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SUMMER, 1998 BEST DILUTE BURMESE GC, RW Tobytots Marguerite Rose Breeder/Owner: Marilyn Toben 1 Summer, 1998 Dear Members, NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BURMESE LOOK!! Inside this issue . BREEDERS, INC. Treasurer‘s Quarterly Report 2 Once again, our own government threatens us 19981998----19991999 with coercive legislation. And, once again, the Board of Directors Feline Genome Project 2 Doris Day Animal League is behind it all. Please turn immediately to pages 3-9 and set about PRESIDENT - Pat Jacobberger writing your letter of concern and response to the 2701 Overlook Drive LEGISLATIVE ALERT! READ 3-7 USDA! This is the time to put everything aside and Bloomington, MN 55431 IMMEDIATELY! step to the plate. Last year was only a petition to E-mail - [email protected] FAX - 612-888-8311 consider doing something. This year is the year SAMPLE LETTERS TO SEND THE 8-9 that we need to work hard to stop this impending SECRETARY - Kim Landry USDA!! legislation. 6836 Forum Street NABB August Show Flyer 10 San Diego, CA 92111 On a lighter note, this is also the Newsletter E-mail - [email protected] issue where we celebrate the achievements of each Annual NABB, Inc. Burmese Awards 13 of our beautiful Burmese cats. Once again it was a TREASURER - Chuck Reich thrill to applaud, whistle and cheer for each and 922 Columbia Place every one of the six (6) National Winning Burmese Boulder, CO 80303 E- Show Business 18 mail - [email protected] at the CFA Awards Banquet. While these were the cats that “made it into the Nationals,” we can all DIRECTOR - Erika Graf-Webster Burmese Breed Standards - A 20 take pride and joy in each Regional Award earned 11057 Saffold Way by a beautiful Burmese in the 1997-98 show World-Wide Comparison Reston, VA 22090 E- season. Congratulations to each one of your mail - [email protected] NABB Membership 23 Burmese! DIRECTOR - Lynn Thompson Burmese Study Guide 28 A moment for proud reflection as well. Our 235 W. Brandon Boulevard #218 own Toni Woolard has been named to the new CFA Brandon, FL 33511 Judging Committee. In this capacity, Toni will E-mail - [email protected] Comic‘s Corner 32 represent the exhibitors’ point of view on the committee. A new day and a new experiment in NEWSLETTER STAFF self governance for the CFA Fancy! We know that EDITOR - Pat Jacobberger The Mentor Program 34 Toni will do us proud! Congratulations! SHOW REPORTS - Kathy Rutledge ORIGINAL STORIES - Kim Landry If you have a chance, drop Toni a note. She is NABB Bulletin Board 38 recovering from a total knee replacement. She did extremely well with this surgery and will, no doubt, The National Alliance of Burmese be back on the show circuit soon. Take care Toni! Breeders, Inc. (NABB) Newsletter is published four times a year (Jan-Apr-Jul- How are you supporting the NABB Show Oct). Membership is available to On the Cover scheduled for August 29-20 in Clearwater, Florida? Burmese Breeders and Exhibitors. Lynn and her committee need your help with set- Associate membership is available to Burmese owners. To obtain information GC, RW Tobytots Marguerite Rose was best up, hospitality and any number of other activities. Hope as many of you can make it as possible! about NABB membership, please contact Dilute Burmese for the CFA show season ending any officer or director. April 30, 1998. Marguerite was bred by and is owned by Marilyn Toben. She finished the show Have a wonderful Summer and take care! NABB affiliated season with 4306.97 points. Congratulations and is breed thanks Marilyn for your donation for the a club Celebration Party! July, 1998 2 National Alliance of Burmese Breeders, Inc. Feline Genome Project NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BURMESE BREEDERS Genetics for Cats! TREASURER'S REPORT For Second Quarter: April 1, 1998 - June 30, 1998 The National Cancer Institute wants to establish a genetic database for research in CHECKING ACCOUNT domestic cat breeds as part of the Feline Genome Project. April This database will help to answer any genetic question including parentage, Beginning balance 4/01/98 $ 1,245.57 identity, gene pool diversity, best outcrosses, degree of inbreeding and assist with Income identifying inherited diseases. Membership dues renewals $ 320.00 Publications sales 21.00 Expenditures $ 0.00 WE NEED SAMPLES FROM ALL THE DIFFERENT CAT Balance 4/30/98 $ 1,586.57 BREEDS! May Samples should be donated from male and female cats which are among the most Income important cats for a given breed, particularly GC's, DM's, and top ten best of breed Membership dues renewals $ 130.00 winners, for any category. Cats can be of any age, fixed or intact, and can represent Publications sales 14.50 winners from any year. This project, however, is NOT limited just to winning Expenditures Patricia Jacobberger, Spring $ 753.34 cats - we want cats included from every line of a breed and from the contributors Newsletter of the