January 2004 OFFICERS PRESIDENT: Sally Burgess 314-962-6992 VICE PRESIDENT: Debi Vetz 314-752-5709 RECORDING SECRETARY: Cindy Burrows 636-940-2340 CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: Cassie Iken 8822 Rosewood Hills Edwardsville, IL 62025 618-692-0732 ikenzoo@msn.com TREASURER: Tom Schulz 314-355-8861 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Donna Clifford 314-830-0552 Mary Spillman 314-741-4675 Allison White 314-862-4013 STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS AWARDS: Lori Schulz 314-355-8861 AKC COORDINATOR: Debi Vetz 314-752-5709 ARCHIVIST: Cindy Burrows 636-940-2340 CHRISTMAS BANQUET: Paula Rothschild 636-797-5722 CONSTITUTION, BYLAWS & POLICIES: Sally Burgess 314-962-6992 EDUCATION, HEALTH & WELFARE: Mary Spillman 314-741-4675 EQUIPMENT: Donna Clifford 314-830-0552 MEMBERSHIP: Paula Rothschild 636-797-5722 PUPPY PICNIC: Lori Schulz 314-355-8861 SHELTIE INFO: Charlotte Hulett 7326 Sunridge Lane, Barnhart, MO 63012 636-942-3770 SHELTIE PEDDLER: Donna Clifford 314-830-0552 SHELTIE RESCUE: Janice Mitchell 636-561-3091 2004 SHOW COMMITTEE: SHOW CHAIRPERSON: Mary Spillman 314-741-4675 ASST. SHOW CHAIRPERSON: OBEDIENCE CHAIRPERSON: Cindy Burrows 636-940-2340 SHOW SECRETARY: Tom & Lori Schultz 314-355-8861 SUNSHINE: Patti Hittler 314-963-1774 VIBES EDITOR: Debi Vetz 314-752-5709 mdvetz@sbcglobal.net WAYS & MEANS: WEBSITE: Michelle Pitts 314-427-6000 http://members.aol.com/nfinit17/index.html Holiday Party & Awards Banquet (and a short Club Meeting) Sunday, Jan. 4 1:00 p.m. Trailhead Brewing Company (map and details inside this issue!) 2005 NATIONAL LOCAL COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS LOCAL SHOW CHAIRPERSON: Cindy Lachnit 573-657-9773 ASST. LOCAL SHOW CHAIRPERSON: Debi Vetz 314-752-5709 LOCAL OBEDIENCE CHAIRPERSON: Sally Burgess 314-962-6992 LOCAL AGILITY CHAIRPERSON: Lori Schulz 314-355-8861 LOCAL HERDING CHAIRPERSON: Tracy Buck 636-561-2199 LOCAL HOSPITALITY CHAIRPERSON: Mary Spillman 314-741-4675 LOCAL HOTEL LIAISONS: Nancy McIntyre 314-837-7605 FUND RAISER CHAIRPERSON: Allison White 314-862-4013 EQUIPMENT CHAIRPERSON: Donna Schepers 314-830-0552 INFORMATION CHAIRPERSON: Bob Piccirillo 913-883-4487 LOCAL CLEAN-UP COMMITTEE: Patti Hittler 314-963-1774 RV CHAIRPERSON: John Burgess 314-962-6992 LOCAL RESCUE CHAIRPERSON: Tracy Buck 636-561-3091 LOCAL TROPHY CHAIRPERSON: Sidney Ganz 636-227-1578 LOCAL CHIEF RING STEWARD: Bob Piccirillo 913-883-4487 LOCAL GROUNDS CONTROL CHAIRPERSON: Tom Schulz 314-355-8861 OFFICIAL WEB SITE: www.shelties2005.com The SHELTIE VIBES is the official newsletter of the Greater St. Louis Shetland Sheepdog Club. SHELTIE VIBES is published monthly. Non-members may subscribe for $15.00 per year. The Deadline for printing in the VIBES is the 20th of the month. Payments for listings or ads must accompany copy. Display ad for a full page is $8; half page $5. SUPPORT PAGE will run your business card size ad quarterly for $5.00. (MEMBERS ONLY). Send all news, ads, materials, checks, etc., to the Editors. Make checks payable to GSLSSC Claims made in ads or opinions expressed in articles are not necessarily endorsed by the VIBES or GSLSSC. Articles may be reprinted by other club publications as long as proper credit is given the author and this Newsletter. Sheltie head is owned exclusively by GSLSSC for their use only. All other artwork can be used if proper credit is given.
