ZDN Jan 2006

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The Zimbabwe Kennel Club office will now only be open on a Friday each week, 09.00-12.00 & 14.00-16.00 CAT. We've all got to get members subs/club fees and the like paid to the EO of ZKC before the end of January or penalties come in to effect.

Since fleas and flies are very active this season, it is suggested that Flea Free is sprayed on both sides and down the back of one's dogs to keep them clear of ticks/fleas etc. This can be obtained from your Vet or the Vet will spray for you. This is a long lasting spray and does away with the need for constant dipping. Please remember to keep your 5 in 1 and Rabies inoculations up-to-date, i.e. every year.

26 March at the Woodlands
29 to 30 April for the 6 breed shows in Bulawayo, which will be held at the Trade Fair grounds
28 May at the Woodlands
25 June at the Woodlands, Open Show breed judges Iona in conjunction with the fun show, the Pedigree Parade, so this is expected to be an enormous show.
1 to 2 July Champion Breed shows and I expect this to be held at the KCH Grounds, to be confirmed.
30 July at the Woodlands
27 August at the Woodlands
26 November at the Woodlands, again the Christmas Extravaganza show [Contact Editor for booking a stall or a site, to sell your Christmas goodies etc].

Mukuvisi Woodland & Nature Reserve month-end Fairs for 2006 takes place on Sunday, 29 January, at the Woodland in Hillside, Harare, 09.00 onwards. The Fairs are always on the last Sunday in each month and regularly feature Stalls with Craft/Preserves/Clothes and the like for everyone to shop".

09 March Working and Pastoral Groups
10 March Terrier and Hound Groups
11 March Toy and Utility Groups
12 March Gundogs and BIS on Sunday

08 March Gundogs
09 March Working and Pastoral
10 March Terriers and Hounds
11 March Toys, Utility and BIS

Holland: A toddler was badly bitten, after he was pulled out of his pushchair by a dog. The dog only let go when bystanders took charge. The aggressive dog was possibly an American Staffordshire Terrier. The dog has been impounded and put to sleep.

In the Hague they have invested in 12 pooper suckers. This is to keep shopping, play areas, school and old age home areas clean. 300 Special rubbish containers have been placed and more areas are being designated for dog toileting. Dog walkers will be prosecuted 30 Euro when they do not pick up their pooches toileting with a plastic bag.

Cat owners have to have their cats tested for AIDS as a homeless cat has been found to have a variation of AIDS. A Vet is worried as in this time of year cats do wander to find a mate and might spread this ‘Cat Aids’, which is not transferable to humans. [This was reported in a Dutch News paper. I wonder what will come next, our dogs getting an AIDS variant too? Ed]

Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle. All this is done while the planes are traveling at different speeds and altitudes. The collisions with airborne fowl were done to test the strength of the windshields because of the fowl hazards mostly at airports.

British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshield of their new high-speed trains. Arrangements were made to borrow the gun. But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof windshield, smashed it into smithereens, crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin.

The horrified Britain's sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions.

For all those who battle with computer terms, here is a very innovative interpretation from Zimbabwe.

Log on - Make the braai hotter.

Log off - take off some wood, the boerie is turning black.

Monitor - Keeping an eye on the braai.

Download - Get the firewood off the bakkie.

Floppy disc - What you get, lifting too much firewood at once.

Window - What you shut when it's cold.

Screen - What you shut in the mozzie season.

Bit - What mozzies did.

Mega byte - What Kariba mozzies do.

Chip - A crunchy snack.

Micro chip - What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips.

Modem - What you did to the lawns.

Dot Matrix - Old Don Matrix's wife.

Laptop - Where the cat sleeps.

Software - Plastic knives and forks you get at Wimpy.

Hardware - Real stainless steel or silver flatware/knives and forks.

Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed.

Mainframe - What holds the shed up.

Web - What spiders make.

Web site - The shed, the outside bog or under the verandah.

Cursor - The old bloke that swears a lot.

Search engine - What you do when the bakkie won't go.

Upgrade - A steep hill.

Server - The person at the Keg who brings out the counter lunch.

Mail server - The bloke at the Keg who brings out the counter lunch.

User - The neighbor who keeps borrowing things.

Network - When you have to repair your fishing net.

Internet - Complicated fish net repair method.

Netscape - When a fish maneuvers out of reach of the net.

Online - When you get the laundry hung out.

Off line - When the pegs don't hold the washing up.

What is happening to our training of working trials, going out onto Frascati farm and teach how it should be done?

This is wishful thinking for only a handful now and the possibilities are still there, but who is willing to put in the work and time it takes?

Here a picture of long time ago, Rambu getting his training to qualify tracking in 2003 with

99% in Schutzhund l and

94% in Schutzhund ll