breed. This project is not specific to any particular cat fancy association! Balance 5/31/98 $ 977.73 Cats from foreign countries are also desired, call 301-846-1299 for the import permit information. June Income $ 0.00 We need 25 males and 25 females from each breed, covering as many different Expenditures lines as possible. Ebe McCabe, Annual Meeting 67.68 refreshments Pat Jacobberger, Annual 163.98 NO COST TO THE BREEDER Meeting food Pat Jacobberger, Annual 57.39 The National Cancer Institute will pay for collection charges from the vet and Meeting printing shipment. Cats can be taken to the veterinarian specifically for this project, or the ADR Enterprises, Annual 399.94 samples can be collected during a routine visit. Many veterinarians may donate awards rosettes their services! Balance 6/30/98 $ 288.74 SHIPMENT SAVINGS ACCOUNT Arrange for a Fedex pick-up and ship by overnight delivery, using the National Beginning balance 4/01/98 $ 15,446.59 Cancer Institute's account number. Call 301-846-1299 to obtain the account Deposit, interest for April, 1998 $ +39.35 number. Samples should be wrapped in a paper towel, put into a baggie and Deposit, interest for May, 1998 +40.77 shipped in a box with an ice pack. Samples should be collected and shipped Deposit, interest for June, 1998 +39.56 Monday-Thursday. Balance 6/30/98 $ 15,566.27 SAMPLES SHOULD HAVE AN ANTI-COAGULANT SHOW ACCOUNT The samples can be collected in any type of blood tube with an anti-coagulant, Balance, 6/30/98 $ 2,000.00 including EDTA, heparin, ACD. Please send approximately 10 mls, which can be in one large tube or many small tubes. Any cat over 5 lbs. can easily donate this amount of blood. TREASURY BALANCE 6/30/98 $ 17,855.01 INCLUDE A PEDIGREE An official pedigree is not necessary but a pedigree should be sent for identification purposes. The pedigree should note the breed, sex, color of the cats and awards(if any). Breeders may also choose to include health information or concerns. All the information will be strictly confidential, not available to other breeders or cat fancy associations! Please contact us with any questions or concerns: Leslie A. Lyons, Ph.D. Phone: 301-846-1299 Senior Staff Fellow Fax: 301-846-1909 National Cancer Institute E-mail: [email protected] Building 560, Room 11-10 Frederick, MD 21702-1201 HELP US MAKE YOUR CATS HEALTHIER!!! 3 National Alliance of Burmese Breeders, Inc. 4 Summer, 1998 5 National Alliance of Burmese Breeders, Inc. NEED HELP GETTING STARTED ON THAT LETTER?! HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES!! WILLIAMS ELECTED Docket No. 97-018-2 PRESIDENT OF CFA Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD, APHIS, SUITE 3CO3 Manasquan NJ - Donald J. Williams of Ocala, 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Florida was elected president of The Cat Fanciers‘ Riverdale, MD 20737-1238 Association‘s (CFA) 92nd annual meeting held at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia. Gentlemen: The results of the mail ballots for 1998-2000 We wish to state our opposition to the fundamental approach of using any officers and regional directors were announced numbers at all, in the USDA attempt to classify a breeder of dogs or cats as during the opening session. commercial, or not, and therefore should, or should not be required to be licensed and regulated by the federal government. President Great Lakes Regional L. Baugh 144 Becky Jones* 28 We believe that counting the number of breeding females to define the Craig Rothermel * 162 Liz Watson 32 commercial status of the owner is arbitrary and discriminatory. This opinion is Donald Williams 213 Abstained 2 substantiated in some court cases, including a ruling issued by the Pennsylvania Abstained 5 Southwest Regional Commonwealth Court in 1994 that struck down a local ordinance that limited numbers of pets that a person could keep. By ruling that municipal ordinance Vice President George Eigenhauser 48 unconstitutional, the Court determined that using any threshold number to define Suzanne Beedy 144 Abstained 5 nuisance failed to address why any number under that threshold was not a Kim Everett* 356 Midwest Regional nuisance and any number above was - in other words, the arbitrariness of using Abstained 24 Linda Berg* 67 any number at all. The same principle applies in this situation. Secretary Abstained 6 Kitty Angell 275 Southern Regional Selling animals through wholesale channels would indicate commercialism, and it Willa Hawke* 242 Rhett Bockman 20 is by this interpretation that USDA has operated successfully for 25 years. If Abstained 7 Robert Cooney 1 numbers were to be used to define the commercial status of a breeder, then the Treasurer Jim DeBruhl 36 current commercial breeder licensee who maintains 10 breeding females and ships wholesale litter lots to commercial outlets throughout the country, might have to Donna Fuller* 438 Ande DeGeer 27 be reclassified, and would therefore be suddenly exempt from regulation.