California Brittany Club

Welcome to the new CBC mem-bers; I encourage

all of you to jump-in and par-ticipate in all aspects of the club. The Brittany is the holistic dog and the health of our breed is measured by the number Dual Champion awards. There are more Brittany Dual Champions than any other breed.

What is a Dual Champion? It is a dog that is an AKC Show Champion (CH) and an AKC

Field Champion (FC). The dog then carries the title Dual Champion (DC). These dogs are the ideal that all pointing breeds strive to attain.

The American Brittany Club and California Brittany Club place great emphasis on the Dual Champion award. It is the focal point of our consti-tutions. If you join the Club with a hunting heritage, please attend a dog show. You will see that the Brittany group is quite different from some of the dog rings. If you’ve never been to a field

trial or hunt test, please take the time to attend. This is where the primary hunting instincts of the Brit-tany are tested. You can’t appreciate what a Brittany is until you experience both sides of the DC title.

The CBC Fall Field Trial takes place October 28, 29 near California City in the Mojave Desert. The driving directions are contained in the event premium which is on the CBC web site. A field trial is a busy event and can

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As South-ern Califor-nia was in

the middle of a heat wave and July 19th was one of the HOTTEST DAYS … McKenna’s On The Bay was a truly welcome venue for the CBC 2005 Awards Banquet. Those cool ocean breezes were very much appreciated. After a luncheon of Salmon, Steak Sandwich or Cobb

Salad (your choice) and des-sert, we got to the business at hand. Honoring our be-loved Britt’s. As most of you know and, new members will soon know, we do “honor” very well. It could be consid-ered our other specialty.

First up … we congratulated FC Tule River’s Traveling Sam for owners Jerry Rosenberg & Barbara Robbin. Redline’s

Tequila Moon & Redline’s Te-quila Twist owned by Bill and Cindy Leffingwell. Redline’s Smoking Gun owners Duane and Sheri Harder. I M Noble T for owner Craig Lewis. Megachip owned by Tom White and Margaret Horstmeyer. Rocking RM California Cruiser owners Ed and Linda Dixon. Shiloh’s Tru Believer for owners Linda

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CBC Award’s Banquet By Rozanne Woelm

From the President’s Corner October 1, 2006

Volume 5, Issue 4

Inside this issue:

Letter from the Editor

4

Tattle Tails 4

Willi Match 5

Qualifying for Eukanuba Nationals

8

Membership 9

General Meeting Minutes

10

Delayed Chase 10

Suggestions for Judges Survey

11

American Brittany Rescue

12

Puppies Available 12

NSTRA Fun Trial Flyer 13

CBC Field Trial Premium

15

Special points of interest: ☺ CBC Field Trial will be

on Oct. 28-29 in Cali-fornia City. All stakes open to ALL AKC Regis-tered Pointing Breeds.

☺ Next Newsletter Publica-tion will be January 15, 2007 - Deadline is Janu-ary 1st. Send ideas, brags and info to Sharon Ka-lionzes. See address & phone number info on back.

McDonald, Lynda Evans and Pennie Peter-son. FC Man About Town owned by Linda McDonald. CH Loki’s Blizzard OF Mischief owners Linda McDonald, Toni Avedissian and Nancy Schmeider and Shady’s The Price Is Right owned by Rocky Dennis and Antoinette Fabray for their successful year in field and show competition. We applauded Madison Renfree for her winning ways in Jr. Handling. Each received a certificate of accomplish-ment from the California Brittany Club.

We honored new AFC I M A Birdfindin’ Babe, owner Craig Lewis for her new Amateur Championship. We also honored DC AFC Terra’s Cabo Wabo owned by Tom White and Margaret Horstmeyer for his new Amateur title.

We honored 3 new Show Champions: CH Bur-fords What Was I Thinking JH for Lynda Evans and Katelyn Ford, DC AFC Terra’s Cabo Wabo owners Tom White and Margaret Horstmeyer and 2xAm FC DC AFC Redline’s Tequila Smoker owned by Bill and Cindy Lef-fingwell. Congratulations to these CBC mem-bers who are continuing to do their part for the Dual Brittany.

We honored Dakota’s Booker-T JH owned by Dakota Renfree & Brad Renfree along with CH Remington’s Arctic Legacy SH for owners Dale and Myra Dawn Ellis for their new Hunt-ing Test titles. Booker and Lacey were tie winners of the CBC Hunting Test Dogs for 2005. This tie is a First, I think, and we are very proud of them both.

We honored CH Swift River’s Destiny’s Child JH NA NAJ for her newly acquired agility titles and named her the CBC Agility Dog for 2005. She is owned and handled by Sharon Kalionzes. Co-owned by Pennie Peterson. Congratulations!!! All the hard work that Sharon has put into this really paid off.

