WAGGIN’ TALES APRIL/MAY 2015 meeting notice

The official monthly newsletter of the

Timberline Basset Hound Club

The next meeting is Sunday, May 3, 2015, 1:00 p.m. at

the Islamorada Fish Company Fireside Room, Northfield

Shopping Center adjoining Bass Pro, Denver, CO. We

have the room reserved from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. so you can

come a little early if you’d like to order lunch. Agenda

items for discussion are included in this newsletter below.

Please RSVP to Carol at bristleconebassets@yahoo.com so

we’ll know if you’re coming. Hope to see you there.

Our BHCA Regionals and TBHC Specially held April 10

was a huge success thanks to the help of many of our club

members –

Hospitality - Susan Steinway

Trophies - Chris Orlikowski

Obedience - Deb Hatt

Judges’ Gifts - Sharon and Richard Nance

Ring Steward - Sarahjane Velick

Raffle - Sue and Fred Horn

Set Up - Betty Pearce

Trophy Table - Cindy Underhill

Chairman - Carol Makowski

Show photographs are not yet here but will be

arriving shortly. They will be published in the next

Waggin’ Tales. Here are the results:

BHCA Regional, Brighton, Co., April 10, 2015 Specialty - Judge: Mr. William R. Russell Bred-By-Exhibitor Dogs 1 Bristlecone’s Sharp Shooter, Carol Makowski 2 Trumbull’s Big Boooyahhhh, Kim and Roger Trumbull Open Dogs 1 Classic Barnyar Road King, Deborah Hatt Puppy Bitches - 6-9 mth 1 Debby Turguesa Playa, Lily Tayson Bred-By-Exhibitor Bitches 1 Halcyon Wonder, Carol Makowski 2 Trumbull’s Stevie Nicks, Kim Trumbull, Nancy Klenke 3 Touchstone’s Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Susan Vick and Martin Vick, MD Open Bitches 1 La Cygne Heartlight, Christina Orlikowski 2 Fort Merrill Highly Acclaimed, Sue and Fred Horne 3 Woodwright Barnyard Bumbling’s Queen of Hearts, Brian and Marilee Epperson, Cynthia Wright 4 Jewelbox Pawnee At Arrowhead, Jan Kano and Dan Hickory

WD/BOW: Classic Barnyard Road King, Hatt WB: La Cygne Heartlight, Orlikowski

BOB: GCH DiHeath Duke Of Bohemia, Nance

BOS: CH Barnyard Classic Penelope, Lane, McMackin, Starr, Harder, Mercer

SD: GCH Touchstone Tell Me About The Rabbit

George, Vick SB: GCH DiHeath Czech It Out, Nance

Timberline BHC, Brighton, Co., April 10, 2015 Sweepstakes - Judge: Mr. Howard “Butch” Engel BIS: Trumbull’s Bing Bang Boom, Kim and Roger Trumbull Specialty ~ Judge: Mr. James R. Tysseling Bred-By-Exhibitor Dogs 1 Bristlecone’s Sharp Shooter, Carol Makowski 2 Trumbull’s Big Boooyahhhh, Kim and Roger Trumbull Open Dogs 1 Classic Barnyar Road King, Deborah Hatt Puppy Bitches - 6-9 mth 1 Debby Turguesa Playa, Lily Tayson Bred-By-Exhibitor Bitches 1 Halcyon Wonder, Carol Makowski 2 Touchstone’s Crazy Little Thing Called Love Susan Vick and Martin Vick, MD 3 Trumbull’s Stevie Nicks, Kim Trumbull, Nancy Klenke Open Bitches 1 Woodwright Barnyard Bumbling’s Queen of Hearts Brian and Marilee Epperson, Cynthia Wright 2 Fort Merrill Highly Acclaimed, Sue and Fred Horne 3 La Cygne Heartlight, Christina Orlikowski 4 Lloyals Liberty Belle Of Slo-Poke, Lisa and Lauro Jamie and Alice Pittman

