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President Director, Zone I Calvin Ward Bonnie Pike [email protected] [email protected]

First Vice-President Alternate Director, Zone I Legal Chair Regina Beinhauer Linda Moore [email protected] [email protected] Director, Zone II Second Vice-President Linda Donaldson Stephanie Kaul [email protected] [email protected] Alternate Director, Zone II Secretary Carol Yates Kathleen L. Patterson [email protected] [email protected] Director, Zone III Treasurer Laura Heidrich Beth Williams [email protected] [email protected] Alternate Director, Zone III Director, Class of 2016 Nancy J. Gallant Linda Bennett [email protected] [email protected] Director, Zone IV Director, Class of 2016 Colleen Keough Mary Napper [email protected] [email protected] Alternate Director, Zone IV Director, Class of 2016 Mariecel Torres-Young Mark Ragusa [email protected] [email protected] Director, Zone V Director, Class of 2017 Jim Fehring David Donaldson [email protected] [email protected] Alternate Director, Zone V Director, Class of 2017 Julie Virosteck Diane Kepley [email protected] [email protected] Club Headquarters: Director, Class of 2017 P.O. Box 4194 Per Rismyhr Frankfort, KY 40604-4194 [email protected] 502-875-4489 V 866-243-1068 F

PReSIDeNT’S MeSSAGe Now that the snow has melted and hopefully no more and plan to go to this fun filled event. The events and will fall. I hope that everyone is out showing your judges for these can be found in the Bulletin or on the web spaniels and putting titles on your spaniels in the various at the ASC site. events. The next big event for the cocker spaniels is the Probably most ASC members already know that our 39th National Specialty at Purina Farms in Gray Summit, Annual Flushing Spaniel Show will be held again in MO, July 16-18. There will be an ASC Board meeting on Knoxville, Tennessee on January 1,2, and 3, 2016. From July 15. I invite everyone to come and see what is happen - what I have been told, you will regret it if you miss this ing in the American Spaniel Club world. show. Plans are coming together to put on Our show person for this event is a show that we will remember as one of the Lindy Bennett. She welcomes any volun - great Annual Shows. Jane Williams is again teers to contact her to see what you maybe our Show Chair. Please make plans to able to do. From what I have seen and attend this event and join us in welcoming heard, I know this will be a great show and the new year. As usual, Jane welcomes any we will see all the wonderful cocker assistance you may be able to give. spaniels strut their stuff. Conformation, The fund raising efforts to raise the nec - agility, obedience and rally competitions essary monies to fund the cataract research will abound. Her show committee has that is being done at the University of been hard at work planning to make this a Pennsylvania continues at a good pace. show to remember. They have planned The committee that is heading up this several events and there will be some great effort meets often. They are always brain prizes to be won by the many winners. I storming ways to raise money to support know for a fact about the trophies, because my wife, Dale the research. I will again point out to anyone that wishes is the trophy chair and she has purchased them and we to contribute, you must make your contribution/s by are living with them until we deliver them to the check made out to ASCF if you want to receive a tax cred - show. She welcomes donations for the various trophies it and for it go to the University to be used for the cataract and thanks those that have already pledged. If you wish research. My thanks to those who have donated. to donate a trophy you may contact her at Give your spaniels a hug from me! See you in Saint [email protected] , or cell 662-379-0006 or Louis——-Gray Summit. home 662-742-3779. Lindy has done a terrific job in get - Calvin Ward, ASC President ting us ready to have a great show. So please make entries

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TReASUReR’S RePORT Fellow Members, Below, I have provided a report of the 2015 Annual Our annual dues collection is over; “Thank you” to Flushing Show and summarized our current finances. Be Kevin Carter for the outstanding work and unimaginable reminded that ‘Restricted Funds’ are those invested in time he spends on collecting dues and updating our Fidelity accounts, the interest on which pays for Perpetual membership. The beginning of our Cocker National Memorial Trophies (for which we are taxed). Our Specialty in July is rapidly approaching. As you make ‘Unrestricted Funds’ include our checking account with reservations, place orders, and send payments for all Regions Bank and a surplus cash investment account things related to the National, please remember to clearly with Fidelity. note what your payment is for in the check ‘memo’ line. If you have any questions or concerns, the best way to Mine are the last hands that receive your payments before contact me is via e-mail: [email protected] they go to the bank, and this notation helps ensure that Respectfully submitted, my records are accurate. Beth Williams ASC Treasurer

AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 8 sit for petting; they also can use an obedience demo as THe JOURNeY TO part of the entertainment of a visit. People are always amazed at dogs that sit when told. It is such a basic com - PeT THeRAPY... mand that it was the first one she has “almost” mastered. Training is always a “work in progress”. DeeDee and I prac - THe ROAD LeSS TRAVeLeD tice heeling with the CONTINUeS !!! obedience figure eight exercise. My trainer uses two hula hoops instead of cones for the by Joyce McIntyre beginning of the train - ing to give the team boundaries for heeling distance. I talk to her when I want her to speed up and try to keep my pace upbeat and praise as we go along. Since DeeDee is In the past three months DeeDee, Tailormade Pretty not extremely motivat - Reflections, has been training to become a certified thera - ed by treats, praise works best with her. The figure eight py dog. Our first focus was to begin basic obedience gives her a chance to change speeds when she is on the training. This included walking on a loose leash, sitting outside as I try to keep my speed the same. This is hard on command, lying down on command, coming when for the team to keep a smooth pace and is especially hard called, staying in sit or down, and leaving things alone for us as she has not perfected heeling yet. She shows so when given the “leave it” command. much progress and potential that I am very pleased with Since I started training with a private trainer, we her training in all areas so far. worked on a little bit of everything during the lesson. We She loves to jump so working on the broad, high, and began with heeling in an oval and avoided turning sharp bar jump is her favorite thing to do. In rally competition corners to get her heeling with me at a proper gait. She and for entertainment at therapy visits, I have her jump needed to be beside me so I could keep a loose leash. her rally height which is eight inches. She could jump Tight leashes are not acceptable when testing as it looks as higher, but there is no need as that is what she is required if the dog is not moving as a team and in reality they are to jump in competition. I use the hula hoop and some - not. For the first few times in practice, she was every - thing for her to jump through as I know it is fun for the where; she was even in front of me, and I kept trying to residents to watch them jump the hoop. This is also avoid falling over her! The more we practiced heeling the something Sydnee can handle, and she has trained better we both were moving as one. She would stop DeeDee to jump through a hoop. Since Sydnee goes with when I stopped, and she would sit when I stopped. It me on therapy visits, this trick will belong to the two of isn’t necessary to sit as the handler stops in testing, but it them. A goal for that trick will be a hoop in each of is in obedience. We are training for pet therapy and also Sydnee’s hands (held out to her side) and DeeDee going training for obedience/rally competition at the same. I around her jumping each hoop at least twice.We have didn’t want her to learn some bad habits so I was training named that trick, “Ring Around The Rosie”!We have cov - her to sit when I stopped. I said her name and “sit” when ered a yard stick I would stop, and soon she understood what I wanted in pretty decora - her to do. She is not 100% reliable at this point, but that tive duct tape, is something that we are working on going forward. and she will Sitting on command is something you can work on and jump over that practice in the house….( Sit before going outside, sit as well. I have before coming inside, sit while you leave the room, sit for some with bows a treat, and sit just because we are practicing “sit”). It is on them. These an easy behavior to master with a vocal command will be used for because there are so many opportunities to practice it. her entertain - Since you can’t use voice in all levels of obedience, I also ment at therapy use hand signals so that when we get to that higher level, visits. When looking for tricks, you try to find a natural I can fade away the voice. For pet therapy, it is very behavior and turn it into a trick. Sydnee and I do balloon important that they are reliable on the sit command. They art when we dress like clowns; however, we have not test - continued on page 12 AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 9

