| EDITORIAL | |
| SHOW RING SECRETS www.showringsecrets.com | |
| Viewed from above it is VERY hard to know what the feet are doing, asking for the audiences comments is misleading (remember they are outside the ring, the judge is inside & stands a lot closer), getting someone else to gait the dog hardly helps, free exercise or getting someone to video him over various speeds is the most enlightening | |
| NEW RELEASES | |
| Williana Clumber Spaniel Club (USA) have released a grooming DVD covering show preparation and companion grooming – for full details see the advertisement this issue. As with most clubs, they also offer a range of Clumber theme gifts and goodies, so check out their website http://www.williana.org/ | |
| CLUMBERS AT CRUFTS 2009 photo feature by Eileen Sutherland 8 | |
| a massive photo feature of just about every dog to compete and all the place winners | |
| DEAR DOG, | |
| The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest. | |
| BREEDING ADVICE Dr E Fitch Daglish | |
| It is commonly thought that to build a strain necessitates breeding on a very large scale, so that it is considered as something beyond the reach of the ordinary breeder. That view is quite mistaken. Any intelligent breeder can form and preserve a definite strain, whether two or twenty litters are bred each year. | |
| WILLIANA CLUMBER SPANIEL CLUB | |
| Specialty Report 2009 | |
| CLUMBER SPANIEL CLUB NEDERLAND | |
| Championship Show 2009 | |
| AROUND THE WORLD | |
| The FCI judges/breed specific guidelines are now circulating worldwide | |
| BOOK REVIEW: THE GENETICS OF THE DOG EDITED BY A RUVINSKY & J SAMPSON review by: Jan Irving | |
| Some 40mm deep this is naturally a heady volume. For the average owner or breeder it is not essential for your own shelves, but make sure you have access to a copy. Unfortunately, breeds listed in the tables in each article are not included in the index. So it requires you to skim through the articles that may be relevant to your interest or concerns. There is a substantial amount of information on DNA mapping and the dog genome and only a few chapters of great relevance to the breeder. | |
| 2008 AWARD FOR VERSATILITY WINNER | |
| Scarlett�s energy and joy for living have helped her through the six titles she has earned | |
