BCOA Bulletin April-May-June 2007
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BCOA Business President’s Message ..........................2 Make your Treasurer’s Reports ........................5-6 plans now! Editor’s Message ...............................4 October 13-19, 2007 Pleasanton, CA Learn about Columns & Feature Articles basenji native hunting skills Affi liate Club Columns ......................... 40-50 The Offi cial - pg. 18 Africa - Home of Our Basenjis ................... 10 Basenji Native Traits-Preservation Project .......... 18 ULLETIN BCOA AKC Trial ........................................ 49 Breeders’ Forum ........................................ 22 of the Basenji Club of America, Inc. For the Health of Your Dog ......................... 8 Anja Strietzel From Africa With Love .............................. 26 Giraffe Named Arnieta .............................. 20 B (USPS 707-210) describes her ISSN 1077-808X travel to the God Bless the USDA ................................. 36 Is Published Quarterly Dark Continent Honing Fostering Skills .............................. 24 March, June, September & December - pg. 10 Memoriam-Anne Rogers Clark ...................34 By the Basenji Club of America, Inc. Refl ections ................................................ 16 8050 Old River Road, Rockford, IL 61103-8736 Periodical Postage Paid at Rockford, Il Departments Find out what these POSTMASTER: 2007 Affi liate Club Specialty Dates ............. 2 Send address changes to: mystery letters mean Basenji Club of America, Inc. and how they can AKC Delegate’s Report & AKC News ......... 39 Wanda Pooley affect our dogs ~ ASFA ACoD Report ................................... 24 8050 Old River Road EPI Rockford, Il 61103-8736 For the Health of our Basenji Briefs ............................................. 48 Dogs - pg. 8 Copyright © 2006 Club & Publication Information ................. 56 by the Basenji Club of America Inc. DFWBC Specialty Results .......................... 44 All Rights Reserved. Health Clinics, upcoming .......................... 51 Material may be reprinted without written Junior Showmanship Tally ......................... 48 permission in publications From Africa of BCOA Affi liate Clubs only. LGRA Rankings ......................................... 47 - Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual With Love New Titles ................................................. 53 authors. Articles & opinions do not necessarily express Part 4th in a 4-Part Obedience Tally ........................................ 47 or represent the policies & opinions of the Basenji Club of America, Inc. Advertising does not constitute series on pg. 26 OFA Reports ..............................................52 endorsement by the Basenji Club of America Inc. and Perpetual Specialty Calendar ..................... 51 under no circumstance does publication of advertising guarantee services or products of its advertisers. The ADVERTISING – Display & Commercial Editor, under the jurisdiction of the Club Offi cers & Board of Directors, reserves the right to reasonably Jokuba Basenjis ...................................C1 Diane Coleman Award ...................32-33 edit or refuse to print all material submitted, includ- ing advertising. Beaubri Basenjis ..................................C2 Della Sehm .......................................... 31 Editor Melar Basenjis .....................................C3 Jokuba Basenjis ..................................... 3 Wanda Pooley Svengali Basenjis .................................C4 Joy-Us Basenjis ....................................46 Copy Editors 2007 BCOA National Specialty ........... 35 Meisterhaus ....................................14-15 Soraya Jenkins Karlene Schoonover AdventureLand Basenjis ........................ 9 New World Basenjis ............................ 11 Lisa Marshall African Stock Proj. Books & CD .......... 47 Slonaker, Jeff & Scotti .......................... 25 Copy Coordinator Ankhu Basenjis ....................................23 Stilwell Basenjis.............................. 20-21 Susan Chuvala Advertising Managing Editor Basenji Club of SE Wisconsin ................ 6 Tanza Basenjis ............................... 