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A. C. K. C. S. C
Bay Area Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club
Vol 1 2001
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Bay Area Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club |
Vol 1 2001 |
Upcoming
Activities
Mark your calendar so you can join us for the following BACKCSC activity:
Sat.,
Mar. 10 - "Advertising and Photography" Ms.
Michael Allen, 1:00 p.m. upstairs in Exhibition Hall, Alameda County
Fairgrounds, Pleasanton, CA in conjunction with Nor-Cal Toy Dog
Fanciers Toy Group Show
Sat., Mar. 10 - Nor-Cal TDF Group Show
BACKCSC sponsored Sweeps and Veteran Sweeps, judge Tim Mathiesen; Breed Supported Entry
Sun., Mar. 11 - Del Valle Dog Club of Livermore
All Breed Show, BACKCSC Breed Supported Entry
Apr. 7 & 8 - Nutrition Seminar
"Bones and Raw Food" - Dr. Ian Billinghurst, Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Pleasanton, CA
Sun., Apr. 29 - Heart Clinic
Dr. Siemens (Board Certified Vet Cardiologist), Bishop Ranch Vet Clinic, San Ramon, CA
Sun., May 20 - Annual Fun Day
Barbecue, Agility Demonstration (Debbie Oliver), Raffle, etc., Osage Park, Danville, CA
Sat., Jul. 28 - "The Cavalier Breed Standard"
Joanne Nash (breeder's perspective) & Tim Mathiesen (judge's perspective), and Pot Luck Lunch at Tim Mathiesen's house, Cotati, CA
Sun., Aug. 26 - "Canine Reproduction"
Dr. Janice Cain, Pleasanton Tennis & Community Park, Pleasanton, CA
Sun., Sep. 30 - "Christmas photos"
Photographer is David Lawrence Photography and location is Arlene Proebsting, Morgan Hill.
Sun., Nov. 4 - Annual Meeting & Eye Clinic -
Ophthamologist Dr. Szymanski , Jo Ann Weise's house, Santa Clara, CA
Sun., Dec. 9 - Annual Holiday Social and Gift Exchange,
Pleasanton Hotel, Pleasanton, CA
Kathy's Cavalier Capers - check the website,
www.BACKCSC.com, for fun walks and social gatherings in the Bay Area
that Kathy Tegg will be organizing throughout the year for you
and your Cavaliers! Have a idea or need information, call Kathy @
(510) 724-9533
Conformation Handling Classes - Dale Martin
instructor, Mondays, 7:15 p.m., Happiness Kennels, Sunol, CA
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Official Club Meeting with the listed acticiy
New Additions
Here we grow again! Please welcome the following new club members:
Rodger Brasier and Gary Bill
Derrick and Phyllis DeMotta
Marlis Elliott
Chester and Jane Haines
Lauren Harris
Betty Johnson
Carol and Glenn Karcher
Mary-Frances and Walter Makichen
Margaret Shehorn
Jody Sutton
Dr.
Ian Billinghurst
Creator of the "BARF" Diet to Speak in the Bay Area.
The BACKCSC is sponsoring Dr. Ian Billinghurst to give a two day seminar on the "BARF"(biologically appropriate raw food) diet. He is the noted author pf the books entitled "Give Your Dog a Bone" and "Grow Your Pups With Bones." Dr. Billinghurst is a veterinary surgeon trained in Australia where he still maintains a private practice. He has lectured on the BARF diet worldwide.
The seminar will be held at The Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Pleasanton, CA on April 7 -8, 2001. To register on-line, you can visit our web site at www.backcscs.com or contact Jo Ann Weise at plumeridgecavs@yahoo.com.
This is a rare opportunity to meet Dr. Billinghurst first hand and to learn about this natural diet. Dr. Bllinghurst will discuss how nutrition is a key factor contributing to canine health or illness and how this diet has shown changes in health. He will cover cases where the diet has alleviated dogs suffering with allergies, dramatically improved dental hygiene and benefited dogs with dysplasia. Dr. Billinghurst will review how to feed the BARF diet, what supplements should be given as well as differentiate appropriate diets for puppies, adults and the bitch-in-whelp.
Don't miss this educational event!
Rescue
Two times the love. Harriet has a Blenheim duet needing a good
home. Both were raised together in a fine home and are needing
re-home because of family illness. Medical exams report both are
healthy and heart clear (but of course the club can make no
guarantees, just reports what the examiner found). Both are spunky
and affectionate. The duet? A 10 year old female spayed blenheim
Cavalier and a 10 year old female spayed blenheim Japanese Chin.
Great companions for a adult home.
Fun Day 2001
Be sure to mark your calendars for Sunday, May 20, 2001. It's time
for the annual BACKCSC Fun Day to Benefit Rescue! Please plan to join
us for a fun filled, Cavalier day. Those of you who attended last
year will remember the fun time had by all, most especially by our
Cavaliers. Some of the exciting events planned for this year's Fun
Day include an Agility demonstration by Debby Oliver, the Raffle to
benefit Rescue, and relay races. A delicious barbeque lunch will be
provided, and, of course, a very special parade of some of the
Cavaliers who have found their wonderful new homes through Rescue.
