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April, 2008
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- Sydney Royal 2008 feature
- VIC 'Speed Shows' for Summer
- Some ANKC members Puppy farmers
- Research needs recognition
- Adelaide Royal 2008 moves indoors
- Asia's Top Dogs
- Rottweiler feature
- May - Rhodesian Ridgeback
- June - Whippet
- July - Norwegian Elkhounds
- August - Golden Retriever
- September - Newfoundland
- November - Dogue De Bordeaux
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Devastated breeders tell of dogs dying in transit
Three dogs that were to have been shown at Sydney Royal have died in transit before the event. Two were travelling to the show at the time of their death, while the third arrived dead at Hobart airport the week prior to the Royal, after a flight that had been delayed 5½ hours.
Gloria Davis of Tzuyuan Kennels told Dog News Australia of frantic phone calls made to Hobart airport during the hours her two Shih Tzu sat stranded in Sydney. She said she was reassured that her dogs had been walked and watered at Kingsford Smith airport by a local dog transport company. This later proved to be untrue. At 11.10 when she arrived to pick up her 2 Shih Tzu in Hobart, only one of them, itself in a very distressed condition, was alive. The dogs were supposed to have left Sydney on a 2 PM flight but, despite all her efforts, were not put on a plane until 9.30 that night.
Designer dogs and puppy farming gripping Australia
DESIGNER dog breeding and puppy farms are threatening the very core of Australia's purebreds markets.
The farms are flourishing in south-east Queensland, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria.
Through internet sales the farms are feeding rich and eager buyers for all markets in South-east Asia. More than 7000 have been shipped to these markets through as the gateway, Singapore where no quarantine restrictions apply for dogs imported from Australia.
Australian National Kennel Council President Hugh Gent told "Dog News Australia" the national organization knew puppy farmers existed.
Dogs NSW aims for respect & recognition
Dog News Australia asked Dogs NSW President Frank Pieterse what direction that organisation was taking in dealing with the State Government and perceived anti dog legislation.
Mr Pieterse said that the intent of the Dogs NSW Board was to act before proposed animal welfare legislation became law, not after the event. The important objective, he said, was to prevent Dogs NSW from always being put on the defensive at potentially great cost.
When quizzed on just how this proactive strategy would be implemented Mr Pieterse replied that, "We will engage in a positive proactive public relations program, which includes constructive dialogue with the Government so that we are not left behind on Animal Welfare issues in the manner that we and other States have been in the past."
Indifference is eating away at us!
T'OTHER day and gripped by one of my philosophical moods, the word indifferent kept clogging my mental processes.
I had finished reading an appealing editorial in the "Queensland Dog World" written by the CCCQ president Barry Vickers in which he had gone to great lengths emphasizing the importance volunteers had and would make towards the future of dog exhibitions.
He asked volunteers to volunteer (my choice of words) and that sent me scurrying for my trusty Collins dictionary (priced 21/6d and with the inscription inside If borrowed return to R Jeffs, Herald Cootamundra 1959) for the word indifferent.
And there in one word, dear readers, was defined the very problem dog people face today.
Indifferent: not making a difference;
Having no influence or weight; uninterested; careless; neither good nor bad; freedom from prejudice or bias; unconcern.
One word said it all!
People power wins right to choose in Queensland
THE LAST bastion of the royal agricultural society domination of canine affairs and dictates in Australia is set to come crumbling down when Queensland Canine Control Council members vote in a plebiscite in June.
The State's 7000 members will be asked to vote on whether or not they want to elect their own councillors. The plebiscite announcement by President, Mr Barry Vickers shocked more than 140 members who crammed the Durack complex meeting room for the CCCQ annual meeting on March 27.
But some members had expected the move as discontent has grown in many Queensland outreaches over members not having the right to elect the representatives of their choice to the council. The CCCQ is currently the only non-incorporated member of the Australian National kennel Council and the only control in Australia not democratically elected or having control over its own constitution.
Summer Speed Shows to be enforced in VIC
Dogs Victoria has now made it mandatory to start shows in January and February at either 8am or at 6pm with the morning option to be encouraged. They should be congratulated on this initiative which will see shows over before the real heat of the day sets in.
A statement has been released by the Victorian controlling body stating that "affiliates running shows in January and February have two options: start a show no later than 8am with no lunch break, or start at no earlier than 6pm. Further, that no judge be allowed to judge more than 150 dogs during this time. Further that clubs be encouraged to take the morning option".
President Doug Ford stated that the process of arriving at the heat policy had not been easy or fast, saying that the committee had considered several options.