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Winter Is Less Eventful! Produced Gone Down Like a Deck of Cards In this issue Cover: The Greeting Photo: Sue Phillips 2 From the President 2 New Members 3 Committee Matters 4 Regional News - Northern Crack 5 New Champions Feature 9 Health Matters 13 Shadow Becomes an Author 14 Voted BEST BREED CLUB Spanish News MAGAZINE by 17 Regional News - Welsh News & Views “Dog World” newspaper 18 Saint-Gaudens and Deerhounds and Midland Counties 21 Regional News - Midland Canine Society Matters 22 Limited Shows Feature from the editor 33 Regional News - Scottish Notes 34 Frampton Country Fair Our 125th anniversary year, of the enviously at our free publication 35 Deerhound Collectables founding of the club, is drawing to a produced three times a year. close. I would like to think that past 36 Best Puppy Feature generations of members would consider May I wish you all and deerhounds 40 Regional News - Southern that the club is in good hands. everywhere - Snippets. Dartmoor Vale Marathon A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS, A 41 Members celebrated the anniversary with HAPPY NEW YEAR, AND, IF YOu How to get your Hound fit for Lure Coursing a successful Breed Show at Dunston SHOW YOuR HOuNDS, SuCCESS IN 42 Hall, in Norwich. In the autumn, we THE COMING YEAR. Dicksee Masterpiece celebrated again with THREE Limited 43 Regional News - Events East shows instead of the usual one. 44 Paws and Wheels 46 Regional News - Thames Valley I hope the club and it’s members today Voice leave a legacy, so that when the 150th 47 Deerhound Breed Seminar. anniversary is celebrated, the club and Comments on Necks, Shoulders the breed are in good shape. and Fronts 48 Discover Dogs I would like to thank everyone who has 49 Portosystems Shunt Testing contributed to the success of the Newsletter in 2011. Gifted feature 50 Celebrating Marriage & Deerhounds writers, excellent photographers, generous advertisers and patient proof 51 Show Results readers et al. I could not do the job 53 Caption Competition without all your contributions! Also, The Granary, Huntworth Park Farm Huntworth, Nr Bridgwater 54 Regional News - Irish Eyes thank you to printers, Maslands, who Somerset TA7 0AH 56 Insight always produce a quality product. I Tel: 01278 663752 know other breed clubs have looked email: [email protected] The Deerhound Club is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for ANY damage or loss whatsoever resulting from the use/misuse of information contained or implied by this Newsletter and does not guarantee its accuracy. Any opinions, suggestions or recommendations expressed in the Newsletter should not be interpreted as the opinions, suggestions or recommendations of the Deerhound Club. The Deerhound Club strongly advises all owners of pets with health problems to consult their veterinary surgeon. No responsibility or liability can be accepted for any advice given through these pages. The Deerhound Club is not responsible or liable directly, or indirectly, for ANY form of damage or loss resulting from the use/misuse of any product suggested or recommended through these pages. 1 WElCOME new Club Members T h e D E E R H O U N D C LU B Colin & Gillian Priest Michael & Mary Anne Pettitt Banff, Scotland Watford, Herts PATRON kenneth Cassels James Whiteman Mrs Doreen Cummins Upper Beeding, Sussex Bridport, Dorset PRESIDENT Mary Girling COMMITTEE Joyce Bond Jocelyn Duddell president’s news Mary Girling - Judges Co-ordinator Sarah Helps - Breed Health & Welfare to envisage what it is like to see Co-ordinator hounds tackling a quarry of that size, Vanessa Lucas - Members Secretary but it is important we remember how Nell MacBean - Trophy/Cup Steward and why our Deerhounds have evolved. Sue Piggott - Vice President Sue Reynolds - Rehoming & As you know, this year the Club held Puppy Enquiry Co-ordinator the annual Open Breed Show at In this 125th Anniversary Year of the Norwich, and then in the autumn an Gill Smith - Chairman of Committee Deerhound Club, I was delighted to ambitious three Limited Shows – Ann (Sid) Taylor - Hon Secretary be asked to give a talk at the Scotland, the Midlands, and the Hazel Williams - Hon Treasurer Deerhound seminar about the history South of England. And despite of the Deerhound (in 30 minutes!). rising fuel costs and declining Joan Wragg - Newsletter Editor/Designer entries at Championship shows, Once I began researching, I realised Deerhound members supported these there is a wealth of literature about events – they entered their hounds, our hounds, and a fascinating topic supported raffles, contributed to SUBSCRIPTIONS could turn into a tedious sequence of rosette costs, helped provide dates, facts and names. So I decided Subscriptions should be paid directly to excellent food for exhibitors and the