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THE WHIPPET NEWS
The Official Newsletter of The American Whippet Club
IN THIS ISSUE
December 2013
AWC Official News
Barbara Wayne: In Memoriam
WN Annual 2013 Info
AWC Whippet Top 20
National Trophy Donors Page
AKC Whippet Specialty Report
An All-Around Great Year
For Whippets
November Titles Report
Willow Award Angels
THE AMERICAN WHIPPET CLUB
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
OFFICERS
AWC: Official News Pages — AWC Show Calendar, President’s 3
Harold “Red” Tatro, President
Message, Applicants, BOD Election Slate Announcement, National
Show Chair Report, The New AWC Website, National Specialty News,
Membership Renewal Notice.
817.297.2398, redglen@sbcglobal.net
Dr. Lisa Costello, Vice President
WN Annual 2013 Ad Submission Notice — Wendy Clark
10
A Great Year For Whippets! — Karen Lee
14
Barbara Wayne In Memoriam — Bo Bengtson
16
AWC Top 20 thru 11/21/13 — Harriet Vincent
24
AKC Whippet Specialties— Bo Bengtson
25
To Angie, From Colin
25
November Title Report— Irene Mullaeur
29
Two 2013 Willow Award Nominees— submitted by Patience
34
815.695.1930, mtncow@earthlink.net
Gail Boyd, Treasurer
919.362.4427, ableaimkennels@aol.com
Guinevere Borstel, Secretary
415.826.8853, milescross@gmail.com
4745 25th St., San Francisco, CA 94114
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Jill Hopfenbeck, 508.278.7102, jillhop1@charter.net
Karen Lee, 610.932.4456, surreyhill@zoominternet.net
Crystal McNulty, 309.579.2946, hycks1@gmail.com
Kathy Rasmussen, 913.526.5702, harmonywhippets@aol.com
Cindy Scott, 719.337.6517, brookwood22@comcast.net
Renzulli
Class of 2014: Dr. Lisa Costello, Cindy Scott, Kathy Rasmussen
Class of 2015: Gail Boyd, Karen Lee, Crystal McNulty
Class of 2016: Guin Borstel, Dr. Jill Hopfenbeck, Harold “Red” Tatro
AWC COMMITTEE CHAIRS
On the cover:
“The Littlest Whippet-Dear: Imari 2004”,
photograph by Robert Vollmar.
Archives ..........................................................................Bo Bengtson, 805.646.3151
Futurity ............ …………..Rhonda Gifford, 480.710.3536, AWCFuturity@gmail.com
THE WHIPPET NEWS
Health .....................................................................Dr. Connie Austin, 217.498.8661
Guin Borstel, Interim Newsletter Editor
Dr. Connie Brunkow, whippetwoman@msn.com
4745 25th Street, San Francisco, CA. 94114
Dr. Lisa Costello, mtncow@earthlink.net
415.826.8853, awcwhippetnews@gmail.com
Judge’s Education ................................................. David Samuelson, 651.454.4174
Kathy Rasmussen, Associate Editor/Newsletter Production
Membership ................................ ………………...Kathy Rasmussen, 913.681.8929
913.526.5702, harmonywhippets@aol.com
Parade of Honors ..................... ………………Alice VandenBussche, 315.945.2672
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Performance Events ........................ ……………….Dr. Lisa Costello, 815.695.1930
One-year (the monthly newsletter and printed annual):
Public Education .............................................................. Karen Lee, 610.932.4456
Online-only newsletter: $40. Printed newsletter (plus online access): $65
ROM Program .....................................................................Gail Boyd, 919.362.4427
Foreign subscribers: online-only newsletter $40. Printed newsletter
Show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cindy Scott, 719.337.6517
(plus online access): $80
Top Twenty .................................................................Harriet Vincent, 847.234.1227
ADVERTISING RATES (ON A SPACE AVAILABLE BASIS)
AWC SHOW CHAIRS
$75 per page with one photo, each additional photo $10 (non-camera-ready)
National ............ …………..Cindy Scott, 719.594.9974, brookwood22@comcast.net
Eastern .................... ……………….Harriett Lee, 434.295.4525, hnl4c@virginia.edu
$60 per page submitted as camera-ready (pdfs preferred )
Text only, no photos: full page $50, half-page $35
Midwest .............. …………….Judy Lowther, 216.402.9022, pfyre@pfyrewhpts.com
ADVERTISING SPECIFICATIONS
N. Central ........... …………David Samuelson, 651.454.4174, samuelsond@aol.com
Contact the Editor for file submission specifications.
S. Central ..... ……...Kathy Rasmussen, 913.526.5702, harmonywhippets@aol.com
Southern ........................... Christine Heath, 850.936.1629, christine-heath@tds.net
Western ...................Pam Magette, 562.598.8717, pmagette@solariswhippets.com
DEADLINE: the first day of the month for that month’s issue
PAYMENTS: Subscription and advertising payments may be made by PayPal
at: http://www.americanwhippetclub.net/awcpages/awcnewsletter.html or
by check to the editor (address above).
AWC BREEDER REFERRAL
Mary Downing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ….whimsywhippets@gmail.com
THE WHIPPET NEWS ANNUAL
Wendy Clark, Annual Editor dunberry@sbclobal.net
INDEPENDENT WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS
Whippet Health Foundation ....................................Mary Beth Arthur, 414.355.4776
614.777.0124, 5088 Breckenhurst Dr, Hilliard, OH 43026
Whippet Rescue, WRAP ...............................Dr. Barbara Henderson, 301.490.6598
Current issue: 2012. Back issues available for 1986–2011 (except 1987 and
AKC DELEGATE
1990–1992). Cost: $25 each, ($30 each foreign), including shipping; all funds in
Bo Bengtson, 805.646.3151,
bobengtson@impulse.net
ASFA DELEGATE
Claudia Miller, f/k/a CJ Foxx,
303.589.9238,
U.S. dollars, payable by check or money order and mailed to the Annual Editor
(address above). Purchase can also be made through PayPal at: http://www.
Applications for AWC membership may be obtained either on request from
americanwhippetclub.net/awcpages/awcannualbackissues.html
Membership Chair: Kathy Rasmussen, 913.526.5702 or on the AWC website.
The American Whippet Club and The Whippet News assume no responsibility for statements or claims made in
the letters to the editor or advertisements that appear in its publications, or any article not contained in the AWC
News section of the newsletter.