28-29 Melody Falcone Canis Basenji .......................................47 UnderCover Basenjis .............................7 ON THE COVER DC Jokuba-Asia’s Let Freedom Ring, - “Freedom” Sire: DC Jokuba-Meisterhaus E. Pluribus Unum x Dam: Ch Jokuba UnderCover Alibi Russella Bowen-Wilkerson • Jokuba Basenjis www.Jokuba.com - [email protected] • 803-408-1111 The Basenji Club of America, Inc. BULLETIN - 1 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE BASENJI CLUB OF AMERICA, INC. Sally Wuornos 2007 Specialties The following dates are from AKC’s corresponding date table I am concerned that our based on the affiliated clubs’ 2006 specialty date(s) unless show members didn’t get otherwise notified of change of date by appropriate affiliated together and nominate judges club liaison. Information regarding venue, judges, show secretary/superintendent, etc. is updated as it is received from for the 2010 nationals. Only affiliated club liaisons. one judge received enough nominations (10) for the regular * Events listed are considered pending AKC approval until class judging, and two people notification of approval received from the appropriate affiliated club received enough nominations for liaison. sweepstakes. The best way to get a name on the ballot is to Basenji Club of Cincinnati - May 25 & May 26 work as a group. Get together at a dog show or club meeting * Greater Chicagoland Basenji Club - June 16 and hash out who you want to judge, otherwise you have * Willamette Valley Basenji Club - July 13 no grounds for complaining about who’s nominated! This is Basenji Club of Southeastern Wisconsin - July 27 your club and you, each and every one of you, need to take www.bcosw.org the initiative to participate. * Evergreen Basenji Club - August 3 & August 4 This year, two of our board members, Karla Schreiber www.basenji.org/ebc/activities.html and Wanda Pooley, will be attending the AKC Parent Club * Hoosier Basenji Club - August 18 Conference. They will participate in various forums, with * Basenji Club of Northern California - October 20 many different aspects of dog clubs to choose between * Indian Nations Basenji Club - November 1 – Anti-Canine Legislation, Parent Club Communications, * Basenji Fanciers of Greater Phoenix - September 14 National Specialty, Breed Standards, How to Grow and Sustain Parent Club Membership. The legal forums and rescue forums will be particularly interesting. On display throughout the conference hours will be an Electronic & Print Resource room for displaying parent clubs’ publications and BCOA ARCHIVES communication services. The delegates will submit a report about the convention for in a future Bulletin issue. I want to urge every member to keep abreast of the OKLAHOMA STATE developing news concerning the ongoing Fanconi research. UNIVERSITY Bookmark the endowment web site, http://www.basenjihealth. org to stay current on the latest news. If you don’t have a LIBRARY computer, use one at your local library. Also, please remember that Dr. Gary Johnson is working on a marker-based test. He has enough information on the location for the mutant gene to When making donations, provide us with this interim test. The research for the actual please make your check mutant gene will continue, but this marker-based test will provide us with a tool to use until the actual gene is located. payable to: This is, in my opinion, the most important research work that has taken place in basenji health in 35 years. The last “OSU Foundation Library” time we had an important breakthrough was when the test for hemolytic anemia was developed. Note your donation is for the BCOA Archives I hope each one of you read the section in last quarter’s Mail to Kay Bost, OSU Bulletin that covered the differences/contrasts between BCOA Edmund Low Library and the BHE (Basenji Health Endowment). It is important Special Collections Department that each member understand that these organizations are not Room 204 one and the same thing. The BHE will be doing the updates Stilwater, OK 74078-1071 on the Fanconi testing, so all the information needed to do the testing, once the test is developed, will be on that web site. The Basenji Club of America, Inc. BULLETIN - 2 Freedom Does It All! DC Jokuba-Asia’s Let Freedom Ring From being a show dog……. To chasing bunnies…………. To being a Mom! Freedom was bred to Ch Eldorado’s Terrarust Whirlwind. Thank you Pam and Sheila for taking such great care of Freedom while visiting the gang at Eldorado. Russella Bowen-Wilkerson • Jokuba Basenjis • 803-408-3111 • [email protected] • www.Jokuba.com The Basenji Club of America, Inc. BULLETIN - 3 FROM THE EDITOR by Wanda Pooley ***CHANGE OF ADDRESS NOTICE*** IF YOU MOVE, please notify the BCOA Treasurer of your new address. Unless specifi cally requested, the USPS will not THEN forward periodicals, such as the Bulletin, to your new address. To avoid missing your magazines, you must inform the Club of Back in 1994 when I jumped your address change. If we do not receive a Change of Address on the band wagon to work on notice, the cost of a replacement issue is $6.50. the 1996 national specialty, The USPS charges $ .75 for each incorrect mailing address, things were very different - returns only the cover with a label affi xed showing the new communication-wise. We relied address, and destroys the remainder of the magazine. heavily on snail-mail and the However, in the course of any mailing, if