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October/November 2008
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Subject: Brain POWER!!!!!!!
Hello Jim,
We are relatively new to this industry and are doing
our best to do everything right. In regards to you
wanting to make the Kennel Spotlight a monthly
publication, there is no doubt that you could do this.
You may have to charge a subscription fee to readers
but I know most will pay what you want because it
is such a vital instrument to us. Hats off to you for
finding an absolute need in this industry!!!
As for NAPO, I do not know a lot about the
organization but this is my theory of where you may
envision it going. I am 26 years old and have spent
my entire adult life working to serve others. I am a
career firefighter in South Dakota and very proud
of what I have accomplished. I am not Republican
or Democratic but I am very, VERY pro-union.
Myself and almost every firefighter I work with
belongs to the local firefighter’s union. Our Local
Union belongs to the International Association of
Fire Fighters, IAFF. The Union is very important
to us in order to have a negotiation for fair working
practices with a City Council. Whether or not others
agree with unions, they need to realize that the local
breeder clubs are in a sense a union. NAPO could
potentially be our IAFF. The local breeder clubs
could potentially be the Local Unions. It would
take a lot but can you imagine if every local breeder
club and every breed club/organization joined
with NAPO. What if the Dakota Pet Breeders
Association, Minnesota Professional Pet Breeders
Association, etc, had a certain monetary amount
from dues that is collected to go to NAPO? In
addition, the Parent Clubs of all the breeds could
also join and pay a monetary amount from dues
collected. And let’s not forget about the Registry
organizations, pet food manufacturers, toy
manufacturers and magazines, etc. Yes, this is a 40
billion dollar industry but remember those clubs that
collect dues may not be added into this figure. If
we can only grasp a little bit of this money to help
ensure that this industry continues to grow. This
is how it works with the IAFF and Local Unions.
If we choose to join the Local, we pay a certain
amount for dues. Out of our dues, a certain amount
goes to the Local and a certain amount goes to the
IAFF. Not only are we persuing things locally, but
belonging to the IAFF we are getting a very strong
National Voice in D.C.
When the IAFF was first formed, not every
firefighter joined or organized a Local Union, and
today it is the same way. There are still new Locals
being formed under the IAFF and new members
joining the Local Unions everyday. As I said, it
would be an extreme undertaking to get everyone
on board but it can be done. This is, after all,
AMERICA!!! The land where it is only up to us to
blame ourselves for limiting our potential!!!!!
Maybe these things are already being done but I
believe in the vision and feel strongly that this
sort of “union” would be extremely beneficial to our
future and those who have a pet and do not realize
what is going on. I would be happy to help in any
way I can.
Please feel free to email me back with info regarding
NAPO and what the future of the organization and
industry is looking like.
Thanks,
Dan
Great Plains Kennels
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Dear Jim,
First, I love your magazine and read it cover to
cover multiple times. I am a small breeder (less
than 50 breeding dogs) in Northeast Missouri. My
husband and I are fairly new to the industry and
look forward to some of the up coming seminar
and conventions. My goal is to have a Blue Ribbon
Kennel by next year. My question is about insurance
for my kennel building and dogs. I recently called
my home insurance company and they told me not
only do they not cover dog breeders but also they
are canceling my liability. Help! Do you have any
advice?
Thank you,
Bev and Fred Christy
Dear Bev & Fred,
You might try Farm Bureau, their Ag max policy
covers dogs and buildings. It is a little expensive.
There is also Safeco Insurance through Brooke Ins.
Company in Kansas.
Thanks,
Jim
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Meet THE CLUMBER SPANIEL,
the ‘Gentleman’s Gun Dog’…
As you can see, they
are extremely playful
and get along well with
other dogs! pictured left
‘Tatonka & Punky’
The Clumber Spaniel, one of the heaviest varieties
of the Spaniel family, is also known as the
‘Gentleman’s Gun Dog’. Originally from Clumber
Park in Nottinghamshire, England, this handsome
and majestic looking spaniel is a true aristocrat
of long descent. In the 1800’s, the French Duc
de Noailles presented a kennel of spaniels to the
second Duke of Newcastle. It
has been said that the Duke
found these particular dogs to
be too fast to hunt with and
consequently, crossed them
with a heavier breed, which
may have possibly been the
St. Bernard, although that is
not a proven fact. It is also
a theory that they may have
origin to the Baron Cuvier’s
Alpine Spaniel-a dog indirectly
related to the St. Bernard. The
stocky, slow moving Clumbers very soon became
popular with the hunters for their keen nose and
remarkable powers of endurance. The first Clumber
Spaniel registered with the American Kennel Club
is recorded for 1878, six years before the actual
establishment of the AKC’s founding. Clumbers
were among the first breeds to be recorded in
Volume One of AKC’s Stud Book. In 2002, the
AKC registered a total of 188 Clumbers ranking the
breed as the 121st most popular breed. Although not
classified as a rare breed, they are quite hard to find,
but well worth the wait.
The Clumber is a very lovable and highly
intelligent breed and thrives on constant human
attention. Very much a family dog, they adore
children and all family members, and are protective
towards them. They love to carry things in their
mouth, often picking something off the floor
when greeting. They are also good mothers and as
puppies, they love to play ball and fetch. Due to
their extreme gentleness, they do not respond to
harsh criticism or physical abuse. If treated poorly,
the Clumber will simply ‘play dumb’ and some
people will consider this dog an unintelligent breed
which is most definitely not the case. When hunting,
the Clumber is a rather slow worker, moving with
a distinctive rolling gait that they can maintain at a
steady trot for a long day’s work if necessary. They
are particularly adaptable for use in heavy cover as
they will hunt mute and are able to come up very
close to the game. Anyone who has had a Clumber
Spaniel will stay with the breed,
even as uncommon as they are,
as there are not many breeds that
have the kind of devotion and
kindness to their owners.
By Kathy Bettes
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breed, contact the AKC at
www.akc.org/breeds/clumber_
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DOG CLONING??
BIOTECH COMPANY
AUCTIONS CHANCES TO CLONE A DOG
BioArts International, a California based genetic
research company, has started a dog cloning project aptly
named ‘Best Friends Again’. The company was issued
their patents in the 1990’s shortly after researchers in
Scotland cloned ‘Dolly’ the sheep. Scientists consider
dogs among the most difficult animals to clone because
they have unusual reproductive biology, more so
than humans. However, BioArts maintains that the
technology is ready and they have proceeded with a
string of online auctions to sell cloning rights for 5
dogs. They have arranged a partnership with Hwang
Woo Suk from the Sooam Biotech Research Foundation
in South Korea to aid in the dog-cloning work. Dr.
Hwang is known for his involvement with cloning a
male Afghan hound “Snuppy” in the year 2005 for the
Seoul National University. A team led by Dr. Hwang
was also reported in 2004 that it had made cloned human
embryos and stem cells but those claims were found to
be fraudulent. “I know the association with Dr. Hwang
is going to be controversial due to his mistakes on his
human-cell research but his dog-cloning work has been
independently verified,” stated Lou Hawthorne, the
chief executive of BioArts. Mr. Hawthorne had hoped
to clone a dog—a dog named Missy, who was ¾ Border
Collie and ¼ Siberian husky—since the 1990’s. He was
the chief executive for another company at the time that
concentrated on the cloning of cats for about $50,000
each. That particular company suffered some hardships
and ended up shutting down in 2006. His new company,
BioArts, began work last fall to clone Missy who had
died in 2002 at the age of 15. Hawthorne had taken
genetic samples from Missy in 1997 and had more taken
after she died. In December of ’07, the first clone ‘Mira’
was born from Missy. Two more clones from her, ChinGu and Sarang, were born in February this year. Tests
by the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at the University
of California, Davis, indicated that the three dogs were
clones, not just relatives.
Mr. Hawthorne stated that BioArts would not
spend the money they received from the auction until
they delivered a cloned dog that the customer would
sign off on and that the company would guarantee the
resemblance between the customer’s dog and the clone.
He also went on to say the company would guarantee
the dog’s health for a year and could have a preexamination by a veterinarian prior to delivery to the
new owners. The BioArts Company adds that cloning
techniques have become more efficient over the years.
“Twenty-five percent of embryo transfers now result in
a puppy, and the survival rate of the puppies is greater
than eighty percent,” states Hawthorne. “That’s within
the range of what conventional dog breeders expect.”The
online auction, called ‘Best Friends Again’ offered five
slots that the general public could bid on to have their
adored canine companion cloned. The first slot opened at
$100,000 and sold for $170,000. The other bids came in
anywhere from $140,000 to $180,000. Much controversy
has been stirred up over this project and while many pet
owners envision having a perfect replica of their best
four-footed friend, what they see is not always what they
get. Despite the cloned animals being nearly genetically
identical to the original, there is a chance of nonresemblance and more importantly, they will not have
the same personality and behavior. The strides made in
the field of biotechnology over the past 10 years may
be remarkable, but they have also raised questions and
issues, as the ethics of cloning attempts to keep up with
innovation. In Jan. ’08, the FDA approved the safety of
meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring
to consumers. The report concluded that “meat and milk
from cow, pig and goat clones and the offspring of any
animal clones are as safe as food we eat every day.”
Products from cloned farm animals are not yet sold in
stores, however. Dr. Robert Lanza, the chief scientific
officer of Advanced Cell Technology, has his own
opinion on the subject, “If anyone thinks they’re going
to get Fluffy back,” Dr. Lanza said, “they’re gravely
mistaken. A cloned dog is ‘likely to be a totally unknown
dog’, just as if you went to the pound and adopted
another unknown animal.” By Kathy Bettes
At the International Genetics Meeting;
An American reports:
“We crossed chickens with cows. The new breed
simultaneously produces milk, meat and eggs.”
A Frenchman reports:
“We succeeded in cross-breeding flies and bees. The hybrid
flies over the trash fields and produces honey.”
A Russian reports:
“And we crossed a melon with cockroaches. When you cut
this melon, seeds run away by themselves.”
“You’re a dog breeder!!!!! by John Yates
In today’s world, that is a very loaded statement. It’s
more like an accusation.
“I told the television news reporter that I breed
dogs,” a friend from Dallas told me recently. “He looked
at me like he thought I was a harlot.” Dog owners
have allowed the animal rights movement to redefine
our language in order to paint everything we do in the
worst possible light. If we say that we breed dogs, the
looks we get ask us if we own a “puppy mill” or if we
are a “backyard breeder.” If we reply that we are a
“hobby breeder,” someone immediately asks how we
can consider living creatures a hobby. Some of us try
the word “fancier.” We fool no one. The most pathetic
response to the question is when we call ourselves
“responsible breeders.” Responsible to whom? Who
defines “responsible” and “irresponsible?” Some
bureaucrat? A politician? Animal rights cretins who say
there is no such thing as a responsible breeder? Animal
rights fanatics would rather kill all animals than see
someone love them. In fact, that’s their plan.
If we say we are not breeders, it makes us
“pet hoarders.” We are tarred as mentally ill people
in need of psychotherapy. The entire language about
dog ownership has been hijacked by the rhetoric of the
animal rights movement. The worst part is that we have
allowed it to happen. We are too fearful and wimpy to
stand up for ourselves. We keep searching for inoffensive
euphemisms to describe what we do, so that we don’t
open ourselves up to attack. By doing that however,
we have engineered our own demise. The animal rights
movement will not go away. It’s agenda is to destroy our
right to own or raise animals. Animal rights groups have
declared war on all animal ownership, and they won’t
stop until they either win or we finally have the courage
to stand up and defeat them.
They have not taken that kind of power over us.
We have given it away. We have surrendered our beliefs
to the enemy. We apologize for what we do. We make
weak excuses for things like animal shelter euthanasia,
accidental matings, dog fighting and dangerous dogs. We
take at least part of the responsibility for these problems
onto our own shoulders, when in truth we have no
responsibility at all for creating them. None whatsoever!
I am sick and tired of watching dog owners constantly
apologize and grovel, and allowing themselves to be
put on the defensive. Enough! It’s time to stop sniveling
about who we are and what we do.