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(Kinvara); Breed: Ed Gilbert
Arizona Whippet Ass’n Specialty - Scottsdale, AZ
Th 2/27 --- Sweeps: Karren Pynsia; Breed: Katrina Hamilton
(Khiva)
AWC & OTHER SHOW
CALENDAR
In order to be sure your event is listed, send pertinent information (event name, dates, judges, super, etc.) to the editor
at awcwhippetnews@gmail.com.
Show Secretary: Nancy Wilson
Other shows in this cluster:
Fri 2/28 — Scottsdale DF—Breed: Dr. Robert Indeglia; Sweeps:
Gloria Kerr.
Greater San Diego Whippet Ass’n Specialty — Palm Springs, Sat 3/1 — Mrs. Janet Van Wormer (Chehalem)
CA
Fri 1/3— Sweeps: Michael Strockbine (Memphis Afghans);
Breed: Rosemary N. Green (Australia)
Sun 3/2—Superstition KC - Ms. Shelley Hennessey (Chapparal)
Mon 3/3 — Superstition KC— Svante Friske.
Sat 1/5— Kennel Club of Palm Springs—Breed: James Reynolds
Sun 1/6— Kennel Club of Palm Springs—Breed: Gretchen Bernardi (Berwick IWs)
Superintendent: www.jbradshaw.com
AWC Eastern Specialty— York, PA
Superintendent: www.jbradshaw.com
Sat 3/15 Delaware County Kennel Club - Sweeps: Frank DePaulo; Breed: Christy Nelson (Runners)
AWC Supported Entry— Portland, OR
Sat 1/18— Dog Fanciers of Oregon—Sweeps: Pat Hastings;
Breed: Kent Delaney
Wed 3/12 York Kennel Club—Breed: Peter J. Machen
Superintendent: www.onofrio.com
Th 3/13 Lancaster Kennel Club— Breed: Audrey Sutton
AWC Supported Entry— York, PA
Sun 3/16 Delaware County Kennel Club— Breed: Theresa
Hundt
Fri 3/14 — York Kennel Club - Sweeps: Gretchen Vanderford
Superintendent: www.raudogshows.com
a Yankee. Some lovely remembrances of Cal will be featured in the January WN.
— Guin B.
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Happy Holidays! I hope you’ve enjoyed the past six
months of the WN—I’ve enjoyed putting it together for you!
We’ve got some great articles this month for your reading
pleasure; a wonderful recap of whippety accomplishments
of 2013 by Karen Lee, a touching remembrance of Barbara Wayne, by Bo Bengtson, and two wonderful Willow
Award nominees, provided by Patience Renzulli. We also
have the first look at Trophy Donation needs for the 2014
AWC National. Check it out and give early and often. :)
WELCOME BACK: Dr & Mrs. Gunderman, Eugene,
OR, Mary Huff, Hartland, MI, David Losleben, Hendersonville, NC.
LAST ISSUE, TIME TO RENEW: Rebecca Callihan,
Signal Mtn, TN, Natalia Chubarova, Moscow, Russia,
Linda Cornick, Rochester, MN, William Dvorak, Austin,
TX, Stephanie Gladney, McKinney, TX, Virginia Hopkins, Wilmington, DE, Sharon McCollum, Streator, IL,
I was saddened to hear of the passing of one of my favor- Sharon McCormack, Southampton, NY, Chirleen Michite whippet folks recently. Calvin Perry was a true one-of-a elini, Santa Rosa, CA, Barbara Panzino, Elmer, NJ,
-kind, a Southern Gentleman of the old school, all the
Mrs. Ivy Potts, Cramlington, Northumberland, UK, A.K.
more fabulous since I have come to find out he was really Plummer, Long Beach, CA.
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are six more names on it!
Continued from Page 3
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Winter has come to all of the country now. I hope everyone survived the recent artic freeze, snow and ice storms that have
blanketed the US.
In closing I want to remind everyone to pay your AWC Dues.
Remember dues must be paid by January 1st in order to vote in
the upcoming Board elections. Plus Gail wants to get things done
and not have to drag this out until March!
I wish you all joy and peace at this wonderful time of the year,
Harold “Red” Tatro
AWC President
The new website for the AWC has been launched and has been
very active. I hope you will all join me in THANKING Karen Lee
for the wonderful job she has done with this monumental task. I
can tell you it was far more involved than anyone ever expected
when this project began at the end of 2011 with the previous
Board. We hope you will visit the site and let us know what you
think. There are still some items to add like the archives but
Stanley Armstrong; 3663 Grandview Ave NW, Roanoke,
quite a bit of new things to read. Also because of the ease of
VA 24012, 540-344-5818, longing41@yahoo.com. Enupdating information, it will be much easier for the club to keep dorsers: Donna Bost & Gail Boyd
things current and informative.
Brooke Brown; 19817 10th St KPS, Lakebay, WA 98349,
In response to numerous complaints recently by our members
360-271-3314, brookebrwn@msn.com. Endorsers: Diregarding comments and posts being made to various public
anne Bowen & Lori Lawrence.
social media sites, the Board has formed an Ethics/Conduct comAlison C. Campbell; 151 Shambhala Way, Red Feather
mittee to take a look at our Code of Ethics and make a proposal
Lakes, CO 80545, 970-881-2427, wheresalifor any revisions to the Board by February 1, 2014. The comson@yahoo.com. Endorsers: Suzanne Hughes & Lori
mittee chair is Karen Lee with Jill Hopfenbeck and Betty NightenLawrence.
gale as members. If you have any suggestions please contact any
Jonathan Hart; 348 Palms Ave, Fort Pierce, FL 34982,
one of the members.
772-349-8418, campwhippet@gmail.com. Endorsers:
The Board has also formed a Specialties committee to take a
Kathy Rasmussen & Cindy Scott.
look at the current practices/policies relating to all aspects of
our regional specialties, supported entries and national special- Michelle Libersher; 19815 Hwy 113, Custer Park, IL
60481, awhippetslife@yahoo.com. Endorsers: Connie
ty. They are tasked with preparing written guidelines and poliBrunkow & Ping Pirrung.
cies so that all regions of the country will be handled in a more
APPLICATIONS FOR
MEMBERSHIP
uniform and consistent manner. The committee chair is Kathy
Rasmussen with Crystal McNulty, Cindy Scott, Gail Boyd and David Samuelson as members. Please contact any member if you
have anything you wish to consider.
Finally we have also approved a committee to take on the task
of preparing a Standing Rules and Policies manual for the AWC.
This task has been started several times by past Presidents but
never seemed to be completed. It is a long term project and we
hope to benefit from a lot of the work done previously. I will
serve as the committee chair with Guin Borstel, Jill Hopfenbeck,
Harriet Lee and Cindy Scott as members.
