Calendar 4 Ewe / Christmas 4 Dogs... (not happening)

Two traditions normal for this time of year are not going to happen . The calendar do to my poor eye sight for most of 2007. Add to that the recovery time needed to bring my eye sight back to normal after the surgery.

Christmas 4 Dogs because of the day Christmas falls on.

Samoyed Herding Day...

This event was held in Long Beach on Saturday, October 13th .Due to having had my second eye surgery just two days before I was restricted by the doctor from doing the testing personally. I found myself in the strange position of rotating the actual testing to Scott and Matt. They traded off from tester to stock handler while I judged from ring side. This event went off very well.

The highlight of the event was a 3 month old Samoyed puppy born without eyes. She did a great job only running into Choice once during her run. Choice was brought in in case a sheep decided to get nasty. He was quietly laying down in the arena and the pup bumped into him.

The Weather...

 The weathermen do their best, it is just not good enough.

Keep foul weather gear available to you at all times. Training and trialing go on no matter the weather. The exception is if the facility is rendered unusable.

Another thing to remember is that we do not put up the lights at class on rainy days so if you can not make it out before dark you probably will not get training that day.

 AHBA Certificates ...

Sometimes it seems like it takes forever - however, it is usually not the fault of the volunteers that do the work for AHBA. They just typed up and sent certificates for titles earned back in April 2007.

The process goes like this: sponsoring clubs sends all the information to Linda Rorem (sanction coordinator) - that should be done within 30 days after the
trial/test ends (but typically doesn't). Linda marks down the receipt to
show that the club has sent in results and forwards them to Siouxsan Eisen
who types all the information into the AHBA database and emails  all the
ones that qualify for certificates. They try very hard to get the certificates in the mail within a week or less.

They are all volunteers working jobs, living lives, trying to train and
show their own dogs and keep AHBA going on a timely basis. If you are missing
a certificate, you may contact them at whwolf@jps.net or Siouxsan Eisen at
lbsioux@hotmail. com and they will make all attempts to determine why it hasn't
been issued, or if it is lost in the mail.

November, 2005