Otter Tales April, 2005 Page 1

OTTER TALES

APRIL 2005

MEETING NOTICE QUOTE FOR DOG LOVERS

APRIL 11, 2005 “You may have a dog The WLRC April meeting will be held at the that won’t sit up, roll over Olive Garden Restaurant 6367 E. State Street or even cook breakfast, Rockford, IL Phone: (815) 399-3176 not because she’s too stupid Board Meeting: 6:30 p.m. General Meeting: 7:30 p.m. to learn how but because

CLOSED MEETING she’s too smart to bother.

DIRECTIONS: -- Rick Horowitz, Chicago Tribune Exit I-90 at State Street. Go west on State Street. The Olive Garden is on the south side of State Street in a strip of stores. (Look for Office Max and Marshall). In This Issue … Page THINK SPRING ! Yak Box 2 Something to Howl About 3 Litter Box 4 Dear Dogs & Cats 5 Specialty Results 6 Upcoming Events 7

Otter Tales April, 2005 Page 1 Single Puppy Litter

TROPHY DONATIONS TRIVIA ABOUT DOGS: Trophy donations are being accepted for our June Specialty Show. Researchers studying what dogs like to eat have found that the If you’ve been lucky enough to receive a appetite of pet dogs is affected trophy, please help us in continuing to by the taste, texture and smell provide nice awards. Your generosity is of the food, and also by the appreciated and all donors will be listed in owner’s food preferences, their our show catalog. Please send checks to: perception of their pet, and the physical environment in which WLRC the dog is eating. c/o Diane Wehrheim S 72 W 34790 Heritage Drive Eagle, WI 53119

Closing Date: June 1, 2005 Editors Note: Payable to: WLRC Please address all articles, Thank you, announcements, suggestions, etc. to: Wendy Wojtas Diane Wehrheim, 15211 LaPorte Gunilla Brunner Oak Forest, IL 60452 Co-Chairmen Or email [email protected]

Deadline is the 20th of each month. NEW EMAIL ADDRESS Thank You Rich & Dee Fantozzi Something to [email protected] Howl About !

APRIL Otter Tales APRIL April, 2005 Page 2 YAKYAK BOX BOX Cedar Springs Black Satin Gina took three 1st places in all First in Bred-By Exhibitor at Open Agility Jumpers at the Hoosier LRC on March 6. Tallahassee Agility trial Breeder/Owner: on February 26 & 27 Mary Herburger to earn her title.

Cedar Springs Paisley Print Gina also earned her first two Senior Hunter Legs Second in Open Yellow at at the Tallahassee Hunt test Hoosier LRC on March 6. on March 19 & 20. Breeder/Owner: Owners: Tim Mary Herburger & Anne White

Cedar Springs Bleu Gaberdine Candlewood’s Ribbonquest

Fourth in Open Yellow at Peggy earned her third Hoosier LRC on March 6. Master Hunter Leg for Owners: Mary Herburger qualifying for the 2005 Master & Roy & Susan Smith National Trial in October, 2005. Owners: Tim & Anne White CH. Touchstone Uncorked