This month we welcome Joanne Boudreault, Heather Carroll,
Lawrence Collins, Nancy Colson and Marc Stumbo as new members of the AWC. As I am writing this the Board just received the
most recent membership application ballot and I believe there
Michael D. Long; 3663 Grandview Ave NW, Roanoke, VA
24012, 540-344-5818, longing41@yahoo.com. Endorsers:
Donna Bost & Gail Boyd
Jan Porter Weber, Dulca Farm, 2471 Montpelier Rd, Columbia, KY 42728, wpj@duo-county.com. Endorsers:
Marie Hand & Sabine Salo.
Comments regarding applicants may be mailed to AWC
Membership Chair Kathy Rasmussen, 11714 Harmony
Lane, Olathe, KS 66062, or may be e-mailed to
harmonywhippets@aol.com and should be sent no later
than 30 days after the applicant has been published in
The Whippet News.
NATIONAL SHOW CHAIR
REPORT
NOTIFICATION OF BOARD OF
DIRECTORS NOMINEES FOR
2014
PER THE AWC BY-LAWS:
“The Nominating Committee shall nominate from among
the eligible members of the Club, two candidates to fill the
positions of each of the three Directors whose terms will
expire and two candidates to fill any vacancy existing
among the Directors whose terms are not expiring and
shall procure the acceptance of each nominee. Current
members of the Board of Directors who have served three
consecutive three-year terms are considered ineligible to
run for a fourth consecutive three-year term, however,
these members are eligible to again run for a position on
the Board after a minimum one year absence from the
Board. The Committee shall then submit its slate of candidates by January 1st to the Secretary who shall mail the
list to each member of the Club on or before January 15th.
The Club’s newsletter which all members receive, or the
Club’s website may also be used as the means of this notification. “
The Nominees, in alphabetical order, are:
Jennifer Beach-Buda
Dr. Ken Latimer
Judy Lowther
Russell McFadden
Kathy Rasmussen
Mark Unger
Ballots for Board positions will be mailed to all eligible
members on or before March 1, 2014.
Correction to the Southern Specialty Results:
Due to an error in the online catalog result listing for the
AWC Southern Specialty {see November 2013 WN}, one of
the AOMs was omitted. The WD also received an Award of
Merit.
WD & AOM: KARASAR'S VOYAGER JC.
HP420471/01. 10/14/2011. BREEDER: Kerrie Kuper &
Neil Barthelette & Karen Mlyner. By Ch Karasar's
Dreamboat-GCh Ch Karasar's Parexcellence. OWNER:
Alice Sweeney & Kerrie Kuper.
2015 JUDGES BALLOTS
By the time you read this you should have received your ballot
for selection
of the 2015 judge to be held in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Please take time to vote. This is your specialty and the biggest
AWC event
of the year.
Hope you all have a great Holiday season and enjoy your
hounds.
CIndy
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ANNOUNCING OUR REVAMPED,
FABULOUS AWC WEBSITE!
www.americanwhippetclub.net
The long-awaited website remodeled version of our website, www.americanwhippetclub.net is now LIVE! We
know that it may take a few weeks to feel as much at
home on the new site as you have felt on the old, but we
hope that you will be proud of the contemporary look and
feel of the club's new "face" to the dog community and the
breed.
Before we tell you how to log in to the new site, a few
thanks and appreciations are due for the hard work over
the past few years done by several of our AWC Members
to keep the AWC website up and running smoothly. First,
Scot Northern has done a wonderful job of being responsive to all our members and keeping the members-only
section of our old website running smoothly. With assistance from Cindy Scott, he has kept our members apprised of the online version of the AWC newsletter. His
friend and associate, Tim Miller has webhosted our members-only site at no charge to the AWC. These people
deserve the gratitude and appreciation of all members and
subscribers for the countless unpaid hours they have devoted to these tasks.
You will note a number of changes that we hope you will
come to appreciate.
*YOU are now in charge of your own account. You do not
have to wait for a webmaster or board member to upgrade
you from subscriber to member, or to make your membership current. You can easily choose your own password,
and we encourage you to log in immediately and do
so. When you pay your dues in the future using the website payment feature, you will be automatically re-
Please log in and change the password the first time you
use the new members area to something you can easily
remember. Should you forget your password, the website
will allow you to request a password reset. If you would
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like to change your username, please contact Karen Lee
via email at surreyhill@zoominternet.net and she can make
subscribed to the website AS a member. If you forget to
the desired change to your account. Members of twopay your dues, you will find your access to restricted club
person households who share one single email address
documents such as the AWC Newsletter is denied, which
will serve as an effective reminder in case you simply forgot are initially set up as a joint account but can split into two
accounts (one for each member) by contacting Karen Lee
to pay. Members who choose to pay their membership
and providing name of the person desiring the new account
fees by check will have their information updated by the
along with a different username and password.
Treasurer upon receipt of the payment.
*The public portion of the website has been greatly expanded and redone with bags and bags of great info for anyone
looking to learn more about the breed. Also, we have
dressed the site with wonderful donated photos of Whippets doing things that Whippets do best--being great companions, looking like living works of art, sleeping, playing,
and enjoying all the competitive activities open to our versatile breed. We hope this will serve to further educate
those people who contact our breeders, or are looking for
more things to do with their Whippets.
*The National Specialty pages are duplicated versions of
the www.awc2014.com website. While we will have duplicate sites this year, having the National Architecture stay
part of the public portion of the AWC website in the future
will eliminate additional web hosting fees, the need to get
someone to completely redesign the National website every year, and also the embarrassment of having had some
of our past National website url's taken over by porn sites
or other entities (yes, this has actually happened!). This
makes the AWC Home Page "one stop shopping" for all
things AWC.
Once you have logged in, you will see a blue button atop
the home page (and all other pages) in the upper right
hand corner of your screen that says "My Account". Click
on this button, and it will take you to a page where your
restricted club documents (primarily the digital versions of
the AWC Newsletter) will appear. It will also show the status of your membership subscription and what options you
have selected for how you read the newsletter (online only
or mailed-foreign/domestic). Check to make sure that your
account details are correct and current. Members will also
be able to access a current AWC Membership list via a link
on the "My Account" page.
For those of you reading this who are mail subscribers to
the WN, please contact Guin Borstel at
milescross@gmail.com if you want to be able to access the
newsletters on the website. For the few members out there
who have never provided an email address to the AWC, if
you wish to access the Members-Only section of the website, please contact Karen and she will set up an account
for you.