Let me state clearly and for the record: I am a
dog breeder. I breed dogs. I raise puppies. I like it. I’m
very proud of it. If you don’t like it, you are free to take
a flying leap. I don’t care what you think of me or what I
do. I raise two or three litters of English setter puppies a
year. I wish I could raise more puppies, but can’t figure
out how to do it without driving myself into bankruptcy.
My dogs work for a living, just like I do. They have to
be good at their jobs, just like I do. If they aren’t good at
their jobs, I don’t keep them and I certainly don’t breed
them. They are hunting dogs, and they have to be able to
perform to a very demanding standard of excellence to
be worthy of breeding. They have to meet the exacting
standard of championship- quality performance in the
toughest competition. They are professional athletes.
Most of them don’t make the cut. Those dogs make
wonderful hunting companions or family members. I
have never had a dog spayed or neutered, except for
medical reasons, and I don’t intend to start now. If a
dog is good enough for me to keep, it is good enough
to breed. Nor have I ever sold a puppy on a spay/neuter
contract. With performance dogs, it takes two or three
years to know what you have.
There is no way that anyone can know the full
potential or worthiness of a young puppy. I hope every
puppy that I sell will become a great one that is worthy
of being bred. I do not feel bad (and certainly do not feel
guilty) if someone decides to breed a dog from my kennel
that I did not choose to keep for myself when it was a
puppy. It still will be a very nice dog, and I have worked
very hard on my breeding program for 35 years to assure
that very high quality genetics will be passed along and
concentrated in any dog that I sell. On occasion, I have a
puppy that has a serious flaw. I don’t sell those puppies,
even though they would make many people very happy.
I give them away free to good homes, and the definition
of a good home is mine because it’s my puppy. I own it.
You don’t. My responsibility is to the puppy. It is not to
you, and it’s not to some gelatinous glob called “society.”
I consider myself to be personally responsible for every
puppy I raise, from birth until the day it dies. It always
has a home in my kennel, if its new owner can’t keep it
or no longer wants it. That’s a contract written in blood
between the puppy and me. It’s a contract written with a
handshake with the puppy’s new owner.
I laugh cynically when someone from the
Humane Society of the United States or People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals ask if I am a responsible
breeder. HSUS and PETA are two of the most vicious,
bloodthirsty and dishonest snake pits on Earth. Their
moral credibility is a negative number. PETA butchers
more than 90-percent of the animals it “rescues” every
year, and HSUS supports programs and policies that
result in the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of
animals every year. By now, I assume that I have pushed
all of the buttons of the animal rights crazies. I can hear
them snort and see their pincurls flapping in indignation.
story cont. on pg. 14
You’re a Breeder cont. from pg. 12
It makes my day. Can’t you hear them, too? They are
calling me an exploiter of animals. They are saying that
I ruthlessly cull and manipulate the genetics of my dogs.
They are saying that I make the exploited poor beasts
work for a living and live up to impossible standards.
They will say that I do this to feed and gratify my own fat
ego. They will say that I sell them for money and exploit
them for personal gain. Then, of course, they will say
that I use them to viciously hunt innocent wild animals.
Terrible, terrible me! My mother should have a son like
this! She was such a nice woman.
Well, I plead guilty to all of the charges. Know
what else? I don’t feel guilty, not even a little bit. I do it.
I like it. I feel good about it. Now I will speak in my own
defense – as a dog breeder.
I happen to love dogs. I love being around them.
I love working with them. I love watching a puppy grow
up and discover its potential. I love having the priviledge
of experiencing a truly great dog in its prime. I love
sharing supper with my dogs, wrestling with puppies, and
sacking out with them on the couch. I lose sleep when
they get sick, and work myself unmercifully to care for
them. I spend almost all of the money I have on them,
and some money that I don’t have. My heart breaks when
they grow old and die. I have a dozen lifetimes worth
of beautiful memories. What do the animal rights freaks
have? They have their ideology. They look in the mirror
and feel smug and self-righteous, as if God has personally
anointed them to protect animals from the likes of me.
What they have is nothing at all. Utter sterility. A world
devoid of life and love. They can keep it.
My life is filled with love and joy and beauty,
and I owe most of it to my dogs. They have helped to
keep me sane when sanity was not a given. They have
given me courage on the days when all I wanted to do
was lie down and quit. They have given me strength to
endure on the days when all I wanted to do is run away
and hide. I owe them my life. The animal rights folks are
right. I ruthlessly cull and manipulate genetics. To make
the cut, my breeding dogs have had to live up to the most
exacting possible standards and pass the most strenuous
tests. I am very proud of doing that. The result is that
the vast majority of people who buy a puppy from me,
love it. When I sell a puppy, chances are it has found a
home for the rest of its life. The puppy will have a great
chance of leading a wonderful life. I produce puppies that
make people happy to own them and want to keep them.
That’s my job as a breeder. I have done this through
rigorous selection. My puppies today are the result of 35
years of my stubborn insistence about never breeding a
dog that does not have a wonderful disposition, perfect
conformation, great intelligence, exceptional natural
ability, breathtaking style and that mysterious ingredient
called genius. Every puppy born in my kennel has six or
eight or 10 generations of my own dogs in its pedigree.
All of those ancestors possess a high level of each of
those desirable traits. I have raised, trained and grown
old with every dog listed in several generations of each
puppy’s pedigree. Simply put, my puppies today are a
lot nicer than my puppies of 35 years ago. Today, there
is a much higher percentage of good ones, a much lower
percentage of deficient ones, a much higher average of
good qualities, and a much higher percentage of true
greatness emerging from my kennel today.
That’s what it means to be a breeder.
Does that feed my ego? Yep. I like having my
ego stroked. Don’t you? If you don’t, you are in very
deep trouble as a human being. But I’ll tell you what else
it does. It makes for happier dogs. It makes for dogs that
lead better lives, find permanent families and homes,
and get to experience love in many forms. It also makes
for healthier dogs. Generation after generation of perfect
functional conformation means that the dogs are less
likely to get injured, wear out or develop arthritis. Many
generations of selection for vigor, toughness and good
health means that they are able to laugh at the extremes
of climate, weather and terrain. I also have virtually
eliminated genetic health problems from my strain of
dogs. For example, hip dysplasia is the most common
genetic problem in English setters, afflicting a reported
four-percent of the breed. In the past 20 years, I have had
only two questionable hip x-rays, which both would be
rated “fair” by the Orthopedic Foundation of America
(OFA). The last one was 10 years ago.
Yes, I am very proud of being a breeder. I
did that. I am proud, too, that I am producing dogs that
are so intelligent that it’s scary, so loyal that they can be
your complete partner in the field while also possessing
the extreme independence needed to do their job well,
so loving that you want them with you every second of
the day, so bold and brazen that nothing bothers them,
and just plain drop-dead gorgeous to boot. They make
me smile a lot. I think I make them smile, too. But, the
animal rights whackos say I am doing it for the money.
They accuse me of exploiting animals for profit. Yep.
Every chance I get. I am very happy when I am able to
sell a puppy for cold, hard cash. It makes me feel good.
It makes me feel good because it shows me that someone
appreciates the work I am doing. It makes me feel good
because I have earned it, and earned it honestly. My only
regret is that I have not made more money as a breeder.
With all of the sacrifices I have made and the hard work I
have done, I should be rolling in money. Alas, I am not.
It has been years since I actually made money on a litter
of puppies. Usually, I lose my shirt. For every puppy I
sell, there is another one that I keep to evaluate, and a
couple of other ones that I am keeping for two or three
years to evaluate for their worthiness to breed. Then there
are dogs that are in competition, and that costs bushels of
money, not to mention old dogs that are retired and have
a home here until they die of old age. Almost a third of
the dogs in my kennel are elderly and retired, and it takes
a lot of money to care for them. It takes money for dog
food, supplies, veterinary bills, kennel licenses, repairs,
vehicle use for training and field trials, advertising,
internet, phone bills, and four pairs of good boots a year.
It takes money. Lots of money. Bundles of money. Oh,
Lord, please help me to sell some more puppies!
Besides, what’s wrong with making money? It is
a rather fundamental American value. Making money is
something to be proud of, as long as it’s done honestly.
Even animal rights bozos have to eat. Someone has to
make money to stuff veggies down their gullets, and
organic veggies are rather pricey. Most working folks
can’t afford them. I also can’t help but notice that most
animal rights activists over the age of 30 drive pretty
fancy cars (we are talking about the Beamer set, folks),
live in rather fancy houses and dress very well indeed. I
can’t help but notice that many of the leaders of animal
rights groups have pretty cushy gigs, with high-end sixdigit salaries, fancy offices, and all the perks. I guess
they are saying that it’s ok for them to make money by
the truckload, even if making money turns dog breeders
into immoral greed bags. There is no one in America
who exploits dogs for as much money as the paid leaders
of animal rights groups. Their fat salaries depend on
having animal issues to exploit. If there were no animals
for them to exploit, they would have to get a real job.
It’s a rather perplexing dual standard, don’t you think?
Well, maybe it’s not perplexing after all. The only thing
perplexing about hypocrisy is that so many people can’t
see through it.
My next sin is making my dogs work for a
living. The animal rights people try to paint a picture
of whipping dogs beyond endurance, exploiting them,
creating misery and causing unhappiness. The poor,
downtrodden, huddled masses. You know the tune.
Only problem is, my dogs don’t agree. They love to
work. They love their jobs. The only time they are sad is
when it is not their turn to work. For my dogs, working
is sheer joy and passion! They love every second of it.
What animal rights groups live for is creating imaginary
victims. Helping victims makes some people feel better
about themselves and, of course, it helps them to part
with their money so that animal rights leaders can live
high on the hog. Oops. I mean high on the carrot. How
callous of me. I guess I’m just not a sensitive kind of
guy. Back to the exploited masses of bird dogs. Try an
experiment sometime. Read an animal rights essay, and
substitute the word “proletariat” for the word “animal.”
You will find that animal rights philosophy actually is
pure and straightforward Marxian doctrine. I guess my
dogs are not natural Marxists. They love their jobs. They
are excited about their jobs. Their jobs make them very
happy. Animal rights people can’t seem to grasp that
people can feel that way about their work, too. It’s how
I feel about the very hard work of being a dog breeder. It
makes me happy. Another way of putting it is that both
my dogs and my own example provide proof that life
is not pointless drudgery and exploitation. We provide
living proof that joy, beauty and personal fulfillment are
possible in life. I just don’t think of those qualities when
I think of the animal rights fanatics I have known. They
seem a rather sad and sorry lot to me. I’ll take my dogs’
company any day. Oh, but the icing on the cake is that I
use these poor exploited creatures to hunt innocent birds.
How terrible! Hunting, of course, is a subject of its own,
and I won’t attempt to cover it here.
Suffice it to say that opposition to hunting flies
in the face of a few million years of human evolution,
the entire balance of nature everywhere on Earth, and
common sense. I know one thing for certain. The fact
that we have healthy populations of most species of wild
birds and animals today is only because hunters have
cared enough to support strong conservation measures.
We have preserved millions of acres of habitat that is
vital to the survival of many species, saved more millions
of acres of wilderness from development, supported the
protection of endangered species everywhere, and put
our money where are mouths are. Animal rights groupies
do nothing but blow hot air, when they aren’t too busy
destroying the land and the animals that live on it to
create vast wastelands of industrialized monoculture.
I am proud to be a hunter, too. It’s time for every dog
owner and breeder to stand up proudly and be counted.
Each one of you has done far more to enhance the quality
of life of both people and dogs than all of the animal
rights activists put together. So stand up and shout it to
the rooftops! Stop crawling around on your bellies and
apologizing. Your dogs deserve better from you. You
will just have to get a little tougher if you want to live up
to your dogs. What you are doing is right. It’s just that
simple.
The American Sporting Dog Alliance represents owners,
breeders and professionals who work with breeds of dogs
that are used for hunting. We are a grassroots movement
working to protect the rights of dog owners, and to
assure that the traditional relationships between dogs
and humans maintains its rightful place in American
society and life. Please visit us on the web at http://www.
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When Vultures Rule - - A New
Day For The People by Carol Murphy
Those of you who have followed the “When Vultures
Rule” series (Kennel Spotlight, Feb ‘08 issue), may have
wondered what happened that no further entries were
posted. I have been helping victims – and myself to stay
afloat against the corrupt courts.