JAM at Hoosier LRC. Owners: Judy Berg LITTER BOX & Vic Zander

THE LISTED BREEDERS ARE MEMBERS IN Rumbling Ridge Just GOOD STANDING OF WLRC, BUT IN NO CIRCUMSTANCES DOES WLRC GUARANTEE Call me Jr. THE SERVICES OF SAID MEMBERS. BUYERS SHOULD REVIEW ANY CONTRACTS AND/OR GUARANTEES WITH THE BREEDER. Fourth in Sweepstakes Note: Litter Listings are $3.00 per ad. at Hoosier LRC. Please include payment along with your listing Owner: Joe & Vic Zander and send to: Wendy Wojtas 15211 LaPorte, Oak Forest, IL 60452 Amiable Applause Inherited Please makes checks payable to: WLRC CD, JH, NA, OAJ Otter Tales April, 2005 Page 3 Breeder: Este Jones Phone: (708) 425-8751 Whelped: March 23 Color: Yellow/2 Males/1 Female Sire: CH. Valleywood Blackthorn Brier Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/Clear Eyes: Clear Heart: Clear Dam: Frosty River Summer Wind Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/Clear Kennel: Special Occasion Eyes: Clear Breeder: Diane Wehrheim Phone: (262) 594-3219 Kennel: Anthem Due: April 28 Breeder: Ann Garmon Color: Chocolate Phone: (815) 943-6325 Sire: Special Occasion Brown Derby Whelped: 2/17 Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/Clear Color: Chocolate/7 males/1 female Eyes: Cerf Sire: Banner’s Valentino Dam: Westport Special Occasion Hips/Elbs: OFA Prelim Excellent/Normal Penny Candy Eyes: ACVO 6/04 Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/Clear Dam: Anthems Puddle of Mud Eyes: ACVO Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/L normal, R level 1 DJD Kennel: Special Occasion Eyes: ACVO 6/04 Breeder: Diane Wehrheim Phone: (262) 594-3219 4 month old black male Crate trained/housebroken/ all shots Kennel: Rumbling Ridge Sire and Dam OFA Hip & Elbow Breeder: Vic Zander Eyes Cerf – Optigen A Phone: (608) 798-4145/(608) 843-5906 Color: Yellow Female DOB: 10/20/04 Kennel: Kaltrav Sire: CH. Hidden Hills Breeder: Kathy Turbett Sunbeam Tiger Phone: (608) 253-6206 Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/Clear Due: March 20 Eyes: Cleared annually Color: Black & Yellow Dam: Daystar Talladega Dreaming Sire: CH. Glacier Ridge Charlie’s Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/Clear Red Ale Eyes: Cleared annually Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/Clear Nice bone, great coat, Eyes: Optigen A no time to show. Heart: Clear Dam: Kaltrav’s Savannah Storms Kennel: Royal Tee Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/Clear Breeder: Susan Burnett Eyes: Clear Phone: (920) 866-2825 Whelped: 11/14/04 Kennel: Kaltrav Color: Yellow Male/Housebroken Breeder: Kathy Turbett Eyes: Examined/Clear 1/05 by Phone: (608) 253-6206 Dr. Gretchen Schmidt Due: March 30 Sire: Chablais Rhapsodie En Bleu Color: Black & Yellow Dam: Royal Tee’s Champs-Elysees Sire: CH. Waifin’s High Flying Tycoon Hips/Elbs: OFA Prelim Excellent/Clear Eyes: Optigen A     Dam: CH. Kaltrav’s Icestorm Hips/Elbs: OFA Good/Clear Dear Dogs and Cats, Eyes: Clear/Optigen results pending

Kennel: Frosty River Otter Tales April, 2005 Page 4 The dishes with the paw print are yours and 3) I like my pets a lot better than most contain your food. The other dishes are mine people. and contain my food. Please note, placing a 4) To you, it’s an animal. To me, he/she is an paw print in the middle of my plate and food adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, does not stake a claim for it becoming your walks on all fours and doesn’t speak food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically clearly. Dogs and cats are better than pleasing in the slightest. kids. They eat less, don’t ask for money all the time, are easier to train, usually The stairway was not designed by NASCAR come when called, never drive your car, and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the don’t hang out with drug-using friends, bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn’t don’t smoke or drink, don’t worry about help because I fall faster than you can run. having to buy the latest fashions, don’t wear your clothes, and don’t need a I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized gazillion dollars for college – and if they bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think get pregnant, you can sell the children. I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Dogs and cats can actually curl (Sent in by Diane Wehrheim – Thank You) up in a ball when they sleep. It is not Specialty Results necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent Greater Atlanta LRC – 2/26 possible. I also know that sticking tails BOB: CH. Grandquest Family Ties straight out and having tongues hanging out J. Carruthers/M. Granda the other end to maximize space is nothing BOS: CH. Allegheny’s Gem of Caer Bren but sarcasm. C. Senfield BOW: Lubberline Pumpernickle For the last time, there is not a secret exit L. Reich WD: Lubberline Pumpernickle from the bathroom. If by some miracle I RWD: Keepstakes Red Badge of Courage beat you there and manage to get the door P. Block/J. McCormick shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, WB: Snowden Hill Camelot Kitkat try to turn the knob or get your paw under L. Reich/G. Rogers RWB: Wit’s End Windfall Vegas Showgirl the edge and try to pull the door open. I A. Ewald/A. Cogo must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for Best in Sweepstakes: years – canine or feline attendance is not Wit’s End Windfall Vegas Showgirl mandatory. Best of Opposite in Sweepstakes: Belgairn Storm Surge at Kai Den The proper order is -----kiss me, then go J. Biddle/R. Kelly small the other dog or cat’s butt. I cannot stress this enough! Greater Atlanta LRC – 2/27

BOB: CH. Grandquest Family Ties To pacify you, my dear pets, I have posted J. Carruthers/M. Granda the following message on our front door. BOS: CH. Lobuff’s Puffin at Hollyridge Rules for Non-Pet Owners Who Visit and Like J. Quigley/L. Weiss/S. Rekau BOW: Ole to Complain! About our Pets: A. Dreyfus WD: Ole 1) They live here. You don’t. RWD: Lubberline Pumpernickle 2) If you don’t want their hair on your L. Reich clothes, stay off the furniture. (That’s WB: Mar-moye Surprise from Blackthorn M. Daniel why they call it “fur”niture.) RWB: Snowden Hill Camelot Kitkat Otter Tales April, 2005 Page 5 L. Reich/G. Rogers