If you have any questions, you may e-mail Karen Lee
(surreyhill@zoominternet.net). If you have additions and/or
*The new website is designed to be compatible with the
corrections, please e-mail Karen as well. If you are in
handheld devices and tablets commonly in use today. This charge of AWC Regional or other Whippet Specialty Club
was a very necessary reason to redo the website for the
events, please look carefully at the pages which pertain to
contemporary users.
those and make sure Karen has all the most current information so she can add it to the website.
So, we hope you are excited to log into the new website
We have already had many, many of people who have
and begin looking around.
been able to successfully log in using the new username
and password and do what they needed to do with their
The web address for the new website is the same as the
accounts. We are working slowly but surely through the
old one: www.americanwhippetclub.net. You can view all
the public portions of the website without logging in, just as members/subscribers who are experiencing log-in difficulties. Here are a few tips and pointers if you find yourself
was true for the old website.
falling into that category. 1) make sure you are really on the
NEW site. It's best to use this link if you aren't seeing a
To log in, your initial website username will be the e-mail
address we have on file for you with the AWC. Your initial white and blue and black home page:http://
americanwhippetclub.net/user 2) If you for some reason
password will be your last name followed by the first initial
of your first name. Please note that the username is case- cannot get to that page, try clearing your cookies and
cache. 3) Your new username SHOULD be your e-mail
sensitive.
address on file with the AWC and password your last name
For example, if your e-mail is iluvwhippets@gmail.com and followed by the first initial of your first name. We DID encounter some difficulties getting these settings for houseyour name is Susan Brown, your new username
is iluvwhippets@gmail.com and your password is currently hold memberships with multiple e-mails so if you ARE seeing the new website and are part of a multi-member houseset to browns If your email
is mrwhippetdude@aol.com and your name is Thomas Mil- hold having a tough time logging in, send Karen Lee
ler Jr., and you're known to the whole world as "Junior Mil- (surreyhill@zoominternet.net) an e-mail, and tell her what
ler", your password is still millert.
you WANT your username and password to be and she
will set it for you.
We hope you will like the new website. It's taken longer
than we thought it would, obviously, but we believe the
finished product is going to be well worth the wait!
The AWC Board of Directors
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AWC NATIONAL SPECIALTY 2014
SPECIALTY WEBSITE
www.awc2014.com
Check it out for up-to-the-minute Specialty info!
Whippet Cardiac Health Project
Update at AWC 2014 by
Rebecca Stepien, DVM MS
DACVIM (Cardiology)
Dr. Stepien and the Whippet Cardiac Health Project team
initiated a unique long term study of mitral valve disease in
whippets at the 2004 AWC National Specialty in Greensboro, NC. This year she and the team will bring us up to
date on the status of the study, comment on their impressions over the years and hint at possible future collaborations and goals. Please plan to attend Friday evening, 04/25/14, at the Hunt Valley Inn, Baltimore, MD.
We are getting a bit of a late start this year in requesting Trophy Donations for the 2014 American Whippet Club National Specialty to
be held in Huntsville, Maryland. Letters have been delivered to the 2013 winners, if you haven’t received a letter from me, please feel
free to contact me directly to sponsor an award in honor of your 2013 big winner. Currently we have the following awards & classes
available:
Conformation
BOS
Performance
$200
Obedience Classes $70 per class.
Select Dog $100
Rally Classes
Select Bitch $100
ASFA Open & FCh Flights $70per class.
AOM
$100
WD
$150
RWD
$100
$70 per class.
Most classes are still available,
please contact me ASAP to sponsor
a class.
Best Puppy $100
Best Veteran
$100
Best Jr Show
$75
Regular Classes
$70 per class.
Vet Sweeps Classes $75 per class.
Donations to the General Trophy Fund are always appreciated.
www.awc2014.com homepage for your convenience.
A PayPal button is up on the
Donna Lynch – ddlynch01@yahoo.com
35 Sisson Farm Lane
Westport, MA 02790
508.636.0705
Membership Dues Are Due!
Dear AWC Member,
It’s time to renew your membership in the American Whippet Club. Please note the dues notice will appear in the AWC Newsletter
and will be emailed to members with correct email addresses from our website.
The annual dues for 2014 for the ONLINE Whippet News is $30.00 per person or $45.00 per two-person household – one address
only; either option includes the ONLINE Whippet News and AWC Annual.
The annual dues for 2014 for the MAILED paper version of the newsletter will be $40.00 per person or $55.00 per two-person household. - one address only; either option includes the MAILED paper version of Whippet News and AWC Annual.
Junior Membership – (18 years of age and under) Annual dues for a Junior member residing in the same household with a current
AWC member is free. Only one subscription to the Whippet News and one AWC Annual will be provided.
Junior Membership – (18 years of age and under) Annual dues for a Junior member not residing with a current AWC member will be
$30.00 for the ONLINE Whippet News and AWC Annual OR $40.00 for the MAILED paper version of the Whippet News and AWC
Annual.
Membership Pins are a must have for every member and are available for an additional $7.00.
Please consider making a donation to the Independent Whippet Organizations to support their important work. Donations should be
sent directly to the following addresses:
Whippet Health Foundation
Whippet Rescue
Susan Bolduc, Treasurer
Jean Schroeder, Treasurer
PO Box 598
17502 S 750 W
Otis, MA 01253-0598
Wanatah, IN 46390
PLEASE NOTE
To be eligible to vote in the 2014 election your dues MUST be received by the Treasurer by January 1, 2014
As stated in the AWC Constitution, membership will be considered lapsed and
automatically terminated if dues remain unpaid as of April 1, 2014.
If there have been any changes to your name, address, phone number or email enclose a note with your updated information. Please PRINT updates clearly. If paying through your business on Pay Pal PLEASE include your name
on the payment information. We must have your changes by January 1, 2014 for publication in the Annual.
Membership rosters are published in the back of the Annual and on the website at
www.americanwhippetclub.net
If you choose the Online newsletter we must have your current email address for you to receive monthly notices of the newsletter
posted to the website. PLEASE print all information clearly.
Dues may be paid on-line at www.americanwhippetclub.net using PayPal or sent to:
Gail Boyd, AWC Treasurer, 8948 Hope Hill Lane Apex, NC 27502
Telephone 919-362-4427 Email ableaimkennels@aol.com
Make check payable to: American Whippet Club
2014 Dues – Online Newsletter $30.00 individual, $45.00 two-person household
________________
2014 Dues - Mailed Newsletter $40.00 individual, $55.00 two-person household
________________
Membership Pin - $7.00
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TOTAL enclosed
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By Karen Lee
This article first appeared in the December 2013 issue
of Sight & Scent .