WD: Bristlecone’s Sharp Shooter, Carol Makowski WB/BOW: Halcyon Wonder, Carol Makowski BOB: CH Barnyard Classic Penelope, Claudia Lane, Vickie McMackin, Connie Starr, Pat Harder, Barbara Mercer BOS: GCH First Class Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Jacquelyn Fogel SD: CH Switchstand Thunder Dragon Von Skauton, Jan Kano, Dan Hickory SB: GCH DiHeath Czech It Out, Richard and Sharon Nance

Congratulations to our new officer and board

members for the coming year:

President: Mishka Killgore

Vice-President: Susan Steinway

Treasurer: Betty Pearce

Secretary: Carol Makowski

Board members through 2017:

Marilee Epperson

Sarahjane Velick

Board members remaining through 2016:

Sheila Giles

Cindy Underhill

An updated membership roster will be coming

soon.

Heartfelt sympathy to TBHC member,

Medora Harper on the loss of her

husband, Tom. Medora, you are in our

thoughts and prayers. Know that you

have friends in Timberline to lean on.

Some of you may have heard that Susan Steinway

and Carol Makowski traveled to Aldie, Virginia Apri

15-17 for the NBC Basset Hound pack trials. We

stayed in Aldie at the Little River Inn and shared a

house with Bill and Sue Forrest near the grounds.

The whole experience was wonderful and Susan is

working on a more extensive article to be published

in Tally Ho with photographs, but here on the

following page is a write up by Susan from the

Basset Hound’s point of view. The pack dogs were

definitely Basset Hounds and some were quite nice.

Judges were on horseback, horns were used to

direct the packs with a low pitched cow horn calling

them in and bringing out the next pack when the

judging was completed. Maybe we can incorporate

some of that into our Hunting Performance Tests.

Enjoy the write up and photographs. This yearly

event is set in tradition and is something unlike

anything you’ve ever seen in dogdom. We are

ready to go back!!

The Basset Hound Pack Trials at Aldie, VA – from a Basset Hound’s perspective

– by Susan Steinway

Twice a year, we get to go to what I call “Basset

Heaven.” Not that home isn’t bad, but each spring and

fall, my master rounds us up and we jump in our trailer

and go to Aldie, VA. We stay in another kennel there

and get to hunt rabbits each day and go for walks in the

woods.

Our master puts on a green jacket and white pants so we

can find her when she toots her horn. She takes us out

of our kennel and when she says, “Pack up!” we stay

together and follow behind her. When she cracks the

whip and yells, “Tight!” we know to behave and stay very

close together. She walks us up a grassy path through

woods and bramble patches to see some people on horseback and tells the horsemen the name of our pack.

Then we walk away and back to the horses before she points us in the direction to start hunting.

The scent of rabbits is all around and we spread out and sniff through the brush. Master’s friends walk on

either side of our pack and beat the bushes to scare out the rabbits. Sometimes, master sounds two short

toots and a long one on her horn and we know that means to turn toward our left paw. Maybe she’s seen a

rabbit. (She can’t smell them like we can.) When we get on the track of one of those stinky rabbits, we shout

for joy and the horses come over and our master gets excited and what fun that is! Rabbits are sneaky and

they can get past us easily, but we have fun giving them a good run. We cover a lot of ground, but there is a

lot more that we save for later. Then, too soon, it is all over and we are tired and our master toots her horn

again for us to pack up and march back to our kennels where we can get a drink and rest.

That night, good smells come from the big, stone house

where the masters, whippers-in, and friends of all the

packs gather and do their form of barking and howling,

trying to rival us in volume. I hear some of them talk

about having our pack name put on a trophy board so

everyone can see how well we did. Sometimes I hear

them talk about getting some new hounds from a place

called France or bringing some of their hounds to my

farm or taking some of my pack to another farm.

Sometimes, puppies are born at my farm with a slightly

different odor and they grow up having similar looking

legs or ears to dogs we’ve seen at Basset Heaven.

Sometimes, one of my pack will upset our pack leader and we’ll have a fight to make it understand who’s the

boss and to keep it in line. It’s best when everyone knows their place. We know better than to upset our

master and when we are very good, we get to go to Basset Heaven.

Jeep Cochran’s Calf Pasture pack presenting to judges. A pack of Bleu De Gascoyne presenting to judges.