We honored CH Tantara’s A Walk In The Park CD JH owned by Nancy Hewitt for a CD in obedience. While we were at it we hon-ored Nancy and Walker with the CBC Obedi-ence Dog for 2005. Nancy says, “Walker is a challenge and I love a good challenge.” We say, “Well done Nancy and Walker”.

We continued by honoring I M A Pocket Rocket owned and handled by Craig Lewis for their outstanding year in the field. Together they placed 15 times in field events. 6 of those placements were 1st place wins. “Rocket” was awarded the CBC Juvenile Dog

for 2005. Much congratulations goes to Craig and Rocky.

Our CBC Gun Dog for 2005 award goes to FC Quail Rock Tough Enough owned by Ellen Weinfurtner and handled by Paul Doiron (scouting by Peggy Doiron). “King” was the Top All Breed gun dog for 2005. He gar-nered 13 field placements, 9 of them firsts. 7 of those were consecutive. Way to go King!

The CBC All Age Dog for 2005 is DC AFC TJ’s Single Shot of Scipio. “Emme” finished the 2005 season with 20 field wins and placements in All Age stakes. Two of those were hour stakes. She was posted at the ABC Amateur All Age Nationals. Tom White and Margaret Horstmeyer own her. Con-gratulations to you all.

DC AFC Travelers Reign of Terra who is owned by Margaret Horstmeyer and Tom White finished the trial season with 18 field wins and placements. 3 of those were in 1-hour stakes to include the AKC Pointing Breed Gun Dog Championship. “Terra” is the winner of the CBC Field Dog for 2005 as well as the CBC Amateur Handled Dog for 2005. This is the third year in a row that Terra has won the Amateur Handled Dog of the year award. Congratulations Tom and Margaret.

We honored CH Sanbar’s Curtain Call JH owned by Agnes Rodrigues, Polly, Bob and Barbara West. He was the #1 Brittany for 2005 (Show), #5 Sporting Dog 2005 (Show), # 11 All-Breed (Show) 2005, BOB Summer Nat’l Specialty 2005 & BOB at Westminster 2005. Among the many BOB and Group wins he was able to count, under the CBC rules for these awards, he was able to include 4 Best In Shows. If memory serves me, he had 11 Best In Shows for 2005. “Jonnie” is once again our CBC Show Dog for 2005. What a ride!!!

Our Jr Handlers always hold a special place in the CBC and we honored Katelyn Ford as the CBC Show Jr Handler for 2005. Katelyn has won several BOB and BOS with “Ashley”. She co-owns her with Lynda Evans. Katelyn has also won a Best JR Handler and is cur-rently working hard to earn her way to Westminster. Dakota Renfree is the recipi-ent of the CBC Field JR Handler for 2005. Dakota competes with “Booker” in many field events. She is often seen running Booker in the same stakes as the adult handlers. She has earned 5 field placements and a JR Hunter title during the 2005 season. We

take our hats off to both girls as they are great competitors and the CBC is so proud of them.

All of the winners of the CBC 2005 awards were given a certificate of achievement and a 3rd year limited edition hooded and zip-pered sweatshirt with a quail and award re-ceived a long with the year, embroidered on the front.

Saving the highest awards for last, the Dual Award winners were given wooden boxes with an embroidered Quail and award name on the top. They also received certificates of achievement. Of course they received much applause and congratulations for a very good year.

Dakota Renfree earned the Dual JR Handler for 2005. This is the 3th year in a row that she has won this award. Dakota works hard in the field and on her showing skills. Be-sides competing in the field, going to school and helping to train the field dogs, she finds time to compete in the show ring. A dedi-cated DUAL enthusiast. We applaud all of her efforts. Congratulations Dakota.

Our Dual Dog for 2005 is DC AFC Terra’s Cabo Wabo owned by Tom White and Marga-ret Horstmeyer. “Sammy” earned his Field title in January, his Amateur Field title in May and his Show title in July. Busy boy!!! His field wins were in open and amateur and included an hour stake. He finished his Show Championship under the able hands of Linda McDonald. Congratulations to Tom and Mar-garet, who do everything possible to pre-serve the Dual Brittany. The CBC salutes you.

I would like to thank my committee for all of their hard work and dedication to making this event as nice, for everyone, as possible. They are: Rich & Helen Harbour, Sharon Kalionzes, Myra Dawn Ellis and Bob Woelm. They are the best!!! I also would like to thank the membership for all the work they do the through out the year (year after year) in the many, many jobs it takes to have the successful and fun club that we enjoy. Some small, some large, none forgotten.

New members … Have questions about the counting of points or where to get that score sheet? Just ask most any member. They will know how to help you. Until next July … keep tabulating your points. You might be the winner next year!

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We enjoyed a warm but fun sum-mer. We celebrated our 2005 CBC Achievement Award winners to-gether sharing great food and friendship. Recently we spent a really fun day with our Brittanys at the Willi Match. Both events were sure smile producers! We hope you find reliving the celebrations with photos and write ups in this issue entertaining. Myra-Dawn has de-signed another wonderful collage of photos so look for yourself, your dog, and all the fun in the park!