The Journey to Pet Therapy...(continued) ed DeeDee to see if she is afraid of a popped balloon. clapping my hands and calling her. When she came I pet - That will come later as she becomes confident with the ted and praised. If she came before I called her, I took her other things we are working on. I can do balloon art with back to the place where she was and told her “wait”, one of my current therapy dogs and one I cannot! walked away and called her when the trainer signaled. We work on She has become reliable on this behavior about 85-90 per - the “go-out”; cent of the time. I am very pleased with how much she this is where the wants to please me and how important the praise is to trainer puts a her. It is much healthier and cheaper than treats! She treat on a little likes praise better than treats; however, my trainer uses nail on a board, treats that are natural with her Goldens and DeeDee likes and I send them. I used them at the last training session and could DeeDee out to tell that we may be able to move fast with some behaviors retrieve it (eat it since she will work for these new treat wages! really). At first DeeDee is not we are very the only dog that close to the treat and the first time I walked with her to it. is in the training She is off leash so she has freedom to move wherever. She facility and since has really taken to that exercise as she knows when I say there are all “go out”! We usually do a series of three times per exer - kinds of smells cise during the lesson. When she gets to the treat, I try to from others dogs meet her at the same time and tell her “sit”. She sits and and treats, she gets another treat. I tell her that we are going to do it has been a snif - again, and she runs to the other end and turns around fer. The “leave ready to “go out” on command. I will admit I was sur - it” command has prised how fast she learned this. I thought she was prob - proven to help with this. I also have added a “heads up” ably the best one that had every done it that fast, but my command as I know from experience that in nursing bubble was deflated when the trainer told me that all homes and assisted living facilities, there is always some - dogs learn that one fast! Oh, well! thing interesting on the floor. When I give the “heads up” Staying on a sit or down when the handler is 20-40 feet command this means they get their heads off the floor away can be a real challenge. This is something that is and looking at me. I don’t want my therapy dogs eating tested for pet therapy. I began this training by standing in anything from the floor or taking anything from a person front of her. Week by week I moved about a foot away on a visit. The “leave it” command has proved to be one until I was about twenty feet from her. A long sit is one of the most important things I’ve taught my dogs even at minute in obedience and is usually tested the same way home. I’ve dropped things I didn’t want them to pounce in pet therapy. on many times! We started her Getting a fast down on command has been the hardest out on 15 sec - behavior for her. She is not reliable on that one without a onds, and I am treat. even with a treat she is slow to respond. The train - proud to say that er said that she is doing fine and will be able to do that she is staying on soon. It is not a natural behavior on command because her sit one they end up in a position that they would probably not be minute about 90 in if they decided to lie down on their own. DeeDee likes percent of the the frog position when she is lying down on her own and time. When she in obedience they will usually end up in the sphinx posi - would break the tion, which is not as natural for some dogs especially sit, I walked to the front of her and sat her saying only DeeDee. “sit”. No punishment or praise; just the word “sit”. I About half the class time is devoted to the above really think that when they don’t complete a behavior behaviors and then we concentrate on the medical equip - correctly, they just don’t understand what it is they are ment that is at the facility. The trainer has a wheelchair, supposed to do. I was moving backward more, and the crutches, and walker. We usually get another distraction time becoming longer gave her the confidence and under - or two tryng to make them different from time to time. standing of the behavior. Opening an umbrella is a good one because she could Working on recalls can also be a challenge for the dog experience that at a therapy visit. We also use noises such as well as the handler. They are to stay in a sit and come as dropping something that makes a loud noise like a when called from 20-40 feet approximately. We started metal food bowl. These distrations are not done close to that very slowly. I stood in front and moved backward her but rather 5-6 feet away. Doors opening and closing continued on page 14 AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 12

The Journey to Pet Therapy...(continued) is another thing that some dogs have trouble with. Stairs She has a seatbelt harness that makes her think she is just we have at home so that is not a problem, but it is with in the front seat with me or the backseat with Sydnee. I some dogs. think in time we will adjust to the car more. I’m driving We have taken four or five field trips to places that are a different car now and it makes a little different sound dog friendly. One was Tractor Supply. They have those when it starts, but she hasn’t reacted, which is very posi - noisy sliding door when you approach, and surprisingly tive. to me, she was not in the least afraid. Many hospitals and I’m pleased to report in this second article of her train - nursing homes have some similar, and it was good to ing to become a therapy dog that she is making great know that she will tolerate them with ease. The first per - advances toward our goal. We have been attending some son she met at Tractor Supply was a military man in full group obedience classes with some Dals and German uniform, and he asked to pet her. She liked it, and I asked Shepherds. She is not afraid of their size or their pres - him to put his hat on to see if she acted differently toward ence. She is able him. No reaction with the hat. She is around people that to focus more wear hats so that hasn’t presented a problem. She rode in and at just a little the shopping cart and looked around the store. Several over a year and a people wanted to pet her and she was happy about that. half, I think she Sydnee went with me on that field trip and helped me is doing fabu - push the cart. I don’t quite trust the two of them yet with lous. I’m very the shopping cart especially since Sydnee wanted to show proud of her and her the baby chickens. She did see the chickens and paid feel in my heart them no mind. We saw a lady from church with her two she was meant to children while we were in Tractor Supply, and they want - be a therapy dog. ed to pet DeeDee. I got her out of the shopping cart and I also feel she was meant to be my therapy dog. told them to sit in the floor and we would see if she want - In the next few months she will continue to train and ed them too. She walked over to them and sat between possibly test for Canine Good Citizen. We will go on them putting her head in one of their laps. Sweet Girl! more field trips; the next one planned is to a hotel that has WTG! The other thing on this field trip was in the dog given me permission to let her ride their elevator. That food isle there was a broken sack of dog kibble, and it was should be interesting. The first trip will probably be to all over where we were walking. I gave her the “leave it” stand at the door and watch it open and close! I will con - command and praised her and she never tried to eat it or tinue to journal her progress toward the goal of becoming really sniff. Big accomplishment! Very happy! a therapy dog. Our goal is to certify in 2015! Two more field trips were to the photographer that has I love this sweet girl AKA DeeDee, Tailormade Pretty taken her pictures. Candi Telford is a wonderful dog Reflections. Thanks to Jan Taylor and Genea Jones for friendly person, and we enjoy going to her studio. The breeding this beautiful cocker spaniel. She is beautiful first photo shoot was her first time to sit and hold a pose, inside and out, and I feel blessed to have her to continue and she was a little difficult to get the perfect shot. The what I consider a ministry with pet therapy. I’m involved second time I could really see the improvement in her in a grief counseling program for children and my thera - obedience training. The pictures in this article are some of py dogs will be used to help heal broken hearts. I feel her training pictures as well as performance. The photog - blessed to be able to have the resources to help others. rapher commented on how well she is doing in her train - If I can be of any help getting you started on a similar ing. journey, be sure and contact me. [email protected] Riding in the car is our biggest challenge so far. I have always just put my dogs in a crate and put them in the car Joyce McIntyre, Owned by The McCocker Girls and off we go. I did that to DeeDee and she had the crate ASC Therapy Dog Committee soaked with drool and herself too. She was either nerv - The Cocker Spaniel Club of Central Oklahoma, President ous, stressed, or nauseated or all three. I’ve learned how Oklahoma City Obedience Training Club, Member she tolerates the rides and I’m happy to say she doesn’t Photos…Candi Telford Photography drool, but I am sorry to say she doesn’t ride in her crate!

