September 2015 Volume 132, Number 9 INNER W BEST ONLINE MAGAZINE 2 014 Follow the GAZETTE on Facebook! C K A © G O D L L U B Table of Contents President’s AKC Times Dog 3Letter 4 Updates 8Past 9 People 24 BREED COLUMNS 10 AKC Weekly Toys 24 Brussels Griffons 28 Maltese Winners Gallery 25 Cavalier King Charles 29 Miniature Pinschers Spaniels 30 Papillons August 2015 25 Chihuahuas 31 Pekingese 26 Chinese Cresteds 32 Pugs 26 Havanese 32 Shih Tzu 27 Italian Greyhounds 33 Toy Fox Terriers Secretary’s 28 Japanese Chin 59 Pages Non-Sporting 34 American Eskimo Dogs 40 French Bulldogs 34 Bichons Frises 40 Keeshonden 36 Boston Terriers 41 Lhasa Apsos 37 Bulldogs 42 Löwchen 37 Chinese Shar-Pei 42 Poodles 37 Chow Chows 43 Schipperkes 38 Dalmatians 43 Shiba Inu 39 Finnish Spitz 44 Tibetan Terriers Herding 45 Australian Cattle Dogs 52 Collies 46 Australian Shepherds 53 Finnish Lapphunds 47 Bearded Collies 53 German Shepherd Dogs 48 Beaucerons 53 Icelandic Sheepdogs 48 Belgian Malinois 54 Norwegian Buhunds 49 Belgian Sheepdogs 55 Old English Sheepdogs 49 Border Collies 56 Pembroke Welsh Corgis Links to AKC Parent Clubs appear 50 Briards 56 Pulik * 51 Canaan Dogs 58 Pyrenean Shepherds following Secretary’s Pages * 51 Cardigan Welsh Corgis BREED COLUMNS SCHEDULE Our Team Consulting Publisher John Woods Sporting and Working Groups Editorial Director Erika Mansourian January, April, July, and October issues Senior Editor Arliss Paddock Hound and Terrier Groups Copy Editor Bud Boccone February, May, August, and November issues Senior Designer Kate McCroary Creative Production Director Russell Bianca Toy, Non-Sporting, and Herding Groups Senior Production Designer Chris Espiritu March, June, September, and December issues SaveSaavvvee anaan averageavavveerage ofof $5 onon youryyouour autoaauuutto insuranceinsurance*. 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There’s still time to find one in your area or to sign up to host an event at akc.org/rdod. I also encourage you to sign the AKC Responsible Dog Owner Pet Promise, a 10-step pledge that brings the message of AKC RDO Days to life by reminding all dog owners about the train - ing, grooming, exercise, and veterinary care that go into raising a healthy, happy dog. You can sign online at gopetition.com, or you can also print out a copy to take with you for visitors to sign at your own event at akc.org (search “Pet Promise”). Lastly, the finalists for the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Awards were announced this month as well. These annual awards spotlight nine individuals who have made a national impact on the sport of dogs. I encourage you to visit akc.org and read about the inspiring things these individu - als have accomplished after spending their lives in dogs . The winners in the Conformation, Companion Events, and Performance categories will be determined by member-club vote. So, member clubs: Please advise us of your club’s selection in each category by contacting Neil Singer at [email protected] by Friday, October 9. Sincerely, Dennis B. Sprung President and CEO We’d love to hear from you about what you think about our organization and our staff. Please write to us at feed - C [email protected]. AKC GAZETTE • 3 • SEPTEMBER 2015 GZ EDITED BY BUD BOCCONE; [email protected] Best of Bree der Presenting this year’s Breeder of the Year group winners. The AKC has honored seven kennels as 2015 AKC Breeder of the Year group win - ners. “The individuals who maintain these breeding programs have dedicated their lives AKC Breeders of the to the advancement of the purebred dog, producing dogs that are true to their breeds in Year appearance, ability, and temperament,” AKC President Dennis Sprung says. “I congratu - 2002 Wendell Sammet, Ale Kai Poodles; late them on their accomplishments, and we look forward to honoring these breeders 2003 Mary Rodgers, Marienburg at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship.” Doberman Pinschers; 2004 Catherine The name of the overall 2015 AKC Breeder of the Year will be announced Sunday, Nelson, Pennywise Dandie Dinmont December 13, in Orlando, Florida. The AKC will commission a portrait of a prominent Terriers; 2005 Dave and Peggy dog from the Breeder of the Year’s kennel, and the name of the breeder will be Helming, Pouch Cove Newfoundlands; inscribed on a perpetual trophy and plaque at AKC headquarters in New York. 2006 Douglas and Michaelanne Johnson, Bugaboo Old English Sheepdogs; 2007 Barbara