I am very happy to announce that the national
group to which I belong has uncovered some very
interesting law that should allow us all to win. However,
this is not a “shoe in”. In order for the paperwork to give
you remedy, you MUST learn the information that makes
this paperwork work. You MUST be able to defend your
filings in the courtroom. You MUST NOT deviate from
the prime argument of “No Jurisdiction”. You CANNOT
file any paperwork of any kind into the court once you
begin filing the series of paperwork that is listed on the
national group’s site or you will NEGATE what you are
filing and you CANNOT file it again!
The national group has made it extremely simple
for you to learn what you need to learn and the filing
documents are provided for you. Just pay attention to the
number of days you must give the Plaintiff to answer and
to the people you must file this paperwork with. The site
gives you every law mentioned in the paperwork. You
need only listen to the audio explanations and print off
the laws. Read the material until you understand it fully
and can reel it off if needed. Take the printed material
into the courtroom with you and read from it if necessary.
Make VERY SURE that you DO NOT bring up anything
about your Constitutional Rights or what the court did
to you. YOU MUST stick to the issue of jurisdiction
and you CANNOT deviate from it or you have placed
yourself under the jurisdiction of the Court forever, and
they have won.
The national group has a weekly telephone
conference for those who wish to learn about this
paperwork. Calls are at 9 p.m. EST on Friday and
Saturday nights. At that time, you may ask any questions
you have about the laws and the paperwork. To get
access to the site where the filings are located and where
the backup information is located, just send an email
(do not put anything inside the email), to: [email protected] site will send back an
email to you. Just click on the site it gives and when you
get there click on “Join”. Fill out three questions and you
are a member with access to the site. It’s free.
This paperwork can be used REGARDLESS of the
charges against you. Whether they are Civil or Criminal
is irrelevant. Whether it is a new case just being brought
or one that finished three or 10 years ago is not an issue.
You can still file the paperwork. You can still get justice
if you learn what you need to know and use it in court.
Cases across the country have been dismissed because
the courts DO NOT have jurisdiction. Here is the short
version of what is going on:
•In 1933, Congress relinquished state statutes to
international law.
•In 1945, International Organizations Immunities
Act relinquished all offices to the U.N.
Are you aware that anyone who is a member of the Bar
Association is a member of a Communist party??? They
are. Did you know that under Title 8 USC 1481 when
a judge takes an Oath of Office and Undertaking that
he gives up his citizenship? He does and he therefore
has no immunity to prosecution. Did you know that the
Courts are defined under FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure) Rule 4(j) as a FOREIGN STATE as defined
under 28 USC 1602-1611 FOREIGN SOVEREIGN
IMMUNITY ACT (FSIA)? They are.
The Court CANNOT bring in a living, breathing
person and have jurisdiction over them. The Court
may only bring in a CORPORATION. Hence, when
you are served with paperwork from the court, your
name is listed in ALL CAPS which denotes you are
a CORPORATION. The law says that if you do not
declare that you are a Non Corporate Entity, you are a
CORPORATION.
Now for the biggie: If you truly are a
CORPORATION, the Court MUST file with the U.S.
Department of State in Washington, D.C. and they
MUST then file any court actions with the Corporate
officer of YOUR CORPORATION. Since the Court has
never done this, they have no jurisdiction even if you
are a CORPORATION. Second, and more important to
living, breathing people such as us: The Court has no
jurisdiction to bring a living, breathing person before it.
The Court knows this. Because they failed to tell us they
had no jurisdiction, they have committed fraud. Plus,
living, breathing, Non Corporate Entities have immunity
from prosecution under the Eleventh Amendment which
says:
“The judicial power of the United States shall not
be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity,
commenced or prosecuted against one of the United
States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or
subjects of any foreign state.”
Now to go back for a moment. All Courts (except those
in Washington, D.C.) are FOREIGN STATES. Yes, that
includes U.S. District Courts (federal courts) and Circuit
Courts. So, moving along, the Coram Nobis which is
filed first into the Court tells the Court that it has made an
error in bringing into their Court a Non Corporate Entity,
American Citizen, Living, Breathing Person. It requires
the PLAINTIFF (i.e., the one bringing the charges against
you - - typically the Prosecutor’s Office) to PROVE that
the Court has jurisdiction. Please understand that the
Judge MAY NOT tell you he has jurisdiction. The Judge
DOES NOT establish jurisdiction. The Plaintiff (your
accuser) MUST establish jurisdiction of the Court and
they cannot do that because they never had jurisdiction
per the laws. Note that the Plaintiff (accuser) MAY NOT
tell you that the Court has jurisdiction. The Plaintiff
MUST provide WRITTEN proof of jurisdiction and
MUST file that WRITTEN PROOF into the CASE.
Jurisdiction may be challenged AT ANY TIME. So
if your case is already finished and you were found
guilty of something in the Court, you can still file the
paperwork and challenge jurisdiction.
When the Plaintiff fails to provide jurisdiction,
it means that the Judge in the case had NO
JURISDICTION and therefore any sentence or finding
of the Court is VOID. When a thing is VOID, it simply
means that it has NEVER EXISTED in the eyes of the
law. What you need to know when appearing in the Court
- a possible scenario:
Let’s assume that you have filed the Coram
Nobis and the Coram Non-Judice. The Court and
Plaintiff ignore your filings and send you a summons
that says you MUST appear in Court to be Araigned on
charges being brought against you. You MUST appear.
You must tell the Court that you are there on a “Special
Appearance” to address the Court’s lack of jurisdiction.
You explain that the Plaintiff has failed to answer your
demand for proof of jurisdiction. The Judge tells you
that he (the judge) was appointed to his judgeship by
the President of the United States and that gives him
jurisdiction. If your response is “DUH”, you have just
lost. You have just given the Court jurisdiction and you
CANNOT refile your documents to get back the demand
for jurisdiction.
What you should say to the above. “I’m sorry
your honor, but you CANNOT give yourself jurisdiction.
No matter who appointed you, they did not give you
jurisdiction they simply gave you a building to work
in. Plaintiff is the only one who can provide jurisdiction
to the Court and Plaintiff has failed to provide it. The
Court therefore has no jurisdiction to require me to
plead. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, once
jurisdiction is challenged, nothing may proceed until
jurisdiction is established.” (Look at the Coram Non
Judice ADDENDUM listed on the above mentioned web
site and print off the Jurisdiction section which contains
tons of cases that uphold that nothing goes forward until
AFTER jurisdiction is established.) Start reading the
cases from the ADDENDUM into the Court record.
VERBAL jurisdiction does not cut it. The Plaintiff
MUST provide WRITTEN jurisdiction and file it into the
case.
Now, what if the Judge persists and tells you
that you MUST plead guilty or not guilty? You again
quote that the Plaintiff has not provided the Court with
jurisdiction and in the absence of jurisdiction nothing
can proceed. Let’s assume that the Judge now tells
you that he is entering a plea FOR YOU and that he is
entering Not Guilty. You MUST stop him. You can
say something like: “Excuse me, your Honor but for the
Record I have not made any pleading because this Court
has no jurisdiction. Your Honor may NOT enter a plea
for me as that indicates that you are my Counsel which
is not the case. Is your Honor practicing law from the
bench because Title 28 USC 454 says that a Judge cannot
practice law from the bench or he is guilty of a “high
misdemeanor”.”
In other words, you MUST know the laws that back up
what you have filed. So if you wish to extricate yourself
from a Court that has no jurisdiction over you, you must
know some law and you can learn what you need to know
on the site mentioned above.
Good luck to us all.
By Carol Murphy of the “American Chronicle”, New Sharon, Maine
From a New Puppy owner.......
Don’t smell crotches, don’t eat plants,
Don’t steal food or underpants.
Don’t eat my socks; don’t grab my hair,,,
DON’T RIP THE STUFFING FROM THAT
CHAIR!!
Don’t eat those peas, don’t touch that bush,
Don’t chew my shoes, what IS this mush!?!
Eat your cookies, drink your drink,
Outta the toilet! Outta the sink!
AWAY FROM THE LITTER BOX, IT’S FOR THE
CAT!
(and must you kiss me after that!?!)
Raising a puppy is not for the lazy,
Those rugrats are funny, but also quite crazy.
Don’t despair through the toil and the strife.
“Cause after three years you’ll get back your life!
So lets go for walkies, so you can do your “thing”
And maybe I’ll get back my diamond ring!
-Author unknown
Giardia
by
Bill Oxford, DVM
The Hunte Corporation
Background: Giardia is a protozoan parasite commonly
found in the intestinal tract of most mammals around
the world. While the parasite is prevalent in dogs
and cats, the incidence of clinical disease is rare,
usually occurring only in stressed, very young, and
immunosuppressed animals. Most infections are
acquired from contaminated water sources such as
unfiltered municipal water, streams, or lakes where
Giardia cysts can survive for weeks. The trophozoite
form can also be infective along with the cysts in a direct
fecal-oral route by ingestion of freshly contaminated
water, food, or any other freshly contaminated object.
The time between infection and clinical signs is 5-12
days.
The clinical sign associated with Giardiasis is
malodorous, pale, steatorrheic diarrhea. Some
weight loss associated with the diarrhea can
occur; however, Giardia in itself does not produce
vomiting or fever.
Zoonotic potential: It was long thought that the
Giardia species that infected dogs was also infective
for people largely because under the microscope
they look the same. However with the application of
molecular methods (e.g. PCR) it has been shown that
there are many different genotypes or assemblage
groups and direct transmission from one host species
to another is very rare. Cross species transmission
is usually only found involving individuals with a
recognized immunodeficiency disease.
Diagnosis: Diagnosis is made by finding cysts
or trophozoites in the feces. The direct smear
or zinc sulfate concentration tests are the
preferred methods to make a definitive
diagnosis. Commonly used commercially available
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
kits have been found to be less reliable and to
have a slightly relative specificity, versus the zinc
sulfate concentration test, when used to test dogs.
In addition, the ELISA test is more technically
demanding and more expensive.
Treatment: Since none of the above diagnostic
methods can differentiate between the presence of
a genotype capable of causing clinical disease and
one of the many others that may be present but not
causing disease, it is not recommended to treat an
asymptomatic individual solely on the basis of a
positive test. Common treatments are Metronidazole
at 15 mg/kg daily for 5-7 days, or fenbendazole for
three consecutive days at a dose rate of 50 mg/kg.
The use of fenbendazole not only helps prevent
giardia but also helps prevent other intestinal
parasites as well. Both of these drugs can have
side effects which should be discussed with you
veterinarian before use.
Containing the spread of any infectious condition
needs to always be a top priority in the kennel
environment. Special care and strict attention
to sanitation by all people handling the puppies
(employees as well as customers), and an effective
sanitation program for your kennel environment will
help to insure that if a single incidence of clinical
Giardia does occur, it will not become a kennelwide problem.
Dr. Bill Oxford is Director of Veterinary Services at the
Hunte Corporation and can be reached at (800)829-4155.
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Humane Society of the United States?
An Editorial by Alice Fix
You
will not often see negative articles in our
newsletters, but every now and again we are forced to
make a stand, and to speak out about what we know
is for the better good for all involved. This is one such
instance. We can no longer stand back and watch
to see what will happen. I think that it is past time
to publicly expose the real agenda of the Humane
Society of the United States (HSUS) and their
cohorts in crime, People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA), and the animal rights agenda. For
many years we have all enjoyed the companionship
of our dogs and other animals. We have been busy
playing with them, taking care of them, finding fun
things that we could do with them, and generally just
having a great time with all the animals that live in our
houses. While we have been enjoying the love and
fun that our animals provide to us, there have been
groups out there organizing on a grand scale trying to
get our rights to own those animals taken away. Yes,
that is exactly what I meant. Make no mistake about
it. These people have organized on a large scale to
infiltrate many major city councils and governments in
the country to spread their propaganda. Their agenda
is easily defined and simple. Their main objective is
to take away your right to own animals. They do not
want you to have the companionship of any animal,
whether that is a dog, cat, horse, mouse, frog, fish
or any other animal that you can think of. They are
pooling their resources to get this accomplished,
and have millions of dollars in their war chest for this
effort.