Best in Sweepstakes: Wit’s End Windfall Vegas Showgirl A. Ewald/A. Cogo

Best of Opposite in Sweepstakes: Epoch’s Bacardi Joe Banner C. Skiba/N. Chargo

Hoosier LRC – 3/5 UPCOMING EVENTS

BOB: CH. Rozzay Hunt Club Clayview All Breed Shows & Obedience Trials Grady N. Arbuckle/D. Vollette Date Super Closes BOS: Ljutic Lane’s Selka Girl R. Cook 4/21 Terre Haute KC Roy Jones 4/6 BOW: Shannon’s Peppar Salty Dog 4/22 Bloomington IN Roy Jones 4/6 J. Stotts 4/23 Terre Haute KC Roy Jones 4/6 WD: Shannon’s Peppar Salty Dog 4/24 Mattoon KC Roy Jones 4/6 RWD: Epoch’s Bacardi Joe Banner 4/23 Mason City KC Onofrio 4/6 C. Skiba/N. Chargo 4/24 Waterloo KC Onofrio 4/6 WB: Wit’s End Windfall Vegas Showgirl 4/23 Fond du Lac KC Roy Jones 4/6 & 24 A. Ewald/A. Cogo 4/30 Packerland KC Roy Jones 4/13 RWB: Linray’s It’s Meant To Be & 5/1 L. Schiele 4/30 Heart of IA KC Onofrio 4/13 & 5/1 Best in Sweepstakes: 5/6 Badger KCRoy Jones 4/20 Hunt Club Clayview Irish Cream 5/7 Janesville Beloit Roy Jones 4/20 N. Arbuckle/D. Vollette 5/8 Badger KCRoy Jones 4/20

Best of Opposite in Sweepstakes:  AGILITY  Bonaventure’s Legacy T. Shearer NE Obedience Club of Suburban Chicago May 6-8, 2005 Hoosier – 3/6 Lakewood Forest Preserve, Wauconda, IL Entries Close: April 9 BOB: CH. Wit’s End Windfall Vegas Kathryn McIntyre, Event Secretary Showgirl 20 E. Russet Way, Palatine, IL 60067-3451 A. Ewald/A. Cogo (847) 358-9363 BOS: CH. Rozzay Hunt Club Clayview [email protected] Grady Lyons Township Dog Training Club, Inc. N. Arbuckle/D. Vollette May 14-15, 2005 BOW: Hyspire Windfall Cookie Cutter 1033 Villa Avenue, Villa Park, IL A. Cogo Entries Close: April 23 WD: Hyspire Windfall Cookie Cutter Ms. Beth Elliott, Event Secretary RWD: Hunt Club Clayview Bear It All 1660 Gary Ave., Aurora, IL 60505 N. Arbuckle/D. Vollette (630) 978-7643 WB: Tabatha’s Pristine [email protected] C. Heidl RWB: Hunt Club Clayview Irish Cream Agility Ability Club of Illinois May 21-22, 2005 N. Arbuckle/D. Vollette 232 Creek Rd., Plano, IL Entries Close: April 30 Sharon Kirchheimer, Event Secretary Best in Sweepstakes: 1108 Arlington Ct., Hanover Park, IL 60133 Hunt Club Clayview Irish Cream (630) 289-2879 [email protected] Best of Opposite in Sweepstakes: Puckett’s Justified at Dickendall Smack-Dab’s Agility Club of Warrenville K. Herr May 28-29, 2005 580 Naperville Rd., Wheaton, IL Entries Close: May 7 Otter Tales April, 2005 Page 6 Beth Elliott, Event Secretary 1660 Gary Ave., Aurora, IL 60505 (630) 978-7643

HUNT TESTS

Golden Retriever Club of Illinois May 7 & 8, 2005 Des Plaines Wildlife Area, Joliet, IL Entries Close: 4/23 Website: http://www.grc-il.org Diane Barnett, Event Secretary 33 E. Russet Way, Palatine, IL 60067 (841) 359-3685 [email protected]

Fox Valley Retriever Club May 14 & 15, 2005 Wisconsin Amateur Field Trial Grounds Horicon, WI Entries Close: May 4 Michele Henry, Event Secretary 8614 W. Morgan Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53228 (414) 546-0176  SPECIALTIES 

Miami Valley Labrador Retriever Club May 13 & 14, 2005 Hughes Center, Hamilton, OH Entries Close: 4/20 Martha Couch, Event Secretary 4010 Idlewild Rd., Burlington, KY 41005 (859) 586-6071

Club website: www.mvlrc.org

Judges: Dogs & Intersex: Manolo Queijero (Queijero)

Bitches: Marion Lyons (Chocoura)

Puppy & Veteran Sweepstakes: Christine Kofron (Valleywood)

Obedience: Suzanne Hemminger

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