mark Sedgwick and Aum...happy to share their champion party
Ming, Melissa, Steve Watts, Melissa's mum, Sian, Louise Callaghan, Jill Allitt, Jem Sutcliffe
Brian Rix and Norma
Bill and his bevy of beauties...Chris Knight, Tina Homes, Michelle Chapman, Ann Stocks
Aum pops his cork...
lots of friends at party time...
Rob and Karen Bryant....Philip Lovel
Jeff Hindle
Pam in charge of the Tombola...
Lauren
Jill Allitt
serious business being a judge...Sue Brooks and Michael Hegarty
Tina Homes - Bitch CC/BIS
Norma - Dog CC/BOS
Tina is bowled over...
The BEST LINEUP
Debbie Coole - BP, Norma - BD, Sue Brooks (dog judge), Michael Hegarty (bitch judge) Tina - BB/BIS, Rob Sansom- BV/RBCC
LAMB CHOP
Lorraine Gilhespy (Lorphil) runs a weekly ringcraft training class near Durham that is attended by several Cavaliers and other Toy breeds. We had a surprise guest turn up last week. A baby lamb! 'Lucy' was so sweet and had no nerves amongst the humans and dogs. Only a few days old and already lead and almost house trained!
Lucy wants to play with Sally
HOW "ART" THOU?
The Railway....widely known as Gare Saint-Lazare. Painted in 1873 by Edouard Manet..
SIMON SAYS...
...it's my Birthday soon.'Simon' whose proper name is Salbrie Versace will be 15 years old on May 5th. He is thoroughly spoiled by his Mum, Mary Forrester (Salbrie) who will be making his Birthday very special.
Have fun, Simon
A TOAST TO RENO
From Colorado in USA. Pleased to share Carolyn Peterson's photo of Reno
who turned 14 on April 5th. His registered name is U-CD U-AGI Chadwick Shilling C-CD C-RAE CD RE OA AXJ NAP OJP CGC TDInc. Parents were
Sanickro Oh So Cool x CKCSC, USA CH Chadwick Silver Dollar. The
additional letters in front and behind his name are obedience, rally and
agility titles. He was a therapy dog for many years, but has retired
from the nursing home visits. He still gets around very
well.
Many Happy Returns, Reno
SWEET AS HONEY
Erinport Honey Hush (seen on right in photo) was 14 recently. She lives in Victoria in Australia with her owner/breeder Jenny Howden. Her sire was Erinport Reignmaker (by Aust Grand Ch Byermoor Rainman) ex Balinsloe Hello Dolly (by my Aust Ch Larkhill Headliner). Her mum
Heidi lived to almost 15, and comes from my own line of very long-lived
children, mostly bred from Homerbrent stock Rainman lived to be 15 also.....Cheers, Honey bun....A reminder that the Annual
General Meeting
of The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club will be held on
SUNDAY 26TH MAY at 1.30pm at the Yew Lodge Hotel, Packington Hill,
Kegworth, DE74 2DF. The AGM will be preceded by the following
presentations which we hope as many as possible will wish to
attend:
Arnold Jacques, President of the Belgian Toy and Cavalier Club, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Belgian Kennel Club and President of “Cavaliers for Life” and “Sustainable dog breeding and update on
the project Cavaliers for Life” Dr Paul Mandigers, DVM, PhD, Dip RNVA
(Internal Medicine), European Veterinary Specialist Neurology EBVS Dept of
Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Section Internal Medicine - Neurology
Utrecht University“Chiari and Syringomyelia in Toy dogs, latest
developments and projects”
The presentations will commence at 10.30
a.m. followed by questions and answers. A serving of Tea/Coffee will be
provided by the Club on arrival at
10.00 a.m.
A LITTLE BIT EXTRA
Rosemary Powell decided to go the extra mile, and as well as donating the Cavalier Chat Forum £20 for the oldest Cavalier at the West of England Cavalier Ch show, she made a splendid certificate (plus it's own envelope) beautifully hand scripted with a gold/copper metallic pen. The delighted recipients are Ruth and John Conneally (Coedgwylum) from Swansea and their almost 13 year old girl 'Beanie'. Ruth has been poorly but as soon as she feels better, will let Chatterbox have a photograph of their lovely Veteran.
NEW DNA TESTING SCHEMES FOR CAVALIER KING CHARLES SPANIELS
Following
consultation with the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel breed health coordinator, on
behalf of the breed clubs, the Kennel Club has approved new official DNA testing
schemes for Curly Coat-Dry Eye and Episodic Falling in the breed.
These
tests are offered by the Animal Health Trust (www.aht.org.uk) and Laboklin (www.laboklin.co.uk) and
further details can be obtained directly from them.
Copies of all future
test certificate results issued by the laboratories will be sent directly to the
Kennel Club, where the test result will be added to the dog’s registration
details, which will trigger the publication of the test result in the next
available Breed Records Supplement. The result will appear on any new
registration certificate issued for the dog and on the registration certificates
of any future progeny of the dog, and also on the Health Test Results Finder on
the Kennel Club website.
If the owner includes the original registration
certificate for the dog (not a copy) then a new registration certificate will be
issued, with the DNA result on it, free of charge. Please send any DNA test
certificates to Health & Breeder Services, The Kennel Club, 1 – 5 Clarges
Street, Piccadilly, London W1J 8AB or scan and email copies of the certificates to
As a theme
for the Eastern CKCS Society event in July, the club have commissioned a one-off piece of Cavalier art work.
The artwork will be a feature of the schedules, catalogue and prize cards for
the show. The original framed and mounted oil painting depicting Cavaliers of
all four colours, will be raffled on the day of the show. Tickets will be available at our Open
and Championship shows in 2013 and at other shows during the first 6 months of
the year......
more details in next week's CHATTERBOX....plus judging the breed in Iceland and lots of other stuff...
18th APRIL 2013