Skywriter
Volume 2006, Issue 5
President’s Message
The Holiday’s are fast approaching
and our own fun filled Holiday Party
will be held on Wednesday,
November 29th. Eve Ragalia is
chairing this event, so if you are
interested in coming, please call
her and she can talk you into
baking something for the party.
There will also be a doggy grab
bag. The Holiday Party has always
been a lot of fun, so please mark
your calendars and plan to attend.
It is also the last date that
members can turn in the forms for
the NJ Federation Breeder’s listing.
In addition, if anyone is interested
in attending or helping at any of our
future events; chairman, dates,
and any other related information
are listed on the club’s web site.
I hope everyone has a very Happy
Thanksgiving and for those of us
cooking – try not to work too hard!
Nov/Dec 2006
The winter health clinic
is planned for Feb. 18,
2007 from 8:00 AM to 2:00
PM. Check the club website
for details.
Babes in Skyland
BREEDER REFERRAL LISTINGS
www.jerseyskylandslrc.com/Breeder
Referral.htm
Sharon Celentano
BABES ALREADY LANDED
6 YEAR OLD BLACK FEMALE
Born: June 21, 2000
Hips OFA, Eyes current ACVO.
Good with children and other dogs.
Leash and crate trained.
Housebroken.
Karen Lolli (Cell) 845-283-5725
3 YEAR OLD YELLOW FEMALE
9 MONTH OLD BLACK FEMALE
Table of Contents
Stars of the Sky
2006 AAHA Vaccince
Gudelines
Boston’s Famous
Social Interaction
Vet Monographs
2007 Point Shows
Holiday Party Flyer
pg. 2
pg. 4
pg. 4
pg. 6
pg. 6
pg. 7
pg. 8
Born: August 23. 2005
Crate trained. Housebreaking & leash training
started.
Sire: CH. Boradors By George
OFA Good, Elbows Norm, Heart,
CERF ‘06 Opt.A1
Dam: Blackwatch In The Nick of
Thyme
OFA Hips/Elbows, ACVO Clear 4/05,
Opt.Clear
Karen Lolli (cell) 845-283-5725
BLACK MALE PUPPIES
Born: April 04, 2003
Lives as a house pet and likes other
dogs.
OFA Hips Good & Heart Clear, CERF
Feb. 2005
Microchipped and current on all shots.
Sire: AmCan.Ch. Beechcroft's Study
In Black
Dam: Pisgah's Oreo
Donna Sevchuk 908-537-7041
dsevchuk@earthlink.net
Sincerely,
YELLOW MALE PUPPIES
Born: February 7, 2006
Magic has a laid back temperament,
is very willing to please and learns
fast.
Sire: Ch. Whispering Pines Sir
Master Magician
Dam: Am.Can.Ch. Rockycreek Patriot's
Gun CD JH
Kathy Mines 908-475-5666 or Cell
908-319-3600
kmines587@comcast.net
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Born: October 23, 2006
Sire: Ch. Ghoststone Hyspire
Dressed to Impress
OFA Hips Excellent, Elbows Normal,
Heart Normal Doppler, Eyes ACVO
Clear 9/2006 Optigen A by parentage
Dam: Can. Ch. Brookberry's
Charming Addition
OFA Hips Good, Elbows Normal,
Heart Normal by Doppler, Eyes ACVO
Clear 2/2006 Optigen B
Donna Forte 973-729-6211
YELLOW MALE PUPPIES
Born: October 25, 2006
Sire: Ch. Ghoststone's Louie
Downtown CD WC
OFA Good, Elbows Norm, Heart,
CERF ‘06 Opt.A1
Dam: Ch. Shar-Jam's Fashion Plate
OFA Good, Elbows Normal, CERF
2006 Opt.A1
Sharon Celentano 845-564-6509
sharjamlabs@hvc.rr.com
The breeders listed in our referral service
are members in good standing of JSLRC,
but under NO circumstance does JSLRC
guarantee the services of said members.
The buyer should review all contracts
directly with the breeder.
