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Dates & News:

ZimDog News, can be accessed from: www.vanerp.net.

Zimbabwe Kennel Club:

The Zimbabwe Kennel Club office will now only be open on a Friday each week, 09.00-12.00 & 14.00-16.00 CAT.

Local Shows and Fairs:

27 August at the Woodlands and we're also planning a Pets Photographic Competition on SUNDAY 27 AUGUST. So get taking those photos - and a Most Talented Pet, the One that can squawk tunefully, meow prettily or bark loudly!! Sponsored by PEDIGREE and proceeds to help the S P C A in the wonderful work they do for all animals.
23 & 24 September. The Midlands Shows are at the end of September and the judges are Alex McKinlay and Elizabet C-L. Closing date is 4 September.
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]. - We’ll also have another Open Breed Show for you then, so make a note in your diaries of these dates. Sponsored by PEDIGREE and proceeds to help the S P C A in the wonderful work they do for all animals.
October will see a Match meeting, details in a later issue

Looking for a new home:

Breed - GSD (not pedigree) Age – 6 Sex – Female Character – friendly Contact person and number - Mrs. Asaka (tel. 850466) 

Condolences:

Anne Snowdon has passed away in the UK and many of us know her involvement with the German Shepherd Dog Club in Bulawayo, has served as Chairman several years. Training her dogs and a dear friend of Pam Brennan.

Stephanie Twiss bade a sad goodbye at the end of March to her beloved Fred (Ch. Tanronen Alexander).  Bullmastiffs are not generally reckoned to be long-lived.  A short faced giant breed, the bullmastiffs of Britain and South Africa are not expected to live more than eight or ten years but Fred did not believe in any such statistics.  He started to guard his mistress when barely two months old and continued to do so to the age of 15 years, two-and-a-half months.

The litter recently bred in the Twiss household is for the primary purpose of providing a successor to Fred - and it has done so - Tanronen Inca, now aged three months, is Fred's great-great grandson.

Editor's note:  there may still be a bitch puppy available from this litter. 

News:

Some Pictures from Last month shows MLKA & HKC

Gill Houghton	And her Yorkshire Pudding
Lay-By: Take time to rest and enjoy the company of friends	Shows sponsored by Pedigree.

China is planning to kill half a million dogs:

In the East Chinese province Shandong authorities are planning to put down half a million dogs to stop the spread of Rabies. Rabies has killed already 16 people. All dogs within a radius of 5 km will have to be put down in villages where a person died of Rabies. International animal organizations have reacted furiously to this measure.

Previously this year more than 50 000 dogs have been put down in the Southwest province of Yunan, after three people died of rabies.

Show Results of the weekend 19 & 20 August 2006

ZKC Grand Challenge 1^st 39,  2^nd 2,   3^rd 10

Gundog Group: 38 Craignair Just as Quick of Huntingdon Labrador Reserve 28 Snowpine Winchester Golden Retriever

Hound Group: 39 Ch Greystones Andyflower Basset Reserve 34Dombodema Cornelia Rhodesian Ridgeback

Terrier Group: 35 Ch Petros Big Dude Scottish Terrier

Toy Group: 2 Brolea Royal Ambition Yorkshire Terrier Reserve 25 Ch Xela’s Denemore Special Treasure Papillon

Utility Group: 5 Ch Zamu Imaknockout French Bulldog Reserve 15 Ch Charlotte of Tegwyn Dalmatian

Working Group: 10 Ch Von Brinson Dieter Reserve 48 Rhodesenne Sorrel of Bonanza Pem Welsh Corgi

Eastern Border Kennel Club Grand Challenge: 1^st 11,  2^nd 2,  3^rd 39,  4^th 25

Gundog Group: 38 Craignair Just as Quick of Huntingdon Labrador

Hound Group: 39 Ch Greystones Andyflower Basset

Terrier Group: 35 Ch Petros Big Dude Scottish Terrier

Toy Group: 2 Brolea Royal Ambition Yorkshire Terrier Reserve 25 Ch Xela’s Denemore Special Treasure Papillion

Utility Reserve: 12 Ch Sibra Etched-N-Gold Japanese Shiba Inu

Working Group: 11 Ch Von Brinson Dixi Reserve 48 Rhodesenne Sorrel of Bonanza Pem Welsh Corgi

Kennel Club of Harare Grand Challenge: 1^st 39,  2^nd2,  3^rd 16,  4^th 25

Gundog Group: 38 Craignair Just as Quick of Huntingdon Labrador Reserve 28 Snowpine Winchester Golden Retriever

Hound Group: 39 Ch Greenstones Andyflower Basset Reserve 34Dombodema Cornelia Rhodesian Ridgeback

Terrier Group: 35 Ch Petros Big Dude Scottish Terrier

Toy Group: 2 Brolea Royal Ambition Yorkshire Terrier Reserve 25 Ch Xela’s Denemore Special Treasure Papillon

Utility Reserve: 12 Ch Sibra Etched-N-Gold Japanese Shiba Inu

Working Group: 16 Anvin Zervage Great Dane

Eastern Highland Kennel Club: Grand Challenge: 1^st 11,  2^nd 25,  3^rd 12,  4^th 48

Gundog Group: 38 Craignair Just as Quick of Huntingdon Labrador

Hound Group: 34 Dombodema Cornelia Rhodesian Ridgeback

Terrier Group: 35 Ch Petros Big Dude Scottish Terrier

Toy Group: 2 Brolea Royal Ambition Yorkshire Terrier [left early] Reserve 25 Ch Xela’s Denemore Special Treasure Papillon

Utility: 12 Ch Sibra Etched-N-Gold Japanese Shiba Inu

Working Group: 11 Ch Von Brinson Dixi Reserve 48 Rhodesenne Sorrel of Bonanza Pem Welsh Corgi

Zimbabwe Kennel Club Grand Challenge	ZKC Grand Challenge and reserves
ZKC Working Group	ZKC BIS & Judge Nora Griffin