W
hippets, from the very inception of the
breed as a working man’s dog in the north
of England, have always been expected to perform many
roles. Versatility is in the DNA of our breed, and with
standout performances in many venues, 2013 shows that
nothing has changed. The Whippet has also been a breed
which performs its best when it has a close relationship
with its master or mistress; no surprise a number of exceptional teams rose to the highest levels of their respective
pursuits.
In the show ring, Whippets are noted for being a breed
where an owner-handler, and particularly a breeder-owner
-handled dog, can win the biggest events. While we have
a number of professional handlers among our ranks who
are also breeders, we also have talented amateurs who
can show their own dogs to the biggest wins of the year.
Two Whippets and their breeder/owner/handlers stand out
from the rest. First of all, THE prestige event in all of US
Whippetdom is our National Specialty. This year, the National was won by Californian Brad Briscoe and his homebred GCh Lakota’s Which Witch Are You. Brad is also the
first African-American to handle a Whippet to a Whippet
National SBIS.
While Brad Briscoe is relatively new to Whippets, being
less than ten years involved in the show ring with the
breed, our second newsmaker has, by her own reckoning,
over fifty years as a breeder/owner/handler of top show
Whippets. Kerrie Kuper of the famous Karasar kennel in
Florida made competing in the new AKC Owner-Handler
Series a priority throughout the year, and along with many
wins at the Group and BIS level, she ended the year
ranked as the Number One team in the series, all breeds,
showing her homebred MBIS & MRBIS & MOHBIS GCH
Karasar's Remembrance. Three year old “Britanee” is bred
and owned by Kerrie, her husband Neil Barthalette, and
longtime co-breeder and friend, Karen Mlynar.
#1 Owner-Handler Series All-Breeds for 2013, GCH
Karasar's Remembrance with breeder/owner/handler Kerrie
Kuper.
The breeder-owner-handler trend continued at our regionals throughout the year. The Eastern and South-Central
specialties were won by breeder-owner-handlers, while the
Western specialty was won by an owner-handler with his
own breeding behind his winner, and the North-Central was
won by an owner-handler with an imported dog she has
shown to all of his wins herself. The Midwest specialty was
won by a class bitch, who was shown to the purple by her
breeder and owner, but handed off for BOB competition,
thereby narrowly missing being the third breeder/owner/
handled regional specialty winner for 2013.
Further, looking at the Top Ten Conformation Whippets
suit of the Dual Championship and it is worth noting that
(Best of Breed system) for 2013, one sees that five of those the highest-ranking DC in conformation is in the Top 5, the
dogs are owner-handled by one of their breeders.
B/O/H BIS GCH/DC Ableaim Que the Music.
But coursing was not the
only arena where Whippets topped the rest.
There are two relatively
new sports and a Whippet
has already made a huge
mark in one, while in the
other, Whippets look like a
breed that has potential to
be very competitive.
In the sport of Dock Dog,
where the ability of the dog
to launch itself into the air
and “fly” as far and as high
as possible to splash down
at a considerable distance
from the edge of the dock
is the measure of success,
a Whippet holds the record. “Cochiti the Dock
Dog”, aka Farseer Cochiti
ORC FCh SRMII DDSM,
"Eats" smells a rat!
bred, owned and trained
by Diane Salts, entered
the most recent edition of
Whippet achievements were not limited to the show ring—
the Guinness Book of World Records this year. Cochiti
individual Whippets were doing great things in performance
shares the outdoor record for “Big Air” and holds the indoor
events! Of course, Whippets have always been one of the
record outright. Cochiti ended the 2013 Dock Dog season
strongest breeds in the sport of lure coursing. The two
as the Big Air Super Elite World Champion. Congratulamost prestigious events in lure coursing for all the breeds
tions, Diane and Cochiti! You’ve already inspired a number
that are eligible are the ASFA International Invitational, and
of other Whippet owners to give this fun sport a try!
the AKC National Lure Coursing Championships. To win a
The newest fast growing AKC sport among Whippet ownmajor award at these events against the other sighthound
breeds is not as common for Whippets as one might think. ers seems to be the sport of Barn Hunt. We Whippet folks
have always known our Whippets enjoyed hunting and disAt the International Invitational, this reporter heard there
patching small rodents, and now with Barn Hunt, we have a
was scarcely a dry eye on the field when Best in II over an
venue where we can show that our dogs don’t just have
enormous entry went to FC Shirri’s Lucy. The Whippet fanspeed; they have the nose and ears to find a hidden rat!
cy lost two of our coursing greats in Les Pekarski and Shirri
The first of several Whippets so far to earn the RATN title is
Peake over the last couple of years and Lucy, now owned
“Eats”: Fanfares Living In Fast Forward SC RATN FCh RAby Mary Frances Miller, was from their last litter.
TI, owned by Kristy Thomas and bred by Shelly Kruger.
At the NLCC, Whippets competed with distinction but fell
Can Whippets and their people top these great happenings
short of the ultimate prize, however, the highest-scoring
in 2014? To all the Whippets in the ring, the field, on the
overall Dual Champion sighthound was GCh/DC Terrena’s
track, in obedience, agility, flyball, therapy, and now dock
Lemon Parade at Mariner FCH. “Zest” is conditioned,
diving and barn hunt—great work, and keep having fun!
loved, and trained by owner Mark Mortin, and one of his
breeders, Terri DeLuca, was along for the ride to enjoy his
success. Many in Whippets are quite dedicated to the purDECEMBER 2013 - THE WHIPPET NEWS / 15
I first heard of Barbara Wayne in 1986,
when Jerry Klein, whom I knew from Afghan
Hounds, contacted me about a friend who wanted
a Whippet. Barbara had Afghans before she had
Whippets, so “Wylie” was her introduction to the
breed that she would come to love so much. His
registered name was Delacreme Bohem Impala,
and he came
from a litter
that Mary
Dukes and I co
-bred by her
famous Oscar
out of a bitch I
had leased
from Barbara
Henderson,
Ch. Whippoorwill Sonatina.
Wylie grew up
to become a strapping young dog; he cleared just
under the upper size limit but finished his championship pretty easily anyway. More importantly,
Barbara loved Wylie and kept his portrait on the
wall forever. For me it was the beginning of a
friendship that would last for more than a quarter
century.
Barbara had dogs growing up in Chicago,
and she purchased her first Afghan in 1976. She
owned and bred several champions, including one
who was exported by the co-owner to Japan. This
dog’s whereabouts remained the source of much
concern to Barbara, and one of her happiest moments was when she was reunited with him during a visit to Japan many years later, and learned
that he had lived a long and happy life in a family
with children who loved him.
