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VOLUME XLXI ISSUE 3 May-June 2017 The T T Times Newsletter of the Tibetan Terrier Club of America President’s M e s s a g e TTCA ESTABLISHES NEW TIBETAN TERRIER PERFORMANCE AWARD As most of you know besides been a show chair know, it is a familiar with. She was loved by being the new President of the daunting job. many and will truly be missed by all. Tibetan Terrier Club of America With that behind me, I will start On a happier note, a thank you (TTCA), I am also the 2017 TTCA out with the sad news, which many of needs to go out to the committee led National Specialty Show Chairman. you have already heard, which is the by Claire Coppola who has been The reason I am noting this is to start passing of our fellow member Pat working so hard on the new “TTCA Versatile Companion Dog Awards.” out apologizing in case this message Nelson on April 8. Our last newsletter is missing some of the new and shared about some of her The area of performance has not important club activities that have accomplishments. Though I never received the attention that I and occurred in the past couple of had the privilege of meeting her, the many others feel it deserves. You months. I have tried to stay on top of impact of her love and dedication to will find an article in this newsletter things, but as any of you who have the breed was something I was very (Continued on page 3) THE TIBETAN TERRIER CLUB OF Deadline for Next Issue Please submit content for the next AMERICA (TTCA) issue of The TT Times by July 1. Yes, you! Don’t be shy. TTCA members ADVANCING & PROTECTING are enraptured by all things Tibetan THE INTERESTS OF Terrier. Just like you! So participate! Write. Send photos. THE TIBETAN TERRIER BREED You’ll be glad you did. [email protected] . Vol XLXI No. 3 The TT Times The Newsletter of the The T T Times Tibetan Terrier Club of America Volume XLXI Issue 3 M a y - J u n e 2 0 1 7 Betsy Richards 1 President’s Message Sheryl Getman 3 Aura’s J C Walks on Water 2004-2013—Elegy on the passing of a TT Pat Carroll 4 The Last Goodbye—Friends, family and peers remember a bright spirit and generous soul Sheryl Getman 8 Pat, Pat, Pat in my life Primož Peer 9 A Special Friend and Soulmate Fran Kridakorn 10 GET DOWN: Unleash the Party Animal—Celebrate the joy of TT companions and raise money for rescue Photo by Andrea Töpel 11 TT Companion Celebration May 30, 2017 Susan Fuchs 12 IN SESSION: Animal Assisted Psychotherapy—Child psychiatrist clients wait to book appointments with TT Photos by Susan Fuchs 13 This First Responder Answered the Call to Comfort and Alleviate Trauma Pat Carroll 14 AKC NEWS: Rally Program Enhancements—AKC establishes first rally championship, new classes Stacey LaForge 15 AKC DELEGATE REPORT: Clubs may potentially hold shows in areas of other clubs Pat Carroll 15 AKC to roll out tool to keep Marketplace breeders honest 17 TTCA Officers and Board Members Sandy White 17 Reserve your ad space in the 2016 TTCA Journal/Yearbook Amy Soderman 18 K9 NOSEWORK: Sisu’s Corner—Tibetan Terrier reveals criteria for good nose work treats Vance Lancaster 19 Going to the Dogs: A cocktail before the show is sure to get your tail wagging Pat Carroll 20 AWARDS: Performance Art—New TTCA Versatile Companion Dog Award recognizes multiple performance wins Claire Coppola 20 AWARDS: Qualifying AKC and non-AKC Titles Nancy Lee Hammel 23 AWARDS APPLICATION: TTCA Versatile Companion Dog Awards Pat Carroll 24 AWARDS: Tibetan Terrier Named Canada’s 2016 ‘Multi-Discipline Top Dog’ Mary Frances Martin 25 PHOTO: Danser Wish for a Rish “Rishi” earns his CD title Kathy Rupprecht 25 PHOTO: MACH2 Luktu Power Paws to Agilhas “Minnie” wins new agility championship title Vicki Hawkins 26 MEMBERSHIP MATTERS Kerry Abbott 26 DONATIONS: TIBETAN TERRIER HEALTH AND WELFARE FOUNDATION 27 2017 TTCA NATIONAL SPECIALTY: It’s your show—make it epic. Lynne Fardell, et al 28 PHOTOS: 2017 TTCA MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL SPECIALTY 2 | Page M a y - J u n e 2 0 1 7 ….. 