From The Editor: Happy New Year to everyone. This months regular club meeting will be held at our annual Holiday Party and Awards Banquet. Hope to see you all there. We really want to bring back the ads, gentlemen for hire and personal accomplishment pages. If you are interested in any of these, please let me know and I will be happy to assist you. Also remember that stories about your latest accomplishments (both human and dog related) are always welcome. Debi Vetz Vibes Editor FUZZY FRIENDS UPCOMING SHOW N GO January 17 and 18 at Belle-City Kennel Club is the date for our Fuzzy Friends Show N Go. Open and Utility will start at 8:00 a.m. each day with Novice starting around 1:00 p.m. Contact Nancy McIntyre at 314-837-7605 or Mary Spillman at 314-741-4675 to offer your assistance. This is a big fund raiser for the club and everyone's assistance is needed. DUES ARE DUE! It s time to renew your membership and are due by January 1, 2004. $20 Individual Membership $25 Family Membership $5 Junior Member Make checks out to GSLSSC and either pay at a regular club meeting or mail to our Treasurer: Tom Schulz, 11253 Jerries Lane, St. Louis, MO 63136 E-MAIL ADDRESS CHANGES Please note that Cindy Onder has a new e-mail address: sheltiegirl322@msn.com. Also Mark and Cassie Iken have the following changed e-mail address: ikenzoo@aol.com. You can also e-mail Mark at his work address of: maiken@co.madison.il.us. Make sure to update your roster also. News & Highlights BRAGS! Marianne Glisson is proud to send word that Kobe, whose registered name is Karosel Robinaire Gold Rush finished Nov. 16th. So he is now CH Karosel Robinaire Gold Rush. Sally and John Burgess wrote that Smucker s now has her Agility OAJ and 2 legs in OA. She showed four times this weekend (Nov. 29 & 30) and qualified four times at the Agility trial with three first placement and a third placement. We are very proud of Erin s daughter. Cindy Burrows was recently recognized by the St. Charles County Coalition for Professional Support. She received top honors as Staff Person of the Year for St. Charles County. With this honor she received a State Resolution and a City Proclamation honoring her for her accomplishment along with a trip anywhere in the continental United States worth $1500! Way to go Cindy! 2004 NATIONAL NEWS For personal reasons Millie Nicoll has resigned her breed judging assignment for the 2004 National in Ogden, Utah. Rick Thompson will now judge Best of Breed and bitches. Using the election results from the voting for this national; the ASSA approached individuals in the order in which they received votes for the remainder of the assignment; dogs, stud dog, and brood bitch with Shelby Price accepting that assignment. The new Junior Showmanship judge will be Jan Leonard. Best of luck Rick with your new assignment! You will do a great job! 2
NEWS FROM: Second Chance Sheltie Rescue www.dogforme.com 636-561-3091 E-mail: SheltieRescue@DogForMe.com ********************************************************** PARTYLITE CANDLE PARTY TO BENEFIT SHELTIE RESCUE January 24th at 2pm!!! Like candles? Janice Mitchell will be hosting a Partylite Candle Party on January 24th at 2:00 p.m. Place to be determined. Buy your candles here and help raise funds for Sheltie Rescue! New catalog of products coming out in January! Rep: Barb Schubert TrimYourWicks@hotmail.com SHELTIE FUNDRAISING NEWS ALERT! Holiday Party and Awards Banquet Sunday, January 4, 2003 1:00 p.m. Trailhead Brewing Company 921 South Riverside Drive St. Charles, MO 63301 636-946-2739 We will also hold our regular January meeting at the party. See you all there! A Garage Sale to End All Garage Sales! Early May, 2004 (Exact date yet to be determined) To raise funds for Sheltie Rescue of St. Louis Christine and Lori Beth s house in St. Charles, MO You can help! Start saving your treasures now! Donations can be accepted for storage as early as February 1 and store them in their basement/two-car garage. You can either price your items (which would be a big time saver),or they can. There is no wrong price the goal is to sell all the stuff to raise funds! Please help promote the sale at work, at your church, through your subdivision newsletter, child s school, etc. Chris will advertise through all the Suburban Journals. All of her ads will highlight the fact that ALL garage sales proceeds benefit Sheltie Rescue. Volunteer to help Christine price/set up/take down! Remember VOLUNTEERS MAKE IT HAPPEN Please note that any items not sold will be donated to local charities/canine rescue groups. Call the Sheltie Rescue number at 636-561-3091 and your message will be forwarded to Christine and Lori Beth for further information and what type of items can be accepted. (No clothing/shoes please unless they are clean, well cared for baby items.) 3
Stress and the Obedience Dog by Mary Ferentino and Laurie S. Coger, DVM No matter how experienced or talented a trainer is, they can easily fall into the trap of letting training stress undo all the good training they have put into a dog. Perhaps you have been through this sort of experience yourself. You re thrilled with your dog s training at home. In fact, you re sure she ll get at least a 195 when you show her. 4