This is a statement made by Ingrid Newkirk, the
President of PETA: “I don’t use the word ‘pet.’ I think
it’s speciesist language. I prefer ‘companion animal.’
For one thing, we would no longer allow  breeding.
People could not create different breeds. There would
be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in
their homes, those animals would have to be refugees
from the animal shelters and the streets. You would
have a protective relationship with them just as you
would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of
cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries
of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion
animals would be phased out, and we would return
to a more symbiotic relationship – enjoyment at a 
distance.” — The Harper’s Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed.,
1989, p.223. It is interesting that Ms. Newkirk used
the word “speciesist”. Allwords.com defines that
word as follows: • The discrimination against, and
exploitation of, animals by humans in the belief that
humans are superior to all other species of animals
and can therefore justify putting them to their own
use.
One of the animal rights mantras is that all animals
are created to be equal to all humans, and should
have the same rights as humans. Just in case it still
isn’t clear to you what their agenda is, here are a few more
quotes from Ingrid Newkirk:
“One day, we would like an end to pet shops and
the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their
natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives,
not wasting at home for someone to come home
in the evening and pet them and then sit there and
watch TV.” — The Chicago Daily Herald, 3/1/90
“In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this
whole notion of pets altogether.” — Newsday, 2/21/88
Who is Ingrid Newkirk, and why should we care what
she has to say about anything? In the 1970s, Newkirk
worked for Montgomery County (Maryland), and then
for the District of Columbia, as an animal protection
officer and deputy sheriff, before becoming DC’s first
female Poundmaster in 1978. She co-founded PETA
in 1980 with established animal-rights activist Alex
Pacheco. (1) PETA stands for People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals, but in my opinion, there is
nothing ethical in what they do.
Ms. Newkirk has very close ties with several
groups identified by the FBI as known terrorists
groups, such as Animal Liberation Front (ALF). The
animal rights groups are very well organized, and
when you check closely, you will see many of the same
names sitting on the boards of these radical groups.
They are intertwined and closely linked through their
finances, and the work that they do. PETA operates
on an annual budget of $ 29,000,000. Most of this is
from donations made by ordinary citizens that don’t
know the real work of PETA. Many people think that
they are out to save the lives of animals after seeing
all of their ads on TV and in the newspapers. That is
why millions are donated to them each year.
In Virginia, the home state of PETA, in 2004,
PETA adopted out 361 animals, and euthanized
2,278, according to their records. (2) Those figures
aren’t good. That means that they euthanized 86.3%
of their animals and only adopted out 13.7%. These
figures come directly from PETA’s Annual Report
and from their 2004 Tax Return. It doesn’t seem like
they used that $29 million for the betterment of the
majority of the animals that they came in contact
with. So where is the money going? It is being spent
for publicity to raise more money for one thing. It is
also being used for legislative purposes. They have
placed key people in city governments all over the
country to try to influence legislation to take your pet
ownership rights away. And they are having a lot of
success with it.
You need to understand the basic difference between
the “animal welfare” groups and “animal rights”
groups. Although the names might sound like they
have the same objectives, there is a big difference.
Animal welfare groups are working to see that all
animals are treated humanely. Animal rights groups
are working to see that all ownership of animals
comes to an end.
As I said, PETA has close ties with many
other organizations. One of those organizations is
the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).
People donate millions to the HSUS each year,
thinking that their money is going to save the lives of
millions of animals. Nothing could be further from the
truth. The HSUS does not own a single animal shelter
anywhere in the country. Although many shelters have
the words Humane Society in their names, they are
not associated in any way with the HSUS. The HSUS
does not sponsor any spay or neuter clinic anywhere
in the country. They do donate a very small percent
of the annual budget to a few local humane societies,
around $2 million annually, which just happens to be
less than the amount that they spend in travel each
year. Their major money is sent on fund raising and
legislative activity. In 2005 they spent $28 million for
public mailings, $6 million in vegan education, $10
million in legislative campaigns and litigation. Their
income for that year was close to $125 million.
The HSUS was founded in 1954 as an animal
welfare organization. But in the early 1980’s, just
about the same time as PETA was founded, they
began to change to an animal rights organization. In
the 1990’s the personnel began to change to better
fit with their new purpose, and today many of the
personnel at HSUS have ties to PETA, including the
current President, Wayne Pacelle.
This is an interesting quote from Wayne
Pacelle: “We have no ethical obligation to preserve
the different breeds of livestock produced through
selective breeding ...One generation and out. We have
no problems with the extinction of domestic animals.
They are creations of human selective breeding.” Animal People News (May 1, 1993) (3) When you
combine other statements that he has made, with
the above statement, in my opinion the meaning of
this statement is that if we could spay and neuter all
animals, we could eliminate pet ownership within one
generation. “One generation and out” would mean to
me that they are gone and are eliminated in only one
generation.
Quietly sitting back and maybe not being
aware, we are now allowing the HSUS to make
presentations at our local schools, with the definite
purpose to educate our children about how bad pet
ownership is, to indoctrinate children to the thought
that animals should be free and not kept as pets.
They are doing this in the same way that they have
infiltrated city councils and local governments all
across the country, quietly and matter-of-factly.
“Shortly after taking office, Pacelle announced a
merger with the Fund For Animals which have assets
of over $20 million, and the Doris Day Animal League.
The combined group estimated its 2005 budget at
“over $95 million” and also announced the formation
of a new “political organization,” which will “allow for a
more substantial investment of resources in political
and lobbying activities.” (4)
So that is where we find ourselves today.
With the HSUS and PETA combined annual budgets
of over $124 million for political and lobbying efforts to
take away our rights to own animals. And that figure
does not include the many splinter organizations that
have been formed from these two major organizations.
We are in an uphill battle now, and it will be the fight
of our lives to keep our rights to own pets.
They are going at it from many different angles.
One way is to get Breed Specific Legislation (BSL)
passed. The banning of Pit-Bulls all over the country
is a good example. That has caught on like wildfires.
The animal rights groups have said if they can just
get one breed banned, then it will be easy to add
others to it at a later date, until eventually all breeds
are banned. Another way that they are going about it
is to have a mandatory spay and neuter law in place.
Just think about it, if all domestic animals are spayed
and neutered, when they die, there will be no more
domestic animals. Those same words have been said
by Wayne Pacelle, the President of the HSUS. They
have a very well thought out and planned agenda, and
they are counting on the ignorance of the American
people to get their agenda accomplished. Well guess
what? Ignorance can be overcome by education. The
American people may be ignorant about the facts, but
they are not stupid. They can be educated. We were
ignorant before 9-11, and look what effect that had. It
caused all Americans to become educated and unite
and fight to prevent that from happening again. The
difference here is that we are being attacked from
within our own country. We are under strong attack
by the animal rights groups, and I hope that we don’t
just stand by and allow it to happen.
The animal rights groups are publicly stating
that we need to get laws passed so that they can close
down all the puppy mills and commercial breeding
facilities that have their animals living in inhumane
conditions. Just about everyone would agree with the
idea that animals should be treated humanely. But
that is just the vehicle that they are using to try to
do away with all animal ownership, period. And that
is not a statement that they are being all that public
about.
You can become active in this fight by telling
your friends and neighbors what is going on. You
can be an instrument of education. You can also
fight this kind of legislation when it is presented
in your area. Go to the City Council meetings and
make your voice heard. Write letters to the state and
federal government officials to offer your services to
be on any animal related committee. In short get the
story cont. on pg 26
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word out to any and all of your friends that own pets.
Let them know what is going on. If enough people
stop funding the animal rights organizations, we can
put them out of business. There is not much that
they can do without operating funds. The next time
you think about making a donation to any of these
organizations, you had better think long and hard
about whether you really want your money being
spent to take away your rights:
PETA
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
FARM SANCTUARY
FUND FOR ANIMALS
DORIS DAY ANIMAL LEAGUE
EARTH SAVE
GREEN PEACE
PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE
MEDICINE
ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT (ALF)
FRIENDS OF ANIMALS
IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS
Right now the HSUS has started their “First Strike
Campaign”. I find that an interesting choice of names.
At visualthesaurus.com they define first strike as
follows:
First strike:  An attack that is intended to seize
or inflict damage on or destroy an objective.
Most people think that attack is on inhumane
treatment of animals. They still don’t know it is an
attack to take your animals away from you. Last year
over 10 million people donated money to the HSUS
because of their massive spending on advertising.
Most of those 10 million people had no idea what
their money was actually going to support.
Better places to donate your money that will
fight for your rights to own animals are listed below.
These groups are working hard to protect your right
to own animals, and to expose the true agenda to
much of the animal legislation going on all over the
country:
- Purina: St Louis (Jan 2005), “Six out of 10 pets in the United
States were overweight, according to a recent Purina study,
yet almost half of their owners thought their overweight pets
were in ideal shape.” Examinations also revealed that 12% of
the overweight dogs and cats in the study suffer from weightrelated health conditions like osteoarthritis.
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‘Yes-I own dogs who live in a kennel and I am a
breeder’.
The Power of Language.... by Elizabeth Brinkley
What’s in a word? A lot of power for good or bad.
When did being a breeder become a “bad” thing?
When I first got into Shelties, my mentors proudly
had a sign out front proclaiming _______ Kennels.
They knew they sold (yes I said SOLD - not placed or
adopted) quality show dogs and healthy pets. They
were proud of their dogs and their hobby. I was so
looking forward to the day when I could have a couple
of acres out in the country and do the same. Now I feel
cheated. I have a sign out front - in very small letters
it says my kennel name but ONLY the name not the
word “kennel”. There’s another sign nearby. It says
“Posted - No trespassing” . Guess that’s a sign of the
times.
Friends tell me they don’t have a “kennel”.
Their dogs are kept in “dog rooms” not kennel rooms.
Others say “ALL my dogs are house dogs”. When did
keeping dogs in a kennel become a bad thing? When
did keeping multiple dogs become bad? Several of our
founders made a substantial part of their income from
the sale of pet puppies. Now people hide their numbers and won’t even tell other breeders exactly how
many dogs they have. Others say “I only breed for
myself”. When did it become a hateful thing to breed
a pet or two? Or even (horrors - gasp) make a profit
from puppy sales? I know I am always proud when
I sell a puppy to someone who will show it but that’s
not because I am ashamed that I may have produced
a “pet quality” puppy but because I am proud that
my pups are going to a home where they will be active
mentally and physically in breed and performance
rings. I am proud that someone who shows would
want a puppy I produced. I am equally pleased and
proud when I place a healthy pet with someone who
will cherish and spoil it for a lifetime.
In the last twenty years, there has been a
gradual mind change in our country. Part of it is
simply that we are becoming a more urban/suburban
country and far less rural. People don’t grow up on
farms working with animals on a daily basis. Pets
have become the replacement for children for many
upwardly mobile people who spoil them and treat
them as “furkids” and “furbabies”. I cringe every
time I hear those words - especially from a breeder.
The pet industry is a multimillion dollar money
machine with clothes, and soft crates and designer
treats for pampered pooches. Celebrities use them as
accessories. And the fact that they are ANIMALS is
forgotten. No wonder people raise such a fuss when a
dog “bites” someone. An animal did what animals do
and most likely some where a human made a mistake
with that animal either the owner in training it or the
person who approached it. When I was a child it was
drilled into us - NEVER approach a strange animal.
Wonder how many kids get any training in that
today? If you want to know the true facts on the “dog
bite” epidemic in our country read “Dogs Bite But
Balloons and Slippers Are More Dangerous” by Janis
Bradley. You are more likely to get hit by lightening
or slip and fall in a bathtub than you are to be killed
by a dog attack. But people have forgotten they are
animals. They think of their dogs as their “fur child”
and they feel a sense of betrayal and rejection when
they get bitten by their dog or it bites someone else.
