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Zimbabwe Kennel Club:

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

Apologies for not putting up the results of the Working Breed Club of Mashonaland on 27 May in last newsletter, here they are:

BiS  Great Dane ANVIN ZERVARGE: Mrs C. Jennings

RBiS Dobermann HYSAND QUAESTA : Miss G. McLaughlan (at 6 months old)

3rd GSD SALONICA ECLIPSE AT TEGWYN :Mrs. A Bowling-Scott

4th. PWC KELLY VOM MOOSOCHER: Mrs. R. Wipf

Best Puppy in Show was Quaesta and she won Best Opposite Sex and Members as well. We did very well for prizes!!!

It was a very good day and I think that every one enjoyed themselves.  None of your pups came, but thank you for entering them - it certainly made the catalogue look a lot better.

There were two Qualifications in Beginners - Mrs. C. Thackray with a Labrador, Spirits Grieg, (First) and Mrs. A. Folkersten with an Australian Cattledog, Dinki Di (Second). The rest of the Obedience was OK but no other qualifications that I know of. No Qualifications in Dog Jumping but Dinki Di did a clear round but had 1 time penalty ! This was their first show, so they did very well indeed.

I don't have the results for the next day. I was assessed as a judge for "B" Test and passed. Unfortunately Kirsten was being assessed as a judge for "C" Test and failed. He was most indignant but he hadn't got sufficient positions for Distance Control and chose very poor articles for Retrieve. He supplied very small pieces of carpet (suitable for area search), which the competitors had problems throwing and the dogs had problems finding.  The field had a lot of leaves on it due to a rain storm the night before and although we had tried to sweep up the worst, there were obviously still leaves. Possibly there were other things - I don't know.

Condolences:

Nina Williams who was a founder member of HKC passed away end of June.

Neville Crouch had passed away before Christmas 2006,

Guy Houghton, who came training with his rescue GSD and competed as well died in East London recently and on Friday 15 June Gerry Webster was found dead in his car on the way home. He died of a heart attack? Only a few people knew him in the doggy world. He trained his rotweiler for IPO and competed with Sherman several times. Gerry was also a fantastic assailant helper and Wade Armand, Roger Ashton who worked with him and us with our dogs have had some very good times and remember him as a joy to be with. 

Marlene Kappel passed away on 11 July after a long illness, our condolences to Helmut and Karin.

Happy events:

Errol Geoghegan has had a successful triple bypass done in Johannesburg and is well and enjoying life.

24 June Mukuvisi: I went out this morning to show my 2 dogs in an Open show, quite hilarious, as they both are mad dogs while in the ring. There was rather a sad incident. A whole troupe of handlers and the breeder came to show their

Boerboels. Zimbabwe Kennel Club does not recognize them yet. They are a mixture between 5 Bull breeds and are big and could be wonderful guard dogs. They looked very beautiful and where entering for the very first time. Unfortunately one of them gave an enormous tug and the lead snapped and he had Nora Griffin's very special dog by the neck and shook it like a rag dol. Eventually they came apart, while the Boerboel was captured the poor Japanese Sheba Inu ‘Sibra Etched-N-Gold’ ran away and when I left the show grounds [out at Mukuvisi] it had not been found, or returned to its owner. Nora went home to pick up her domestic to try and help to look. She was very distraught as the dog had its lead on, she also encountered a snake and she is now afraid it gets bitten by a snake or trapped on one of the many fences around the game park.

Have phoned, but its now Monday. They went out on 6 horses to try and walk along both boundaries of the park, so to get the dog to the middle, but its such a huge area, that it did not work.

Local Shows and Fairs

Bulawayo Combine Shows:

So far no shows and via Pam Brennan it possibly will not be any breed shows this year.

Mukuvisi Shows:

All sponsored by PEDIGREE and proceeds to help the S P C A in the wonderful work they do for all animals
29 July - SPCA Winter Fun Show
26 August - SPCA Harvest Festival Fun Show
25 Nov - Open Breed Show [Mike Rust judging] & SPCA Christmas Extravaganza Fun Show

MLKA & Hatfield Shows:

30 June/01 July - MLKA & HKC Ch. Shows with Pat de Coning (South Africa) & Dave Grimbly (Zim) judging

MLKA BiS Result with Pat de Coning	Judges and Steward with their BiS Dogs
HKC BiS with Dave Grimbly	Toy Group winners
MLKA Gundog group winners with Pat de Coning	HKC Gundog group winners