Full members, eligible for additional benefits,
wishing to list a litter in the club newsletter and
on the website must do so in writing ON THE
CLUB FORM. Please send info to:
Laura Dedering - JSLRC Breeder Referrals by
email: jslrcinc@epix.net or snail mail:
98 Ramblewood Dr. Bangor, PA 18013-5601
JLRC Officers and Board:
President: Sharon Celentano
Vice Pres: Karen Lolli
Secretary: Donna Sevchuk
190 Asbury Anderson Rd
Asbury, NJ 08802
(908) 537-7041
Treasurer: Laura Dedering
Directors:
Ann Degraw
2007
Laura Muirhead 2007
Donna Forte
2007
Newsletter Staff:
Newsletter Editor and Publisher:
Leslie Plank
Smithtown, NY
631-724-7593
forestwood@dellmail.com
By Eleanor Palmieri
Committee Chairs are reminded to
contact new members and get them
involved in JSLRC activities.
Associate members who have been
active for at least one year at our
events are welcome to seek
sponsorship and apply for Full
membership.
Anyone interested in becoming a FULL
or an ASSOCIATE member of JSLRC
can contact our Membership Committee
for procedures and a membership
packet.
Call or write to Eleanor Palmieri JSLRC Membership Co-chair
252-728-0755 EPALMIERI@ec.rr.com
Contributing Editors
and Publishers:
SKYWRITER is a publication of the
Jersey Skylands Labrador Retriever
Club, Inc. published six times a year
with deadlines on the 15th of Feb, Apr,
Jun, Aug, Oct and Dec. Contributions
in the form of articles, news
comments, wins, litter, and other items
of interest to the membership are
encouraged. Opinions expressed are
those of the individual authors and not
those of the JSLRC either in whole or
in part. The Editor reserves the right
to edit materials in the interest of
space, literary clarity, good taste or
timeliness. All deadlines will be strictly
enforced. Subscriptions are available
to non-members for $12.00 per year
from JSLRC, through the Publisher.
Cedarcreek Brookberry Mahogany
Storm
Newton KC Match - BOB puppy &
Sporting Group 2
MJLRC - 4th 6-9 sweeps(AOAC) & 4th
6-9 regular(AOAC)
MJLRC(KISS) - 2nd 6-9
sweeps(AOAC)
Breeder: Sherri & Tyler Mattheis
Owner: Stephanie Forte/Sherri
Mattheis/Donna Forte
Can. CH Cedar Creeks Kanani
Mohala
Palisades KC – WB MAJOR
Back Mountain KC - WB, BOW
MJLRC – 4th Ambred
MJLRC – 1st Brood Bitch
Breeder/Owners: Sherri & Tyler
Mattheis
Cedar Creeks Tak'em by Storm
MJLRC – 2nd 6-9 mo reg and sweeps
Breeder/Owners: Sherri & Tyler
Mattheis
Gerri Kennedy-Youngblood
35 Eastview Drive
New Fairfield, CT 06812
203-746-9432
Snugharbor@gowebway.com
Lisa Grasso
Merrick, NY
516-456-9400
lisag22@optonline.net
Brookberry's Perfect Impression
JSLRC Encore Match - Best Puppy
Morris/Essex Match Show BOB puppy
& Sporting Group 1
Ramapo KC - WD, BOW
MJLRC - 1st 6-9 sweeps(AOAC) & 1st
6-9 regular(AOAC)
MJLRC(KISS) - 1st 6-9 sweeps & 3rd
regular
Breeder/Owner: Donna Forte/Kathryn
Mines/Stephanie Forte
Stars of the Sky
Can. Ch. Brookberry's Storm Story
Limestone City KC - WB, BOS
Karrs KC - WB
Valley KC – WB
NEW CANADIAN CHAMPION
Breeders: Donna Forte, Gerie Mines
Owners: Donna & Stephanie Forte
Am/Can Ch. Brookberry's Storm
Trooper RN