Please take note of the dogs at the top of the “On Point” banner on the front page... Jonnie is there as the 2005 Show Dog of the year, and Sammy is our Dual Dog of ‘05. Con-gratulations to their owners/breeders/trainers and handlers on

their out-standing successes for the year.

The final competition for the Eu-kanuba Dog Show is coming to Long Beach in December. We will have one of our own competing in Junior Showmanship ... Katelyn Ford. It would be wonderful to have lots of our members come watch and sup-port her with cheers. She has writ-ten a little piece about what it took to get invited ... take a minute and read all about it in this issue!! We wish her all the best luck and to have a good time and enjoy the ex-perience.

The CBC Fall Field trial is soon upon us and we wish all participants the best of luck at our trial, and those that follow. The Hunting Test will

be coming soon too, and we hope those of you who have not experienced any field type event will be able to come out for at least one of the two weekend days and see what all this “field stuff” is about. It’s a real treat to see our dogs do what they were bred for, and it’s a great opportu-nity to learn a little about trials/hunt tests. They ALWAYS need people to volunteer to help, and there are ALWAYS jobs to do. Vol-unteers are always needed and wel-come! It’s rewarding and fun to do...

Enjoy the issue, and have a wonder-ful Fall/Winter! Sharon

Letter from the Editor By Sharon Kalionzes

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Scipios Micro Twist, “Skeeter”, took 1st place in 3-6 months puppy dogs. He also

went WD, BOW, and Best Puppy at the Willi Match. This was his very first show!!! He was handled by Dakota Ren-free and is owned by Ed and Lynda Dixon. Congratulations... and watch out for Skeeter!

Dakota's Booker-T went 2nd place in Trop Grande

Dakota Renfree went 2nd place in Jun-ior showmanship and sister Madison Renfree took 3rd place in Junior show-manship with Lacey (who is owned/bred by Myra-Dawn Ellis). Well done ladies!!! Congratulations proud parents Shannon and Brad Renfree.

Santa Maria KC dog show...Katelyn Ford went Best Jr. handler!!!! She won over a total of 45 jrs. She handled “Crissy”, (new champion) Swift River’s Flashback in Time. Congratulations, Katelyn! (read more about Katelyn and her upcoming trip to the Eukanuba in this newsletter!) CH Remington's Rusty Ridge QTKT, “KT” got a second leg of her MH at the GWP Hunting Test at Prado on Sept. 16th. Breeder/owner/handler Myra-Dawn Ellis and KT were a great team! Congratulations… “Taq”, Redlines Tequila Moon, went WD & BOW for 2 pts at Longview KC on 7/16/06, WD for a 4 pt. major at Beau-

mont KC show 7/22/06, and at Bexar County KC on 7/30/06 he went WD/BOW for another 4 pt win. Congratula-tions to owners Cindy and Bill Leffing-well! Taq is by 2X AmFC DC AFC Redl-line’s Tequila Smoker X DC AFC Tule River’s Full Moon Maggie. He was han-dled by Jessica Carlson to these wins.

Tattle Tail

The Willi Match on August 20th at Rush Park was a great success. This year we had over 75 people attend the

match. The weather was hot but not as bad as last year. It was great to have so many new faces as well as some new juniors. It really was a fun club day.

The day started off by getting our mo-tor home to the Park at 6:30am so that we were sure to get the right spot for our event. The set up went very smoothly and the ring and displays went up without a hitch with the hard work of Joe Ramondetta. At 8:30am Pennie Peterson and Lynda Evans did the Grooming and Handling seminar. The

seminar was fantastic and several peo-ple watched carefully as they learned how to groom and show their dogs. Thank you so much ladies for sharing your talent at the Willi Match. A spe-cial thank you goes out to Rozanne Woelm and Helen Harbour for handling registration. Again this year they did a fantastic job. This year, at registra-tion, we added four new CBC member-ships. Rozanne was also responsible for securing the permit for Rush Park, what a great place to have the Willi Match - Thanks. Bob Woelm was the Willi Match janitor by cleaning up the

grounds prior to the match so that our dogs would have a pristine ring to show in. It was a real pleasure to have Eileen Weston as our judge this year. She really took the time and provided guid-ance to the juniors and amateur show-

man. A very special thank you goes out to Eileen for volunteering her Sunday for the California Brittany Club.

This year we had plenty of food. As the Willi Match was finishing with best of breed you could hear the stomachs growling. At least I hope that was stomachs and not people growling at me trying my hand at being the Ring Stew-art. Boy did I learn a lot doing that job. The food was really great. We had a little bit of everything on the table.

I hope that everyone had a fun day at the Willi Match. This type of event really makes the CBC stand out as a premier club. Congratulations to every-one.