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DeTeRMINING THe CAUSe OF DeATH : THe NeeD FOR NeCROPSIeS Submitted by Jeanne S Grim DVM from GDCA website

When one of our dogs dies, our grief over the loss is what a seemingly healthy dog dies suddenly and unexpectedly. A is normally foremost in our minds. These are our cherished necropsy can and should be performed immediately upon companions, so quite naturally our emotional state can over - death, and the dog’s remains can be returned to the family whelm us as they leave us. But as these dogs we own are also without delay. members of a breed we cherish, we have obligations to fulfill Not all necropsies will return a definite cause of death. to that breed, and one of them is carefully recording the However all necropsies will be able to rule out some poten - cause of death in our dogs. Therefore when we have any of tial causes of death and will typically at least make specific our dogs die we should consider having a necropsy done as reasons more or less likely. Both the negative data (what a standard procedure. This is particularly important to per - wasn’t the cause) and the positive data (what is most likely form when an animal dies suddenly or when one of our dogs responsible) are useful to the breeder/owner and are rele - dies young. vant to the dog’s family. For example if a four year old male Necropsy, an autopsy on an animal, simply put, is an were to be found dead, a necropsy could determine that the dog’s heart was normal and he wasn’t poisoned, even if it examination of the body after death. Its purpose is to deter - couldn’t specify that the dog died, for example of splenic tor - mine the cause of death. A necropsy is roughly divided into sion. Necropsies, in conjunction with the animal’s medical two portions, the gross post-mortem examination, where the history, can always offer more complete data as to a dog’s body is visually and manually examined, and the health status. This is relevant to every family of breed dogs histopathology portion, where organs and sections of tissue and useful pedigree data that should not be left uncollected. are sent off to be further examined in detail by a pathologist, For all the laboratory work may take some weeks to come typically at a referral laboratory or teaching hospital. To help back, the results from the initial (gross) examination should such an examination achieve its purpose, a complete medical be readily available. The data can be stored at your veterinar - history of the animal is also useful. In addition other testing ian’s and left there until you feel you can manage hearing (such as blood work) at the time of death may be relevant. about the information comfortably. Your veterinarian can Necropsies are a teaching tool for all involved. They can help also provide you a synopsis of the results to share with rele - veterinarians learn more about the animals under their care, vant parties. Others that own related dogs are especially in and so apply lessons learned to future patients. They can fur - need of necropsy data. Granted some unpleasant answers ther medical research. And they can provide breeders with may be found whenever any sort of formal testing on a dog important data about their dogs and so help them make is done, and a necropsy is always an unpleasant task to con - more informed breeding decisions. template. But in our greater responsibility to our dogs and to The cost of a necropsy will vary. A simple gross examina - the breed, we cannot allow our emotions and our fears to tion by your attending veterinarian when a dog dies in his guide our actions. We cannot allow ourselves to turn away care may not be charged to you. A full necropsy with exten - from this fact-finding mission when it comes to our dogs, as what happens to them in life and at their deaths affect not sive histopathology reports requested might run a few hun - only us, but other owners and members of the dogs’ families dred dollars. The cost can generally be estimated up front, directly, and may also be relevant to the breed in general. So and if economies need be made, reasonable compromises we have a greater responsibility than to our own private can be reached. But in general a necropsy is something that grief when we choose to own breed dogs. And we need to be should be considered for every dog related to a breeding brave at this last and terrible moment for the sake of the family, and is truly necessary when there is doubt about the breed and especially other members of the immediate family. cause of death, when the dog dies while still young, or when We have to simply take on the extra personal pain involved so continued on page 20 Freedom Cockers

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Determining the Cause of Death...(continued) as to seek all the information we can about our dogs, because it owner/breeder to have cared enough about his place in the means a potentially better future for us all. When the cause of breed to be sure that a complete record of the dog is left behind. death isn’t obvious, when a dog dies suddenly or dies young, a necropsy is in order. References: It’s hard to not flinch from this idea when your beloved dog Comparison of clinical and pathological diagnoses in dogs. Vos has just died, and it’s understandable to want to remember them JH, Borst GH, Visser IJ, Soethout KC, de Haan L, Haffmans F, fondly and without conflict. We all want to be left alone to Hovius MP, Goedendorp P, de Groot MA, Prud’homme van grieve in the moment they are lost to us. Necropsies are not Reine FH, van Soest IL, Willigenburg AH, van Woerden MA, something most of us want to think about, and they can bring Ziekman PG. Vet Q. 2005;27(1):2-10. up questions we’d all rather not face. But it’s not acting in our Permission to reprint as submitted for educational purposes is best interests to not seek the answers that the breed needs; it’s given. simply part of our acting as responsible breeders to assemble Submitted by cause of death data on our dogs. (After all, it’s part of the pat - JP Yousha, Chair, Health & Welfare Committee, GDCA, April tern of what our breeding stock represents.) So the most loving 2005. act, and the best legacy any breed dog can have, is for his Great Dane Club of America

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ASC 2015 DROPPeD MeMBeRS

The following members resigned membership with the American Spaniel Club:

Doug Allen Patricia Crew Kevin Hughes

The following member’s membership lapsed with the American Spaniel Club:

Brenda Baysek Megan Huron Letitia Bilodeau Nancy Kennedy Betty Bunert Connie Peterson Adele Cadard Leroy & Patti Saiz Caitlin Cadard Patricia Soterhou Tony easley Cherie Swain Lynn Fehlinger James & Linda Taylor Gwendolyn Gore Nancy Vickers Melissa Hadley Lee Walster Travis Hamilton Cheryl Wittlinger Donna Helmick Alicia Yarbrough Laurin Howard

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Spaniel Sleuths...