Back Mountain KC - 3rd Leg
NEW RALLY TITLE
MJLRC(KISS) - 2nd Stud Dog
Breeder: Donna Forte & Gerie Mines
Owner: Donna & Stephanie Forte
Forestwood’s Unbelievable
Riverhead KC “B” Match- 1st 3-6 puppy
Best Of Breed Puppy
Sporting Group 1
Best Puppy In Show
Breeder/Owner/Handler: Leslie Plank
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Cedar Creeks All that Jazz
MJLRC – 3rd 6-9 mo sweeps
Breeder/Owners: Sherri & Tyler
Mattheis
Branwood's Midnight Sky of
Tabatha
MJLRC – 1st Novice black
MJLRC (KISS) – 1st Novice black
Breeder/Owner/Handler: Hallie Sherck
Branwood Remembers Mariah the
Wind
MJLRC- 3rd BBE black
Bronx county KC – WB, BOS
Breeder/Owner/Handler: Hallie Sherck
Am/Can Ch. Rockycreek's On The
Road Again, CD, JH RN
Ramapo KC – Novice Rally leg
Backmountain KC – Novice Rally leg
Backmountain KC – Novice Rally leg
NEW RALLY TITLE
Breeder/Owners: Kathy & Gerie Mines
Stars of the Sky (continued)
Ch. Rockycreek's Cinnamon Teal
MJLRC – 3rd BBE AOAC
MJLRC (KISS) – 4th BBE AOAC
Gloucester KC – WB, 3 pt Major
NEW AKC CHAMPION
Breeders: Kathy & Gerie Mines
Owners: Janice, Kathy & Gerie Mines
Rockycreek's Sweet William
MJLRC – 2nd BBE AOAC, 1st 9-12
AOAC sweeps
BOS Sweeps
MJLRC (KISS) – 3rd BBE AOAC, 1st 912 AOAC sweeps
Breeder: Kathy Mines
Owners: Kathy Mines and Susan
Raynis
Can. Ch. Rockycreek's Delightful
Dilemma
MJLRC – 1st open chocolate
MJLRC (KISS) – 4th open chocolate
Breeder/Owners: Kathy & Gerie Mines
Cole-Pop’s Perfect Thyming
MJLRC – 1st 6-9 mo reg and sweeps
MJLRC (KISS) – 1st 6-9 mo reg, 3rd 6-9
sweeps
Raleigh Durham LRC #1 – 1st 6-9 mo
reg and sweeps
Raleigh Durham LRC #2 – 3rd 6-9 mo
reg, 4th 6-9 sweeps
Owners: Becky Poppiti, Karen Day
Cole-Pop’s Thyme Is On My Side
MJLRC – 2nd 6-9 mo reg, 4th 6-9 mo
sweeps
Raleigh Durham LRC #1 – 4th 6-9 mo
reg, 3rd 6-9 mo sweeps
Raleigh Durham LRC #2 – 4th 6-9 mo
reg
Owners: Becky Poppiti, Karen Day
Blackwatch Temptation
MJLRC – 1st 6-9 mo AOAC reg, 2nd 6-9
mo AOAC sweeps
MJLRC (KISS) – 2nd 6-9 mo AOAC reg,
1st 6-9 mo AOAC sweeps
Breeder/Owner/Handler: Karen Lolli
Barbie® Doll & Tanner™ Dog
Rockycreek's Sweet Liberty
MJLRC – 1st 9-12 reg AOAC, 2nd 9-12
AOAC sweeps
MJLRC (KISS) – 1st 9-12 reg AOAC, 3rd
9-12 AOAC sweeps
Best Puppy
Breeder: Kathy Mines
Owners: Kathy Mines and Susan
Raynis
Can. Ch. Folklaur Secret of the Maze
MJLRC Specialty - 2nd Open Yellow
Queensboro KC - RWB
Bald Eagle KC - WB
Breeder/Owner - Laura Dedering
Folklaur Ghostwriter
MJLRC Specialty - 2nd 6-9 Puppy
Dogs
MJLRC Specialty - 2nd 6-9 Sweeps
MJLRC Specialty (KISS) - 1st 6-9
Puppy Dogs
Breeder/Owner - Laura Dedering
Daycamp Special Edition
LRC National – 4th BBE
MJLRC – 3rd open yellow
Raleigh Durham LRC # 1 - open yellow
Owners: Becky Poppiti, Karen Day
Keepsake Dixie Rebel Rouser CDX
LRC National – 4th open chocolate
MJLRC – 3rd open chocolate
MJLRC (KISS) 2nd open chocolate
DOKC Supported Entry – 3rd open
chocolate
Raleigh Durham LRC #1 - 2nd open
chocolate
Raleigh Durham LRC #2 – 2nd open
chocolate
Owners: Becky Poppiti, Karen Day
Something For The Young
Labrador Fancier To Put On
Her Christmas/Chanukah
List!