The following were the results of the event: Junior Showmanship-Experienced 1st Katelyn Ford with Crissy 2nd Dakota Renfree with Booker 3rd Madison Renfree with Lacey

Junior Showmanship-new Jr. 1st Harvey Beckett with Rocket 2nd Hailey Beckett with Flash 3rd Alyssa Schlom with Abby

Best Junior - Katelyn Ford Runner up - Harvey Beckett

3-6 Months Puppy Dogs 1st Skeeter - Dakota Renfree 2nd Spooner - Leah Shirokoff 3rd Luc - Jill Cronin 4th Trav - Carolyn Cape

12-18 Months Junior Dog 1st Ace - Ted Clinton 2nd Colt - Sheri Harder

Open Dogs 1st Cooper - Don Echavarria 2nd Fred - Susan Kerns 3rd Kenny - Allan Schneider 4th Teddy - Margaret Horstmeyer

Veteran Dog 1st Pilot - Bev Bemis 2nd Stone - Mary Brown

Under 3 Month Puppy Bitches 1st Circe - Sandra Jaqua 2nd Cutie - Sandra Jaqua 3rd Cha-Cha - Sandra Jaqua 4th Birdy - Sandra Jaqua

3-6 Month Puppy Bitches 1st Tia - Sandra Jaqua 2nd Lacy - Anthony Schiffilea 3rd Abby - Ed Mayhew

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Another Fun Willi Match By Frank Bianchini

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Best of Breed - Ivy

Best Opposite Sex - Pilot

Best Junior - Katelyn

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be confusing to a new member. I en-courage you to attend and seek me out when you get there. I’ll give you an orientation and get you connected with members that will try to make sense of what’s going on. During the trip of my first visit to a CBC trial as we traveled down dirt roads in the rain, I looked at my wife Margaret and seriously asked, “Do you really want to do this?” She nodded affirmatively and we continued to the trial. Getting involved at the local, re-gional and national level has changed our lives for the better. Attend the trial and start to enjoy another aspect of the Brittany world. Tom White CBC President

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Qualifying for the AKC Eukanuba National Cham-pionship has taken much

determination, but I did it. The qualifica-tions for Eukanuba states that a junior han-dler between the age of 9 and 18 needs two consecutive semesters of a 3.0 or higher grade point average before the closing date of entries and 5 first place wins from a Jun-iors Showmanship Open Class with competi-tion between the dates of October 12, 2005 and October 10, 2006.

In August of 2005 I thought about what I wanted to achieve as a junior handler. I made it my goal to qualify for Eukanuba and for the Westminster dog shows. I easily kept my grades up and earned two semesters of a 3.3 GPA last school year.

My qualifying first place wins to date are: 10/23/05 - Del Valle Dog Club of Livermore at Pleasanton with CH Burfords What Was I Thinking JH “Ashley” who is owned by Lynda Evans and myself. 10/24/05 - Again with Ashley. That day I also won Best Junior Handler. 12/19/05 - KC of Beverly Hills at Long Beach with CH Loki's Blizzard of Michief

Qualifying for the AKC Eukanuba National Championship By Katelyn Ford

“Luke” owned by my aunt Linda McDonald and CBC Club members Nancy Schmeider and Tony Avedissian 3/11/06 - Apple Valley KC at Victorville with Ashley. 4/30/06 - Lake Mathews KC at Chino with CH Bookers Northern Legacy “Emo” who is owned by Lynda Evans. 6/26/06 - Long Beach KC at Long Beach with CH Swift River's Flashback N Time “Crissy” who is owned by Lynda Evans, Pennie Peter-son, Roger Kibbee and Fran Phillips. I also won Best Junior Handler that day. 7/8/06 - Santa Maria KC at Ventura with Crissy and Best Junior Handler over 45 jun-ior handlers. 8/13/06 - South Bay KC at Torrance with Crissy. This year the AKC Eukanuba National Cham-pionship dog show will be held in December at the Long Beach Convention Center. I am very excited to go and will show either Ash-ley or Crissy. As for Westminster I need a total of 10 first places from December 5, 2005 and November 27, 2006 to qualify. To date I need four more and I am trying my hardest.

President’s Corner (continue)

Trop Grand Dog 1st Spot - Leah Shirokoff 2nd Booker - Dakota Renfree 3rd Bernie - Vicki Rittner 4th Rocket – Lynda Evans

Winners Dog Skeeter - Dakota Renfree

Reserve Winners Dog Ace - Ted Clinton

Winners Bitch Tia - Sandra Jaqua

6-9 Month Puppy Bitches 1st Khai - Lorraine Bickett

9-12 Month Puppy Bitches 1st Echo - Bev Bemis

12-18 Month Junior Bitches 1st Belle - Lorraine Beckett 2nd Joy - Mike Frane

Open Bitches 1st Page - Mike Frane 2nd Bella - Linda McDonald 3rd Maggie - Frank Tisue 4th Maggie - Mike Frane

