Boxer Club of Milwaukee News Briefs

Up-coming Events:

Waukesha Kennel Club B-OB Match Saturday Feb 14, 2009 more to follow…

Brags:

Marylou Mäder, Joe Jakubowski’s ”Lilly” passed her OFA Cardiac, CERF,and Holter 1,0

Erica Enders, “JJ” went RWD at the ABC Regional under judge Maureen Boyd. He is sired by her other male CH Adellins Wild Spirit of Nantess RN, “Dillon” and his dam is UKC CH Rugby the Country Girl RN,CGC, "Grace". JJ has 12 points to his name. He was handled at the Regional and to most of his wins by Tessie Savage.

Trish Olinghouse, CH Lando Tadd’s Kiss me Once Again CGC aka Stormy woned and bred by Donna Doane and myself went Back to back BOB at the Lawton, OK shows and GROUP 3 on Sunday owner handled! Stormy also made the final cut at the ABC regional, being in the compan of the TOP Specials in the country. Stormy is also health tested OFA Good hips, Normal Elbows, Echo/Doppler clear, DM carrier, Normal Holter with 0 pvc. Next, Tadd's Ruby in the Sky RA, CGC, aka "Skye" bred by Toma nd Donnal Doane and myself earned her first 2 legs toward her CD at the Boxer Regionals, taking a second place on day 1 and a first place on day 2, Skye had her Echo/Doppler done at the Regionals with excellent :0)

Linda Kulow’s “Cassius” went Grand Sweeps Winner at the Boxer Club of Oklahoma show.

I would say the Boxer Club of Milwaukee did our breed proud at these events!!

AKC news: Did you know the Groups are being re-designed? Watch for further details or check out www.akc.org

BCA news: Genetic Test for Canine Degenerative Myelopathy

Membership: A packet of information was mailed to a contact of Jean Adelmann please continue to send me any referrals for the club. Marylou

Mäder 414-342-6974

From the desk of the President: Tom Doane

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you that made our summer specialty show such a success! It always impresses me how everyone pulls together to make our guests feel welcome, the show go smoothly and get everyone well fed. We always get many compliments from participants, attendees, and the judges. I want to specifically thank Linda Kulow for being the glue that holds our club together, Erika Enders for creating and maintaining our new website, and Marylou Mäder for taking on the new responsibility of being our membership secretary and producing this News brief. Thanks to all of you for a great year.

As for 2009 , plans are well underway for next summer’s specialty show. We decided to host and educational seminar, and Dr. Marty Greer of the Veterinary Village in Lomira has agreed to give a presentation on Degenerative Myelopathy (DM). Now that we have a DNA test to indicate if a dog is cleared , at risk, or a carrier for DM, we have to consider this information in our breeding program. As Dr. Greer is a breeder of Welsh Corgis, another breed susceptible to DM, she is a great choice to help us understand this disease, the test and how we can use this information.

Due to the busy holiday season coming, we will not have another meeting until January. I hope you all have a very wonderful Holiday Season and a great start to the New Year. Let’s all work to make 2009 a great year for ourselves and for the Boxer Club of Milwaukee.

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