29 The TT Times Vol XLXI No. 3 [Type here] PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE (Continued from page 1) Well, I have to get back to working with my team describing the new awards and the application on the upcoming 2017 TTCA National Specialty in form. This has been long in the making and is now Clymer, New York. We have an exciting, fun-filled available to the many TT owners who already week of events planned. Please be sure to reference participate in so many of the venues involved. the 2017 TTCA National Specialty web page and Thanks to dedicated efforts from Claire and her schedule for the latest information. This is the best team, we now have it. place to find out if there have been any changes to If you haven’t seen the changes involved in the what’s happening. I am really looking forward to new (since 2016) Futurity guidelines, be sure to seeing new and old friends there. Be sure to introduce visit the TTCA website to review them. As many yourself! of you know, a glitch in the Futurity guidelines – Betsy Richards, TTCA President occurred in the first Premium List for the TTCA 40th Annual National Specialty. Fortunately, RAU published the correct guidelines in a revised premium list; you can link to it here. The TTCA also sent a notice via email to members who opt in for club announcements. We hope that there will be no further confusion for those interested in participating in the Futurity Stakes at the national this year. Something new from the AKC will be what they are calling the “Club Member Management Tool.” According to their recent announcement, the AKC will roll “this out to the Parent Clubs first Jessie, 2004-2013. Photo by Sheryl Getman before getting feedback, improving it, and then expanding to include Member Clubs as well. This When Aura’s J C Walks on Water “Jessie” passed away on May 7, he brought the loss many password-protected tool enables a club’s of us have experienced to the Dan and Sheryl designated officer to easily confirm or deny the Getman household. The consequences of such claims by a breeder that they are a member of your an event, and of the grieving, are not always predictable. Here is a poem about the Getmans’ breed club.” I am sure we will be hearing more consequences. about this as it becomes available but it sound like a good thing. AURA’S J C WALKS ON WATER 2004-2013 My last note goes out to 2017 TTCA Mid- We knew we would accidentally fill your dinner bowl. We saw the darkness, called out, but your ghost ran. Atlantic Regional Specialty Show Chair Lynne Searching for your fragrance, your breath: demand a toll. Fardell and TTCA member Flossie Barczewski Our hearts longed for your breeders, ancestor sires, and dams. and all those who worked with them to put together You kept the coyotes, big cats, and bears away from the the 4th annual TTCA Mid-Atlantic Regional knoll. Specialty. THANK YOU! Lynn and Flossie and Daughter girls were protected by your cocky howls and team did a great job, as always, and deserve slams. recognition for their hard work. I only got to be In fright and sorrow, we stroked your coat of golden there on Friday for the supported entry at the feathers. Your humans, breed fans, propped us in virtual get- Wilmington Kennel Club All-Breed Dog Show, togethers. but there was a pretty good turnout and we had a What we didn't know, thunder love from friends of all weathers. great time. We could not have had weather more The savory whole. We could extol. TT birth to death is.... Rock’n’roll. different than last year’s, which was cold and wet. – Sheryl Getman This year it was in the upper eighties and sunny! May- June 2017 3 | P a g e Vol XLXI No. 3 The TT Times REFLECT The Last Goodbye Friends, family and peers remember a bright spirit and generous soul The distinguished Pat Nelson is She briefly attended Wilson College life, she loved listening to Agatha dead. before graduating from Penn State Raisin and other murder mystery The internationally respected University in 1965 with a B.A. in books on tape.” Spanish and a Master’s degree in member of the Tibetan Terrier Club Susan said that her mother left her of America (TTCA), early advocate education in 1972. She also “two living things” to remember her for the Native Tibetan Terrier completed work towards a Ph.D. in by: “A beautiful courtyard garden … International Project and creator of education from the University of and her darling Tibetan Terrier the Tibetan Terrier Online Database Michigan. She taught Spanish at ‘Danny’” Ch (Dscho Utra Fortune died April 8 at her home in Penns Valley Area High School in Dazmo). Pleasanton, California, the same Spring Mills, Pennsylvania for many years in the 1970s. day—as fate would have it—that her PAT’S FORAY INTO THE WORLD of Nicknamed “the swan” by her late husband Floyd G. Nelson Tibetan Terriers and their pedigrees sister, Barbara Porter Vitaliano, Pat (“Sam”) perished in a United States began in the mid-1990s when a friend was a “bright, generous spirit” who Navy airplane accident on Cheju gifted her with a young bitch named loved her family, cooking, gardening Island, South Korea 58 years before.