Hon Treasurer, Hazel Williams, an illustrated talk was the answer, gave special prizes. but how to start? By chance I came Manor Farm Cottage, Astwith, Pilsley, across the Deerhound chapter in Chesterfield, Derbys, S45 8AN. More importantly, members enjoyed email: [email protected] Michael Barnett’s, ‘ BOOk OF the shows and the social camaraderie LARGE DOGS ’. Written by Miss engendered, an essential part of Club Hartley, one paragraph provided the Subs are due on the 1 January and must shows for so many of us. A big be paid by the 14 February otherwise perfect introduction, with Landseer’s thank you to everyone who imposing Monarch of the Glen large you will be liable to a £10.00 rejoining contributed in any way, and here’s fee. upon the screen: hoping we continue to breed and show Deerhounds that our forebears unfortunately, due to high bank charges “The breed standard was drawn up would instantly recognise. in 1892 by men who knew the we cannot accept euro cheques. We can hunting dogs and the type that was however, accept travellers’ cheques. needed for their work. A red deer Mary GirlinG Overseas members can pay by PAYPAL stag can stand four feet at the - please add £2.00 extra to your withers and weigh up to 250 lbs., so subscription to cover PAYPAL admin to hunt him successfully a dog must charges. be both fast and strong. If speed alone had been sufficient a http://www.paypal.co.uk/uk Greyhound would have been perfect, account: [email protected] but more strength and weight were needed for so big a quarry and the MEMBErSHiP FEES heavier breeds had not the speed and uk Single £15.00 agility that was required to catch up uk Joint £20.00 with the deer and avoid the sweep of Overseas £20.00 + Newsletter - his dangerous antlers.” postage Joining fee £10 It is now impossible for most of us Re-joining fee £10.00 2 Committee Matters We held an all day committee meeting on for what is a very long day, it would seem least one of Remembrance Sunday, November 13th, reasonable, in return, for us to expect a these days each with a two minute silence at 11:00 am. certain measure of comfort for the dogs. year. The Since we'd had to cancel the September morning meeting in order to ensure committee We held three Limited shows this year, in session was representation at the Frampton Court celebration of our 125th anniversary. All open to C list Country Fair lure-coursing event, we had a reports indicate that they were a roaring judges and weighty agenda to get through. success. We were so lucky to be given lots anyone with of lovely special prizes - a big thank you to an interest in As well as all the usual business, the everyone who donated them. Our thanks the breed. November meeting is traditionally the one also go to our judges, stewards and The in which we update the Club's judges list. everyone who helped, especially the valiant afternoon Mary Girling presented us with the up-to- souls who kept the masses fed. Personally, session was by invitation only, purely date facts and figures for consideration. I'd never have got through the day at the because it is a labour-intensive exercise for Several judges have moved up the lists and Scottish show without Duncan and Bridget the assessors, and invitations went to judges they will be hearing from Mary in due Robertson and their delicious bacon rolls. on our B list who are getting close to the course. Since we have now instigated a Next year we will revert to one Limited numbers needed to progress to the A3 list. programme of breed-specific assessments as show in the Midlands at the end of Joyce and Joss are already planning a more recommended by the kennel Club, the September, but we might be persuaded to informal teach-in day in the spring. Let judges list criteria will shortly be amended run more than one in 2013 if there is them know if you're interested. to reflect the new requirements. keep an sufficient demand. eye in the Newsletter and the website for Health matters We have been invited to these changes. We heard from those of our number who'd take part in a research project to establish attended that the lure-coursing at Frampton the level of porto-systemic shunt (liver Some of you will remember signing a Country Fair had been quite successful, shunt) in Deerhounds. The committee feels petition circulated at the breed show to ask especially as a PR exercise for Deerhounds, that this will be a useful exercise, more the kennel Club to increase the bench size but although we'd been made very welcome details on page 49. The Animal Health Trust for Deerhounds at Crufts. Copies went to (and asked back next year) it wasn't has offered to establish a DNA bank for us the chair of the Crufts Committee, who has considered to be a complete substitute for at minimal cost to owners.
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