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Issue 18 |
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Saint Fanciers of Canada Membership
Saint Fanciers of Canada Constitution
October Newsletter Information and Questions secretary_sbfc@hotmail.com Directors Mark Grant-Atlantic (Interum) Yves Maurice-Quebec Barb Koeppe-Ontario Linda Symons-Prairies Executive Giselle Carlow-President
Female 8 week old Mont Blanc pup, just arriving home with Guy St
Laurent, in Quebec.
Guy has an older female from here, Lucy, that did very well in
the shows.
Story behind this pup and litter:
Quite a few years ago we sold several Saints to Douglas Haro,
Germania Kennels in Colorado; one of them US CH. Mont Blanc's
Anton, who produced very good pups there.
Due to separation and other, Haro stopped the kennel there, and
brought some dogs here, including two full grown males, Nero and
Romulus, both shorthair sons of Anton, different mothers.
Two sisters, daughters of Nero, we kept, Angela and Matilda; now
5 years old.
Angela was bred to Romulus, and we got very good pups from that;
among others about 2 1/2 years ago, Ch. Mont Blanc's Emir ( # 3
Saint 2008).
Both Nero and Romulus died since, but we kept a shorthair son of
Romulus; Castor, he was used earlier this year with Angela, and
litter was born 19 July '09
This pup, on the photo, is one of them; we had actually intended
to keep her but she went to a very good, show home.
More of the litter went to possible show homes, others have it
all made to very happy people for pet.
So actually these pups are 3/4 same pedigree as Emir.
John & Hetty Vandermeer |
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Sanction Match Thank you to the Saint Fanciers Club of Manitoba for planning a Sanction Match in Manitoba and to Mark Grant and his Halifax KC for planning a Sanction Match out there on the East Coast. We just need one more Match in the works for this upcoming year. Denise Application for CKC Sanction Match pdf download here
Thank you to all the members that downloaded Skype and are getting ready to say hello on Nov 10. Remember the time is 6:30 Central Time Nov 10, Tuesday, and I will be attempting to make the call via a group call for the Saint Club, that means that you need to answer the call. The call is free and allows for talking to happen. If you don't care to talk you still can text. If you want to check in and see how it works, anytime add trustssaints, and I be happy to have a practice walk thru with you.
Members on Skype: If you have suggestions for our meeting, do email them to me.
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Membership
Information
Please follow the link below to
find a membership application form, renewal or new.
Printing the form out and
mailing it in to the club will save the club postage.
This way we only have to have one mail out confirming membership with membership cards. Thanks for your understanding and continued support. http://www.freewebs.com/saintfanciersmb/membership.htm
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Saint
Rescue Update
This is a large file, 8 MB so right click save target as, on a high speed connection. Thank you to Oprah Winfrey and of course the author Uwem Akpan.
Click here to see club member business cards.
Rescue 911 Click on pic or here for larger image.
Roc Roc is now a Champion! Roc will carry on Hercules work as a Certified Therapy Dog as a member of Therapeutic Paws of Canada Organization. Roc was a “ Rock Star ” - making lots of folks smile as they stopped to say hello and take lots of pictures, a few which appeared on the jumbo screen at ice level during the Halifax Mooseheads game! The game attendance – 7,000 people. Mark and Roc Tucson
Montmart's Tucson v Kodiak . The
puppy I selected from the Ragy |
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Best Dog in
the World
By T'Mara Goodsell One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love. ~Elizabeth Aston Years ago, I owned the very best dog in the world. I was a child when we got her. She was a graceful brown hound, a foundling who taught me that our pets are not purchased, but ordained. She romped when I did and knew how to smile in that funny way that only some dogs have. She grew up with me, always there when I needed her. My grown hand still remembers the sleek bump on the top of her head and that gentle divot just past her nose that fit my index finger just perfectly. She passed away during one of my college vacations. My heart broke then, and I knew that there would never be another dog like her, and there hasn't been. I was sure that I could never love another dog as much as I'd loved her. Fortunately, I was wrong about that part. My next dog came into my life when I was married. My husband traveled for a living, and I was often lonely. This dog grew into a lumbering Wolfhound and Sheepdog mix who taught me patience. He was a large, grizzled sentry, that dog. He rarely left my side until the children were born, and then he became their guardian, too. I can still feel that swirl of fur along his back and the weight of his chin when it rested in my lap. When he passed away, my heart broke. As much as I had loved that childhood dog, I had been wrong. This was the very best dog in the world. There would never be another dog like him, and there hasn' t been. I was sure I would never love another dog as much as I'd loved him. I was wrong again. We got the next one, a loping black Lab-and-Terrier mix, when the children were little. He taught me the importance of adapting. He was everyone's dog from the beginning, and that was just as it should be. When he played tug of war with the children, he dragged them across the kitchen floor as they shrieked with laughter. He always seemed to sleep in the room of the child who needed his company the most. These days his face is expressively gray, and he spends more time with me since the almost-grown children aren't around so much. The other day my oldest, home from college, played tug of war. We all laughed--just a little--as the dog was gently pulled across the kitchen floor. He is, of course, the very best dog in the world. I will never forget that exquisitely soft tuft of fur behind his ears or the tickly feel when he nuzzles. There won't be another dog like him. And that's okay, because we will never be at this point in our lives again. Sometimes I've wondered why two species that get along so well should have such different life spans. It just doesn't seem right. And then I wonder if that's part of the lesson: To teach us that love itself has a spirit that returns again and again and never really dies. It's amazing, in a way, how they bring to our ever-changing lives exactly what it is that we need at the moment. They make room for one another, this family of dogs who has never even met. And they fit--into our families, into our lives, into our memories, and into our hearts--because they always have been and always will be the best dogs in the world. - By T'Mara Goodsell
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