OFA E*News
The Orthopedic Foundation for
Animals (OFA) has a new
electronic newsletter titled
"OFA E-News".
The first issue contains an
interesting article "Reducing the
Impact of Hip Dysplasia",
and is available at:
http://www.offa.org/enewsse
pt2006.pdf
You can register for a free
email subscription of "OFA ENews" at:
http://www.offa.org/enews.ht
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Did you know Barbie® doll
has a dog named
Tanner™? This pooch is
has a mouth, ears, and tail
that move with your help!
You can even “feed”
Tanner dog biscuits! After
the pup goes potty, just
clean up with a special
trash can and magnetic
scooper. Good doggie!
You can learn more about
Barbie and her Labrador
Tanner at:
http://barbie.everythinggirl.
com/catalog/productbrd.as
px?sku=J9472
2006 AAHA
Canine Vaccine Guidelines
The 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine
Guidelines are now available. This 28page report is published as a PDF file (file
size: 371KB).
Canine Vaccine Resources
Viewing of this file
requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader software. To
download, visit
www.adobe.com.
AAHA has released a new edition of
its vaccine guidelines for dogs. The
2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine
Guidelines are available in their
entirety through the following
downloadable file. The executive
summary of the guidelines is
published in the March/April 2006
issues of Trends magazine and the
Journal of The American Animal
Hospital Association.
AAHA released its first set of canine
vaccination guidelines in 2003. The
AAHA Canine Vaccine Task Force
reconvened in 2005 to re-examine
and revise the guidelines to reflect
changes in the areas of canine
vaccines. Factors that contributed to
the updating of the guidelines
include the rise of well-documented
duration of immunity studies,
industry support of extended
revaccination intervals, and
developing areas of shelter
medicine.
“To stay abreast of the changing
landscape of vaccinations, it’s
important for companion animal
practitioners to review the updated
guidelines,” said Daniel Aja, DVM,
AAHA president. “We have gained
new knowledge over the past three
years – especially in the field of
duration of immunity studies and
shelter medicine. These important
updates are well referenced and are
reflected in the 2006 edition of our
guidelines.”
The 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine
Guidelines include detailed
recommendations on the use of
available vaccines, which are
classified as core (universally
recommended), noncore (optional),
or not recommended. Revised
sections of the document include
those addressing serologic testing,
vaccine adverse events, the vaccine
licensing process and the medical
and legal implications of vaccine
medicine.
The 28-page document contains a
new section of guidelines that
addresses vaccination of dogs
entering or residing in animal shelter
environments. Some of the core
vaccination recommendations for
shelter environments are slightly
more aggressive than the guidelines
presented for general veterinary
practice.
Other new content covered in the
document includes a section
highlighting the science of vaccine
development, specifically such
technologies as live vectored,
subunit, gene-deleted, and
deoxyribonucleic acid vaccines. The
document also addresses vaccines
granted a conditional license by the
US Department of Agriculture Center
for Veterinary Biologics, which
includes rattlesnake and periodontal
disease vaccines.
The 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine
Guidelines are based on a
combination of published and
unpublished scientific studies,
expert opinion and personal
experience. The guidelines include a
number of new citations that
enhance and enforce the science on
which the guidelines are based. The
guidelines are intended to educate
and inform the profession and help
veterinarians make vaccine
recommendations for individual
dogs or in the case of a shelter
situation, a population of dogs. The
guidelines are not intended to be an
AAHA standard of care.
“For private practitioners,
vaccinations certainly remain a
medical decision and procedure that
should be individualized based on
the risk and lifestyle of the individual
dog,” says Aja. “Factors to consider
include the age, breed, health status,
environment, lifestyle, and travel
habits of the dog.”