Field Trial Bitches 1st Joy - Mike Frane

Veteran Bitch 1st Remi - Myra-Dawn Ellis 2nd Desi - Linda McDonald

Reserve Winners Bitch Echo - Bev Bemis Willi Match (continue)

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Best of Winners and Best Puppy

Skeeter

Best of Breed Ivy - Joe and Agnes Rodrigues

Best of Opposite Sex Pilot - Bev Bemis

Best of Winners & Puppy Skeeter - Dakota Renfree

In the Mail

Dear Sharon, As new members, my family would like to thank all those who worked so very hard to provide a wonderful day (the Willi Match) ... A special thanks to Pennie Peterson and Linda Evans who graciously went out of their way to bring two dogs for our young children to show in Jrs. Katelyn gave great instruction ... to the Children. We learned many new tricks from the grooming … and greatly appreciate all of the encouragement. Thank you for an event for the beginners ... We truly felt welcomed... The Bickett Family Lorraine, Skip, Harvey and Hailey

Y'ALL COME TO THE CBC FALL FIELD TRIAL! The California Brittany Club will be holding it's fall field trial at Castle Butte Wells, California City on Sat-urday and Sunday, October 28-29, 2006. Please come out and join the fun! Since the trial is so close to Halloween, we'll have Brittany cos-tume parade. The trial is a great opportunity to run your young dogs, see lots of Brittanys, meet fellow Brittany fans from the area, enjoy the outdoors and support your club. This year the trial will be open to all AKC registered pointing breeds. Judging starts at 7 am Saturday and will continue during daylight

Get Well

We hope Susan Kern’s recent back surgery was a complete success and she heals quickly. We were happy to see her participating at the Willi Match ... our best wishes for her complete recovery!

Remembrances

Our sincerest sympathies to Scott and Sandra Jaqua on the loss of Scott’s parents recently.

New Members: Jill Cronin 1712 Speger Ln Redondo Beach, CA 90278 310-663-9572

Shari Sorbo 28216 Shelter Cove Dr Santa Clarita, CA 91350 661-296-2183 sharnel@earthlink.net

Allan Schneider 10691 Quadrille Place Cowan Heights, CA 92705 714-389-7635 aaschneider@yahoo.com

Anthony Schiffilea 12011 Bluefield Ave La Mirada, CA 90638-1312 562-943-7065 Goat26135@aol.com

Fred Tisue 356 Paseo de Gracia Redondo Beach, CA 90277 310-375-6016 ftisue@socal.rr.com

Members Moved: Doreen & Tom Kearney 14508 Sabina Dr La Mirada, Ca 90638

New Email Addresses Jerry Rosenberg/Barbara Robben robbenxrobrg@verizon.net

Beverly and Ron Bemis Bemisx2@attwb.net

Bill Landress blandress@clearwire.net

hours until completion on Sunday. Premiums and flyers are included with this newsletter for additional information. If you would like to help with any jobs (filling water barrels, filling bird bags, calling up braces, helping with food preparation and clean up, bringing wood for the bonfire or any other ideas), PLEASE let Tom White know at tom@nfcmeg.com or 909-266-7007. He'll be happy to hear from you. Come on out all you new CBC members!

Membership

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Thank You

Rhonda Carlson sends a thank you to the CBC members for telling people about the American Brittany Rescue. Our new members Shari and Nelson Sorbo hear about rescue from our club.

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Call to order: The general membership meeting held in conjunction with the Willi Match was called to order by VP Nancy Schmeider in absence of President Tom White at 2:10 pm.

Minutes from the 5/28/06 general membership meeting were read by Sec-retary M. Horstmeyer and approved as read.

Treasurer’s report: WaMu checking account balance: $15587.16. Specialty show update: net was $741.04. Awards banquet cost: $231.00.

COMMITTEE REPORTS: Field trial: Fall FT to be held October 28 & 29 at Castle Butte Wells, Camp H, California City. Tom White field trial chairperson; M Horstmeyer FT Secre-tary. Judges have been secured thanks to Ed Dixon, applications and approvals into AKC and ABC.

Spring FT: FT Chairperson: Bill Lef-fingwell, FT Secretary, Karen Nelsen. To be held the last weekend in January 2007.

Hunting test: Chairperson: Karen Nelsen. To be held the last weekend in February 2007. May be held in conjunc-tion with San Diego Brittany Club, if not, then with the German Wirehaired Pointer Club.

Willi Match: Being held today. Frank Bianchini chairperson.

Newsletter: Deadline for next issue is September 15th.

Website: Not discussed

Awards Banquet: Held 7/19/06 At McKenna’s. A successful event.

Specialty Show: Sharon Kalionzes is looking into holding the show with the

Long Beach/Beverly Hills shows at the end of June. The Great Western Ter-rier Association holds their show at Eldorado Park. Planning discussions and meetings are in progress.

Club Championship: Not held

OLD BUSINESS: Proposed By Law amendment change: For officer’s duties and communication methods were read. Bill Hacker mo-tioned that the changes be accepted. Barbara Robben seconded the motion. Motion passed.