The other part of this equation is far more
insidious. The animal rights cult has grown and
spread and is fast becoming part of our mainstream
thinking. With them comes the use of words such as
“puppymill”. Every time I hear some breeder pointing
at another breeder and calling them a puppymill I
want to smack heads and take numbers. I don’t feel
a need to go into depth on this issue since Charlotte
Clem McGowan has done a fabulous job covering the
subject in her recent article. I will simply say that in
thirty four years in this breed, I have NEVER gone to
visit a so-called “puppymill” breeder in Shelties that
actually turned out to be a “puppymill”. Sometimes
they had more dogs than some people approved of
and sometimes they didn’t “keep” their dogs the way
others think they should, but never have they turned
out to be “puppymills” such as the AR groups love to
show on TV with the filthy wire cages and sad-eyed
dogs wallowing in their own filth. In fact two breeders
that someone called a “puppymill” have ended up
being among my best friends. Jealousy was the reason
for those accusations. I have visited horrible breeding
situations with rescue but never was it someone who
was actually a Sheltie show breeder. Maybe I have
just been lucky - or maybe it’s not as common a
situation as the AR groups would have us believe.
The Humane Society of the United States
has just announced to the media that there are
900 puppymills in the state of Virginia, many of
them “unlicensed commercial kennels” and selling
puppies through the Internet. You couldn’t hide
900 unlicensed puppymills in the entire state of
Virginia. Most likely some of those “unlicensed and
selling through Internet” breeders they are referring
to are US - show breeders who keep our numbers
down so we don’t have to be licensed as commercial
and have fancy websites to show off our dogs. The
Cont. on pg. 32
Brucellosis
Don’t Let It Destroy Your Kennel!
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Dr. Rick Kesler, DVM has
been addressing professional
dog breeders throughout
the Midwest on a variety of
kennel health management
topics. This article features
information about Brucellosis.
Dr. Rick Kesler, DVM is
a 1985 graduate of Iowa
State University School
of Veterinary Medicine. A
member of the American
Veterinary Medical
Association and is licensed
to practice in thirteen states.
Dr. Kesler’s career has
included small animal and
equine medicine and surgery
both in private practice
and as an emergency room
veterinarian. Currently, Dr.
Kesler is employed as the staff
veterinarian for Lambert Vet
Supply. Dr. Kesler is available
to speak at professional
breeder seminars. Contact Dr.
Rick Kesler, DVM at
drkesler@lambertvetsupply.
com.
anine Brucellosis is
disease caused by
a bacteria, Brucella
canis. It is the major
clinical cause of
abortions, stillbirths and male
reproductive
problems
in
kennels.
As we speak, there is an
ongoing outbreak in one upperMidwestern state and is the
cause for much concern among
kennel owners.
Brucellosis
usually ends the reproductive
career of the affected dog and
in some cases, destroys entire
kennels. It is also probable for
kennel operators to become
infected, thus, proper handling
of infected dogs and treatment
of the environment are key
issues, as well.
Brucellosis in adult dogs can
be present with a wide variety of
clinical signs that may confuse
the diagnosis. Brucella can be
transmitted one of three ways;
spread through contact with
aborted fetuses and discharges
from the uterus of infected
bitches via broken skin, into
the uterus through the semen
of the male during mating, or
through ingestion of maternal
milk. It is also found in urine,
feces, saliva and tears.
Dogs
can
become
chronically infected and may
serve as a source of infection
for years. Brucella canis in
the female dog will live in the
vaginal and uterine tissue
and secretions for years and
except in rare cases, for life.
The infected female usually
appears healthy with no signs
of disease or indication that she
is a “carrier” of the organisms.
In female dogs, infection leads
to abortion or early death of
infected puppies. Abortion
commonly occurs during days
49 through 63 of gestation.
Usually the fetuses are partially
decayed and accompanied by a
gray to green vaginal discharge
which may persist up to 6
weeks. Early embryonic deaths
that occur can be mistaken for
decreased fertility or failure
to conceive. Some pups may
be born alive but soon die.
Other pups may survive only
to become infected at a later
date. In male dogs, infection
of the testicles can lead to
infertility due to anti-sperm
antibodies developed as the
body attempts to fight off the
bacterial infection.
Blood tests are used for a
presumptive diagnosis. There
are multiple tests found on the
market and through veterinary
labs as well. As a preventative
measure, all new breeding stock
should have two negative tests,
spaced 30 days apart before
entry into a kennel. Blood tests
can have false positives if other
gram negative organisms such
as kennel cough bacteria are
present. A definitive diagnosis
is made if Brucella is cultured
from the blood.
Treatment of affected dogs
is controversial, especially in
a kennel situation. Long term
antibiotic therapy is necessary
and does not guarantee
success. Euthanasia has been
an option if the expense of
treatment cannot be met or the
risk to other dogs is too great.
There is no available vaccine so
prevention is a must.
Brucella can remain in
the environment anywhere
from a few short months up
to a year. It can even survive
for months on contaminated
clothing
and
syringes,
proving hygiene is essential.
Survival of the organism
increases with a combination
of low temperatures, high
humidity and little sunlight.
Disinfectants,
such
as
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organism, but you must
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disinfecting.
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Hello to all of my Kennel Spotlight friends, known and
unknown! This finds me at my desk of Raber Kennels &
Supplies. This article will be about my kennel and dog
breeding business. I am not a very good writer so bear
with me!
My wife and I have been blessed with 8 children; Sarah
18, Lena 17, Ivan 14, Ruby 12, Lovina 11, Norman 8,
David 4 and Milan who is 3. They are all involved in our
kennel business except for Sarah, who is a school teacher
in our one room Amish school. I
started out with a Sawmill business
when I was 21 at a local lumber
company, and after 8 years of sawing,
getting married and having a family,
it was time to start a business at
home. We sold that sawmill business
and started doing small furniture
building at home. In just a short time,
we got pretty busy and had to hire
our neighbor, Freeman Raber, to help
out in the winter months. Freeman had
been a long time dog breeder and after we started talking
about the dog business, I decided that was what I wanted
to do as well. All the dogs we ever had we called ‘sooner
dogs’ (they would ‘sooner’ eat then anything else! Ha!
Ha!) So now it was time for one that we could raise a few
puppies to sell. We looked in the local paper and found
a UKC Toy Fox Terrier for a $100.00. We thought that
was too much for a little black and white puppy, but this
little pup soon grew up and payed for itself over and
over.
We built our first kennel building, a 10’x20’ with a
whelping/run combination and bought a Miniature
Schnauzer breed sell out to fill it. We then purchased
some Golden Retrievers and added 2 more 10’x14’
kennel buildings to house them. Since that time, we now
have Dachshunds, Shih Tzu’s, Cavaliers, Papillons, Min
Pins and teacup Chihuahuas and have built a 20’x32’
whelping and weaning building to help house them.
With having the ‘teacup’ Chihuahuas, we knew we had
to have a vet close by so we enlisted the services of Dr.
Teresa Hoxworth of the East Holmes Veterinary Clinic.
Dr. Hoxworth is an excellent specialist when it comes to
c-sections and any of our medical emergencies. Between
her and my neighbor, Freeman Raber, we have learned a
lot.
Our puppies are fed Royal Canin Puppy and are on a
strict vaccination program which starts with the Kennel
Cough vaccine at 3 weeks, NeoPar at 4 & 6 weeks and
finally a 5-way vaccine at 7 weeks right before we sell
them at 8 weeks of age. All of our puppies are dewormed
with Pyrantel starting at 2 weeks of age and every 2
weeks after that. We sell our puppies at 8 weeks of age
to a few select brokers. One of our top buyers is Julia
Martin from S. Carolina who drives 840 miles one way
to pick them up. She sells several puppies a year and is
a true dog lover! Our kennel is USDA licensed and we
are also a member of the Ohio Professional Dog Breeder
Association. We encourage all breeders to join your
local clubs and state organizations. As the saying goes,
“United we Stand, Divided we Fall.” Our association has
been a big help in standing up for our rights to raise dogs
responsibly.
About 6 years ago, we started building dog kennels for
other breeders. We built our first kennel without even an
actual order placed! We advertised in
our local paper, the Bargain Hunter,
and had it sold the very first week. It
didn’t take long before we had orders
for several more and at one time, we
put out one building a week. With
the help of our neighbor, Freeman,
we have sold over 150 kennels
nationwide. Soon after the buildings
took off, we started a supply store
featuring a full line of kennel
supplies. We stock a full line of pvc coated wire and have
a mail order catalog. My son, Ivan and my father, John,
help us build all kinds of cages to sell in the store as well.
With having the store, we get to see a lot of breeders and
have made a lot of good friends. It is a good learning
experience too!
In July of this year, we had what we call a ‘kennel walk’
for the local breeders. We had about 85 people show up
and gave a 10% discount on products in our store at that
time. Breeders came from all over to look at our dogs and
the kennels. We had everyone wear disposable booties
when going through our dog kennels. Michael Glass from
APRI helped to sponsor the refreshments and we served
pie, ice cream and cookies to everyone. Our veterinarian,
Dr. Teresa Hoxworth was also there to answer any
questions the breeders had. There was lots of discussion
about experiences in the various kennels and what works
best in each of our breeding programs. We gave door
prizes and had a very exciting night!
In closing, we would like to thank God for His
unconditional Love and YOU, the breeders, for your
support in helping make us a successful business. Lets
all be united and help each other be successful in raising
puppies.
Thank You and God Bless you richly and stop by and see
us sometime!!
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animal rights fanatics consider ANYONE who breeds
even ONE litter to be a puppymill. Their motto is
“don’t breed while others die” meaning the dogs put
down in shelters. You can read Nathan Winograd’s
excellent new book “Redemption, The Myth of Pet
Overpopulation” for a commonsense approach to this
“problem” that the shelters and AR groups are using
as a weapon to attack breeders.
Other word changes brought into common
usage by the AR groups is that of “rescue” and “adoption” and “placement” and homevisits. It has become
harder to take in a stray than to adopt a human child.
I wonder how many people have gotten turned off by
some of the attitudes found in the more radical “rescue” groups and gone away when they would have
been an excellent home for an animal but didn’t feel
like being subjected to an inspection process that requires a life history before they can have a pet. I was
refused an “adoption” on a cat a few years ago. The
reason - I had intact dogs! What did they think - the
dogs are going to breed the cat? Or I am a bad person
because I have intact dogs that I show? This goes hand in hand with the move among the AR
groups to change the language of the law from animal
“owners” to animal “guardians”. I am sure a lawyer
could address this in far better detail than I but I do
know that the word “guardian” has well established
limits and definitions under current law. Do you really want some AR slanted animal control officer able
to come into your home at anytime without a warrant
and tell you that you can’t remove dewclaws or write
you a ticket because your dogs don’t have water bowls
in their crates 24/7? That could be our future if we
become the “guardians” of our dogs instead of proud
owners.
There comes a point where we have to start
drawing lines in the sand and refusing to give in to the
politically correct language that has infiltrated society
from the far out AR groups who really don’t seem
to like animals all that much. Mostly they just seem
to hate people. To Ingrid Newkirk of PeTA “A rat is
a pig is a boy.” To me “a dog is a dog is an animal”.
I am proud to say that I am a breeder of purebred
Shetland Sheepdogs. Shakespeare said “that which we
call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet.”
And dog poopis still just as stinky.
I own dogs who live in a kennel and I am a breeder.
And that’s my final word.
Elizabeth Brinkley, Legislative Liason
Three Rivers SSC of Greater Pittsburgh
A Lobbyist is the fellow you Hire to protect
you from the fellow you Elect!
A
n old man lived with his hound-dog, Mace, in
a run-down shack on the outskirts of town. He
had no family and only a few meager possessions:
a table and chair, a bed, a bag of hand tools and
his dog. He used the tools to do odd jobs in town,
for which he usually would be paid enough to
get food for the next day. Mace and his master
lived from one day to the next on what little
these jobs would bring in. The dog was just a
normal hound, with one exception: while most
dogs like to chew on grass occasionally, Mace
loved it. When the old man was in town, Mace
would spend the day in the yard in front of the
house, chewing away on the lawn. One bright,
sunny day the old man
said goodbye to his dog
and headed in to town to
work. He had a plumbing
repair job in one of the
homes there that would
take him most of the day
and would probably pay
enough for food for the
remainder of the week,
if he managed the money
carefully. He headed for
town with a spring in his
step and a whistle on his
lips.