Tickets for this special day are $15 for adults, and $10 for
children. More information on the Fun Day will be mailed soon, so
please plan to join us for this special day!
In honor of our active membership, BACKCSC Inc. has chosen to make a $100.00 contribution this year to The AKC Canine Health Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is to develop significant resources for basic and applied health programs with emphasis on canine genetics to improve the quality of life for dogs and their owners.
Our club's gift will support research into the top ten diseases of dogs which include: heart disease, progressive retinal atrophy, cataracts, epilepsy, hip dysplasia, cancer, allergies, hypothyroidism, autoimmune disease, and bloat.
You are invited to visit the Foundation's website at www.akcchf.org
for the latest canine health news and research study information, as
well as information on fundraising events and special projects.
Health
Corner
Acupuncture for Animals.
Acupuncture is recognized by the American Veterinary Medical Association as "the examination and stimulation of specific points of the body of non-human animals by use of acupuncture needles, injections, low-level lasers, magnets and a variety of other techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of numerous conditions in animals." The policy goes on to state, "Veterinary acupuncture and acutherapy are now considered an integral part of veterinary medicine."
Dr. Elaine R. Caplan, veterinarian at the University of Illinois Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital in Urbana, first observed acupuncture when she was an intern at the Animal Medical Center in New York City in 1982. "I was amazed at how well animals tolerated the needles. The doctor was working on cases that everybody else had given up on." Because of the success Dr. Caplan observed then, she decided to become certified in acupuncture.
"In 1989 I took the certification course taught by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society, the only organization that certifies veterinarians for acupuncture. I have been doing acupuncture in combination with traditional therapy ever since," says Dr. Caplan.
Acupuncture is used for a variety of applications, ranging from sedation to arthritis pain management to treatment of deaf animals. Often acupuncture is used adjunctly with medication, surgery, or post-operative treatments. "Most of my patients are big old dogs that have joint pain from arthritis, back pain from disc disease, or spinal arthritis," says Dr. Caplan.
Second-year veterinary student Michelle Sherman chose to use acupuncture to treat her dog, Oscar. "He was diagnosed with lumbo-sacral disease, and the suggested treatment was 6 weeks of cage confinement, so we decided to try an alternative." Sherman was very impressed with Oscar's improvement: "It was great! Before acupuncture, he couldn't even make it up the stairs. We had to carry him, and that was quite a feat considering he is an 80-pound dog! Now, after acupuncture, he runs and jumps up those steps," says Sherman. "He does need to come back for treatment every two or three months, because if he doesn't, he gets sore again."
There are many explanations for the way acupuncture works. In one of the scientific explanations, the neural opiate theory, pain control can be explained by the release of an endogenous (originating from within the body) opiate called endorphin. Endorphins are released upon needle or pressure stimulation of specific points. "These endogenous opiates interact at different levels in the central nervous system to inhibit pain perception in higher centers and inhibit pain transmission from the spinal cord," says Dr. Caplan. In addition, endorphins control pain by causing blood vessels to dilate, which increases blood flow around joints and muscles, thus increasing nutrient and oxygen delivery to the desired area.
Support for the neural opiate theory exists in studies showing that endorphin stimulation is present in acupuncture. When endorphin-blocking drugs have been given to an animal undergoing acupuncture, the normal effects of acupuncture have not been observed.
"The neural non-opiate theory, also known as the gate theory, was one of the earliest scientific explanations of acupuncture. It hypothesized that acupuncture stimulates inhibitory interneurons to close the 'gate' of pain transmission within the spinal cord. Thus no perception of pain takes place," explains Dr. Caplan.
The Chinese have used acupuncture to treat disease for over 4000 years in humans as well as animals. "Chinese concepts may seem metaphorical to our Western minds; it's a totally different view of internal medicine. According to Chinese philosophy, disease is an imbalance of energy in the body. Acupuncture therapy is based on balancing the energy, correcting its flow-thereby healing the animal," explains Dr. Caplan. "Acupuncture is a technique that is hard to understand and believe when you hear about it. I had doubts myself, but the benefits of acupuncture are convincing when observed."
When Michelle Sherman's dog went in for acupuncture, she didn't know what to expect or how Oscar would react. "Treatments can last from 10 seconds to 30 minutes, depending upon the condition treated and the method employed," says Dr. Caplan. "Patients are often treated 1 to 3 times a week for 4 to 6 weeks. A positive result is often noticed with the first 4 to 6 treatments, and sometimes earlier depending upon the condition treated."
"Most of the time Oscar just lay there," says Sherman. "A few spots caused tenderness, but he was oblivious to most of the pressure points while they were stimulated. One of the acupuncture points on his head, a relaxation point, almost made him fall asleep during the therapy. In fact, he'd almost always sleep all the way home."
Acupuncture is often chosen to complement traditional therapy or provide an alternative form of medical therapy. Appetite stimulation, nausea control, and immune modulation can aid animals with cancer, immune deficiencies, seizure tendencies, and arthritis. Many more conditions in animals can be treated with acupuncture therapy.