I think the Afghans were history soon after
Wylie, though: from then on Whippets were her
breed. Wylie sired some nice champions, including
the top winning Ch. Charlemagne Prophecy
(Joey), who was out of a bitch David Gibbons and
Linda Griebe had
bred, Ch. Prophecy’s Temptation
(Shirley Rose). If I
remember correctly
both Joey and
Shirley Rose were
BIS winners, the
first in a long line
of top Whippets
that Barbara
owned, bred and/or
handled, often in
partnership with
friends and probably more often as handler than
in any other capacity. Barbara didn’t breed a lot,
and she preferred to have just a small number of
dogs at home, but her Charlemagne prefix nevertheless adorned some big winners.
For most of the 1990s I was only sporadically in touch with Barb. She kept me informed of
Wylie and his puppies, and we met at shows on
occasion, but the long distance between us meant
that I didn’t necessarily know everything that
went on with her dogs. That changed when I sent
a young dog to her “just to finish” in 1999: I
couldn’t show much and Barb liked the look of
him. The idea was that he should come back to
California eventually, but of course that never
Barbara LOVED going to dog show, more
so than almost any other person I know. Driving
for endless hours to get to the shows was nothing
to her: usually I was at home, talking on the
phone (Barb was one of the few people I talked
with on the phone; she disapproved of email even
more than I disliked telephones), marvelling at
the distance she covered. From the times that I
travelled with her I remember she always had a
big bag of candy on the dashboard and would tell
me stories of her mean and miserable Swedish
grandmother…
Barb with Ken Tippie (left) and Jerry Klein, both now AKC
judges, and Barb's first Whippet, Wylie, in 1986.
Barb appreciated the good things in life,
and she must have been the envy of everyone
happened: Barbara loved all her dogs, but the relationship she had with Blaze, alias Ch. Bohem
Circus Runaway, ROM was pretty special. Barb
also showed several of his littermates, one of
whom was Circus Pony (Whispa), whom I had
sent to Mrs. Yoshimoto in Japan as a puppy. The
association with Mrs. Yoshimoto was one of the
most important Barbara had in dogs, I’m sure,
and meant that Whispa made three (!) visits to
Barb to be shown in the U.S., and also that Barb
flew to Japan to visit him and his “family.” She
eventually finished at least three of his Japanborn kids to their AKC titles. The fact that Barb
qualified Whispa and his brothers for AWC’s Top
20 a total of five times indicates to some degree
the kind of success she had as a handler.
Blaze, incidentally, looked great and remembered me at the AWC national specialty in
2011. He died at nearly 15 on August 6, just a
few weeks before Barb had to go into hospital. As
I’m writing this I got the sad news that Whispa
died in Japan at over 15 years of age.
who tried to control their diet since she never, ever got fat. She loved her glass of wine, too; in fact
one of the sad things when she became ill was
that wine didn’t taste good anymore. Her positive
enthusiasm was contagious, even for someone
who tends to look at the glass as half empty.
When I had a big birthday, years ago while we
lived in the far wilderness of California, she made
a surprise visit, having flown a couple of thousand
miles for the occasion. She was the light of the
party, everyone thought, nobody more so than
Chili (a third brother, Three Ring Circus), who
usually didn’t make a fuss but obviously loved and
remembered Barbara from the days she showed
him.
For those of us who are reluctant to send
dogs with professional handlers Barbara was a
wonderful solution. She never took on more than
a couple of dogs at a time, they travelled with her
to the shows, slept in her bed, and you could be
sure they would be in great shape, beautifully
handled, loved and spoiled rotten.
I wish it were possible to compile a list of
Everyone knew that Barb had bounced
all the Whippets Barb showed over the years.
back from cancer a couple of years ago. She felt
Many won all-breed BIS, Specialty BIS, and quali-
optimistic enough about the future to come for a
fied for the AWC Top 20
visit and bring home a
competition, but I don’t
puppy from me early
know all their names. Of
last year, but by the
course Barb showed a lot of
end of August she was
Bohem dogs (at least a doz-
back in the hospital. It
en that finished), but there
was when she called to
were many from other
tell me I had to ar-
breeders as well.
range for Rosa to come
Barbara never wanted
to become an AKC judge, but
she judged AWC’s Top 20 in
2004, and in 2006 she
judged the Futurity at the
AWC national specialty. Her
winner was Oxford Tobell
Fire and Ice (Ella), who went
on to great fame later, not
only finishing her title but
winning multiple SBIS, including the National under Cindy Scott in 2008.
Among the last dogs that Barbara specialled was GCh. Festiva’s Lucy Is Fashionably
Late, who was shown by Barb to at least one of
her multiple SBIS wins; together they won a
Hound Group 1st as late as on July 13th this year.
Of course before that there was Ch. Moongaze
Jomyr Some Splainin’ To Do, Luna, who won almost everything possible, including No. 1 Whippet
in 2008 (according to the all-breed system) and
the 2009 AWC Top 20 competition. On August 23,
just a little more than two months before she
died, Barb showed Luna to BOS from the Veterans
class at the AWC North Central specialty under
Red Tatro.
back to California that
I realized things were
serious. Barb’s husband Bob was also ill,
and I am so grateful to
Carol Harris and everyone at Bo-Bett who
jumped in and helped,
took Rosa to the vet
for the necessary
health certificate and
found a courier who
could pick up and ship her to me.
Everyone who loved Barbara must be
grateful to the people who provided invaluable
help for Bob and Barb during the last difficult
months. Amy Carlson realized how serious the situation was before anyone else did and flew in to
make sure Barbara received appropriate hospital
treatment, and also that Bob was taken care of.
Jonathan Hart provided unfailing emotional and
practical support, way above and beyond what
anyone could reasonably expect, for both Barb
and Bob during what must have been a chaotic
and frightening period. Jonathan even opened his
home to Barbara, and I know she was extremely
grateful to him for all his help. With Rosa and the
Italian Greyhound out of the house there were
still two old dogs left, Luna and Noelle (the 13year old Japanese import Ch. Whispa JP Charlemagne Noelle), to care for, and Jonathan looked
after both when necessary. I’m not sure what
would have happened if Amy and Jonathan had
not been there to help.
It was Amy who told me that if I wanted to
see Barbara again I had to hurry, so I flew to
Florida on very short notice to visit her in the hospital. It was not an easy visit, but it was great to
reminisce about dogs and people both past and
present. I brought a whole bunch of dog photos,
and I think Barb enjoyed looking at them.
