The Lost Coast H O W L E R Editor: Barbara Stelz www.lostcoastkennelclub.org MAY 2008 LCKC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers: JILL OTTO President MICHELLE DOSTAL Vice President IRENE HETRICK Secretary CHRIS IRVIN Treasurer Members of the Board: PATTY MENDES BEVERLY MORGAN-LEWIS DEB ST. MYERS NEXT MEETING: TUESDAY, MAY 20 th at The Adorni Center 1011 Waterfront Drive Eureka President's Corner.. Nine of us met in Petrolia to organize the club trailer on April 20th. Some of us drove through a snowstorm to get there, but the weather in Petrolia was beautiful. A big thank you to all who helped and to those who transported items to other locations. Thank you also to Nick and Patty Mendes for great tri tip at the BBQ/potluck. Rose Kessler, Beverly Morgan Lewis, and I manned the LCKC booth at the Farm Store Pet Rescue Event on April 26th. The weather was much better than last year, and the event was well attended. We have lots of items to discuss at the next meeting for our upcoming shows. Please try to attend. We always need volunteers. See you at the May meeting at the Adorni Center. Board Mtg. - 6:30 p.m. Regular Mtg. - 7:00 p.m. Join us. Everyone is Welcome! Jill Otto
-2- On Canine Health AVMA Opens Online Resource to General Public Posted : Wed, 09 Apr 2008 Author : American Veterinary Medical Association SCHAUMBURG, Ill., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Launched earlier this month as a members-only benefit, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has opened access to its AVMA Collections to the general public, expanding the public's ability to tap into cutting edge and up-to-date veterinary medical information. AVMA Collections was created to offer AVMA member veterinarians compilations of articles organized by topic/subject from the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) and other AVMA journals. While the JAVMA is an excellent source of research and information on veterinary medicine, this new resource will provide quick, easy access to a collection of articles on a specific topic, dramatically improving the speed at which articles may be researched. AVMA Collections helps readers -- and now everyone -- make sense of the deep resources that the JAVMA offers. "By tapping the recent archives of our scientific journals, we are able to leverage the meticulous work already done by our journal editors to bring those articles to publication, " explains Dr. Janis Audin, Editor-In-Chief of JAVMA. "We couple this deep resource with an online format that allows rapid assembly into an efficient, coherent package that helps users quickly find what they need." Currently, AVMA Collections offers compilations of articles on topics such as obesity in dogs and zoonotic diseases, which are diseases transmittable between animals and humans, such as Lyme disease, E coli, and tuberculosis, to name a few. Each article in AVMA Collections is carefully selected by AVMA journal editors to give the most helpful picture of current knowledge in a given subject area. AVMA Collections is designed to be quick, easy to use, and informative. Each Collection is organized around a table of contents, which offers a topic summary and highlights for each article. If the reader desires more information than a summary provides, the entire article is just a hyperlink away. AVMA Collections is accessible online at: http://www.avma.org/avmcollections/ For more information, please visit http://www.avma. org/. The AVMA and its more than 76,000 member veterinarians are engaged in a wide variety of activities dedicated to advancing the science and art of animal, human and public health. Visit the AVMA Web site at http://www.avma. org/ for more information. DID YOU KNOW? -- Dogs have 17 muscles in their ears, making them much more flexible than our human ears. Dogs with pointed ears can turn their ears like radar dishes toward a sound.
-3- DID YOU KNOW? -- If you are traveling with a bitch in season, put a drop or two of Oil of Citronella in her crate. Males (well, at least most males) won t notice she s in season.
-4-??????????????????? DEBBIE ST. MYERS and SIENNA completed their Open Standard title with 3 first places. Congratulations to Debbie and Sienna.. IRENE HETRICK s Doberman, JAMAICA, earned two legs on her Rally obedience title. Way to go!!! Jeff Heim's 2-day Seminar "Beginning To Winning" July 26-27, 2008 To be held at: Sonoma County 4-H Center 6556 Commerce Blvd. Rohnert Park, CA 94927 What you will learn: 1. What to look for in a dog. 2. Basic training techniques. 3. Show equipment. 4. Nutrition, conditioning, & health care. 5. Professional ring etiquette 6. Evaluating movement & type. 7. Show attire. 8. Advanced handling tips. 9. Getting the final edge. 10. Competing with the pros. Jeff Heim has been a pro handler for 30 years of Group winning and Best in Show dogs. For more information contact: Kelly Morrison, doubledog@gmail.com or call 916-709-8806.
-5- ON THE HOME SCREEN... Animal Planet's Breed All About will be profiling the following breeds: Saturday, May 10 Sunday, May 11 - Saturday, May 17 - Sunday, May 18- Saturday, May 24 - Sunday, May 25 - Coonhound Portuguese Water Dog Shetland Sheepdog Pug Bernese Mountain Dog Newfoundland All Breed All About It broadcasts will be at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time. Doggie Haiku Author(s) Unknown I love my master. Thus I perfume myself with Long rotten squirrel. I lie belly-up In the sun, happier than You will ever be. Today I did sniff Many butts. I celebrate By kissing your face. I sound the alarm! Garbage man come to kill us. Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! My human is home! I am so ecstatic I Have made a puddle. I am your best friend. Now and whenever you are Eating something good. I life my leg on Each bush in the town. Hello, Spot. Sniff this and weep. Dig under fence Why? Because it s there. Because it s There. Because it s there. CELEBRATE YOUR BREED or ANYTHING CANINE. SUBMIT YOUR ORIGINAL DOGGIE HAIKU TO THE HOWLER! -6-
MINUTES OF MEETING OF APRIL 20th Attendants: Chris Irvin, Jill Otto, Patty and Nick Mendes, Debbie St. Myers, Cathy Wright, Josephine Morrissey, Tina Moulton. Guests: Mary Myers and Robert Lemmon. Board Business: Discussion of P.O. box in Henderson Center, and treasury report Regular Meeting: - Introduction of old members for new members. - Minutes of last meeting approved. - Report of Secretary given by Treasurer - Reorganizing and demousing of trailer. Thanks Taz!! We all had a good time going through all that was in the trailer. It looked good. Josephine and Chris took all agility equipment to the new trailer located in Fortuna. Thanks to all that helped!! - Newsletter and website were discussed. - Breed show discussed. Mailings need to go out to businesses that are donating for trophies so they send their donations in. - Cathy Wright is donating her tunnel to the club - Motion on agility jumps had to be tabled because not enough members were present to vote. - Farm store spring event discussed. - Lawn mower discussed. - No new business. Meeting adjourned Have a safe Memorial Day Weekend. If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience. - Woodrow Wilson www.lostcoastkennelclub.org