Miller, Max- Sporting: Janet Bunce, Wochica her first dog show with her parents in Well Norfolk Terriers; 2008 Joan Golden Retrievers 1949. Her family-owned Wolfpit Kennel Savage, Stagedoor English Setters; 2009 Bunce focuses on producing sound has accounted for over 250 Cairn Terrier Claudia Orlandi, Topsfield Basset Goldens with broad chests, spring of rib, champions, including numerous top Hounds; 2010 Debbie Butt, Sporting good toplines, beautiful heads, smiling winners and producers. Fields Whippets; 2011 Pluis Davern, faces, straight tails, steady gait, and solid Sundowner Sussex Spaniels; 2012 composition. Wochica Golden Retrievers Toy: Arlene A. Czech, Coquina James Smith, Absolutely Smooth Fox have excelled in ring, obedience, and Papillons Terriers; 2013 Winifred Stout, Quissex field. In a limited breeding program, Czech Smooth Fox Terriers; 2014 Gwen has bred and shown 44 champions and DeMilta and Carissa DeMilta Shimpeno, Hound: Jay T. Hafford and James P. 44 performance-titled dogs. Her first Alisaton Doberman Blanchard, Thaon Reg. Afghan male earned a UD title at the 1964 Pinschers Hounds Papillon national and was the year’s top Thaon Reg. Afghan Hounds have won Papillon in obedience. the national seven times. Hafford and Blanchard have bred or owned seven all- Non-Sporting: Kathie Vogel, breed BIS winners who have won more Vogelflight Bichons Frises than 50 all-breed BIS. Since 1973, a Vogelflight Bichons have won many national specialties, and Working: Sylvia Hammarstrom, Breed, Winners Dog, Winners Bitch Skansen Giant Schnauzers (retiring the challenge trophy), Best In the 52 years since attending her first Bred-by, and Best in Sweeps awards. AKC show Hammarstrom has bred more than 1,200 champions, with hundreds of Herding: John Buddie, Tartanside BIS awards. Hammarstrom has put more Collies than 100 obedience titles on her dogs. Tartanside has breeder-owned over 150 champions, including 12 Register of T C E J Terrier: Lydia Coleman Hutchinson, Merit dogs; overall, Tartanside sires and B U S Wolfpit Cairn Terriers dams have produced 350 champions. Y S E T Lydia Coleman Hutchinson is a sec - Tartanside stock is the foundation for R U O ond-generation fancier who attended many of today’s top kennels. C AKC GAZETTE • 4 • SEPTEMBER 2015 GZ M&E’s Platinum Pages At last! Fifty-eight years after the final Lampert-Rudman, has been brought out edition of the original Morris and Essex in advance of the upcoming M&E show. Kennel Club Show, we now have the If the era covered in this luscious cof - fee-table book was indeed the sport’s golden age, then Morris and Essex was its platinum event. Every year for three decades (except during World War II), feel as though they are strolling the dogdom’s royalty con - Giralda show grounds in their hallowed verged on the New heyday—all that’s missing is one of Mrs. Jersey estate of M&E Dodge’s famous box lunches. The text is founder Geraldine authoritative, the photos are well chosen, Rockefeller Dodge, and the layouts are as elegant as the sub - who, William Secord ject they celebrate. writes in his introduc - The Golden Age of Dog Shows will stand tion, “with a family for - in the GAZETTE ’s library, right beside Bill tune behind her, spared Stifel’s admirable history of Westminster, no expense in making as an essential historical reference. It will Two Legends: Mrs. Dodge meets Rin Tin Tin, one of her dog show both ele - also, no doubt, be pulled from the shelf many VIPs who visited Giralda Farms. gant and prestigious.” frequently for the sheer fun of it. —B.B. The luxurious volume definitive book on the world’s most is stuffed with so many vintage photos, The Golden Age of Dog Shows: Morris & glamorous outdoor dog show. The Golden press clips, and pictures of M&E Essex Kennel Club 1927–1957, can be Age of Dog Shows: Morris & Essex Kennel ephemera (catalog pages, judge’s badges, purchased at the club’s website: mor - Club 1927–1957, with text by Debra rosettes, and so on) that readers might risandessexkennelclub.org. Nestlé Purina Donates $229,000+ to CHF The Nestlé Purina PetCare Company continues its longstanding support of canine health with a 2015 donation of over $229,000 to the AKC Canine Health Foundation. “Nestlé Purina PetCare is very proud of our long-standing partnership with the AKC Canine Health Foundation,” Ann Viklund, direc - tor of Conformation for the Breeder/Enthusiast Group at Nestlé Purina PetCare and a member of the CHF board of directors, says.