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Su-Mac Cairn Terrier Club

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   Su-Mac Events: 2008

  * Specialties!              We plan two Club specialties each year:
                             -  January (conformation) and
                                  -  June (obedience and conformation)

  * June 2008 Specialty   Here is the Premium List
                             for our 6 June, 2008 Specialty!
                             Closing date is 21 May, 2008.
                             Now's the time to enter!
                             This will be a fine gathering of the Clans!

    * Jan 2008 Specialty    Results of our 4 January, 2008 Specialty -
                             St. Paul, MN - Land O' Lakes KC weekend

  * Jan 2009 Specialty    Our 2 January, 2009 specialty is being planned:
                              Sweepstakes judge is Ms. Vicki Barker!  LOLKC
                              all-breed shows are 3-4 January, 2009, at
                              St. Paul's RiverCentre.  This is the largest
                              show in the upper Midwest of the year.

  * Toto Clinic VII       Results of the October, 2007 clinic.
                             Toto Clinic VIII: late October, 2008!
                                        ___________________

  * Groomers' Health!      Hand-stripping harsh-coated terriers is a risk factor
                                 for human hand and wrist problems.  Preventing hand/
                                 wrist problems, if you can, and treating hand/wrist
                                 pain the minute you experience symptoms.
   
  * Membership                        Become a Su-Mac Club member: Regular, Junior, or
                                Associate!  Please review and please sign the
                                "Agreement to Abide by the Su-Mac Club Code
                                of Ethics."  Then contact our Club Secretary.

  * Code of Ethics           Su-Mac Club Code of Ethics

                                     Members'Agreement to Abide by
                               the Su-Mac Club Code of Ethics

  * Su-Mac History       Club founded in 1968, first Specialty in 1978.
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* Questions and comments
 
  * Su-Mac Officers (2008)      Congratulations!
  
      President:                  Dick Rueter
    Vice President:             Scott Wardrope
    Secretary:                  Jo Anne Bucholz bucho002@tc.umn.edu
    Treasurer:                  Karen Wardrope
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    Directors:                   Officers and
                                  Jodi Nelson
                                  Paula Gregg
             Jeanne Mortenson
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   Chairs of the January and June Conformation Specialties:

                                 Jim R Hulbert
                                 Jeanne R Mortenson

   Chair of June Specialty Oberdience Trial:

                                 Jo Anne Bucholz
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  Announcement from the annual
  Westminster Kennel Club show in
   Madison Square Garden:
 
                 "If you are planning to add a dog to your life and
                have come to look over the best of the best, please note,
                no dog you have seen here ... came from a pet shop, or
                was the ‘product’, if you will, of a puppy mill.
  
               "If you want a dog, go to the people who care -
                the dedicated specialty breeders who have made dogs
                like those you see here - a lifetime effort.
 
               "Talk dogs with dog people who care and understand.”

                Thanks for your support.
                   David Frei
                   The Westminster Kennel Club
 
                   Posted on the Su-Mac Club website with permission from
                   Mr. David Frei, Westminster Kennel Club


                 Regional specialty breeders of purebred Cairn Terriers:

                http://www.cairnterrier.org/breeders/map.cgi?x=327&y=91


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* Essay                   What's the difference between reputable
                          "specialty" breeders of purebred canines and
                          simply business people operating for-profit
                          puppy brokerages and puppy mills?

                          Here's a graphic adapted with permission from
                              the Havanese Club of Canada. Thanks also to
                              Jan Morgan (ON) for editing help.
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