Inside the house
and ready to start, the old
man reached in the bag for his wrench. To his
surprise he didn’t feel it. He dug around again,
but there didn’t seem to be any wrench. He
looked in the bag, then dumped its contents
on the floor, but still no wrench. Reality set in.
Without a wrench, he couldn’t finish the job,
and without the pay, he couldn’t even buy food
for supper, let alone tomorrow.
When he finally came to grips with reality,
he told the lady who hired him what the situation
was. While she sympathized with his situation, the
job needed to be done. If the old man couldn’t
do it, she would have to hire someone else. The
old man packed up his tools and headed home,
head bowed and shoulders stooped. The whistle
was gone and no longer was there a spring in
his step. A walk that normally took 15 minutes
seemed to last forever. But finally the old shack
came into view, and there was Mace in the
distance, munching away as usual on the lawn.
When the dog saw his master, he came
running, tail wagging, telling the old man how glad
he was to see him. Kneeling beside the hound ,
the man began to pet him, and through tear-filled
eyes told the dog that there would be no supper
tonight and no food for tomorrow. What’s more,
without money to buy a new wrench, he had no
idea what the future held. It was the loneliest,
most helpless feeling he had ever had! The he
caught a glimpse of something shining in the
grass. As the old man came over to see what this
piece of shining material was, his despair turned
into instant joy! It was the wrench! The old man
had dropped it on his way out that morning
and it would have been lost forever had Mace
not been eating farther away from the house
than he usually did! The
old man grabbed the dog,
gave him a hug that almost
suffocated him, and ran
into the house. Reaching
for a stub of pencil and the
only piece of paper he had,
he wrote a moving tribute
to his canine companion.
Few people have ever
heard these words..until
now, that is. One man who
did happen to read them
changed them a bit and
has his name recorded in
music history. The old man
never did get the credit he
deserved. But now you are privileged to read
the beginning line of his original poem, which
went:
“ A grazing Mace, how sweet the hound, that
saved a wrench for me.”
His Master’s Smile by Ron Hevener
He had won.
He had done his master proud and he had won.
It wasn’t that he understood exactly “what” he had done
to make everyone so happy. It wasn’t as if he had fought
off a raging bear, or saved a lost child. He hadn’t run
for help or chased a thief away from those he loved. He
hadn’t done any of those things. He hadn’t done anything
but be himself, standing before a crowd of strangers,
beside the one he loved. And, there it was: His master’s
hand upon his shoulder; his master’s voice at his ear; his
master’s smile upon him. It wasn’t always like this. In the long-ago mists
of Before, when he nudged his mother’s breast and
scrapped with his brothers and sisters, he was blind
to the life that lay ahead of him, blind to anything but
himself. Listening into the night,
his mother’s breath comforted him
in a world of what he could feel,
hear, or sense around them. But,
from his earliest awakening, he was
aware of a presence around him;
an intelligence. From as far back as
he could think, there seemed to be
a mysterious something watching
over them, providing an order to
things; a mysterious someone who
seemed to care.
Day after day it was like
this. Day after day, as he dozed
in the manner of the newborn, he
felt himself touched by something
greater than he, himself, seemed to
be. It wasn’t that he knew himself.
It wasn’t as if he knew he was any
different from a rock or a tree or the
flowers decorating his life. He only
knew that his life was protected by
someone that could change anything
around him.
It was a power that could change the bedding
on which he lay. It could bring him food. It could bring
water. It could take away his mother, making him wonder
if she would ever return. It could fill the air with music all
night long and calm him with a reassuring voice. From
the moment he first saw it, he knew he was important to
this powerful someone. He knew it from the moment he
felt his master’s smile upon him.
As it is with all young dogs, there were ups and
there were downs. There was the time he escaped and
followed a yellow butterfly. Yes, it was true he could hear
his name being called. It sounded nice, hearing his master
shout his name to the Heavens and fade into the distance.
But, a yellow butterfly! Now that was something he had
to know about. He had to know about all kinds of things
in the Early Days. He had to know about powdery wings
that fluttered and lifted a butterfly into the air. Did he
have wings, too, he wondered? Where were his own
wings? ... Where, he suddenly wondered with a sinking
feeling in his belly, was his master’s voice? Yellow
butterflies melted into darkness and shivers as he learned
the meaning of loneliness ... and longing. A light! The
rustling, crunching sound of dry leaves and familiar
footsteps! Was it possible? “There you are!” came the
words that showed him all things are possible even when
all is lost. “I’ve been looking for you,” came the caress
of love as they turned for home and he felt his master’s
smile upon him ....
There were other times, many of them, when he
tried new things. Some were praised and others were not.
But through it all, through the good times and the bad,
his spirit flourished and he grew. As his spirit grew, so
did the body in which it dwelled. He grew taller, stronger,
and wiser with his master never far away; feeding him,
watering him, turning on the radio and
filling the night with music .... With his
master’s help, he grew to understand
that collars, leashes and manners were
important things to know about. He
grew accustomed to riding in a car,
accustomed to the slippery floor of a
veterinarian’s office and the bitter taste
of medicine ... He grew accustomed to
many things, to please the one he loved.
There were others like his
master. As time went by, he saw many
of these gods, for that’s what they were
to him. He heard them speak and did
not understand their words, he saw
their eyebrows raise and fall, he saw
the gesture of their hands and felt their
laughter. “Is that thing worth showing?”
they asked. “We’ll see,” came the
answer from the one who mattered to
him most. “His mother is the best one I
have and his sire is a winner.”
As spring burned into summer and
summer leaves began to fall, they worked. They worked
together, side by side, early in the morning. They roamed
the pasture and fields, just the two of them, a master and
his dog; a master and his dog sharing a secret. “You can
do it,” he was told. “I know you can.”
After what seemed like endless mornings and
endless nights, when it felt as if this would be his lot in
life forever, something changed. “We’ve done enough
now, my friend. It’s time to show them.” Show them?
Show them what? What are we going to show them?
“We’re going to show them what you were born to be,”
came the answer, as he felt his master’s smile upon him.
He was frightened that day. Was he good enough? Would
he do the right thing or would he let his master down?
What was ahead for him, he wondered, as he hopped
into the car. Were they going to the vet’s office? Please
say they weren’t going to the vet’s office for shots or
Story cont. on pg. 40
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Blasted Exotic Disease !!
By Jim Hughes
D
oes your dog hunt? Does he dig? What dog doesn’t?
They all do. Is the woods around your house and kennels
damp or is there a pond or stream or any source of
moisture? Well, good grief, what woods isn’t? Are you
going to let your dog do what comes naturally for dogs to
do? Dig, that is. And why not, you may ask?
Well, here is a why not! BLASTOMYCOSIS!! And
just what is that that would kill a dog just for doing
what comes naturally. Blastomycosis is a fungal disease
caused by Blastomyces dermatides. “It occurs mostly in
dogs and humans, but has been diagnosed in horses, cats,
and even sea lions”, said Dr. Ronald D Smith, professor
specializing in epidemiology of infectious diseases at the
University of Illinois college of Veterinary Medicine.
Soil wet with organic matter is ideal festering ground for
this fungus. Most cases are reported along the Mississippi
River system and the Great Lakes, but it is found
anywhere a similar system exist.
The infective stage of the fungus lives in the soil near
waterways. It may be inhaled or enter the body through
open wounds. As it multiplies, it then moves to the
vascular system or lymph nodes.
Symptoms to watch for are watery eyes and cold like
symptoms, excessive scratching of the face and eyes, dull
coat with hair falling out easily, swollen lymph nodes,
fever, inactivity, and weight loss. Also a chronic cough,
shortness of breath, skin lesions, clouding of the corneas
in the eye and even blindness indicate trouble. Recovery
without drug therapy is rare. Treatment must begin as
early as possible because if the organisms enters the
blood stream and spreads to other organs, recovery is
rare indeed. Many dogs need to be hospitalized several
times per week during the first part of the treatment but
can later be treated at home over a long period of time.
The drug Itraconazole has been prescribed for treatment.
As the fungus dies, inflammation may occur and your
dogs signs may temporarily worsen. Drug toxicity may
also be a problem, so treatment must include veterinary
oversight.
Some animals have an immune reaction to the infection,
and those animals have a poor chance of survival.
Pursuing long-term therapy, which can be painful and
very expensive, may not be the best choice for these
dogs. Even after what seems like successful treatment,
the infection can lie dormant for many years and then
reappear. However, if symptoms stay gone for one year,
recurrence of symptoms is highly unlikely.
Although Blastomycosis can affect humans, it cannot be
transmitted through the air. You must handle bandages
carefully from these animals because the fungus can
grow in the bandages or on the open wound. Most human
cases are contracted in the same way as pet cases, out in
nature. If your dog has Blastomycosis, it is unlikely that
you could get the disease from your dog, but it could
indicate that you were both exposed to a contaminated
environment. However, your dog is ten times more likely
to contact the disease than his human owner because his
nose is much closer to the ground.
There is no vaccine to protect your animals from this
organism. The only protection lies in restricting your
dogs from access to suspected areas containing the fungi
spores. If infection is suspected, quick veterinarian
intervention is mandatory for success.
Calendar of Events
October 31st & Nov. 1st, 2008
UPCOMING SOUTHWEST AUCTIONS
MPBA-Missouri Pet Breeders Association Fall
Convention, Holiday Inn Select Executive Center,
Columbia, Mo. For more information contact Barb York
(417) 876-5787 or email [email protected]
OCTOBER 11th, 2008-Richard Kreger, Jetmore, Kansas
November 8th, 2008
Tri State Premier Pet Association Fall Seminar,
Independence, Kansas. For more information contact
Shirley Walton (620) 378-2600
OCTOBER 18th, 2008-Dorothy Crosby, @ Wheaton,
MO. Sale Barn.
OCTOBER 24th, 2008-Randy Sears, Pineville, MO
OCTOBER 25th, 2008-Consignment Sale, Wheaton, MO
NOVEMBER 8th, 2008-Dale & LeAnn Henry, Langley,
OK
December 5th & 6th, 2008
NOVEMBER 15th, 2008-Billy Ross, Howe, OK
PPA-Professional Pet Association Seminar, Moberly
Community College, Moberly, Mo. For more information
contact Cathy Griesbauer (573) 564-2884
NOVEMBER 22nd, 2008-Leon Roberson, Atoka, OK
February 7th, 2009
Dakota Breeders Association, Mitchell, South Dakota
February 27th & 28, 2009
MPBA-Missouri Pet Breeders Spring Seminar,
University Plaza, Springfield, MO. Contact Barb York
(417) 876-5787
NOVEMBER 29th, 2008-Consignment Sale, Wheaton,
MO
APRI SHOW SCHEDULE
October 18th-Crossroads Breeders in Bolivar, MODeadline Oct. 15th-Contact Brenda Arnett (417) 9985001
October 25th-Piney Woods Assoc.-Marshall, TX
March 7th & 8th, 2009
November 8th-East Texas Dog Lovers-Canton, TX
Deadline is October 29.
NEOKPP-Northeast Oklahoma Pet Professionals Pet
Expo. Contact Gary Phillips (918) 785-2300
November 15th-First Quality Pet BreedersHarrisonville, Missouri
March 13th & 14th, 2009
IaPBA-Iowa Pet Breeders Association, Meskwaki Bingo
Casino Hotel (1504 305th St. Tama, IA 52339) Contact
Julie Petersen (515) 836-8114
“SEMINARS”
by Sue Hughes
Today I am at the dog trade show
I came to learn what I did not know;
To my surprise there seems to be
Many people just like me;
I’ve gained knowledge all day long
I’ve kept my interest and spirit strong;
I want to prove our critics wrong
Good care is what I have provided all along;
My dogs are clean, my care is great
My puppy buyers do not hesitate;
They know these pups are sound throughout
They will bring happiness, there is no doubt;
I know these puppies will go far
Because of things I learned at this seminar!