National Specialty Trophy Donation: Board of Directors voted to donate $120.

NEW BUSINESS: Nancy Hewitt requested suggestions for National Specialty judges for 2008. Also for Sweeps and Obedience. Bill Leffingwell suggested that we keep a list of potential field trial judges.

Karen Nelsen reported that a training day at Raahauge’s will be planned for later on this year.

Sandra Jaqua reported that there is a California law (Chapter 530 Statutes of 1991) which requires that dog breeders supply puppy buyers with a “Dog Regis-tration Disclosure”. She handed out an example of the document.

New member Alan Schneider and his wife, Stephanie, were welcomed. Their dog, Kenny, is from Brittany Rescue and was enjoying his first show!

Meeting adjourned at 2:43 pm.

Respectfully Submitted, Margaret Horstmeyer CBC Secretary/Treasurer

CBC General Meeting - 08/20/06 Pre-Approved Minutes

Delayed Chase (formally OOPS!)

My apologies to Craig Lewis and his two winning dogs, “Rocky” and “T”! I somehow switched the accomplish-ments of these two fine dogs in the Tattle Tales section of the July issue ... I am so sorry! (Ed.) I M A Pocket Rocket, “Rocky”, took second place in the All Age stakes at

the 2006 Western Regional Futurity. I M Noble T, “T”, took third place in the Gun Dog Stake of the Western Regional Futurity AND took second

money female in the show winning the Dual Dog Award in the futurity. “T” was handled in the ring by Linda McDonald. Both dogs are owned/bred and handled (in the field) by Craig. Congratulations!

Rocket

T

Welcome to the new 2007 CBC OFFICERS

President: Bill Landress 1st VP: Bill Leffingwell 2nd VP: Sharon Kalionzes 3rd VP: Frank Bianchini Secretary/Treasurer: Margaret Horstmeyer

Suggestions for Judges CBC Membership,

Nancy Anderson, the ABC National Show Chairperson is asking for a list the names of any judges that you would to see judge the ABC National Specialty, Best of Breed and Sweepstakes. Please write a short comment

on each judge, why you like this judge, what this judge has to offer, etc. I will forward the show and sweep judges to her.

Also please write down a few names of Field judges that you would like to see judge our CBC trials. This list will be sent to the CBC 1st VP.

If needed, use an additional sheet of paper to submit names. We will keep these lists to help us in the future to get judges that appeal to our membership.

Please return your lists to me by either email or mail. Nancy Hewitt 14441 Cabell Ave.

Bellflower, CA 90706 or brit4menjh@aol.com

Thank You for taking the time to help us secure the best judges for our dogs. Nancy Hewitt

Show Judge Name Comments

Field Judge Name Comments

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Purina Points Program

American Brittany Rescue has joined the Purina Points Program which allows us to obtain vouchers for vet care for dogs in rescue, from Purina simply by saving the weight circles that can be located on the side of the Purina dog food bag. The program is fairly simple, save weight circles from participat-ing brands of Purina Dog Foods, and when enough are obtained, submit them for anything from a $75 vet voucher up to a $500 voucher. This is an easy way for ABR to reduce the cost of vet care for some of our higher cost areas such as heartworm treatments. If you or anyone you know already uses one of these brands, please consider sav-ing the weight circles for ABR.

Nelsen at 951-734-5348 or ruwyrd@aol.com Young Dog Available... Karen Nelsen has a young broke gundog named “Chick” from her Nelle/Duke litter that is available to a good hunting home. He was professionally trained by Jimmy Rice. His owner died and the family prefers that the dog be placed in a hunting home. He would also make an excellent show prospect. Please contact Karen at ruwyrd@aol.com or phone 951-734-5348 for infor-mation.

6 o/w pups (3 males, 3 females) born 8/19/06 to sire: Tule River’s Wicked Ale and dam: FC Kizmet. Both parents OFA good. For more information contact Bill Landress at 559-333-0508 or email him at blandress@clearwire.net Pups were born August 13 … they will be 8 weeks on October 8 and can go to their homes then. FC Shiloh's Whoa Nellie MH, “Nelle” gave birth to five puppies. The proud dad is DC AFC 2XAm FC Redline's Tequila Smoker. At this point, two boys are available, pend-ing my pick. Please contact Karen

used the same as a check by the participating vets. This program could help us reduce the cost of some treatments by a third or more allowing us to help even more dogs on our limited funds. If you use Purina already and want to help, please send the weight cir-cles form your bags to; Sharlene Aloise 847 W. Laguna Ct. Villa Hills, KY 41017 Although we can also accept weight circles from cat food we can not combine them with the dog program for the vouchers. However, we can collect them to redeem for cat food coupons which can be sent to those who need and can use them.