Thanks to Take The Lead, the organization
that has helped so many dog people in difficult
circumstances, Barbara was able to spend her last
month at home with Bob and the old dogs. I knew
it was irrational, but Barb sounded pretty good
the last time I talked to her, and I was hoping
against hope there would be a turn for the better.
It was not to be. Barbara died at 4:00 AM on November 4. She had turned 63 years old just a
month earlier.
It looks like Bob, with Jonathan’s help,
may be able to take care of the old dogs. How he
will be able to deal with life without Barbara is a
different question. Bob didn’t go to the shows, so
most of the dog people didn’t know him, but it
was clear that he thought the world of Barb. And
even though I usually only saw Barbara a couple
of times each year I miss her more than I thought
Barb at the AWC National Specialty in 2000 with Whispa
(left) and Blaze.
was possible. I miss the phone calls and the upbeat reports from the shows, and it’s difficult to
accept that she is not there to talk to.
The outpouring of affection and love we’ve
seen during Barbara’s illness and after her death
is proof of the deep effect she had on people, both in Whippets and other breeds, both in
and outside of dogs.
- Bo Bengtson
For events processed through Friday, November 21, 2013
RANK
NAME
SEX
BOB
TOTAL
WINS
DEFEATED
________________________________________________________________________________________
1
GCH CH Starline's Oxford Victim Of Love
B
102
1824
2
GCH CH Bo-Bett's Quick Pick
B
64
769
3
GCH CH Karasar's Remembrence
B
58
715
4
GCH DC Ableaim Que The Music MC
B
50
711
5
GCH CH Sporting Fields Shameless
B
17
544
6
GCH CH Artemis Hypnotic Opium SC
B
46
475
7
GCH CH Cottonwood Versace At Coreymore
D
54
466
8
GCH CH Solaris Saxon Shore Hypnotiq Kamio
B
31
432
9
GCH CH Sporting Fields Heavenly Body JC
B
33
335
10
GCH CH Lakota's Witch Witch Are You SC
B
5
301
11
GCH CH Winway Ramona Quimby
B
8
278
12
GCH CH Cottonwood Vuitton
D
14
261
13
GCH CH Kamada's New York Minute
B
25
257
14
GCH CH Shojin's Turn Me Loose RN JC
D
20
246
15
GCH CH Fanfare Forgetmenot My Kinda Pretty
B
11
221
16
GCH CH Chapelton Man O’War
D
13
184
17
GCH CH Endeavor's White Roses On Nysa Hill
B
6
179
18
GCH CH Festiva's Lucy Is Fashionably Late JC
B
12
176
19
GCH CH Charlamar Redcliffe Now’s The Time
D
9
166
20
GCH CH Starline's Windborn Sweet Liberty
B
11
153
21
GCH CH Adagio Jilzan Fire On Ice
D
5
149
22
GCH CH Summit Hoop Dreams
B
3
144
23
GCH CH Liberty’s Wanna Be Your Teddy Bear SC
D
12
140
24
GCH CH Harmony's Midnight Lace At Aeolus JC
B
6
130
25
GCH CH Shamasan Island Of Imagination
B
14
129
25
GCH CH Debmar Lovin’ Dixie
B
18
129
FROM AKC:
WHIPPET
SPECIALTY
RESULTS
The following results from the year’s
last Whippet specialty show which
were listed on AKC’s website on Dec.
9, 2013. Sweepstakes results, Best
Puppy, and Awards of Merit are not
published by AKC.
A complete list of all specialty BIS winners 2000-2013 will be published in
the January issue of Whippet News.
Arizona Whippet Association, independent specialty held in Tucson, AZ
on Oct. 23, 2013. Judge David Samuelson. Number of dogs shown 50 (14
dogs, 36 bitches). BOB Ch. Summit
Hoop Dreams. BOS Ch. Runner’s
He’s Coronado. Select Dog GCh. Adagio Jilzan Fire On Ice. Select Bitch
GCh. Lakota’s Witch Witch Are You
SC. WD Tobrica’s Ventura Boulevard.
RWD Wildfire’s Sudden Silence. WB &
BOW Harmony’s Luck Be A Lady.
RWB Elain-Ward’s Clairvoyant SC.
This is what it is all about!
- Bo N. Bengtson
Awesome drawing by Colin, 10, courtesy of Angie Diehl.
AKC Title Report
November, 2013
By Irene Mullauer, National Obedience Chairperson
Here is the summary of the titles reported by AKC in for October, 2013. Congratulations to all!
Novice Agility
Novice Jumper
Open Agility
Open Agility Jumper
Open Agility Preferred
Excellent Agility Jumper
Excellent Agility Jumper Preferred
Master Agility Champion
Master Agility Champion 3
Master Agility Champion 6
Master Excellent Jumper
Master Silver Jumper 2
Master Century Agility
Agility FAST Novice
Time 2 Beat
1
1
1
3
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
Canine Good Citizen
Beginner Novice
Rally Novice
Rally Advanced
Rally Excellent
Tracking Dog
4
3
1
3
1
1
Coursing Ability
Coursing Ability Excellent
Field Champion
Junior Courser
Master Courser
Senior Courser
Lure Coursing Excellent 7
1
1
5
9
3
17
1
Champion
Grand Champion
17
4
The above statistics and records are from the AKC so if there are any errors or missing data, please let me know.
Thank you to our latest donors;
Andre' Jacobs $50.00
Carol Weber $100.00
Joanne Bohl $20.00 in memory of her friend Ruby Kleindl and her Whippet Tina. Ruby died at age 94 on November 19th. She was a great Whippet lover!
www.whippethealth.org
agility exercises with some portable equipment I have. Donny
loves all the kids and they love him.
Donny earned the AKC STAR Puppy and the AKC Canine Good
Citizen (CGC) certificates at his training class graduation.
Donny’s STAR Puppy photo was published in the AKC Gazette.
Every year at the AWC National Specialty, the Willow Award is a
Donny earned his Rally Novice (RN) and Rally Advanced (RA)
highlight. The Award, presented to a chosen therapy whippet,
titles with four, qualifying scores for each He earned his Rally Ex-
from a list of wonderful nominees submitted by their owners or
cellent title in six shows due to his owners mistakes.. Donny has
breeders, is named for Willow, the first (and only) whippet recipi-
earned his Companion Dog (CD) title. Donny started doing agility
ent of the AKC ACE award for Pet Therapy. Here are two of
a little over two years ago and has his Novice Jumpers Preferred
2013’s deserving nominees.
title. (NJP) And his Novice Agility Preferred title (NAP). We do
Preferred because I am older and slow. The training classes and
“DONNY”
Grand Prix’s Golden Eagle CD,
RE, NJP, NAP,THD, CGC.
shows have provided Donny with a good foundation for becoming
a Therapy Dog. He is such a social dog that he loves seeing all
the people at the shows and trials. He quickly greets the other
dogs and then goes straight to there owners. He is known for his
Donny is a Whippet and was such a social puppy that I knew he talking to everyone he knows with a woo, woo chortle.
