Viewpoint
(Total Articles 3762,Showing: 49 -> 60)
I RECALL a story my father used to tell. His neighbour’s new car was having some minor problem sorted out at the garage and my dad offered him a lift into town.
Simon Parsons talks to BILL LAMBERT, head of the Kennel Club’s Health and Breeder Services Department
WELL HE’S done it again, and my prediction in last week’s article came true when Tony Lockyer emulated last year’s achievements by winning BAGSD Tewkesbury and ASPADS Enfield one after the other, but this year with his other dog Isla...
AFTER Crufts there is always a bit of a break before the first main show of the year. Westglen HTM club holds its show in April and it’s a nice show to kick off the season.
While Crufts has well and truly been and gone for this year, it is now time to look back on and consider various different aspects of the show in a rather calmer atmosphere.
As I sat behind the very clean Vauxhall at the traffic lights and gazed into the rather beady eyes of the frantically barking Jack Russell on the parcel shelf, I found myself wondering if the gentleman in the driving seat...
KENNEL cough is the missing element from the recent AVV articles about the suite of vaccines used routinely to protect dogs from infectious disease. Kennel cough is different from all of the other infections we commonly use vaccines to protect...
Although I suspect the majority of readers to this column are steeped in a tradition of show dogs, when I feature something a bit unusual it always seems well received, as was the case when I featured a bronze group of feral dogs on the streets of...
My memory every now and then flashes back over 30 years ago to a shocking phone call I received from a groomer. She had her 12-week-old puppy on the grooming table attached to a hook by its lead.
IN THE circumstance when an in-whelp bitch has been acquired, the Kennel Club interprets ‘the breeder’ as the person who owns the bitch at the time of whelping, although that person will not normally have made any breeding decisions.
Amelia Siddle handled her mother Annette’s Pointer Sh Ch Wilchrimane Ice Maiden to win the Canine Supporters Charity’s Contest of Champions, the proceeds of which are distributed among various dog-related good causes. She has three group wins and...
THE FINAL show of my American trip was for the Bronx County Kennel Club where I had some large breed entries to sort out. The day started in ring seven with 45 Great Danes and there were some impressive dogs in contention.
