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VERSATILE HUNTING DOG A Publication of The North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association • Volume XLIX • No. 10 • October 2018 THE TOUGHEST TEST VERSATILE IF SOMEONE HUNTING DOG Volume XLIX • No. 10 • October 2018 TOLD YOU THAT NAVHDA International Officers & Directors David A. Trahan President Bob Hauser Vice President Steve J. Greger Secretary Richard Holt Treasurer Chip Bonde Director of Judge Development Andy Doak Director of Promotions FEATURES Tim Clark Director of Testing Tim Otto Director of Publications Steve Brodeur Registrar 4 The Toughest Test • by Renata Canaday Tracey Nelson Invitational Director Marilyn Vetter Past President 8 Choosing Or Breeding A Hunting Dog • by John Salassa M.D. & Mark Olcott D.V.M. Versatile Hunting Dog Publication Staff 12 Levi • by Dori Hollingsworth Mary K. Burpee Editor/Publisher Erin Kossan Copy Editor Sandra Downey Copy Editor 14 Second Time Around • by Troy Anderson Rachael McAden Copy Editor Patti Carter Contributing Editor Dr. Lisa Boyer Contributing Editor OF THE TOP 100 Nancy Anisfield Contributing Editor/Photographer Philippe Roca Contributing Editor/Photographer Wight Greger Women’s Editor 12 Dennis Normile Food Editor 91 Maria Bondi Advertising Coordinator SPORTING Marion Hoyer Webmaster * DOGS EAT THE SAME Advertising Information Copy deadline: 45 days prior to the month of publication. Commercial rates available upon request. BRAND OF FOOD All inquiries or requests for advertising should be addressed to: NAVHDA PO Box 520 DEPARTMENTS Arlington Heights, IL 60006 President’s Message • 2 Voice 847/253/6488 • Fax 847/255/5987 Would you ask Email [email protected] About The Cover • 4 what it is? Web www.navhda.org Classifieds • 17 See our web site or call for current rates. The Forum • 18 Please submit all articles for and questions pertaining to the Kennel Registrations • 18 VHD (other than advertising) to [email protected], with ATTN Test Results • 19 VHD Editor in the subject line or by mail via the postal ser- vice to NAVHDA, PO Box 520, Arlington Heights, IL 60006. Calendar Of Events • 28 © 2018 The North American Versatile CATHY BREITSPRECHER © 2018 Hunting Dog Association, Inc.• All Rights Reserved. Printed in the USA The North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association does not discrim- 8 inate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age in its programs, activities, or in its hiring and employment practices. The Versatile Hunting Dog is published monthly and is the official publica- tion of The North Amercian Versatile Hunting Dog Association (NAVHDA), a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to fostering, improving, promoting and protecting the versatile hunting dog in North America and to the conservation of all game. The basic annual membership dues are $60 (US Funds.) Membership benefits include a monthly subscription to the Versatile Hunting Dog mag- azine, decal, participation in all NAVHDA events (at membership discount HELPS OPTIMIZE 30% PROTEIN / rates) and full voting privileges. All contributions are tax-deductible. SUPPORTS A copy of NAVHDA’s most recent financial report can be obtained by OXYGEN METABOLISM IMMUNE SYSTEM 20% FAT contacting: NAVHDA, 120 W. Eastman St, Arlington Heights, IL 60006- 5950. 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President’s Message By Dave Trahan Deerfield, New Hampshire HUNT FOR BIRDS, NOT BUTTONS. Gone Hunting ’d like to thank the volunteers who helped Tracey Our versatile dogs are bred to do all parts of the hunt. We Nelson and her crew at the 2018 NAVHDA Invitational train them to develop their abilities. We also train them to Iin Iowa last month. They did a great job. I also want to work with us as a team—that’s where the cooperation and thank my fellow judges for giving their time in the field and obedience come in. Now, as hunting season opens or has at the water. Including set-up, the Invitational test starts on opened across the country, we can focus on our goal: en- Monday before the test and continues for a week. Thanks to joying safe, productive days in the fields, woods and water the Hawkeye Chapter for pulling off this great event again. with our great dogs. Congratulations to those of you who passed and received So, let’s all pack our bags and gear, and go hunting. After your Versatile Champion title! This month is the beginning all, that’s what we trained for all summer long. of a great hunting season after all that hard work you have put in this summer. Gone Hunting, Dave PRO 550 PLUS Build a dog worth hunting over with training levels you can adjust and tracking that shows which direction your dog is heading. 2 Versatile Hunting Dog • www.navhda.org October 2018 October©2018 Garmin2018 Ltd. or its subsidiaries. Versatile Hunting Dog • www.navhda.org 3 18-MCJT12124 Pro 550 Plus Ad_UPLAND-8.25x10.5-NAVHDA.indd 1 8/20/18 3:42 PM About The Cover The ToughestStory & Photos By Renata TestCanaday Buffalo, New York caveat: I don’t hunt. I don’t own a hunting dog remained quiet. A few of us knew that something was cocktail of chemo, Benadryl and steroids. To be followed by (or any dog, for that matter—I’m staff to two bad wrong, but we had to wait until she wanted to share the four bi-weekly double cocktails of chemo and ingredients I Acats). Yet, here I am in the middle of a hunting dog news—that after a routine mammogram, she had been can’t even begin to spell or pronounce. All through her treat- magazine. What I am is a photographer. A teller of stories diagnosed with breast cancer. Even now as I write this, ments, all through the side effects of hair loss, all through the with photographs and words. despite how well she has done in her treatments and the peaks of crazy energy, followed by valleys of exhaustion, Some years ago, a friend thought I should photograph good prognosis going forward (I won’t make you wait for Carey trained with her Weimaraner, Sally. She lifted weights dogs. I tried it and I liked it. Then, that same friend thought good news), my eyes are filling. The first day of training and she ran races weekly with her husband, Jason. And she I should photograph hunting dogs. I tried it and I loved it. was a little rough—there were the rest of the members of continued to train with Sally. And she signed Sally up for the Then came the invitation to come and photograph for the the chapter who needed to be told. We are a pretty raucous upcoming NAVHDA Fall Utility Test. Finger Lakes Chapter of NAVHDA. I went, and that’s when family; a lot of laughter, a lot of joking. But that day we Week by week, Carey worked with Sally. She worked I met my new forever family. were quiet. Our normally strong and vivacious Carey was with respected local dog trainer, Esther Cassatt, on heeling. It’s a family as disproportionate as any can be, from all alternately fighting tears and trying valiantly to laugh. As She worked with kennel owner/dog trainer and NAVHDA walks of life, with diverse political beliefs and a variety of she told everyone that day, it appeared that one person icon, Al Burkhart, on retrieving and searching.