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BRAGS Sent v ia ema i l f rom Jud i Jan iec

After losing Stanley, 10 ½ months later, October 14, 2012, we adopted Dexter, a red and white from All

Ears Basset Sanctuary. Dexter had been owner surrendered with an older female named Harley. I was

hoping to find a red and white so I wouldn’t be so reminded of Stanley.

My news is, Dexter has just finished his evaluations to become a Register Therapy Dog. His official vest

has arrived and so has his new leather leash and collar. Zoë still does her therapy visits, however I’m

starting to slow her down. She has now outlived Stanley and God willing, will celebrate her 12th birthday

6/26/2015.

Dexter’s new collar and matching leash

for his therapy work.

AKC ADDS NEW “URBAN CGC” TITLE TO POPULAR CANINE GOOD CITIZEN® PROGRAM

New York, NY – Giving responsible owners a whole new level of achievement for their dogs, the American Kennel Club (AKC) announced today the launch of “AKC Urban CGC” to the Canine Good Citizen (CGC) training program. The new title focuses on city-dwelling dogs and the special skills they require. Since 1989, more than 700,000 dogs and their owners have been recognized by the CGC program, which

rewards the dogs’ good manners at home and in the community. As with CGC, AKC Urban CGC requires a 10-step test of skills that dogs must pass to earn the official AKC Urban CGC title. AKC Urban CGC skills dogs must possess include: • Exits/enters doorways (of dog friendly buildings) with no pulling • Walks through a crowd on a busy urban sidewalk • Reactsappropriately to city distractions (horns, sirens, etc.) • Waits on leash, crosses street under control • Ignores food and food containers on sidewalk • Person approaches on sidewalk and pets dog • 3-minute down-stay in lobby of dog friendly building • Safely negotiates stairs and elevators • Housetrained • Enters, exits, rides dog-friendly transportation (car, subway in a carry bag, cab) “City dogs require a very special set of skills, including waiting to cross a street, ignoring food tossed on a sidewalk, behaving in building lobbies and riding elevators,” said Mary Burch, Ph.D., Director of the Canine Good Citizen program. “Urban CGC reinforces practical, everyday skills for the millions of dogs living in urban areas today, creating safer, more responsible communities. To be eligible for the AKC Urban CGC title, dogs must have a CGC certificate or title on record at AKC and must have an AKC number (AKC registration number, PAL number, or AKC Canine Partners number). Dogs passing the AKC Urban Dog test will earn the “CGCU” title. With the introduction of AKC Urban CGC, the AKC's CGC program now provides a variety of training options for dog owners and their dogs. Beginning with AKC S.T.A.R. Puppy, progressing to Canine Good Citizen, AKC Community Canine and now AKC Urban CGC, the CGC program trains dogs through all stages of life and in all settings to be well-behaved in society. Instructors can learn more about the program and begin training their students on AKC Urban CGC skills by visiting the AKC Urban CGC page at http://www.akc.org/dog-owners/training/urban-canine-good-citizen/. Urban CGC test materials are now available in the AKC store at https://www.apps.akc.org/apps/store/index.cfm?view=category&cde_category=CGC,STAR. AKC Urban CGC testing will be administered by approved AKC CGC evaluators nationwide

beginning this month.

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Rep o r t o f P r e s id en t

T reasure r r ep o r t

Sec re t a r y r ep o r t

Sp ec ia l t y r ecap

T ro p hie s

Ca te r in g

Gues t s

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Next yea r ’s sp ec ia l t y ( r eg io na l s? ) – ap p o in t commi t t ee s

Hu nt T es t , May 1 0

J ud ges g i f t s

B reakfas t a nd lu nch

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Co lo rad o i t ems fo r B HC A B aske t

Su mmer mee t i n g a t Mis hka ’ s

Sep te mb er ag i l i t y t r i a l – d e t a i l s need in g a t t e n t io n

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P lan an Ed uca t io n Mee t ing – s ho w the s t a nd a rd v id eo

Up co mi n g s ho ws – who i s go in g?

Nar io na l s i n Sac ra me nt o – who i s go i n g?

B rags

Remember, A Basset Is An Asset!!!