This year we were finally able to get a Pet Reading Program
started at the local library. Donny loves all the kids who read
to him and all the library staff and volunteers. Our favorite little
reader was afraid of dogs until he met Donny. He now is on
the floor reading to him and cuddling with him. He stops every
so often to tell Donny how adorable he is. His mother told me
his reading scores have gone from below normal to well above
normal. There are other little readers who have improved their
reading skills too. We feel blessed to be able to participate in
the program and have positive results. When the kids see us
out walking or when we go in our local parade they always
come to say hi and pet Donny. Donny does the library every
other Monday and his aunt Taddie does it on the other Mondays. The only Mondays we have off is when the library is
closed.
Donny goes to the local dog park almost every day and gets
along well with all the little dogs there. He walks two miles on
would make a great visiting Therapy Pet. He became a member
of our local kennel club pet therapy group so that we could do the
visits needed for our initial Love on a Leash membership and be
covered by the club insurance. Donny was approved by the kennel club after approaching the first few members. They said, “We
can see that Donny is a very people-loving dog.” He passed with
flying colors. Donny has also earned his advanced therapy certificate for elder visits and his advanced Alzheimer's title. Each title
requires at least 50 visits to approved facilities.
We do at least 6 visits a month to Convalescent Care and As-
the sidewalks to the dog park and back and is good with all of the
bicycles and cars going by. We meet people in motorized scooters and others pushing baby carriages and he is very good with
them. He loves to stop and chat with people who want to visit with
him and let the kids pet him or the adults if they want to pet.. I
have not found anything that upsets him.
We average six visits a month to Assisted Living, Convalescent
Care, Transitional Care, and Adult Day Care facilities. Donny
loves seeing the residents and staff. The staff members love it
when he cuddles up to them. Donny has a special “woo-woo”
sisted Living Facilities and twice a month we do a adult day care
greeting for his favorite friends. Donny loves seeing all of the
and we talk about grooming, and training and the proper way for
dent invites him to do so. Some of the residents like to have him
facility. We do school visits on request and have a standing invite dogs we visit with too. Donny is very gentle when he puts his feet
to do 4 second grade classes every year. The kids love the dogs up o a chair or bed to greet residents; he does this when a resithem to approach the dogs and to ask permission before ap-
get on their bed and lie with them. He is very good about lying
proaching any dog. Donny has demonstrated Rally exercises and next to them while they pet and talk to him. We visit one blind
man who always wants the dogs on the bed where he can pet and
cuddle with them and Donny is very good about doing this. They
always comment on how soft and silky and clean he is and how
gentle he is.
Donny goes with his Aunt Taddie, a whippet and also a Love on
a Leash Advanced Therapy pet, to the gift shop at our local state
park (La Purisima Mission) where I volunteer two days a month.
He stays quietly on a blanket for the five hours we are there. He
will not get up to greet people unless he is told that it is OK. We
get busloads of school children that come through the gift shop
and he lies quietly on the blanket and sleeps through most of the
children’s visit. Donny goes with us to our weekly crafts class and
lies on the blanket after greeting all present. Everyone loves him
and he has a couple of very favorite people who join us.
Donny had enough hours to qualify for the new Therapy Dog
Title this year. He can now add the THD to his other titles.
I hope to be able to do Pet Therapy Visits for many more years
with Donny as he is just 5 years old now. Donny is also a great
companion to me and makes sure he knows where I’m at all the
time.
Owner: Jean MacLean.
_____________________________
“ARROW”
Endeavor's Challenge The Wind
CD, BN, RE, OA, OAJ
Tales to Tails is a literacy program at the Santa Cruz Library in
Santa Cruz, Calif. where children can sign up for a private twentyminute slot to read to an attentive certified therapy dog. Research
shows that children who have frequent reading experiences such
as reading aloud become more eager, skilled readers. Studies
also show that therapy dogs provide a comfortable, nonjudgmental environment for children to practice. Most of the children read
very well or above grade level. The parents value their education.
“Arrow” is certified through Therapy Dog International. He (and
his roommate, Moth) each do three half hour sessions on Saturdays.
Arrow has a tendency to reach out his paw and pet a child as he
or she reads. He is more engaged with the reader and appears to
really listen, most of the other dogs just go to sleep, and sometimes he gets up and looks in the book. The first time he and I
went there were three sisters they’re suppose to read one at a
time but by the end they were all around him. The littlest had her
legs entwined with his. At the end of a session the child gets a
bookmark that says “I read to Moth/Arrow” with the dog’s picture.
The following is a letter from one of the Parents:
“My son Oliver, almost seven, has been reading to them as part of
Santa Cruz County Public Library's Tales to Tails Program this fall
and winter season. We were amazed to see our son, an emerging
reader, spending up to 45 minutes reading to either Moth or Arrow
during our Saturday morning visits. The dogs are both are affectionate and comforting. Oliver enjoys it when Arrow rests his paws
across Oliver's lap, almost as if Arrow is petting him. And Oliver
loves it when Arrow nuzzles and kisses him. Moth listens attentively and curls up right next to Oliver, or stands and watches him.
Both Whippets are a joy to spend time with, they are calm and
receptive to our son, and enjoy the attention he gives them. Oliver's reading has greatly improved since we started the Tales to
Tails Program in the fall. His teacher has encouraged him and his
fellow classmates to read out loud every day, and by far, the longest reading sessions we have are those we spend at the library
with Moth and Arrow. Many of Oliver's first grade classmates are
now signing up for opportunities to read to the dogs at the library.
I am grateful to Dale Noble and her Whippets, Moth and Arrow,
for the tremendous public service they are providing for our son's
benefit and the next generation in our community.“
Arrow also works in a lot of performance activities. He has
many Obedience, Rally and Agility titles. Along with his roommate, “Moth”, he participates in many demos and parades. His
newest venture is working on his Tracking title.
OWNER: Dale Noble
Nominated by Linda Stewart
Information on how to nominate a whippet for the
2014 Willow Award will be coming to a future issue of
the Whippet News.
The Whippet News
Guin Borstel, Editor
4745 25th Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
All I want for Christmas is a pair of Alain Quilici for
David Koma “Whippet” Heels.
Sadly, not in my price range ($1049 USD when last I
checked).

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