THe BeNHOFFS AND THe BIGGS BY BOB WALL Just thinking about them, Art Benhoff died in 1994 at the Southern charm and graciousness personified. Caroline age of 88. Ruth Benhoff died in 1996, 2 months shy of her Biggs by contrast was this very prim and proper Boston 91st birthday. The two of them, they were a class act of the Brahmin persona ... with the clipped Boston accent to first order, managing to avoid all the major controversies prove her cre - of their day... preferring to let the quality of their dogs dentials. A s speak louder than words of most others. How wise they their conversa - were, and how gorgeous their elegantly gorgeous dogs tion pro - were. gressed, Ruth I can still recall the and Caroline Baltimore National got into a very held in July of 1991. It ladylike yet was hot and ever so heated conver - humid... and there sation. The was this swimming topic up for pool at the hotel. One discussion was especially hot and - which kennel humid evening, Artru or Biggs “everyone” was in the pool cooling off from all the day - - bred the first time show activities. Ruth, without fanfare, stood up at Cocker to attain its French Kennel Club Championship? poolside, suddenly stripping down to just her panty hose each lady claimed the honor for their respective kennel - and shocking pink blouse. And then, before you realized with neither lady budging from this claim. To this day I fully what was happening, Ruth Benhoff went swimming do not know which kennel actually owns that distinction. with the all the “kids”. She was floating in that pool - For me that was not the relevant point of their discussion. beaming! Always game for a good time, she was not In their very ladylike way, they wound up concluding to going to miss out on this opportunity. It’s my last recollec - agree to disagree ... and still remain friends. Old world tion of her, in the pool, with this huge smile of pure style and diplomacy at its finest. Both ladies departed the delight on her face. She was having the time of her life. It show with their heads held high - each still claiming their was Lady Artru’s time to reap and enjoy the benefits of a right to that purple ribbon. And at the end of the day, each fabulous career in show dogs. enjoy it, she did! remained very much a lady! In the very same era, while the Benhoffs were making * From the Archives our breed aware of the Artru cockers in Maryland, further Robert Biggs was the north Bob and Caroline Biggs were creating their own President of ASC in vision of what a cocker was the late 60’s. His at their kennel in activities in the club are recorded in our Massachusetts - known as documents and they Bigg’s Kennel. Their best credit him most as known dog was the glam - being the member orously heavy coated dog who was behind Bigg’s Snow Prince, shown bringing Obedience Trials to the Flushing to perfection by Ted Young. Spaniel Show in Jan I never got to know the each year. Before Bigg’s up close, even then we didn’t have Obedience classes at our show. He wanted mem - though I, like the Bigg’s, bers to recognize Obedience and that the breed was competitive in other lived in Massachusetts. By the time I had attended my things besides conformation. first dog show in 1975, the Biggs had been retired from FAIRHAVeN Obits -Caroline (Fryer) Biggs, 98, of Fairhaven, died Friday, April 27, 2001, at Alden Court Nursing Care and Rehabilitation breeding. I do fondly remember one Fall day at the New Center after a long illness. She was the widow of Robert W. Biggs.Born england Breeder’s Specialty show, held each November, in Dorchester, she had lived in Fairhaven since 1962. She was formerly Bob and Caroline Biggs attending the show - following a employed by the Francis Bacon Co. of Boston as a secretary.She was a number of years being absent from this show event. Ruth member of the Unitarian Memorial Church in Fairhaven.Mrs. Biggs was Benhoff, still active with both breeding and showing, was a member of the Women’s Alliance Club at the Unitarian Memorial Church and a member of the American Cocker Spaniel Club, New York. also there that day. As the day drew on, Ruth Benhoff She and her husband bred American cocker spaniels and had many came over to sit next to her old friend Caroline Biggs for champions. Survivors include three grandchildren; and one great- a chat. It was fascinating and ever so entertaining to granddaughter. She was the sister of the late Paul Fryer. Her funeral watch and listen to their ensuing conversation ... and service is private. Arrangements are by Fairhaven Funeral Home, 117 watch and listen I did. Ruth Benhoff and Caroline Biggs Main St. were from two very different walks of life. Ruth was AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 22

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NOMINee BIOGRAPHIeS Greg Anderson Sam Houston McDonald

I started showing Cockers in Junior Showmanship I have been involved in purebred dogs most of my life. when I was 12. I grew up in California and was exposed My family had Cocker Spaniels, which they hunted over, to dedicated breeders and great dogs, all of which influ - and Border Collies and Australian Shepherds, which enced my life decision to become a handler. To further my worked the stock on the farm. Later I acquired my first education in dogs, learn about other breeds, and improve Irish Setter and now more than 49 years later, I continue grooming techniques, I worked for Peter Green, and Clay to occasionally breed and exhibit them. I have bred and Bergit Coady. numerous champions and owned several Group and Best I specialized in handling Cocker Spaniels and was in Show winners as well as field trial contenders. I have lucky to present beautiful dogs for great breeders like also owned Wirehaired Pointing Griffons, Beagles, Laura Henson, Marilyn Spacht, and Beth Beal. These Scottish Deerhounds, Wirehaired Dachshund, and Irish dogs allowed me to accompany them to the winners’ cir - Wolfhounds. cle at the ASC National Specialty as well as to multiple I am a Past President of the Irish Setter Club of Bests in Specialty Show, group wins and Bests in Show. America, serving on the board for 25 years, a member of Once I retired from handling I applied to judge several All-Breed Clubs including Bryn Mawr Kennel Cockers. Now, years later, I’m approved to judge all Club where I serves as Show Chairman and President. I Sporting breeds, the Sporting Group and Best in Show. currently serve as Chairman of the Irish Setter Club of As part of this journey I’ve had the good fortune to judge America Foundation, continuing to be involved in raising in Japan, New Zealand, england, the Philippines, funds to support health research to improve the overall Sweden, Norway and Canada but the assignment that health of Irish Setters. I also serve as a board member for meant the most to me was returning to the ASC National the Dog Judges Association of America. Specialty as a judge. I have authored a number of articles for a variety of I would be honored to judge my breed’s National publications including a five part series for the American Specialty once again, Thank you for the nomina - Kennel Club Gazette discussing the entire Sporting tion. Group on form as it relates to function. I have also been Billie Hayes featured in articles dealing with my practices of breeding, showing and judging pure-bred dogs. After working as a Speech Pathologist in the Fort My interest in the sport of purebred dogs began in Worth, Texas Public Schools I retired and moved to earnest in 1973 with the purchase of my foundation bitch Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, where I currently reside from Jean Peterson of the “Rinky Dink Kennels”. Under at eagle Farms continuing to raise my Irish Setters and the Chess King prefix I was lucky enough to produce a Irish Wolfhounds. top winner and producer, Ch. Chess King’s Board Boss. Being asked to be placed on the ballot is an honor in For decades I enjoyed seeing generation after generation itself and I thank you for your consideration in this mat - of quality blacks who had this dog in their pedigree and ter. for this I am forever thankful. Bob Smith After marrying David Hayes and expanding my inter - est to Pointers we have produced over 80 champion Cockers and Pointers. Many of these I handled to their I have been involved with purebred dogs since the championship myself and often from Bred By exhibitor early 1970s. I have been active in local, regional and classes. Highlights in my handling years, include winning national specialty clubs having served as show chairman Best BBe four shows in a row at American Spaniel Club of the American Spaniel Club’s Flushing Spaniel Show in winter and summer national. 2007, President and Show Chair of the Mobile, AL Kennel After judging countless sweepstakes assignments, I Club for several years and as a board member an officer began my AKC judging in 1994. I have been honored to be of the Cocker Spaniel Specialty Club of Greater New invited to judge Cocker Spaniel specialty shows world - Orleans. wide, and from coast to coast in the United States. I espe - Having judged at all-breed and specialty shows cially enjoy judging promising puppies and take my throughout the US, Canada, Hungary, Mexico, China and assignments very seriously to protect the well being of South America, I am approved to judge all Sporting this lovely breed. breeds, the Sporting Group, Miscellaneous Group, Best in It would be an honor and a privilege to judge the breed Show, and Junior Showmanship. I was the Part-colored again at the National Specialty show in St. Louis in 2016 Variety judge for the American Spaniel Club’s Flushing and thank the fancy for considering me again to be on the Spaniel Specialty in January 2012. I was honored to judge panel. Cocker Spaniels, all varieties, at Westminster Kennel Club 2011. I recently judged all varieties and BISS at the American Cocker Spaniel Specialty of Canada, August 2014.

AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 28 I judged Cocker Spaniels, all varieties, Golden Breeding...... I have always done extensive pedigree & Retrievers, and Irish Setters at the eukanuba Invitational health research before any breedings. I’ve been blessed to Dog Show in Orlando, FL, in December of f2012. I judged be the breeder of over 55 champions so far, of which two the Golden Retriever specialty and an all-breed dog show (Denver & Gypsy) were owner handled to become top for the China Kennel Union in Hangzhou, China, winning specials. Gypsy went on to win Best In Show & November 2012 and returned to judge again in October was the #1 Black Cocker Bitch. She is now retired and 2013. I was the Best Junior in Show judge and American sleeps on the bed, or wherever she chooses!!!!! Cocker Spaniel (Black Variety) evaluator at the I’ve enjoyed judging several sweepstakes, and in the Hungarian Sporting Dog Association specialty scheduled future plan on applying for my judging license. the weekend of the World Show in Budapest, Hungary, I am very honored and excited to have been nominat - May 2013. ed to judge our prestigious futurity. A student of all sporting breeds, I am especially inter - Thank you! ested in the structure and movement of the American Enrique Guerriero Cocker Spaniel. I have authored several articles on the relationship between structure and movement of the hunting/field and show American Cocker. My articles With my late partner, Ramon Criado, I have been dealing with civility in the dog show community were breeding Cocker Spaniels since 1980 under the Jawat pre - received with great success and reprinted in several breed fix. We bred champions in all three varieties including and national dog-related magazines. I am a retired uni - Ch. Jawat’s Latin Lover, the sire of the top-winning Ch. versity professor and public school administrator and Sweetheart’s Space Jam; the top-producing Ch. Jawat’s currently provide educational consultant services to pub - Golden Opportunity, the sire of Ch. Ashwood Thrilling lic and parochial schools in Louisiana. Opportunity, also a top producer; and the ROM bitch Ch Heidi Armour Jawat’s Golden Girl. I showed many of our dogs myself and Mike and Linda Pitts finished many others. I have been active in I have been breeding and showing cocker spaniels for the Cocker Spaniel Club of Southeast Florida, serving in over 25 years, using the kennel name of “Lehi”. many capacities such as board member and president as Showing...... started with using professional handlers. well as acting as chair for many of our specialty shows. In about 1995 I started showing my own dogs, then I was I have judged a number of sweepstakes and always asked to show a dog for somebody else, shortly after I enjoy the puppies. Thank you for nominating me to began Professional Handling. judge the futurity next summer. I would be honored to have the opportunity.

VOTE FOR JULY 2016 COCKER SPANIEL JUDGES * * * DUE JULY 9, 2015 * * * Use this ballot or a Xerox copy Individual Members/Clubs may send one ballot; two copies are included for spouses who are both members You may vote for up to 2 regular class judges and 1 Futurity judge for July 2016 JULY 2016 BALLOT JULY 2016 BALLOT Regular Classes Regular Classes ______Greg Anderson ______Greg Anderson ______Billie Hayes ______Billie Hayes ______Sam Houston McDonald ______Sam Houston McDonald ______Bob Smith ______Bob Smith Futurity Futurity ______Heidi Armour ______Heidi Armour ______Enrique Guerriero ______Enrique Guerriero

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NATIONAL SPECIALTY EVENTS

July 15 (Wednesday) is move in day and the ASC Board Meeting (Founders Room, second floor, event Center). The premium list will have a form for getting your tack room reservation, and Linda Donaldson will be doing her usual excellent job arranging our homes and kennels away from home and kennel! There are great dog washing facilities at Purina Farms. Move in any time after noon and check in with Linda to get your assigned space and special tags for your electric connections. Please note that your ex pens must be on plastic and uti - lize shavings. There will be posted schedules for all shav - ings to be changed and disposed of. Rewards to those who folTlohwur tshdea yd,i rethctei on16s!th On , the ASC Futurity will be judged, following a breakfast in the tack area provided by the clubs in Zone II. We will also be having a Cockers Only Agility Trial and Obedience and Rally C Match. Following the Puppy Futurity will be a Cut Down Sweepstakes, a Veteran Sweepstakes and a Bred By The July 2015 American Spaniel Club National Specialty Sweepstakes. Hunt Instinct Testing will be done at Purina Show is a wonderful work in progress! We have a terrif - Farms also. ic week of cockers, beer and bar-b-q planned for you at There will be a Judge’s education Program and a pro - Purina Farms, in Grey Summit, MO. for July 15 to July 20. gram about how to become an approved Cocker Mentor. Remember that our Host Hotel is the Wildwood Inn and After the show, Meet The Breeders, will encourage inter - mention the ASC Block when you make your reservation! action between the foundation breeders of the fancy and At the same time, reserve your special chairs for the entire visitors and guests. Forms for participating in this show, or purchase a Patron Seat, with lots of goodies, for Breeder showcase event are on the website and will be in the best view. Forms are available for all this on ASC the Premium List. website and in the Premium List. Only 10 Patron chairs After working up an appetite, you are invited to a will be available, so “first come first served” for the best Welcome Bar-B-Q Dinner, with reservation forms on the seats in the house! There are also forms for people bring website and in the Premium List. This will also be the day their own lodging on the ASC website and in the and evening to buy your “Never empty” Beer Glass, with Premium List unlimited refills of Budweiser products for the rest of the week, whenever the bar is open!