The 2006 AAHA Canine Vaccine
Guidelines were developed by a task
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force composed of practitioners,
internists, infectious disease
experts, immunologists and those
committed to the growing concern of
the particular needs of shelter
medicine. Task force members
include Michael A. Paul, DVM, chair;
Leland E. Carmichael, DVM, PhD,
DACVM; Henry Childers, DVM,
DABVP; Susan Cotter, DVM,
DACVIM; Autumn Davidson, DVM,
DACVIM; Richard Ford, DVM,
DACVIM; Kate F. Hurley, DVM,
MPVM; James A. Roth, DVM, PhD,
DACVM; Ronald D. Schultz, PhD,
DACVM; Eileen Thacker, DVM,
DACVM; and Link Welborn, DVM,
DABVP.
Boston's most famous dog
enlivens hotel
By ANDREW RYAN, Associated
Press Writer
The 94-year-old Fairmont Copley
Plaza hotel spent $38 million on a
facelift, refurbishing its soaring
lobby with 21-foot-high Italian
marble columns, gilded ceilings
and Waterford crystal chandeliers.
Yet the most popular upgrade
didn't have anything to do with
French antiques or the ornate
arches in Peacock Alley, an
entrance hall lined with eight-foot
mirrors and Renaissance friezes.
No — the most exciting thing to
happen here lately was that the
"Grande Dame of Boston" got a
dog.
Catie Copley, a 68-pound black lab,
now greets guests with a heartfelt
wag and a curious nose. The hound
came to the hotel as a gimmick in
2004 to showcase the renovation
and has breathed life into the once
stuffy 5,000-square-foot lobby.
"She's the world's most famous
dog," said Sarah Trimmer, 11, on
vacation from Bel Air, Md., who
dragged her family to the
Copley Plaza recently to give Catie
a scratch. Catie may be the most
famous hotel pet since a family of
ducks starting riding the elevator
at The Peabody hotel in Memphis,
Tenn., in the 1930s.
In Boston, some guests call three
months in advance to book a walk
with the pooch, dubbed a "canine
ambassador" by the hotel. Tour
guides on Boston's Duck Tours talk
about Catie in the same breath as
Trinity Church's architecture when
describing Copley Square. Catie
has her own business cards, an email address and sends care
packages to other dogs staying at
the hotel. She poses for photos,
has been in Swedish dog
magazines and is writing a book.
She hobnobbed with Jane Fonda's
dog, cuddled with actress
Bernadette Peters and wagged her
behind for actor Paul Newman and
his wife, Joanne Woodward.
"It's the most successful guest
services program I've seen in my
career," said Jon Creillin, manager
of the Copley Plaza, where rooms
range from $249 to $3,500 a night.
Catie trained to be a seeing-eye
dog but needed a "career change"
when she developed cataracts,
said Jim Carey, the concierge
director who takes her home most
nights. Two of Fairmont's Canadian
hotels had successful canine
ambassadors — including one
pooch who was walked by Queen
Elizabeth II, and the Copley Plaza
decided to give it a try. Catie and
Carey take a 20-minute subway
ride to work each morning, with
Catie lying in the same spot in the
first car next to the driver.
shrieked with delight, and new
guests who hadn't heard of Catie
looked befuddled. Carey made a
quick hand command and Catie
hustled back to her bed. She's not
supposed to do that," said Carey,
blushing like a proud father.
Carey laughed about changing his
title to "Catie Copley's manager,"
and he isn't entirely joking. He
seriously sees a sitcom in Catie's
future, and maybe a movie. The
book — a mystery with the
working title "Catie Copley
Undercover" — is due out next
spring from Boston's Godine
Publishers. (Catie's co-author is a
human, Deborah Kovacs.)
Carey's real dream is to throw out
the first ball at Fenway Park and
run the bases with Catie before a
cheering crowd. He met Red Sox
owners at a function with the
pooch recently and says he
pitched the idea.
"The power of the dog is
unbelievable," Carey said. "One of
these days they are going to call
me and say 'Jim, tonight is your
night.'"
Catie closed her eyes and lay on
the cool marble floor at his feet.
Editors Note: Only a Lab!
post card around your arm and
secure it with a rubber band. You
feel funny if your arm doesn't feel
like it's in a tourniquet. You feel
even funnier after realizing that for
several hours, you've been wearing a
post card announcing that your
Viagra order is in.