Participating brands of Purina Dog Foods include; Purina Pro Performance - ea lb worth 12 pts Purina One or Purina Pro - ea lb worth 11 pts Hi Pro, Purina Dog Chow or Puppy Chow - ea lb worth 8 pts It can be any size bag, flavor or variety of these brands such as senior, weight control, etc. So if you buy a 20 lb bag of Purina Pro lamb and rice, it would give us 220 points towards a voucher. A 20 lb bag of Purina Dog Chow would give us 160 points and so on.

Vet vouchers can be obtained when we receive as few as 7500 points. This level gives us the $75 vet voucher, 15,000 points gives us $150 voucher and so on. These vouchers are made out directly to the vet doing the treatment and are

Puppies Available ABC NATIONAL RAFFLE

2006 Tickets for the annual ABC raffle are available for purchase from Margaret Horstmeyer. There are three prizes on the same ticket, three chances to win!

The prizes this year are • Magnavox 15 in LCD Flat Screen TV • Wild Wings “Thunder Ridge- Storm

Front” Oak Regulator Clock • Aiptek IS-DV LCD Palm size 6-in-1

Digital Camcorder/Still Camera

Donation is $5.00 per ticket or 5 tickets for $20.00. “Need not be present to win”! Take your chances to win one of these great prizes and support our parent club!

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CALIFORNIA BRITTANY CLUB Margaret Horstmeyer 3760 W. Meyers Road

San Bernardino, CA 92407

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California Brittany Club Oct 28-29, 2006

Event #2006147206 Cam

p H, Castle Butte Wells, California City, CA

FIELD TRIAL Enter in Stake:

Entry Fees:

Breed: Reg.#:

Sex: Date of Birth:

FDSB#:

□ AKC # □ AKC Litter # □ ILP # □ Foreign # & List Country_________________

Full Name of Dog: Call Name:

Sire:

Dam:

Name of Breeder:

Actual Owner(s):

Owner’s Address:

City: State:

Zip:

Name of Owner’s Agent/Handler:

AKC Rules, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines are available on the American Kennel Club website: www.akc.org AGREEMENT

I certify that I am the actual owner of the dog, or that I am the duly authorized agent of the actual owner whose name I have entered above. In consideration of the acceptance of this entry, I (we) agree to abide by the rules and regulations of The American Kennel Club in effect at the time of this event, and any additional rules and regulations appearing in the premium list of this event and entry form and any decision made in accord with them. I (we) agree that the club holding this event has the right to refuse this entry for cause which the club shall deem sufficient. In consideration of the acceptance of this entry and of the holding of this event and of the opportunity to have the dog judged and to win prizes, ribbons, or trophies, I (we) agree to hold the AKC, the event-giving club, their members, directors, governors, officers, agents, superintendents or event secretary and the owner and/or lessor of the premises and any provider of services that are necessary to hold this event and any employees or volunteers of the aforementioned parties, and any AKC approved judge, judging at this event, harmless from any claim for loss or injury which may be alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly to any person or thing by the act of this dog while in or about the event premises or grounds or near any entrance thereto, and I (we) personally assume all responsibility and liability for any such claim; and I (we) further agree to hold the aforementioned parties harmless from any claim for loss, injury or damage to this dog. Additionally, I (we) hereby assume the sole responsibility for and agree to indemnify, defend and save the aforementioned parties harmless from any and all loss and expense (including legal fees) by reason of the liability imposed by law upon any of the aforementioned parties for damage because of bodily injuries, including death at any time resulting therefrom, sustained by any person or persons, includ-ing myself (ourselves), or on account of damage to property, arising out of or in consequence of my (our) participation in this event, how-ever such, injuries, death or property damage may be caused, and whether or not the same may have been caused or may be alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the aforementioned parties or any of their employees, agents, or any other persons. I (W

E) AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION, CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE ENTRY, EXHIBITION OR ATTENDANCE AT THE EVENT BETW

EEN THE AKC AND THE EVENT-GIVING CLUB (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED IN TIS

PREMIUM LIST) AND MYSELF (OURSELVES) OR AS TO THE CONSTRUCTION, INTERPRETATION AND EFFECT OF THIS AGREE-MENT SHALL BE SETTLED BY ARBITRATION PURSUANT TO THE APPLICABLE RULES OF THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION. HOW

EVER, PRIOR TO ARBITRATION ALL APPLICABLE AKC BYLAWS, RULES, REGULATIONS AND PROCE-

DURES MUST FIRST BE FOLLOWED AS SET FORTH IN THE AKC CHARTER AND BYLAW

S, RULES, REGULATIONS, PUBLISHED POLICIES AND GUIDELINES. Signature of owner or his Agent duly authorized to make this entry:____________________________________________________________________ Telephone:

Email address:

STAK

ES, SCH

EDU

LE & EN

TRY

FEES

The Field Trial Com

mittee reserves the right to rearrange the running order,

and/or add, delete or change courses, and/or substitute judges should conditions warrant.