Tom & Connie Peterson CaliDays Cockers Ontario, CA 909-947-2995 [email protected]

Steve & Rita Crowe 586 Three Chimneys Lane Loveland, OH 45140 (513) 683-9543 ~ Home (513) 582-9671 ~ Cell [email protected]

AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 32 Friday, July 17 , will again feature the Zone II Breakfast Cocker, with instructions and equipment for teaching us in the grooming area, followed by Conformation classes to groom our show dogs and performance dogs into love - through Winner’s Bitch. There is an all-breed Agility Trial ly and easy to care for pets! Forms for Karen’s demon - and Cockers Only Obedience and Rally Trials. At the stration are on the website and will be in the Premium Hunt Test grounds, there will be a Working Dog Test and List. Hunt Test. The final event for Saturday will be the Awards Dinner Following conformation judging, we are having the recognizing the many accomplishments of our cockers, ASC Town Hall Meeting, followed by a presentation by followed by a Live Auction with some VeRY nice items to Dr. Gustavo Aguirre on the Cataract Research Project at be auctioned off by Clyde Shaw! Dinner reservations can the University of Pennsylvania followed by a reception in be made on the forms on the website and in the Premium his honor. List. It willS buen ndiagyh (tJ tuol yre 1m9)ember and celebrate! Don’t forget about the silent auction and the various Finally, arrives and the South Atlantic raffles that will all benefit cocker spaniels in one way or Cocker Spaniel Club and Zone II will host the Day After the other with your generous support all weekend. You Show! Breakfast again, in the tack room, complements of also might want to view the items that will be live auc - Zone II clubs, followed by a Conformation show, exclud - tionSeadtu ordn aSya, tJuurldya y18 n ight after the dinner! ing sweepstakes. There will also be all-breed Agility and will include the Zone II Breakfast in all-breed Obedience and Rally Trials, so Purina Farms the tack area, followed by the Conformation Class will be rocking all day. The South Atlantic Club and Zone through Variety and Bests of Breed. Meanwhile, the per - II Clubs will host a bar and reception Sunday night, when formance people will thrill you with an all-breed Agility all is done, to wish you safe travels on your way home. Trial, and all-breed Obedience and Rally Trials. The Hunt The Day After Show is limited to 200 entries, so don’t Test will continue at the Hunt Test grounds. delay in making entries for it, which can be done through Junior showmanship is always a special event for the Foy Trent, who is doing the superintending for all the show, and the future of the breed will show off on events, except Agility, all weekend. The Premium List Saturday, too! We will have a Parade of Title Holders and will be mailed in May, so should be in your hands by the Rescues Cockers on Saturday as well. timMe oynoud arye,a Jdu tlhyi s2! 0 Finally there is a special ASC-F benefit on Saturday, , is move-out day and the Tack Area with Karen Osper offering a seminar on Grooming the Pet needs to be cleared by noon.

July 2016 Judges Kevin Carter – Bred-By Exhibitor Sweepstakes, Veteran Sweepstakes Gloria Geringer – Black Variety, all classes; Parti Variety, non-regular and Best of Variety classes Virginia Kinion – Obedience and Rally classes, Sunday Jennifer McDonald – Agility, Thursday and Friday Rhonda Mink – ASCOB Variety, all classes; Parti Variety, class dogs and bitches through Winners Stephen Picciuolo – Obedience and Rally classes Friday and Saturday Kim Vavolo – Futurity, Cut-down Sweepstakes Karen Winter – Agility, Saturday and Sunday SDR Sharon D. Reed 72 Rachel Rd. Reynolds, GA 31076 (478) 847-9864

AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 33 DR. G USTAVO AGUIRRE

Gustavo D. Aguirre is Professor of Medical Genetics Dr. Aguirre has received numerous awards among and Ophthalmology at The School of Veterinary which are an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and works with from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, dog models of inherited eye and retinal degeneration. University of Göteborg, Sweden, the His lab focuses on model identification and disease WSAVA/Waltham International Award for Scientific gene discovery, establishing disease metrics and defin - Achievement, The Foundation Fighting Blindness ing molecular pathways linking the gene and mutation Trustee Award, Scientist of the Year, Heart to the disease, and developing gene-based and other SightMiami/Foundation Fighting Blindness Award, therapies for translational applications. The O.N.C.e. International Prize for R&D in Biomedicine and New Technologies for the Blind, the Dr. Aguirre earned his undergraduate, veterinary, International Prize in Canine Health, and he was a co- and doctoral degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, recipient of the Paul Kayser International Award in where he also completed a residency in ophthalmology Retina Research. He is a Fellow of the Association for in the School of Veterinary Medicine before serving as Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and elected as a post-doctoral fellow at the Wilmer Ophthalmological fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of is a member of the Institute of Medicine of The Medicine. Dr. Aguirre joined the faculty at Penn in National Academies. 1973, where he rose to hold joint professorial appoint - ments in the Veterinary and Medical Schools. Between 1992-2004 he was at the James A. Baker Institute of Cornell University as the Caspary Professor of Ophthalmology. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, and other organizations.

AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 34 EXCITING NEWS – PLEASE JOIN US!

Friday, July 17 Purina Farms, Grey Summit, Missouri

American Spaniel Club Foundation will present

Dr. Gustavo Aguirre, Professor of Medical Genetics and Opthalmology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Aguirre will discuss the genetic cataract study for Cocker Spaniels, currently being conducted at the University, underwritten by ASCF

Dr. Aguirre will speak immediately following the ASC Town Hall meeting, scheduled for Friday afternoon Please join us for a reception after Dr. Aguirre’s presentation

Dr. Aguirre examines ASC member Carol Zielinski’s dog during last year’s blood draw. Photo courtesy Ewing Observer

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Hospitality RSVP Form RSVP Deadline July 1, 2015

Welcome Barbecue Dinner Thursday, July 16, 2015

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Breeder Education and Reception with Dr. Gustov Aguirre Topic: Genetic Studies of Inherited Cataracts in the Cocker Spaniel

Friday, July 17, 2015

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Awards Dinner (Order your color catalog from Jeanne Grim) Saturday, July 18, 2015

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MAIL FORM TO: KATHY PATTERSON, P.O. BOX 4194, FRANKFORT, KY 40604-4194 Make checks payable to ASC.

