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Updated: 06 May, 2010
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club of Hawaii
June 2009 Newsletter
by,
Kaye Walsh, President
237-8472 Home or 284-5328 / 284-3109 Cells
Pet Expo Great Success as always
Mahalo nui loa to Brigitta Roberts for
coordinating our Pet Expo experience this year. I hear everyone had a great
time, all those soft, cuddly Cavaliers were happy to greet the visitors to our
booth and I have been inundated with email requests from potential new owners of
Cavaliers. Everyone who did booth duty must have done a great job because
EVERYONE seems to want a Cavalier. Unfortunately, as we all know, there are very
few available.
Hawaii Kai Dog Park Playdates - Thursdays & Monthly on a Sunday
As mentioned before, Kap Richards is
coordinating Cavalier Playdays at the Hawaii Kai Dog Park. There are some who
get together twice a month on Thursday mornings and others who meet on a monthly
Sunday. The next Sunday get together is July 5 at noon. If you would like to get
on the list for notifications please contact Kap at kapr@hawaii.rr.com. I've
seen some of the pictures and they are having a great time.
Take
a Hike? - Sunday, June 27
If there is enough interest we could plan
a hike with the Cavaliers in the later afternoon. We have done the Maunawili
Ditch trail (22 people 13 dogs), we had a late afternoon walk along the marsh
dike in Kailua or we could all meet downtown and walk the entire sidewalk along
the Ala Wai in the late afternoon. Let me know if you are interested and where
you would like to walk, or even if you have a better idea of a safe place. The
Old Pali Road in Kaneohe was a wonderful walk, but the parking area we used has
now been blocked off. If anyone knows how we could access that road again
legally (they have lots of posted signs in the few places we know about), please
let me know as I think it's one of the best. It is possible to access from the
back of the Koolau Golf Course, but it's a little tricky and can be slippery.
Summer
Picnic & Doggy Playday - Saturday, July 18, 2009
11:00AM to 4:00 PM - Waikiki Playground
It's time to put the date on your
calendar for this year's Summer Picnic. The Parks Department
gave us a date which should not have conflicting events going on at
Kapiolani and the Zoo as we experienced last year, so we are looking forward to
an easier time for parking, etc. I will send out a map and a reminder next
month.
This year, in addition to the usual
potluck, let's have a few fun events.
New
Cavalier Showcase - We always have a few new
members with their Cavaliers at our big events and sometimes an existing member
is lucky enough to add an additional Cavalier to their family. It would be fun
for each new Cavalier to be officially welcomed, so everyone who is a new member
since the Halloween Party/Annual Meeting or any member who has a new Cavalier
will be invited to address the group and introduce their Cavaliers. I know who
the new members are, but if you have added a new furry family member since last
year, please let me know so I can introduce you.
Show
and Tell - Bring your favorite unusual doggy item(s) that your fellow
members might find fun or useful and that they might not have seen.
For example, I have a thing called a "Paw Plunger" that looks
like an oversized coffee mug. My
Cavaliers front legs go right through the top (one at a time of course) and get
rinsed off by water and a soft brush inside after an "out" in the yard
or a trip to the beach, looks silly but works great. Gerald and Joann have the
best water bowl I have ever seen for Cavaliers, no wet ears! Have you tried
three different kinds of brushes and finally found the very best for your
Cavalier? So look around and bring something to show us all. Also bring a note
pad to take notes of things you might like to get for your Cavalier. Send me an
email and let me know what you are bringing so I can be sure we don't have
duplicates.
Flea
Market/SwapMeet - Did you buy a crate that is too big or too small, or
perhaps your Cavalier likes an open wire one, or a folding cloth one instead of
a hard one and you have too many? Did you buy a nice collar or harness, but it's
too big or too little? A Halloween outfit that turned out to be too big or too
small? Maybe you bought a great dog book and when you got home you found you
already had a copy. Bring along and perhaps one of your fellow members might
want to buy it and say "That's just what I need!" We'll have our own
little market and you can sell your unneeded things. Or perhaps you have a craft
idea and you sell doggy things you make. It
should be fun, just for ourselves.
Don't forget to bring your chairs. The Club will supply cold water, drinks and paper products as usual. Gerald will bring tents and tables. So bring your favorite potluck dish and plan to have a great time. I'm not going to worry about making a food list as we have been doing this for several years now and we always seem to have a great mix of food automatically.
Please let me know if you plan to attend,
how many people and how many Cavaliers.
Discussion
of AKC and ACKSC applications
I would like you all to bring your
thoughts on making our Club more formal: incorporating, applying for tax exempt
status and starting the process of AKC and ACKSC memberships. We will discuss at
the summer picnic and at the annual meeting. We have been in existence now for
somewhat over three years, our membership stays constant at about 85 active
members (some leave and new people join), and if we are to do the best we can
for our breed in the islands, we want to encourage appropriate, excellent
breeding so that our local Cavaliers are purchased from breeders with healthy
dogs and who follow ethical guidelines for breeding. As anyone who has tried to
find a Cavalier puppy from somewhere other than a commercial enterprise, it is a
difficult task. We have very few good island breeders. I know one with a waiting
list of seven or eight. Many members have imported dogs from rabies free
countries, and I am actively pursuing the possibility of bringing in dogs a
little older than puppy stage (10 months is as young as a dog can meet the
immediate entry requirements) from the mainland from breeders we met at
nationals. As more Cavaliers appear here, the issues of rescue and rehoming come
up more often and involvement with the national club's Rescue Trust will become
increasingly important. There is a
particularly bad situation ongoing right now and we are powerless to do anything
about it. We have the funds to make these formal applications if we wish and I
am willing to do the paper and leg work.
Halloween Bash at the Beach and Annual Meeting - Saturday, October 10, 2009
Just reminding everyone so that the date
will get on your calendar early.
American
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club National Specialty
Brian and I and Gerald and Joanne all attended the National Club Specialty in Hyannis, Mass in April and believe me, you have never seen anything more beautiful than 391 Cavaliers in one place at one time, the whole rainbow. Everyone of them, of course, groomed perfectly (what a lot of work!)and so well behaved! Lots of fun Cavalier stuff to buy from vendors as well. Puppies in separate groups from six months to veterans 12 years old. There were Rally and Obedience matches as well as a Free Style demonstration in which the Cavaliers do really amazing things: almost dancing. Can you imagine your Cavalier sitting in a long line of about 10 Cavaliers, owners not even in sight (they were out of the ring) and those Cavs stayed put for three minutes in a high level Obedience match!
Gerald is a truly wonderful photographer
as you all know and he kept himself busy all five days taking literally
thousands of pictures which he is diligently reviewing to keep only the best.
We would like to know if there is any interest from members in getting together - providing I can find a spot with electricity - perhaps without the Cavaliers, to see a slide show and have a discussion about what a huge national show is like. We won't do this if there isn't any interest, so let me know by email or phone if you would like to attend. We would probably do it in the evening.