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Congratulations to all the winners and grinners!

Congratulations to all the winners and grinners!

Sorry to hear of those who missed this time. I can confirm via ultrasound that we have a litter of Rotts due.

Why Pennhip and not the BVA / Willis method?

It would have suited your mud monsters. :rofl: :rofl: Yes it would have!!! Sadly I haven't seen the mud monsters for some time now, since the drought has broken we now have grass and not dirt so we don't seem to have the MM's visiting.....

I still stand buy my original suggestion to have him looked at by a Myotherapist or somebody similar, it really does sound like a nerve type reaction. Have you taken him to somebody to check that everything is where it should be??? I would find it very frustrating that it has gone on for so long, I hope for the sake of the dog that you get this sorted out real soon. I wish you the best in getting some kind of resolution soon.

How is the boy doing KM?

I shake my head to! I have seen kids getting up to all sorts of trouble, when are their parents going to be held accountable, frankly I am getting sick of the trouble that these kids up are getting up to, the thieving, the accidents waiting to happen and the total disregard for others, their property, their dogs etc is getting beyond a joke. The little boy is extremely lucky that his injuries are just superficial, the whole thing could have been so so very bad!

Malcolm Willis Malcolm Willis, who has died aged 76, was one of the world's leading experts on canine genetics and an abrasive critic of those who used the dog world for personal advancement. UK Telegraph Obituary Malcolm Willis Malcolm Willis, who has died aged 76, was one of the world's leading experts on canine genetics and an abrasive critic of those who used the dog world for personal advancement. Malcolm Willis 5:51PM BST 11 Aug 2011 3 Comments A Yorkshireman by birth, his personal bête noire was the Kennel Club, the Piccadilly-based institution that he considered a fusty, metropolitan relic – "undemocratic and Victorian", as he put it (women were admitted to membership only in 1978). His determination to rub it up the wrong way culminated in an article in the weekly magazine Dog World, in which he wrote that the club's general committee was "not fit to lead dogdom". Such insubordination could not go unchecked, and in March 1987 he was summoned to the club's headquarters. Even though he had been a member for 15 years and sat on the club's breeding standards board, the club committee ruled that he had "undermined the Kennel Club's authority". He was expelled. The most outspoken columnist in the canine press, the formidable Stafford Somerfield, a former editor of the News of the World, took up his pen in Willis's defence. "So they kicked Dr Willis out of the Kennel Club. This does not surprise me. A man of his knowledge and force would not be allowed to go around demonstrating how foolish they are." Willis was reinstated 15 years later. Malcolm Beverley Willis was born on May 13 1935 at Mirfield, Yorkshire. After his father, a chief officer in the Prison Service, was posted to Durham Prison, Malcolm was educated at the Durham Johnston Grammar School. He bought his first German shepherd dog in 1953, when he was 18, and owned German shepherds for the rest of his life. Graduating from Durham University in 1957 with a BSc in Agriculture, he went on to Edinburgh University, where he gained a PhD in Genetics in 1960. For five years he was the geneticist at the Milk Marketing Board in Thames Ditton, and from 1965 to 1972 worked as Head of Animal Science at Havana University in Cuba, helping to set up the university's Institute of Animal Science. From 1972 to 1988 he was senior lecturer in Animal Breeding and Genetics at Newcastle University. During this time he studied hereditary problems affecting German shepherds. He was particularly worried that, over the years, breeders had become so preoccupied with rearing Alsatians as pets or show dogs (what he called the "poodling" effect) that there was a shortage of dogs with the right stuff for police work. He also determined to raise awareness among breeders of the state of their animals' hips, and in 1978 started a hip scoring scheme in Britain. This encouraged breeders to have their dogs' hips X-rayed, and eventually led to more than 30,000 puppies being born without the hip displacement problem, known as hip dysplasia, that can cause limping and is an increasing feature of the breed. In 1976 his first dog book, The German Shepherd Dog: Its History, Development and Genetics, became a bestseller; his next, Genetics of the Dog (1979), remains a standard text. In all he was the author of nine books. He was elected an honorary member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1996, a rare honour for a non-veterinarian. Malcolm Willis died on July 19. With his first wife, Pat, whom he married in 1960, he had a son. The marriage was dissolved in 1968, when he married his second wife, Thelma, whom he had met in Cuba and with whom he had three children. In 1990 he married Helen Davenport, having met her at Crufts in 1986. She survives him with his four children, a stepdaughter, 10 dogs and five cats.

Congratulations to all the winners and grinners!

^^^^^^^^ Looks great!!!

What I came in here to do was ................ Wishing everybody good luck for the shows, let us all show some good sportsmanship and let us all be safe!

perhaps it would help if people mopped up after ther dogs, i lost count of the amount of wees i cleaned up last Sat from around my crate there was even one right behind my chair that my jacket sleeve had fallen into the dogs owner could have at least told me that it was there, i do understand that some times it is a bit hard to get to a mop with a dog but a bit of OH&S curtousy please . my bitch was alseep in her crate so i know that it wasn't her. GOOD LUCK sway stay onya feet . Oh that is bad isn''t it!!! Why oh why can't people clean up after their dogs. Seriously though to let their dogs pee on crates, trolleys , chairs and then you have gate entries, it makes me so bloody annoyed and truly embarassed at times that I am a dog person, people who allow their dogs to mark people's property make me mad and more so when we are all inside. Have some respect for others property even if you have none for yourself and your property! Oh and I hear you about the OH & S thing, it is always on my mind, and you do see so many accidents waiting to happen created by those who really don't care, that is until they are the one who falls down and hurt themselves.......

Congratulations to all the winners and grinners from all 4 shows! Wow the mud thing would have sure made things very interesting!!! I feel for those of you with coated breeds especialy the lighter coloured ones!

Have sent you a PM

A huge thank you from me too! It is a hard job with so many demands, my hat goes off to all Show Secretarys whether they are a Specialty Club or an All Breed Club, it is a thankless job!!

The weather was nice this morning and then about 11 am or so it started to really cloud up, the temperatue dropped and you could see the rain coming in. I look forward to reading the results. Congratulations to all the winners and grinners!

Congratulations to all the winners and grinners!

Congratulations!

^^^^^ That is great news! You will have to post a picture when they have been fitted up! What vehicle are they being made for?

It should be inside as the grounds are way to wet to be outside. I am counting on it being inside. Good luck everybody!!!

Oh my, another gobsmacked reaction here for not testing for HD and ED in this breed........ Good on you and the other breeders who do test! Thank you for your answers.

Wow Trisven you have a great postal service. Good luck to all showing there today!!!!! And of course on Saturday and Sunday, I am looking forward to reading the results.

Yes, for some the wait has been extreme the last 12 months or so. I would ring again and ask when you can come back and get your puppy bars. Sometimes giving him a call will show him that you are very keen as well. Becks, Puppy Bars are the only ones who do such a great job and it is a one man show, hence the wait! They are worth it but you do have to have some patience!

I have seen many barriers from many different sources. The best that I have seen for finish and that uses all available space have been the Puppy Bars, they are not cheap but they do hold the value. The wait to get them fitted is a long one but oh so worth it!