RE: URSULA FOUND!
Kally, This is great news indeed! Sounds like she most likely got out (maybe a loud noise scared her?) rather than having been stolen. I would certainly think about keeping her in the house unless you can be outside with her until you figure out how she may have gotten out. I once found an Akita that had climbed a 6 ft. wood fence when she was frightened by a thunderstorm and had run more than 20 blocks in a straight line. When something frightens them, they can cover a huge amount of ground, and are then disoriented. A friend's Italian greyhound bolted from a doggie daycare/boarding facility and was found a week later 10 miles away, having crossed two major freeways. Thin, scared, filthy, and his pads were bloodied, but he's fine now. Give that Ursula a big cuddle-I'm sure she's happy to be home safe and sound. Jennifer Zaayer
Re: best dog food / chew products
> Kings > and other hard rubber toys probably come the closest but many dogs don't find > them very attractive. Gee, Sherri, that's a bummer. Regrettably, we are currently right out of KINGS in this country - attractive or otherwise - but would our Queen do? She looks like a reasonably safe and satisfactory chew, don't you think? Michaela Devon/UK
Re: 2002 BMDCA Board
Pat Long & Paul Dangel wrote: > Actually, the current board has been amazingly hard working and > productive this year, let's see if I can put together anything like an > accurate list: > I agree, Pat, the current board has been very proactive. Also off the top of my head, The president has summarized board actions and reported them to the email lists, the finances have been analyzed and changes made (as well as helping with banking LOC funds,) continue to streamline Nationals planning, publically announced a call for nominations, began to analyze current Awards. Yes, there's always room for improvement. I applaud those who, rather than complain, have stepped up to make it a better club. Marjie
Virus
I got this email today and it had an attachment with a virus. I guess I just wanted to give a heads up. Radha >Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:46:26 -0700 (PDT) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | This is not Spam | Add to >Address Book >Subject: To Julie Mott > > > > >I am truly sorry for your loss. Though not yet a >Berner-parent, I do >have >an affection furry-girl of my own. And I can not >imagine the >heartbreak >of losing her. >Hugs and prayers >Lisa Clark >Conroe, TX >[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
RE: 2002 BMDCA Board
Actually, the current board has been amazingly hard working and productive this year, let's see if I can put together anything like an accurate list: Reestablished the Bulletin publication (thanks to Alison Jaskiewicz) Approved a Legislative affairs committee and hired a lobbyist Established a budgeting process for the club and committees Put together a whole series of information bulletins, established a uniform look for all publications and presentations (thanks to the efforts of Robin Hamme) Reaffirmed the request that the AKC require DNA profiles of sire and dam for all litter registrations (it was an excellent letter that they wrote, took a great deal of time and research) Contacted all other breed clubs about starting a Club Alliance to help work on common goals Set up a website watch thanks to the efforts of Sharon Montville Are continuing to work to establish a breeder referral program Are continuing to work on a revised code of ethics Endorsed the BMDCAmembers yahoogroups list started and administrated by Sandie Hawkins Approved changes to the Draft Test Regulations Accepted a final draft of the Rescue Policy Designed a distributed a member survey, results have been tabulated and posted Created and established a new website (thanks to the efforts of Steve Dudley) Began selling CDs of all the back yearbooks (thanks to the efforts of Karyn Beyer) if you don't have this CD, well - you're really missing something!! Began work on rewriting the club by-laws Developed new Futurity Rules (thanks to Sandy Dunaway) And that's just the notes I took glancing through the meeting minutes. Do you know how many pages of meeting minutes poor Mary Durham has written this year? It's been a busy board!! I have left a tremendous bunch of stuff out, I got tired of jotting down notes! Pat Long (& Luther) Berwyn PA
Re: URSULA FOUND!
HALLELUIA!!! AMEN!!! WHOOOPIE WHAT WONDERFUL -- NO NO -- SPECTACULAR -- NO NO .. SUPER-TREMENDOUS NEWS!!! I'm sure she'll be thrilled to get home!!! Keep us posted!! Tracey ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, October 21, 2002 1:25:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: URSULA FOUND! I received a call this morning, two weeks after her disappearance, that Ursula has been found, and she is alive. Thank you to everyone for your help & support during these difficult past two weeks. We don't know anything about her plight since her disappearance except that she was found scared, dirty, and thin in a river bed, about 7 miles north of our house. Thanks again from the very grateful, relieved, jubilant Felty family __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ .
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RE: Ode to Kongs
I have my own 18 month old berner and she is definitely my pride and joy. I spent 6 years as a K-9 handler in a police department and although I never experienced this tragedy with my K-9, I have seen several police dogs taken out of service because of the kong. Because of the unpredictability of a kong when it is tossed, the dog starts one way, then turns back because the kong took a funky bounce. This has caused several knee surgeries and dogs that could never work again. Just a word of advice. My best to all the berners and their owners. Christine Kelliher & Kina Bensalem, Pa. -Original Message- From: Mary Dawn DeBriae [mailto:marydawn@;alpenschatz.com] Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 13:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Berner List; BARCINC Subject: RE: Ode to Kongs I have heard that cheese (hard cheese - not cottage cheese) will cause dogs to go blind. I have heard this from Europeans ...and not Americans which makes me wonder, as the Europeans have been breeding Berners longer than the Americans. Is there any truth to this or is this just myth? Mary Dawn PS Love the ODE to Kongs! I will have to go out and get a puppy kong for my brand new bouncing baby 8-week old berner boy, Smokie Bear von der Weide! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-berner-l@;prairienet.org]On Behalf Of Janice Parky Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 8:18 PM To: Berner List; BARCINC Subject: Ode to Kongs As the mother of a high energy Berner girl, I am amazed at Halley's stamina, Also amazed at my efforts to keep her busy. After an early morning, 2 hour RUN over the dunes and hills of Cape Cod, she comes home energized and starts throwing her beloved Kong around. I desperately reach for another cup of coffee. I awake at 3am to the sound of the Kong flying off the living room walls and floors, praying that the paintings and photo's on the walls will be spared. (I've given up on the floors.) I have become so enabling to my Kong-a-holic Berner, that I can't leave her without filling 2 Kongs so she won't be "bored" when I am gone...even if only for a half hour, or so. I enter the house cautiously on my return, get my big Berner Greeting and then duck as in the excitement, the Kong, still holding on to one resistant piece of cookie, is lauched at my stomach, chest, knees and/or feet. I firmly believe that whoever it was who invented the Kong, deserves to be rewarded a million times over for his contribution to the sanity of dog owners like me. Kongs By Halley A Berner girl can not go wrong With a toy as lovely as a Kong. A Kong whose hollow space is stuffed With biscuits, cheese or peanut fluff: A Kong that bounces night and day, Spewing treats along the way: A Kong that may at times despair, By bouncing under couch or chair; Upon whose cavity I globber: Who ultimately lives with slobber. Mom will say it loud and long, There is no life without a Kong. Amen, Janice Parky North Truro, MA
Software question
Does anyone happen to have Microsoft Office 2000 Developers Edition? Please contact me if you do! Pat Long (& Luther) Berwyn PA
Cheese blindness?
Mary Dawn wrote > I have heard that cheese (hard cheese - not cottage cheese) will cause dogs > to go blind.> Is there any truth to this or is this just myth? Well, this certainly explains why my cheese-eating dogs sometimes ignore the command "come"! I always assumed that they couldn't hear me, but now it is clear that they can't see me. Profound cheese blindness! Flippancy aside, I truly believe it's a myth, Mary Dawn. One of many. Other's include that feeding raw meat makes dogs aggressive, garlic and cheese will make them loose their sense of smell and ruin them for tracking, and, and... Berners and cheese just go together like... Romeo & Juliet. Bread & Butter. Me and Visa. One without the other is unfathomable Michaela, Harvey & Rupert ( who might have cheese instead of beans in their ears) Devon/UK
Kathy Deyo
Sorry folks, Kathy, I tried to send a response. Your address came back no good. Hugh
Re: BARC LOC Challenge Raffle....
Sue wrote: >This is a great opportunity to remind BMDCA >members that if they would like to see >changes on the board, that there is an >election coming up with several vacancies on >the board. I have sent my paperwork >in to the BMDCA announcing my intention to >run for the board. > Jeff & Mary Chapdelaine - SnoBear berners wrote: > > Change is GOOD! > > Marjie wrote: > What kind of change would you like to see? Mary wrote: >First of all a board and officers who are >concerned more about the dogs than politics. >More about the dogs than personal agendas. >More about the dogs, less about egos. I think Sue could help bring about change and I send "cheers" to her for standing up. : ) Marjie wrote: >Yes, there's always room for improvement. >I applaud those who, rather than complain, >have stepped up to make it a better club. Mary writes: I agree! Thanks for stepping up Sue!!! Thanks also to all of you who have worked hard making a difference for the dogs this year in whatever way you could, "officially" or just in whatever way you could contribute, it all counts. : ) Jeff & Mary Chapdelaine SnoBear Berners [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snobear.freeyellow.com
RE: BMDCA Membership process
Dana, I've long wanted to see some changes to the membership process, I would think people might be willing to pay some sort of additional fee to have the Alpenhorn delivered immediately while the membership process is ongoing? Would that be reasonable? One of the reasons that the process takes so long is that first the letters of the sponsors have to be received, and some are better than others about getting those in quickly. Life does get in the way sometimes! Then, the applicants name has to be published. It looked as though that time was going to be cut in half by publishing the names in both the Alpenhorn and the off month Bulletins, but then they stopped publishing them in the Alpenhorn, so the time span actually has increased now between times that people have their name published. So it's not all the fault of the poor volunteer who does the membership processing - honest! Jenny Durrance has done a job that most of us would go crazy with, and she has just resigned that position. Jenny - thank you!! Enjoying the puppies? Pat Long (& Luther) Berwyn PA
Re: BARC LOC Challenge Raffle....
Sue wrote: >This is a great opportunity to remind BMDCA >members that if they would like to see >changes on the board, that there is an >election coming up with several vacancies on >the board. >I have sent my paperwork in to the BMDCA announcing my intention to >run for the board. > Jeff & Mary Chapdelaine - SnoBear berners wrote: > > Change is GOOD! > > Marjie wrote: > What kind of change would you like to see? Mary wrote: >First of all a board and officers who are >concerned more about the dogs than politics. >More about the dogs than personal agendas. >More about the dogs, less about egos. >I think Sue could help bring about change >and I send "cheers" to her for >standing up. : ) Marjie wrote: >Yes, there's always room for improvement. >I applaud those who, rather than complain, >have stepped up to make it a >better club. Mary writes: I agree! Thanks for stepping up Sue!!! Thanks also to all of you who have worked hard making a difference "for the dogs" this year in whatever way you could. "Officially" or your own personal contributions. It all counts. : ) Jeff & Mary Chapdelaine SnoBear Berners [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snobear.freeyellow.com