3. While shaking powdered sugar
over your French toast, you suddenly
and inexplicably shake enough
powder to turn the air white. An odd
calm comes over you now that you
feel like you're in the middle of a
grooming area.
4. You flawlessly perform a "T"
pattern, perhaps the best one of
your handling life. Done at the
grocery store while handling a buggy,
you simply forgot yourself when you
saw those floor mats put down to
protect against a wet floor. The
produce man, sorting the cucumbers,
will never forget you.
5. You find yourself awkwardly
changing clothes while hovering
precariously over the toilet in your
own house even though an additional
1800 square feet of living space is
just outside the bathroom door.
6. You accost strange men and
At work, she curls up on a powderblue bed next to the concierges,
who keep her walk schedule in a
black leather appointment book.
Most mornings Carey lets her run
the hotel halls, her nails clicking
across the marble floors. Guests
and tourist huddle around her bed,
and she gives a wag each time
someone pats her head.
"DOG SHOW WITHDRAWAL" ...
McKinney was in Boston not long
ago with his 8-month-old puppy,
Asia. Catie saw the dog and took
off, scampering around the lobby
in circles. Three little girls
begin to talk.
or maybe you know it's time
for a break when....
1. After your dog does his duty in
the backyard, you shriek, "Clean
up!!!"
to no one in particular. The neighbors
2. After checking your mailbox for
the day's mail, you mindlessly wrap a
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women who are dressed nicely and
wearing any sort of official looking
badge. Police are called in when you
insist that a bank teller tell you what
it is he didn't like about your dog.
7. You ask a pharmacist when Group
Order will be posted. She calls
security.
aggressive and continued to
punish or threaten the pups even
after they had backed away from
her. Other mothers were gentler;
they used fewer aggressive
threats and rather attempted to
paw their pups into submission.
When the puppy finally gave a
submission signal, these mothers
would often groom the pups by
vigorously licking them
afterward.
8. Before leaving to get popcorn, you
set orange traffic cones around your
theater seat to ensure that it's still
there for you when you come back.
9. A friend stops to admire your new
van and you quickly run to the other
side of the car so as not to be
standing between your friend and
the car.
10. Before you can stop yourself, you
ask the Avon saleswoman if the
makeup she's trying to sell you will
help with food stains around the
mouth.
11. When introduced to your
neighbor's young nieces and
nephews, your hand unconsciously
goes to your hip pocket so you can
offer them some bait.
12. When you hear the good news
that your sister is pregnant, you ask
her "when is your whelping date"?
USP Veterinary
Pharmaceutical
Information Monographs
The following link contains the
official documents for many
veterinary antibiotics and other
drugs, such as wormers. The USP
is an official compendium of all the
monographs on drugs used in the
pharmaceutical industry, including
veterinary.
Editors Note: You have to answer
a few questions before it takes you
to the site, but it is worth the extra
time, it has some really good
information.
http://www.usp.org/audiences/veter
inary/monographs/main.html
The Social Interaction
Between Mother
and Offspring During
Weaning in German
Shepherd Dogs:
Individual differences between
mothers and their
effects on offspring. ARTICLE
Applied Animal Behaviour
Science, Volume 13,
Issues 1-2, November 1984,
Pages 101-112 Erik Wilsson
Ref 2: The following summary
and commentary on this study is
from: Coren,
S. (2004) "How Dogs Think",
pp.161-162. New York, Free
Press.
"Erik Wilsson of the Department
of Zoology at Stockholm
University studied six hundred
German Shepard dog puppies
and their interaction with their
mothers during weaning,
including the length of nursing,
the number of inhibited bites,
growls, and mouth threats that
the mother used to prevent
further nursing, and the mother's
nibbling and licking of her pups.
Some mothers used many more
threatening behaviors to punish
the pups when they tried to
nurse.