Master’s Smile from pg. 36
medicine. But, they weren’t going to the vet. This time,
they drove past the vet. He breathed a sigh of relief and
fell asleep. It was the sounds that woke him: sounds of
barking, air compressors and excited chatter. The smell of
sausage, French fries and dogs -- hundreds of them; more
dogs than he had ever seen in his life -- lured him to full
attention. Where are we, he wondered, pressing his nose
against the window. What’s happening?
“Come on, fella,” his master said, opening the door and
snapping on a leash after they came to a stop. “Good
boy!” “Good” is what he always tried to be. Was it his
imagination, or was his master standing extra tall today?
Was his master brushing him with extra-careful attention?
Were people looking at them in a different way than they
used to? “Where’d you get that one?” somebody with
a poodle asked. “Bred him myself,” came the answer.
“Yeah? Who’s he out of?”
“The best one I have and his sire’s a winner.”
“Wait a minute -” came a voice of disbelief. “That can’t
be the one I saw at your place. That pup was just about
the scrawniest thing I ever saw!”
Nobody had ever told him he was scrawny.
Nobody had ever told him he was any different from a
flower or a cloud or a beautiful butterfly. Nobody had
ever told him anything ... except that he was important;
except that he was loved. The class was called, the entries
filed into the ring ... proudly, he stood as the judge ran her
hands through his hair, over his back and down his legs.
Down and back they trotted; around the ring they went.
As still as a living statue he stood, th ough every fiber of
his being wished to jump into his master’s arms.
One by one the entries went through their paces. One by
one, they went to the end of the line. One by one, they
waited the judge’s brave decision.
“Around again, please,” she directed ... and, sure of
herself, she pointed: “One! ... Two! ... Three! ... Four!” as
the crowd clapped their approval.
No, it wasn’t as if he understood exactly “what”
he had done to make everyone so happy. It wasn’t as if
he had fought off a raging bear, or saved a lost child. He
hadn’t run for help or chased away a thief. He hadn’t
done any of those things. He hadn’t done anything but
be himself, standing bravely before a crowd of strangers;
standing beside the one he loved. There it was: His
master’s hand upon his shoulder; his master’s voice at his
ear; his master’s smile upon him.
From ‘On with the Show’ by Ron Hevener-Author/Artist
www.ronhevener.com
FORECLOSURE ON YOUR
PETS????
A
disconcerting consequence of the rising costs of fuel,
food and home foreclosures is the increasing number
of abandoned pets being left behind at residences or
dumped off at the local shelters. Often times pets that
are left in homes are without food, water or the comforts
of a temperature controlled environment. Experts say
a dog will become dehydrated within 24 hours without
water and could die in extreme heat within a few days.
Like humans, dogs and cats can go for a long time
without food but will quickly die without water. Some
pet owners don’t think through their actions. They
are so distraught about losing their home, they will
rationalize their behavior by hoping that city officials or
bank reps will rescue the abandoned pets. Other types
of home owners may be the kind who only think of pets
as ‘property’ and they will typically be the ones to strip
assets from a foreclosure and sell everything they can
rip out, including the kitchen sink and therefore toss
the ‘pet ‘ in the alley. Moreover, people who have lost a
home through foreclosure need to live somewhere else,
which means they might have to rent an apartment, many
of which do not allow pets. So, they think of their own
security first and leave their pets behind. In most states,
by law, pets ARE personal property, which means they
have little or no rights. Personal property left behind by
home owners are subject to seizure by the lender that has
taken the home back in foreclosure but typically, REO
lenders do NOT want to take care of pets. Some laws
do not allow for forfeiture of personal property until a
certain time period has passed, so lenders are prevented
from removing the pets, and often discourage others from
intervening.
As a fellow pet owner, if you know of a home in your
neighborhood that is being foreclosed upon, ask the
occupants if they have made plans for their pets. If the
owners have already moved, check with a local real
estate agent and ask to inspect the home for abandoned
pets. In some states, animal cruelty is against the law. If
you suspect animal cruelty, call the police. If you do find
a dehydrated pet, provide a small amount of water and
then call a vet before administering food. Some cities
even have pet food banks that offer free pet food to keep
animals out of the many overcrowded shelters.
DOGS & CATS IN THE NEWS
DOGS & CATS UNITE! throws jabs with her front paws while standing up on her
hind legs and has become the only dog in Peru that can
box. Chela also jumps through rings of fire and is part of
a team of dogs that are trained to chase down robbers or
free strapped-down hostages.
Golden Retriever adopts tiger cubs
A Golden Retriever female at the Safari Zoological Park
in S.E. Kansas has adopted 3 white tiger cubs who were
abandoned by their mother. The pups were born on a
Sunday but the mother had problems with them. A day
later, the mother stopped caring for them and the pups
were left wandering around looking for something to
nurse on. The park owner, Tom Harvey, decided to try
his golden retriever female who had just recently weaned
her own puppies. It was perfect timing and the cubs
took right to their surrogate mother. White tigers are not
as genetically stable as the orange tigers so it was very
fortunate that the zoo had a ‘mom’ that would take care
of the newborns.
‘FAT CAT’ FINDS NEW DIGS…
Prince Chunk gets a new home. Prince Chunk (alias
‘Powder’) the ‘fat cat’ of New Jersey gets adopted after
being found by an animal control officer in Voorhees,
New Jersey. The 44 pound feline is the second fattest cat
on record, just 2 pounds under the 46 plus pounder from
Australia. The media has gotten wind of ‘Chunk’ and he
has recently appeared on ‘Good Morning America’ and
the sad story of his circumstances has made headlines
nationwide. His former owner was a homeless senior
citizen who’s home was foreclosed upon and she was
unable to keep him. She had given the cat to some friends
who were supposed to take him to the local animal
shelter but instead he was found as a stray by animal
control. ‘Chunk’ has been checked out by a veterinarian
and found to be in good health, despite his obesity. Due
to the publicity, the local shelter had received hundreds
of calls from people wanting to adopt him before they
finally chose a suitable owner. Prince Chunk has now
become the poster child for the toll the falling economy
is taking on animals, as more pets lose their homes along
with their owners.
BOW WOW, POW! BOXING DOG PACKS A PUNCH!
Chela, a 3 year old German Shorthaired Pointer from
Peru, packs a punch and a bite too. Her trainer, Cesar
Chacaliaza, a police officer in Peru, has been training
dogs for 13 years. He originally taught Chela how to
box as a party trick but it soon became a habit and Cesar
has taken the training more seriously to improve her
skills. With her red boxing gloves on, Chela punches and
An Inspiring Story!!
‘ MY KIND OF DOG ‘ !
This makes you think twice about the kind of care you
give your pets! Thought you might be interested in this
very special dog who served in IRAQ .
The K9 above is Brutus, a military K9 at McChord. He’s
huge - part Boxer and part British Bull Mastiff and tops
the scales at 200 lbs. His handler took the picture. Brutus
is running toward me because he knows I have some
Milk Bone treats, so he’s slobbering away! I had to duck
around a tree just before he got to me in case he couldn’t
stop, but he did. Brutus won the Congressional Medal of
Honor last year from his tour in Iraq .
His handler and four other soldiers were taken hostage
by insurgents. Brutus and his handler communicate by
sign language and he gave Brutus the signal that meant
‘go away, but come back and find me’. The Iraqis paid
no attention to Brutus. He came back later and quietly
tore the throat out of one guard at one door and another
guard at another door. He then jumped against one of
the doors repeatedly (the guys were being held in an old
warehouse) until it opened. He went in and untied his
handler and they all escaped. He’s the first K9 to receive
this honor. If he knows you’re OK, he’s a big old lug and
wants to sit in your lap. He also enjoys the company of
cats.
Talk about animal intelligence and bonding with
humans! Remember that they can’t do a lot of things for
themselves and that they depend on you to make their life
a quality life!
Pictured right
Judy Botto &
‘Annie’
The Saddest Moment of My Life
By Jim Hughes
“Hear the lonesome Whippoorwill”,
“He sounds to Blue to fly”,
“The Midnight Train is Whining Low”,
“I’m so lonesome I could cry”!
H
ow could Hank Williams have lived enough
and experienced such a sad life to coin these and 100’s
of other words in his short 29 years of life. His talent was
linked with tragedy and despair of his own making, but it
enabled him to leave a legacy of songs to a multitude of
fans that have made him a music legend.
Maybe he heard the same train I did last night,
about 3 in the morning. I am glad I do not live along the
tracks as I would be angry every night when that train
comes through Neosho, but from a mile away it has such
a melancholy sound that it becomes beautiful. And at 3
in the morning, when your mind will not turn off and let
you sleep, the call of the train turns your mind towards
sad memories. I could not get those thoughts out of my
mind even by morning so I am going to tell my readers
about it. I have let you in on many of my thoughts about
the dog business in past issues. This has nothing to do
with the dog business, this just gives you insight as to
what makes me what I am.
It is September, 1947. The taxi sits at the curb.
The suitcases are loaded with everything we own. My
Grandmother and Grandfather are standing on the porch,
tears rolling down their faces. My Mother is sitting in the
back seat of the cab, heartbroken, sobs racking her body.
And I, a twelve year old seventh grader, am standing on
the curb screaming and crying for my grandma, “Please
do not let this happen”.
We were on our way to the bus station in
Columbus, Ohio to board a bus bound for Los Angeles,
California, to leave a city and state that I knew intimately
and a whole family of relatives and loved ones to go to a
strange land where the only person we knew was mom’s
best friend, a lady I referred to as “Aunt Pearl”.
Why was this happening? D-I-V-O-R-C-E was in
the future. Tammy Wynette tells us all about it. It is the
single most awful state of affairs one can find themselves
in [my thoughts only. Obviously many do not see it my
way as 50 percent of all marriages are now ending in
divorce. But in 1947 this was not a common occurrence.
My Grandmother told my Mother “If you burn a blister,
you sit on it”. There were many families in the south end
of Columbus, populated by mostly West Virginia and
Kentucky blue collar workers, where the woman went to
church and the man went to the beer joint. My relatives
adhered to that way of life. Mom felt that if she stayed in
Columbus she could never change a thing and I would be
raised to adhere to the same philosophy.
My Dad was one of twelve kids, one girl, the
baby, and eleven boys before her. There was a twenty
year span from the youngest to the oldest. Five of these
boys died in various stages of life from various causes. I
never knew my grandparents on the Hughes side of the
family. They died in their early forties, leaving my dad an
orphan at twelve years of age. He was not raised, he was
fed and watered and just grew up. He lived in the attic
with an uncle and worked for the West Virginia Highway
Dept. His job was to move gravel with a drag bucket and
a team of horses on the highway leading south out of
Ripley, West Virginia..
He moved his body to Columbus at age twenty
but his mind never moved from W.V. When he died
at age 85, his car still had W.V. plates and he voted
Democrat at Ripley in every election. He met my
Grandpa when he got a job where grandpa worked.
Grandpa felt sorry for him being all alone and invited
him to a holiday diner at his house where dad and mom
met for the first time. Mom had a disease they called St.
Vitas Dance. She had no control over her nervous system
and would jerk and shake and her fork or spoon would go
flying. She had to be fed. Because of dad’s lonesomeness
and his budding friendship with Grandpa he used to sit
by mom’s bed and help care for her. By the time mom
became sixteen she was outgrowing this ailment. She had
long since fell in love with dad and said yes immediately
when he asked her to marry him. He was the only
boyfriend she had ever had.
About a year later, my sister Phyllis, was born.
She lived four years then died of Spinal Meningitis. My
dad went crazy with grief and swore he would never
love anybody or anything ever again. I still feel that he
kept that promises, affecting me, my mom and my two
sons. He told me when Trisha was born, “Now you really
have something”. Phyllis and Trisha bore an uncanny
resemblance as babies.
My parents were married for eighteen years and
dad was a good husband for the norm in the south end of
Columbus. He never hit my mother, he did not drink or
smoke and he was always there when he was needed. He
only had two faults. He chased any thing in a dress and
he was a compulsive gambler. My mother saw the money
she had worked and saved to have me born in the hospital
ride away on the nose of a losing horse at Beulah Park
race track.