C

OU

RSE

“A” – Saturday, O

ctober 28, 2006 – not before 7:00AM

O

pen All A

ge $45.00

Open D

erby (to follow O

pen All A

ge) $45.00

Am

ateur All A

ge (to follow O

pen Derby)

$45.00 C

OU

RSE

“B” – Saturday, O

ctober 28, 2006 – not before 7:00AM

A

mateur G

un Dog

$45.00 O

pen Puppy (to follow A

mateur G

un Dog)

$35.00 O

pen Gun D

og (to follow O

pen Puppy) $45.00

C

OU

RSES AND

BIRDS

A

ll Stakes will be run on single courses, w

ithout bird fields. A

blank will be fired in all other stakes.

Horseback handling is perm

itted in all stakes. A

KC

approved tracking collars will be perm

itted in all stakes, per AK

C guidelines.

Bobw

hite Quail and/or C

hukar to be released in all stakes except Open Puppy.

PRIZES

Standard A

KC

ribbons will be aw

arded to all placed dogs. Prizes w

ill be awarded to dogs receiving First Place in all stakes.

O

FFICERS

President – Tom

White – 3760 W

. Meyers R

d., San Bernardino, C

A 92407

Vice-President – N

ancy Schmieder – 1245 Sagem

ont Pl., Altadena, C

A 91001

Sec.-Treas. – Margaret H

orstmeyer – 3760 W

. Meyers R

d., San Bernardino, C

A 92407

FIELD

TRIAL CO

MM

ITTEE C

hairman – Tom

White – 3760 W

. Meyers R

d., San Bernardino, C

A 92407

Ed D

ixon, Linda Dixon, Linda M

c Donald,

Bill Landress, B

rad Renfree and Jerry R

osenberg

FIELD TRIAL M

ARSHALL

Brad R

enfree

The California Brittany Club

Welcomes you to our Fall Field Trial Saturday and Sunday, October 28 and 29, 2006

Location: Castle Butte Well Area, Camp H, California City, California. Horses: There will be NO handler or gallery horses available. Lunches: Lunches will be provided on Saturday and Sunday for $5.00. Breakfasts: Complimentary coffee and muffins will be available. Saturday: After the last brace and chores Happy Hour will honor the Western Futurity winners.

A Brittany costume parade will entertain us! Please bring an appetizer or potluck dish

for Saturday’s dinner.

Raffle: A 50-50 raffle will be held during the happy hour. Your chance to win big bucks!!! Water: Water will be on the grounds for horses and dogs and will be placed on the courses. Do bring your own drinking water. Lodging: Mojave: Motel 6 661-824-4571 Western Inn 661-824-3601 White’s Motel 661-824-2421 Mariah Country Inn 661-824-4980 Silver Saddle 760-373-8617 Weather: Could be a bit of everything: Hot, windy, cold, wet!! Please come prepared!

Volume 5, Issue 4 Page 17

Application for New Membership, Renewals and Address Changes (Look on the mailing label for your membership expiration date.)

I, ____________________________________________________ am enclosing dues in the amount of (check an amount)

□ $30.00 (one year) □ $60.00 (two years) □ $90.00 (three years)

& hereby apply for ____ year(s) active membership in California Brittany Club. Send your membership to: Margaret Horstmeyer, 3760 W. Meyer Road, San Bernardino, CA 92407

Name: ___________________________________________________________

Street: ___________________________________________________________

City: ____________________________________________________________

State: ________________ Zip+4: ____________________________________

Home Phone: ( ) _______________________________________________

Work Phone: ( ) _______________________________________________

Email: ___________________________________________________________

□ Check box to be excluded from the club directory. Note: Associate Memberships are $3.00 per person per year

Please print clearly

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

OFFICERS

Awards Banquet Rozanne Woelm 562-430-8938

Club Championship Tom White 909-880-2818

Field Trials Tom White 909-880-2818

Hunting Test Karen Nelsen 951-734-5348

Specialty Show Sharon Kalionzes 562-598-5083 Nancy Schmieder 626-791-4647

Web Site Myra-Dawn Ellis 951-789-7222

Willi Match Frank Bianchini 714-669-5751

President Tom White 909-880-2818

1st Vice-President Nancy Schmieder 626-791-4647

2nd Vice-President Cindy Leffingwell 562-947-2374

3rd Vice-President Rich Harbour 562-431-0961

Secretary/Treasurer Margaret Horstmeyer 909-880-2818 3760 W Meyers Rd, San Bernardino, CA 92407

Brittany is a better bird dog.

CHAIRS

Sharon Kalionzes, Newsletter Editor 7131 Island Village Drive Long Beach, CA 90803 Phone: 562-598-5083

Email: abouttimesk@yahoo.com

California Brittany Club www.californiabrittanyclub.org

Linda Langford, Contributing Editor Myra-Dawn Ellis, Art Director/Design

Rich Harbour, CBC Photographer