These punished puppies started
to show passive submission
behaviors by lying on their backs
to be licked, and these
submissive behaviors occurred
earlier than they did in puppies
whose mothers were not so
threatening. Some of the
mothers were extremely
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The severity of the mother's
behavior during the weaning
process has a lasting effect
on how her puppies will
ultimately behave with
humans. Puppies from litters
that had been severely
punished and threatened
were less socially gregarious
with people and were less
likely to approach a
stranger. The puppies from
the gentler mothers were
friendlier and also seemed
less fearful in general. The
puppies from the gentler
mothers were also more
likely to retrieve a tennis ball
..This is an important
indicator of the ultimate
trainability of the dog. .. [but
Coren goes on to say..]
.puppy is really learning his
place in the social order and
learning to play the role
appropriate for his abilities
and rank. Research shows
that if puppies are reared
under completely
nonpunishing conditions up
to week ten of their lives,
they prove to be virtually
impossible to train. Thus a
balance must be
struck."
2007 SPECIALTY SHOWS
Submitted by Maryann Czerwinski, Point Show Coordinator
For those of you that have not heard, Jersey Skylands LRC Inc. will
then, to start, I need some committee people to oversee and work
hold back-to-back Specialty Point Shows in 2007.
with other club members for:
The shows will be in conjunction with two All Breed Shows.
Grounds: This would entail working with the two All Breed clubs and
Somerset Hills KC and Tuxedo Park KC. The shows will be held at
myself on grounds setup for JSLRC only.
North Branch Park, Bridgewater, New Jersey.
We have an
needed for our club to hold the shows at this site including tenting;
agreement in place with both clubs. The Jersey Skylands Labrador
setup; tables; and equipment for putting this together. Some of the
Specialty Site and parking will be set apart from the rest of the show
setup has already been discussed with the clubs including the tenting
and from the other specialties that are in conjunction with the clubs.
and ring setup.
Coordinating what is
But I need someone to just coordinate our area
before the show setup and after clean up.
The dates of the shows are Friday and Saturday, September 7 & 8,
2007. Our Breed judges have been selected, invited and accepted.
Hospitality: At this time, we are planning to have a concessionaire
At this writing, I do not have confirmation on the Sweepstakes judges.
for lunch. But we are still in discussion stages for something in the
The judging slate will be announced by the next newsletter.
AM (i.e. Coffee, bagels, etc.) and the after-show get together with
wine & cheese or the like. Creativity here is welcomed.
This is a big undertaking for the club. We are starting from scratch
working with other clubs. Although, the background from previous
Raffle: One of our major fundraisers of the year is the raffle at the
shows will help to guide us, it is still a different venue; in conjunction
specialty show. A committee is needed to contact members for raffle
with two different clubs that are very large and well established.
items; make sure the raffle items are brought to the show and that
the raffle table is put together and manned the entire day and raffle
I have volunteered to coordinate this effort for JSLRC (a senior
tickets are sold around the ring area…A job that is definitely indicated
moment I don’t remember!).
for multiple members. I will accept volunteers for workers for the
But I cannot do this job alone.
days of the shows and most importantly a raffle committee chair.
So……guess what I need - your help. If you’ve read down this far
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Trophies:
Gerri Kennedy Youngblood & Ann DeGraw are
coordinating this effort together.
They will be contacting the
Contact me ASAP via
membership at events, by phone, by email or by this newsletter for
Email: gemar@sprintmail.com
trophy donations. Please respond to their requests.
Cell Phone: 973-534-7044
House Phone: 908-537-4473
Any member who wishes to contribute their time, expertise, energy
and/or creativity are more than welcome to contact me. I am looking
Your help could mean the difference between a good
show and a GREAT SHOW. Your help could mean
the difference between JSLRC Specialties or no
shows at all. Please contact me. Thanks
forward to ALL the members doing at least a small bit to put this
together.
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Jersey Skylands Labrador
Retriever Club Newsletter
Leslie Plank
Editor/Publisher
15 Thrush Drive
Smithtown, NY 11787
JSLRC Upcoming Events
Nov. 29, 2006
Board Meeting 7:30
General Meeting 8:00
Agenda: Holiday Party (See flyer)
FMI: Eve 845-883-9143
Feb. 18, 2007
Jan. General Meeting to be held at Match
Show/Health Clinic
Labrador Specialty “B” Match Show*
All Breed Health Clinic
Little Community Center, Franklin N.J.
Feb. 28, 2007
Board Meeting 7:30
Agenda TBA
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