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Latest Alert from Cornell University Veterinary School. We have identified a new disease, probably caused by a virus among dog-owning people. It apparently has been in existence for a considerable time, but only recently has anyone identified this disease, and begun to study it. We call it the Acquired Canine Obsessive Syndrome (ACOS). At first, ACOS was originally considered to be psychological in nature, but after two young researchers here suddenly decided to become show breeders, we realized that we were dealing with an infectious agent. Epidemiologists here have identified three stages of this disease and typical symptoms, and they are: A. You have the early symptoms (Stage I) if: 1. You think that any show within 300 miles is near by. 2. You begin to enjoy getting up at 5 am in he morning to walk and feed dogs. 3. It is fun to spend several hours a day grooming dogs. 4. You think you re being frugal if you spend less than $3,000 dollars a year on shows. 5. You can t remember what it was like to have just one dog. B. You definitely have the disease (Stage II) if: 1. Your most important factor when buying a car is how many crates you can fit in it. 2. When you look for a house, the first thing you think of is how many dogs you can kennel on the property. 3. Your dog food bill is higher than your family s. 4. You spend as much on veterinarians as on doctors. 5. You have no money because of showing dogs. 6. You have to buy more than one vehicle a year, because you keep burning out the 7-year or 70,000- mile warranty going to shows. 7. Your have more pictures of the dogs than of your family. 8. Your idea of a fun vacation is to hit a show circuit. 9. Most of your conversations revolve around the dogs. C. You are a terminal case (Stage III) if: 1. You wake up in the morning and find out that you put the kids in the crates and the dogs in the beds last night. 2. You know each dog s name and pedigree, but can t figure out who that stranger in the house is; it turns out to be your husband/wife. 3. Your neighbors keep insisting that those kids running around your house bothering the dogs are yours. 4. You keep telling the kids to heel and can t understand why they won t, and why they keep objecting to the choke chain. 6 5. You cash in the kid s college trust fund to campaign the dogs. 6. You ve been on the road showing dogs so long that you can t remember where you live. 7. Your family tells you It s either the dogs or us; you choose the dogs. Do you have this dreaded disease? Well, there is hope. In the course of our research, we have found that most cases seem to stop at Stage II, and remain chronic. We, with great difficulty, managed to acquire several Stage III ACOS patients. They are currently in our isolation wards, where we are studying them to gain a better understanding of this disease. It is a sad sight, seeing these formerly vibrant people as they shuffle around their rooms in endless triangle or L-patterns, making odd hand motions (as if holding a lead and baiting a dog), and making chirping noises. Merely saying the word Westminster can send them into an uncontrollable frenzy. Unfortunately, there isn t much hope for these cases, but with time and research to further understand this disease, we hope to come up with a cure. We are now attempting to isolate the causative agent, and may be able to develop a vaccine in the future. An interesting sidelight of this disease seems to be that exposure at an early age has an immunizing effect. Several people afflicted with ACOS at Stage II and Stage III have close family members (children, husbands, wives) who have absolutely no disease. It is thought by some of our researchers that this may be due to environmental effects, to an age-related immune function, or to the fact that those at these stages of the disease tend not to associate with their close family members possibly due to the memory deficit induced by the disease - that is, in that they don t remember that they have close family members! What can you do to prevent this disease? Until a cure is found, prevention is the measure. Avoid kennels advertising show stock, since it may be that dogs are carriers of the disease. Leave town on those days that the local newspapers inform you of a show in the area. If you inadvertently come into contact with an ACOSafflicted person, leave as soon as possible (they do tend to cling), and thoroughly shower, preferably with germicidal soap. If you are living with an ACOS-afflicted person, take comfort that, if you haven t succumbed yet, you are probably safe. via Allison White
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FIRST CLASS MAIL PLACE STAMP HERE 5604 Milentz Ave., St. Louis, MO 63109 January 2004 A DOG S NEW YEAR S RESOLUTIONS I will not play tug-of-war with Dad's underwear when he s on the toilet. The garbage collector is NOT stealing our stuff. I do not need to suddenly stand straight up when I m lying under the coffee table. I will not roll my toys behind the fridge. I must shake the rainwater out of my fur BEFORE entering the house. I will not eat the cats food, before or after they eat it. I will stop trying to find the few remaining pieces of clean carpet in the house when I am about to throw up. I will not throw up in the car. I will not roll on dead seagulls, fish, crabs, etc. I will not lick my human s face after eating animal poop. Kitty box crunchies are not food. I will not eat any more socks and then redeposit them in the backyard after processing. I will not wake Mommy up by sticking my cold, wet nose up her bottom end. I will not chew my human s toothbrush and not tell them. I will not chew crayons or pens, especially not the red ones, or my people will think I am hemorrhaging. When in the car, I will not insist on having the window rolled down when it s raining outside. We do not have a doorbell. I will not bark each time I hear one on TV. I will not steal my Mom s underwear and dance all over the back yard with it. The sofa is not a face towel. Neither are Mom & Dad s laps. My head does not belong in the refrigerator. I will not bite the officer s hand when he reaches in for Mom s driver s license and car registration.