Finally, in 1947, she had had enough. She told
me that she was leaving Columbus and the choice was
mine as whether to stay with Dad or come with her. I
cried and pleaded and made myself sick for two weeks
while she prepared to depart. How was a twelve year old
supposed to make such a decision? I had no awareness of
any problems until she told me of her decision.
My Grandpa could neither read nor write.
Grandma could barely do both. Dad was not much better
but mom went to the tenth grade. She had a world of
natural intelligence. She was not afraid of facing the
world alone but jumped at the chance to go to Los Angles
when “Aunt Pearl” offered the invitation. She gave
dad the ultimatum, “come with me for a new start or I
will go alone”. His reply was, “I never lost anything in
California”. Dad made up my mind for me, as if there
was ever any doubt, by telling me to go with my mother.
He patted me on top of the head and walked away.
So, here I now stand on a curb side looking at
my Grandparents sobbing almost uncontrollably as they
watched their middle child take there only baby from
them. My cousin, Bill, was ten years older than I was
and was married, so I was not only an only child but for
all practicable purposes, an only grandchild. When I was
four years old we moved two doors down the street from
Grandma. She fed me, rocked me, bathed me, loved me.
She was a full blooded American Indian but she did not
really look the part .but boy, could she cook. I would
rather have her meatloaf than a truck load of Lobster tails
or Prime Rib. And Pancakes, hers would put IHOP out
of business if she had opened against them. She mixed
flour and milk and eggs and whatever else she added. She
filled a cast iron skillet with LARD, yes lard, and poured
that goop in. When the bubbles started to rise through
the mix, she flipped it over and then out onto the plate.
Smothered it with real butter and drowned it with home
made sugar syrup. O lord, do I miss her.
Grandma was always an old woman. From my
earliest memories she always wore tiny steel rimmed
glasses, a gingham dress with an apron over it, her hair
was always in a bun and streaked with just a little grey
and never any kind of makeup. She was 39. She died in
the spring 1965 at age 72 from a heart attack I always
felt cheated from her love and company. Grandpa was
an alcoholic. He worked Monday thru Friday but Friday
night he got drunk. He could not read nor write and
there was no such thing as television, but he could play
Howsie, a card game much like Pitch. Some times he
could win enough to pay for his drinks but usually he
spent a goodly portion of his paycheck before Grandma
could get it from him. Many times I would escort him
home on his hands and knees to keep the other little kids
from throwing rocks at him. But I loved him and he loved
me. I left behind a Holstein 4-H heifer, my horse and
the most important thing in my life, my dog. I got a four
week old orphaned Boston Terrier when I was six. We
nursed her back to health and she became an important
member of the family. We called her TOOTIE. She was
10 pounds of dynamite who thought she could whip
anything with fur on it. When we moved to the farm she
decided she hated Groundhogs. I left behind a 140 acre
play yard, with cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, rabbits and
5 horses plus dad’s six old Foxhounds. My time on that
farm was the happiest of my childhood. And then I left
behind my life as I knew it up till then.
So there I stand at curbside. Watching two people
cry but not coming to get mom out of that cab. My uncle
urges me into the cab and it pulls away.
I made a commitment when Doug was born that my
children would never go through this agony. Sue and I
will celebrate our 49th anniversary in October. Of course
this promise was easier for me to keep because of the
woman I married, but I want to encourage any of my
readers who may be approaching this stumbling block in
their lives to think of what it will do to their kids, then go
to your minister and work through your problems with
the help of GOD.
You made a commitment to love, honor and
obey, till death do us part. You brought children into
this world. If you felt about those children as I did about
mine, the night of their birth you grew 10 feet tall and the
buttons popped off your chest. At that time you probably
felt that you would never do anything to harm them.
Yet the greatest harm you can do to them is to break up
their home. You were never promised a Rose Garden on
your wedding day. Every marriage has a few snags in it.
WORK THROUGH IT!!! Don’t hurt your kids, don’t
hurt each other. Happiness is a contented home.
INNER STRENGTH
 
If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills, if you
can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, if you can resist
complaining and boring people with your troubles, if you can
eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it, if you can
understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
if you can overlook people taking things out on you when
itís not your fault and something goes wrong, if you can take
criticism and blame without resentment, if you can face the
world without lies and deceit, if you can conquer tension
without medical help, if you can relax without liquor and if
you can sleep without the aid of drugs...
Then you are probably a dog.  
Truer words were never spoken. Dog spelled backwards is
GOD. And that is where the great gift of a dog comes from.
NOW YOU HAVE JUST RELIVED THE SADDEST
MOMENT OF MY LIFE.
“That’s like movin’ hay with a one
pronged pitch fork” 
Every so often a situation
happens and I am reminded of something my
grandmother said years ago. This happened
recently when researching information
about breeder regulations.
It occurred to me that breeding
healthy dogs is just one part of a much
larger picture. What about the consumer
that purchases the dog? Do they bear
some responsibility toward making sure
their dog is healthy? In my opinion, yes.
That got me thinking that we
really don’t hold pet owners accountable.
If something goes wrong we quickly blame
it on the breeder. Does that mean that
breeders can sell dogs without worrying
about health? No, it means that pet owners
must take reasonable responsibility to ensure
that their new pet is healthy and well adjusted
for the life of the pet. 
Dog breeders are blamed for many
things that go wrong with pets. Something
I’ve heard recently is people who breed dogs
increase the number of animals in shelters
and contribute to the number of dogs that
are euthanized.  Have we really looked at
the reasons why dogs are in the shelter? If
you look at the ages of the dogs in our local
shelters most are over 6 months. We can’t
blame this one on breeders. These dogs had
owners and for whatever reason the dog
wound up in a shelter.
Pet owners need to be more accountable for
their pets and be responsible to make sure that pets are
accepted members of the community.  We’ve all been in
those situations where we meet a well-meaning person
with a very rude canine on the end of the leash.  I’ll never
forget the time this gal’s dog was growling at me and my
dog while the owner stated, “Marlow just wants to play” Ya
think? Really?
There are a host of problems that lead to dogs
ending up in the shelter. From poor decisions in choosing
a puppy, behavioral problems from lack of training and
knowledge, neglect, abandonment, and not one of these
are because the dog came from a breeder. I believe that a
healthy well behaved pet starts with a good breeder but
regulating all breeders certainly is not going to fix this
complicated issue.
As a kid growing up on a farm, I sometimes found
some creative ways to complete my chores. Sometimes my
approach was shear genius. But many times, my methods
were very ineffective and Grandma would say, “That’s like
moving hay with a one-pronged pitch fork” You could tell
she knew I didn’t understand and she’d explain, “You’d
move more hay and get things done better if you use
a four-pronged fork”.
That’s what I think we need use to solve our
community pet issues is a “four-pronged
pitchfork”.  Instead of blaming and regulating
parts of the solution, let’s pool the resources
from responsible breeders, trainers,
healthcare providers and legitimate rescue
organizations. How about we improve the
quality of services from animal control and
shelter staff?  And while we’re at it, start
catering to the real customer.... the pet
owner.  Instead of creating more rules, let’s
help pet owners access services and gain
knowledge. 
What if there was a streamlined system
where animal owners can access a continuum
of services that range from finding a puppy
to caring for an aging pet?  A system where
irresponsible owners were held accountable and
good pet owners were rewarded for their efforts. 
If it were my farm....I’d use the four pronged
pitchfork!
Written by Shelly Kuhn, OAIA (Oklahoma Animal Interest Alliance)
P.O. Box 8303, Edmond, Ok. 73083-8303 or visit
their website at www.oaia.bravehost.com
Editor’s note:
A perfect example of what this article
is trying to point out is a recent article
posted in a local newspaper -The NewsRecord in Miami, Oklahoma:
The article states that 4 dogs were rescued from an
abandoned shack and thought to be part of a ‘puppy
mill’. They talk about how malnourished the dogs
were and how one of the females had a diseased
uterus from over-breeding, despite the fact she was
less than a year old??
The Rescue group is automatically ‘assuming’ that
these dogs were not cared for because of a ‘commercial breeder’ and have not given a thought to what
might be a clear case of ‘pet abandonment’.
It is a known fact that many ‘pet owners’ have more
than one dog in their family and through many unfortunate circumstances, there ARE instances of pets
being mistreated and/or left behind.
Help educate your fellow breeders and be part of the
solution!
Join your local and state organizations that support
the ‘responsible breeders’ from being slandered and
mistreated by the Animal Activists!!
An Idle moment:
G e n t l y l a y i n g b y t h e f i re , a t p e a c e w i t h i n y o u r w o r l d
M a y i t s l o v e n e v e r t i re , ro u n d y o u r l i f e e v e r c u r l e d
Fe t c h t h e p a p e r & t h e s l i p s , b e y o n d y o u r w i l d e s t d re a m s
But as your hand, It gently nips
It fills your life& makes you beam
When you see your puppies face, in his mouth your best lace
Round his neck you want to bend, but your needles start to mend
Fo o d & w a t e r e v e r y w h e re , i n n o c e n c e , n o t a c a re
R i p u p t h e s h o e t h e n t h e c h a i r, Yo u s i g h , b u t , l o v e
The pup so fair
W h a t b re e d a m I W h a t ro l e t o p l a y I s t a y t h e d a r k & d r a g o n s s l a y G u a rd i n g s a f e A t t h e h e a d A s I l a y O n p i l l o w e d b e d T H E WA L K I N G T R A I L S
T H E AU T U M N L E AV E S
YO U R T R U S T Y PA L
YO U N O W B E R E AV E
T U G G I N G AT YO U R H E A RT SO
STRONG
T H AT F I L L E D YO U R L I F E
F O R SO L O N G
G . Pe n i c k , H i l l s b o ro C o m p a n y
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OKLAHOMA KENNEL PROPERTY FOR SALE!!
29 ACRES with Ranch Style home, barn, workshop. (2) 32 run Kennels, portable building with heat/air. 80
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Misc.equip. Price $262,500. Phone (918) 529-4578
FOR SALE! HOME AND KENNEL ON 5 ACRES!
Located in Northeast Kansas, 3 Bedroom Earth Home.
12 run dog kennel-room for 20, air cond. & heat.
Phone (785) 799-5538
KENNEL SELLOUT! AKC/APRI YOUNG
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groups of: Coton de Tulears, French Bulldogs, Pugs, Toy
Poodles and Yorkies. Also, Pug and Frenchi puppies
available. Portable Kennel Building 10x32 w/ 15 indoor/
outdoor runs and nice grooming room Contact Carol at
(402) 482-5557 or email: [email protected]
C & J SHARPENING: ANDIS, OSTER & DOUBLE
K-Blade Sharpening. Metal Blades $5.00, Ceramic
Blades $6.00. Mail-in’s Welcome! Contact Cindy @
(417) 722-4533 or Cindysterriers.msn.com
FOR SALE! ACA REG. SIBERIAN HUSKIES, 2F
’08 (blk/wh & gry/wh), 2M’08 blk/wh, 3M’08 gry/wh,
1M ’05 blk/wh, AKC & PROVEN, & AKC LABS-ALL
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Contact Yvette Bolz (660) 256-3223 hm, cell (660) 3754962 OR email: [email protected]
PLACE YOUR AD HERE FOR ONLY $40.00!!!
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AKC CHAMPION SIRE YORKIES, LHASA APSO
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available. Call Elaine at (660) 232-2060 or email:
[email protected]
AKC & APRI Quality Breeding Stock Puppies, French
Bulldogs, Cavaliers, Norwich Terriers, Havanese and
Kerry Blues. Also Adult Breeding Stock, Maltese and
Affenpinscher. Call Clem Disterhaupt at (402) 589-1195
KENNEL MARKET PLACE: Sell your Breeding Stock, Kennel Supplies and Equipment on
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Contact Laura Bone at Pbtmarket@leadhillnet or phone:
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KENNEL & PROPERTY FOR SALE! 17 1/2 ACRES
W/ POND, 3BD/2BA, Swimming Pool, Fireplace, Metal
Roof, New Siding, Storm Windows, Storm Shelter. 16
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adult PUGS & Puppies, all are AKC/ACA registered.
Property also has mineral rights. Asking $155,000 for all.
Call Karen Work at (918) 768-3574
Isabelle Francais for AKC
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