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We Need Your Participation
Because this is our annual chance to get together, we want to offer a variety of
ways for people to share information and ideas. Towards that end, we are putting
together several presentations and/or displays.
However, these will only work if you help! We need your photographs and input.
Stud Dog presentation/display:
If you ve ever
bred a litter, you know how difficult finding the right stud dog can be. Science
also tells us that our breed benefits from our keeping as many worthy
individuals as possible in the gene pool. To support both of these goals, we
want to put together a PowerPoint presentation of as many stud dogs as we can.
Of course, this
will only work if people submit photos of their males.
So if you have a dog that you d consider making available at stud, PLEASE send
us his picture!
You or your dog
don t need to be at the specialty to participate, so please send your photos
even if you can t join us for the show. If you have frozen semen from a dog no
longer with us, we would love for you to participate. If you live outside the
U.S. but can send frozen semen, feel free to send your pictures, too!
Please don t
think no one would be interested; they definitely are. You will be helping to
maintain the gene pool, and it s going to be fun: the presentation will be only
the photos of the dogs; a key will be provided separately that identifies them.
Participating is
easy: all you have to do is send up to three clear digital photos of your dog,
plus your contact information. Optional (but great) would be parent information
or a pedigree, litters already produced, and any health test results.
Influential Deerhounds:
We thought it
would be fun for people to share their influential Deerhounds: what dog first
got you excited about the breed? Influenced your idea of what a Deerhound should
be? Gave you shivers up your spine when you saw it or its photo? Please let us
know, and we ll compile as many as we can into another presentation.
No living dogs
will be considered, but feel free to send us the
names and a picture, if you have access to one of those dogs that influenced
you. If you want to do a little write-up, that would be great, but isn t
required.
Please send your stud dog and influential dog photos and text to
Miranda Levin
or to 486 Rowe Mountain Rd., Bradford, NH 03221. If you have any questions, you
can also call Miranda at (603) 938-6095.
Gallery of Greats:
This 2006
presentation is being updated. If your dog has won a major award at a national
specialty since 2006 or wasn t included in the 2006 presentation, please
consider sending in your pictures now. The wins we are looking for are WD, WB,
(and BOW), BOB, BOS, and Award of Merit. Please remember that the photo of the
winning dog must have been taken at the show, although it doesn t have to be the
official photo: it can have been taken from ringside during the competition or
by someone who wanted a photo of the dog, but it must have been taken during the
Specialty where the win was awarded. The information required is the win, the
year, and the dog s full name. Please participate and become part of this
gallery of our breed s beautiful Specialty winners.
Please send
Gallery of Greats photos and text to
Sheila Matheson. If you have any questions, you can also call Sheila at at
(905) 655-8800.
Health Seminar:
The health
seminar, presented by Dr. Urs Giger, of the University of
Pennsylvania,
will be on Cystinuria and Factor VII Deficiency. If enough people participate,
he will present the results of two studies. For more information, please
download the health seminar pdf
Cystinuria
Study:
In people, who also get cystinuria, many individuals are able to avert forming
stones by changing their diet. However, this has not proven to be as easy to do
in dogs, so Dr. Giger would like to find out more about how a dog s diet can
influence stone formation.
The study is
simple: all you have to do is change your dog s diet for a short period of time
according to the study guidelines, collect and store a couple of urine samples
both before and after the change, and send the samples and a completed form to
PennGen.
Factor VII
Deficiency Study:
To learn more, Dr. Giger would like to get results of clotting
profiles (PT and PTT) from Factor VII-deficient dogs and relatives. The test can
be done by your veterinarian, using their regular lab, or by PennGen. So if you
have a Factor VII-deficient dog, please consider having a clotting profile done
and sending the results to PennGen or sending the blood directly to PennGen,
where they will do the clotting profile. If you ve already done a clotting
profile on your Factor VII-deficient dog, please send the results to PennGen.
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