Don’t forget to order your color copy of the Top Dog Catalog JEANNE GRIM $10 picked up at the Saturday night Awards Dinner. Add $2.50 for mailed color catalog. P.O. B OX 680993 Purchase Top Dog catalog online in the ASC Shop or send check made out to ASC to: MARIETTA , GA 30068

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Obedience and Rally Trophy Donations Version: March 27, 2015

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AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 37 2016FLUSHING SPANIeL SHOW NOTeS Jane T. Williams, Show Chair Make your plans now to attend the American Spaniel be going to the American Spaniel Club Foundation. If Club’s 96 th Flushing Spaniel Show at the Knoxville ASCF has reached the eye Support Cockers cataract Convention Center on January 1-3. Most of my show research goal, the funds raised will then be designated for committee for 2015 will be the same for 2016; their partic - future research grants. ipation has been vital for the show. There is always room It is important that everyone stay at the host hotel for more volunteers, so let me know if you have time because ASC receives $10 for eVeRY room night used by and/or talents to share with the show. Although more ASC attendees. We received $5,210 for our room nights in information will be available in the coming months on the 2015. Do not make your reservation until the ASC room ASC website, I do want to let you know of some plans. block has been created. The Convention Center staff listened to our concerns Since most exhibitors will be grooming on New Year’s about hot water for bathing. In addition to the two eve for our Futurity, I am in discussion with the KCC portable water heaters we used last year, we will be able about having food and beverages sold in the grooming to tie into the large commercial hot water heater used by area Thursday night. Availability of a traditional New the building. It will require that we move our bathing Year’s Day meal for “health, wealth, and luck” is also area to the far end of our grooming area. Where the tubs being discussed for Friday. What is on your traditional have been the past two years will become a “man cave” New Year’s menu? complete with large screen television and comfortable Please contact me with suggestions or concerns you seating for anyone wanting to watch football! may have. My email address is [email protected] and The KCC administration has already approved our my telephone number is 334-324-4981. I hope to see you request to have another bake sale since the proceeds will in January 2016!

JUDGeS FOR JANUARY 2016

JAMeS COVeY – B ALANCe OF SPANIeL BReeDS KATHLeeN eGeLAND -B ROCK – C OCKeR SPANIeLS , P ARTI VARIeTY MARLIN KVAMMe – e NGLISH COCKeR SPANIeLS GARY PALIZZI – C OCKeR SPANIeL FUTURITY eDWARD PINeR – C OCKeR SPANIeLS , ASCOB V ARIeTY AND eNGLISH SPRINGeR SPANIeLS W. T eRRY STACY – B eSTS IN SHOW JeFF WRIGHT – C OCKeR SPANIeLS , B LACK VARIeTY OBeDIeNCe AND RALLY – TBA OTHeR BReeD SWeePSTAKeS JUDGeS – TBA

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ZONe 2 R ePORT

I held a zone 2 meeting at the CCSC show in April. We now have all the zone 2 clubs participating in the break - fast each day at the National. I will be setting up the tack room prior to everyone coming in on Wednesday before the show. Lindy has planned alot of great activities for us during the week, so please go on the ASC website and make your reservations for them. Don’t forget to make your seating resv. as well.

If you have any questions regarding the show, please feel free to call me (864-456-5880) or email me [email protected]. We are looking forward to seeing everyone in St. Louis.

Linda Donaldson Zone 2 Director

The Club notes, with sadness, the passing of the following member:

In Memoriam Patsy Dunn-Jena, Life Member, Indiana

Regina Beinhauer [email protected] 548 Justabout Rd. Ph. 724-941-3898 Venetia, PA 15367 Cell 724-255-0980 [email protected]

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OBeDIeNCe TOP COCKeR SPANIeLS

January 1, 2015 through Wednesday April 8, 2015

Rank Name Owner Points

1 Reesha’sIedbear Magic VCD2 UDX2 OM4 Re MX MXJ Debra Lewis 12 2 CH Mar lee’s Token O’ Blarney, UDX OM2 Mary L Whiting 9 3 MACH3 Brookwood Chocolate Brownie UD VeR MXF TQX Mary ellen Whittington 1

AGILITY TOP COCKeR SPANIeLS

January 1, 2015 through Saturday April 4, 2015 Total Total Rank Name Sex Points Dbl Q’s Score

1 MACH6 Skiboo's Bar-Bax Jumpin' Waves MXS2 MJC2 B 742 18 922 2 MACH18 Tell-Tail's Mad About You MXCS MJG6 MXF TQX T2B B 634 19 824

3 MACH? Tagaboo's Secret Sguirre1MXC2 MJS3 XF T2B B 631 13 761

4 MACH9 Tagaboo's Windwhisper Kiss R.tMXS3 MJG3 XF T2B B 600 11 710

5 MACH6 Bar-Bax's Born To Make Waves MXC2 MJG3 T2B B 546 7 616

AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB, INC. BULLETIN March 2015 Page 42 ONFORMATION TOP COCKeR SPCANIeLS JANUARY 1, 2015 - M ARCH 31, 2015

Breed Competition All Breed Competition Black Variety Black Variety 1. GCH Ashwood’s Time To Thrill (M) 248 1. 1.GCH Ashwood’s Time To Thrill (M) 5872 C Douglas/J Beaudoin/B Van Deman/G White C Douglas/J Beaudoin/B Van Deman/G White Jones Jones 2. GCH Mario N Beechwood’s Midnight 2. GCH Mar-K’s Sunrise At Midnight (M) 674 express CGC (M) 83 J Hanlin/M Ragusa/M Ness F Charest/C Charest/M Ragusa/P Ragusa 3. GCH Mar-K’s Prologue (M) 551 3. CH K-Line’s B-Lieve It Or Not (M) 82 K Blousa/R Gray/M Ness J Kline 4. GCH Mar-K’s Hot N Spicey (B) 481 4. GCH Lehi N Sunhaven’s east Coast M Ragusa/M Ness/J Curry Connection (M) 60 5. GCH Bib N Tux Diamonds Are Forever (B) 367 C Chand/H Amour B Warren 5. GCH Mar-K’s Sunrise At Midnight (M) 58 J Hanlin/M Ragusa/M Ness ASCOB Variety 1. GCH Be-Fit’s N Arikara Too Hot To Touch (B) 646 ASCOB Variety C Thompson/P Nazarko/D Christian 1. GCH Blondheim’s easy Matters (M) 122 2. GCH Blondheim’s easy Matters (M) 637 S Blondheim/B Blondheim S Blondheim/B Blondheim 2. GCH Be-Fit’s N Arikara Too Hot To Touch (B) 118 3. GCH Mardi Gras La Dolce Vita (M) 350 C Thompson/P Nazarko/D Christian R Logrie 3. GCH Silverhall Strike Force (M) 65 4. GCH Krismyth Sterling Silver (M) 322 R Beinhauer K Ahlquist 4. GCH Sawyer’s I’m A Scrappy Guy RN (M) 53 5. GCH Trinity’s Tucked Under His Wing (M) 283 R Sawyer/V Sawyer S Gray/S Dobmeier 5. GCH Mardi Gras La Dolce Vita (M) 41 R Logrie Parti Variety 1. GCH Lomapoint Dangerous Intentions (M) 446 Parti Variety K Olsen/L Tarantino/J Bjelland/T Pittman 1. GCH Jems Going For The Knockout (M) 167 2. GCH My-Ida-Ho N Jems Captain (M) 408 J Stamm/ B Buell/R Buell e Ross/S Gerling 2. GCH Lomapoint Dangerous Intentions (M) 113 3. CH Nv My Macho Camacho (M) 96 K Olsen/L Tarantino/J Bjelland/T Pittman N Rahn-Virden 3. GCH My-Ida-Ho N Jems Captain (M) 68 4. Julre’s Mystic Rodeo (M) 64 e Ross/S Gerling J Turner-Hayes 4. GCH Pbj’s enchantress (B) 37 5. GCH Tri-Pod’s Hellzapoppin (M) 29 B Pruuitt M Brinker 5. GCH Nosowea’s Girl Who Played With Fire (B) 33 J Thorp