Remember, these techniques should be regarded as surgical and medical procedures which should be done only by a certified veterinary acupuncturist. Ask your local veterinarian for more information about certified veterinary acupuncture therapy.
By Sarah Probst, Information Specialist
CEPS/Veterinary Extension
Urbana, Illinois
What is a Breeder
A Breeder (with a capital B) is one who thirsts for knowledge and never really knows it all, one who wrestles with decisions of conscience, convenience, and commitment.
A Breeder is one who sacrifices personal interests, finances, time, friendships, fancy furniture, and deep pile carpeting!
She gives up the dreams of a long, luxurious cruise in favor of turning that all important Show into this years "vacation".
The Breeder goes without sleep (but never without coffee!) in hours spent planning a breeding or watching anxiously over the birth process, and afterwards, over every little sneeze, wiggle or cry.
The Breeder skips dinner parties because that litter is due or the babies have to be fed at eight. She disregards birth fluids and puts mouth to mouth to save a gasping newborn, literally blowing life into a tiny, helpless creature that may be the culmination of a lifetime of dreams.
A Breeder's lap is a marvelous place where generations of proud and noble champions once snoozed.
A Breeder's hands are strong and firm and often soiled, but ever so gentle and sensitive to the thrusts of a puppy's wet nose.
A Breeder's back and knees are usually arthritic from stooping, bending, and sitting in the birthing box, but are strong enough to enable the breeder to show the next choice pup to a Championship.
A Breeder's shoulders are stooped and often heaped with abuse from competitors, but they're wide enough to support the weight of a thousand defeats and frustrations.
A Breeder's arms are always able to wield a mop, support an armful of puppies, or lend a helping hand to a newcomer.
A Breeder's ears are wondrous things, sometimes red (from being talked about) or strangely shaped (from being pressed against phone receiver), often deaf to criticism, yet always fine-tuned to the whimper of a sick puppy.
A Breeder's eyes are blurred from pedigree research and sometimes blind to her own dog's faults, but they are ever so keen to the competition's faults and are always searching for the perfect specimen.
A Breeder's brain is foggy on faces, but it can recall pedigrees faster than an IBM computer. It's so full of knowledge that sometimes it blows a fuse: it catalogues thousands of good bonings, fine ears, and perfect heads...and buries in the soul the failures and the ones that didn't turn out.
The Breeder's heart is often broken, but it beats strongly with hope everlasting... and it's always in the right place! Oh, yes, there are breeders, and then, there are BREEDERS!
Author Unknown. Thanks to Joanne Nash
Cavaliers in Cyberspace
Cavalier info can be found throughout the Internet.
BACKCSC has a NEW easier to remember Web Site address: www.BACKCSC.com
California Dog Park info can be found at http://www.dogpark.com/prkca.html
The "Doggie Dietician", Monica Sega's Cavaliers got her
started preparing home meals. Her site is at http://www.doggiedietician.com/
Cavaliers Online is building a searchable pedigree database at http://cavaliersonline.com/search.html
Goodby
Kathy Tegg, Coutelore Dannon, Beramar Darby and Quail Run Dawson lost their noble Raleigh this February. Raleigh was a fourteen years old rescue boy. For those of you who have not met Raleigh, he was a compact little boy with such a big spirit. He ruled the Tegg roost with aplomb and dignity.
He was a wonderful big brother and despite all of his health problems, he had such residency. Kathy often would tell the story which of how she went out to get a big special bed for her older keeshound, Grayson and a little new bed for Raleigh, her blenheim rescue, when he first came to join her household. She came home for lunch from school and low and behold there was Raleigh all stretched out in the new big bed and her keesie is scrunched into the little tiny bed. It took her a good hour to coax Raleigh out of the big bed so Grayson might try it out. That was Raleigh and his all encompassing personality!! Raleigh was a trooper; he came to Kathy with many health problems and Kathy transformed Raleigh so that his coat looked healthy, his eyes (although he had eye problems and he couldn't hear) shined and he held his head high with pride about his new home. Raleigh left this earth knowing that he had finally found his place where he was truly loved and gave love. We will miss you Raleigh.
We also would like to tell you that life works in special ways...Dallarock Drummer Boy, one of the little tri boys that you might have seen at the Puppy Evaluation Meeting in Napa is joining Kathy's
household next week. We know that this will help mend Kathy's heart and enliven Dannon, Darby and
Dawson's lives. We know that Raleigh will be ruling them all from above. Raleigh, you job isn't over yet!
Club Directors and Officers
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President |
Dale Martin |
510 272-0605 |
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Vice President |
Jo Anne Mittelman |
925 484-9030 |
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Recording Secretary |
Joanne Nash |
650 964-0181 |
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Corresponding Secretary |
Mary Wissenbach |
510 658-3602 |
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Treasurer |
Kim Murphy |
510 272-0605 |
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Director |
Janis Fox |
650 968-1032 |
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Director |
Kathy Tegg |
510 724-9533 |
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Director |
Jo Ann Weise |
408-244-5814 |
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Director |
Bob Jones |
510 483-8376 |