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1ST QUARTeR Sires with 2 champions Top Breeders January thru March 2015 ; Judi Kline (K-Line’s) - 4 GCH Chitina’s Windfall, Blk. Beate Pruitt (Pbj’s) - 4, 3 co-bred CH Javalin’s Lead Off Man, B/W. Anita Bak (Ania’s) - 3, 2 co-bred GCH K-Line N Cutts Beyond-A-Doubt, Brn. Mr. Dale Robert Martenson (Touche’s) - 3 CH Lydgate Rise N’ Shine, Bf. Karen Osper (Beachstone’s) - 3 GCH Mothhaven’s The Birdcage, R/W. Terri L. Procuniar ( Tl’s) - 3, 1 co-bred CH Nv’s N Brentwood’s Collaboration, B/T. Megan Pruitt (Pbj’s) - 3 co-bred CH Peri’s Parage, Brn. Joan Stallard (Saratoga’s) - 3 co-bred GCH Sherlane Fast Forward, Blk. Tony Stallard (Saratoga’s) - 3 co-bred CH Sh-Bar’s Sharp Dressed Man, Tri. Breeders with 2 champions CH Silverhall High Priority, B/T ; Alan & Sheryl Gadol CH Sunshine’s Chances Are, Bf. (Gadol’s), Ann T. Morgante (Amik-Creek), Barbara Guyer (Bluriver), Bonnie Pike (Silverhall), Deborah Top Producing Dams January thru March 2015 Knight (Lydgate), Diane Wiedeman (Clayton’s), Heidi CH Somerset’s Sweet Cheeks, B/T - 3 Armour (Lehi), Jeff Wright (Terje’s), Jenifer elwanger CH Still-Pines Holiday Cheer, Brn/Tn - 3 (Freedom’s), Laura Heidrich (Laurent’s), Marie- CH Clayton’s Ain’t She Sweet, Bf - 2 Francoise Gourdin (Gold Icon’s), Mary Walker Gipsy Beauty eye Fly Mystery, B/T - 2 (Nickleby), Neil Guyer (Bluriver), Per Ingar Rismyhr Godol’s Spirit Of ecstasy, Bf - 2 (Peri’s), Slawonir Bak (Ania’s) and Jackie Cavalin GCH Lehi’s Crystal Ball At Bluriver, B/T - 2 (Javalin’s). CH Lydgate Lolita, B/T - 2 CH Normandy’s Rockelle, Tri - 2 Top Producing Sires January thru March 2015 GCH Pbj’s Fearless, B/T - 2 CH Saratoga-N-Bleumoon’s Footnote, CD RN RN CGC, CH Peri’s Penelope, B/W - 2 B/T - 6 CH Terje’s Breaking Dawn, B/T - 2 GCH Micadee’s Mann In The Mirror, Bf - 5 CH Tl’s On The Ball, B/T - 2 Three Champions Each

CH Juole Tone N Valu-Tru Smooth Operator, Brn/W/T GCH Kaplar’s Heartsong, Bf CH Silverhall Santana, Blk GCH Sugarfrance N Anias California Connection, Sil Bf

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ADVERTISER INDEX DEADLINE FOR SEPTEMBER 2015 Beinhauer ...... 40 Bennett ...... 18 ASC BULLETIN Bjelland-May ...... 30, 31, Back Cover Blondheim ...... 5 IS AUGUST 1, 2015 Caetano ...... 4 Carroll ...... 42 RESERVATIONS FOR ADVERTISING MUST BE Carson ...... 18 RECEIVED BY THIS DATE TO BE INCLUDED. Carter ...... 44 Christian ...... 40 SPELLING ACCURACY IN HANDWRITTEN Close ...... 6, 7 COPY CANNOT BE GUARANTEED. Cohn ...... 40 SEE ADVERTISING RATES BELOW. Crowe ...... 32 Domondon ...... 21 Donaldson ...... 42 Donnelly ...... 42 Downing ...... 6, 7 Duggan ...... 44 A NEW SECTION elkins ...... 40 elwanger ...... 18 THE WINNERS CIRCLE evelyn ...... 42 Share your wins with the fancy without Fairey ...... 4 Ferland ...... 20 having to pay for a full size ad. Submit Gabbard ...... 36 a photo and win information, and, Gerling ...... 40 for just $20, be a part of the Giza ...... 19 Goniprow ...... 14 Winners Circle! Gordon ...... 43 Gudger ...... 20 Gunkle ...... 14 Hanlin ...... Cover, 2 ADVERTISING RATES Heidrich ...... 4 Junior ...... 4 -ALL PEDIGREES MUST BE TYPEWRITTEN and ALL ADS Kasper ...... 14 Kaul ...... 24, 25, 26, 27, 43 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED WITH FULL PAYMENT.- Kline ...... 13 Knight, D ...... 33 Knight, K ...... 39, 40 FULL PAGe… with one photo ...... $95.00 Ladouceur ...... 43 1/2 page… with one photo ...... $65.00 Lawrence ...... 40 McKennon ...... 32 Stud Dog ad ...... $35.00 McKinney ...... 44 Whelping Box: (1/4 page each) ...... $25.00 Moon ...... 3, 17 (no photos on 1/4 page whelping box) Ness ...... 42 Omatsu ...... 15, 40 Whelping Box: (1/2 page each) ...... $50.00 Parker ...... 36 Patterson ...... 42 Whelping Box (1/2 page w/1 photo) ...... $65.00 Peterson ...... 32 Business Card 1 column inch ...... $40.00 Pruitt ...... 10, 11, 33 Purina ...... 45 Business Card 2.5 column inches ...... $60.00 Richey ...... 23 Business Card 5 column inches ...... $80.00 Ragusa, M ...... 20, 42 (Business Card rates are annual - 4 issues) Ragusa, P ...... 20 Reed ...... 33 Roof ...... 44 Send your ad copy and checks made payable to the Rosado ...... 4 Staso ...... 4 American Spaniel Club, Inc. (ASC) to Thompson ...... 40 Katie Adams, DPI, 2906 Clifty Drive, Madison, IN 47250 Umbrello ...... 32 Vavolo ...... 14 Questions? Email me: [email protected] Vino ...... 32 Virosteck ...... 4 Wilson ...... 36

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