Cathi and Ari and Bernd
FYI, Cathi's emergency vet's phone number is 330-452-5116. The other Vet Clinic with the same name is NOT the emergency clinic where Ari is/was... Unfortunately, the Emergency Clinic keeps "emergency" hours, so we can't call 'til after 6:00. I don't know if they let her check out without paying the bill in full or not, but my plan is to call tonight and find out if one can still contribute to it that way. The phone number previously posted got me a private home answering machine, so not sure WHAT that was... Happy Birthday to me, I just ordered Bernd's book! --Elizabeth ==== Elizabeth Malcolmson with Can. OTCH, UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. DD Remembering Tycho & Zoey, treasured beyond measure Rockport, MA, USA
Draft Test -- BMDCNV--October 18
If you would like a Premium List for the annual BMDCNV Fall Draft Test to be held in Westwood, Massachusetts (which is not the same as Westford -- a new site!), please let me know and I can e-mail or snail-mail you one. We are excited to have as our judging panel Barbara Gibson from New Jersey and Valerie Horney from Colorado!! For more information, check out the club website at www.bmdcnv.org. --Elizabeth Malcolmson, Test Chair = Elizabeth Malcolmson with Can. OTCH, UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. DD Rockport, MA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pancreatitis?
A friend of Marilyn Steele has a Saint Bernard diagnosed with pancreatitis -- the dog is down to 100 lbs. which you can imagine is pretty slim for a Saint... Their vet has them feeding the dog 6 cups of Science Diet's W-D a day and NOTHING ELSE. The dog is hungry all the time. So they're looking for a little guidance -- even, what could they give the dog for treats? If anyone has some experience with this, your ideas would be most appreciated at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! --Elizabeth ==== Elizabeth Malcolmson with Can. OTCH, UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. DD Remembering Tycho & Zoey, treasured beyond measure Rockport, MA, USA
1, 2, 3... Triple-UD!!
This past weekend we drove up to Fredericton, New Brunswick for 4 beautiful, pristine, wonderful obedience trials... The club has run-throughs on Friday night so you can go into the weekend feeling as prepared as possible... So many enthusiastic thanks to River Valley Obedience Club for these trials... You can read about them at: http://www.brunnet.net/rvoftc/aboutrvo.htm Ptolli had been working well, so, for once, I felt pretty well prepared for trying for the Canadian Utility Dog title -- for which, by the way, you get their OTCH title -- two-for-one!! On Saturday we had a couple of small bobbles but held it together and qualified both times. On Sunday, the first time we tried Utility, Ptolli had a small crisis of confidence on the down-signal... But the next time, piece by piece, we worked through that class and... WE DID IT!! Ptolli finished an entire Utility title in ONE weekend!! AND... It was her THIRD one -- she has now earned her Utility Dog title in the AKC, UKC and CKC... But she's not the first! I found this website recently which lists lots of "Berner firsts": http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Park/8746/bmdfirsts.html But she might be the second... And if she's not, I'd be delighted to hear about it! It was also great to re-meet up with Berner people, Terry Wilkins and Wendy Bennett, as well as many people who thought that Ptolli was just wonderful... 'course she is! But she appreciates a little adoration as much as the next Berner!! i.e. a LOT! :-) FYI, the "Berners in Obedience" website is now being maintained at: http://www.malcolmson.org/bmd/bmdobed/intro.html The records are a bit out of date, but one thing at a time... I'm fleshing things out, bit by bit... Look for some good stories here and there, and NOT just about my dogs! --Elizabeth Elizabeth Malcolmson with Can. OTCH, UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. DD Remembering Tycho & Zoey, treasured beyond measure Rockport, MA, USA
Berner cookie cutter
http://www.kitchengifts.com/dogs.html I ordered and received a copper BMD cookie cutter from this place... Ignore the fact that the picture for the BMD is actually a borzoi or some other dog -- the actual item IS a Berner. --Elizabeth Elizabeth Malcolmson with UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. CDX & DD Remembering Tycho & Zoey, treasured beyond measure Rockport, MA, USA
re: baby or puppy
Laura -- I especially appreciated your comments, sitting here nine months pregnant, due on Thursday... wondering, was that twinge something? Probably not... We lost our older dog on September 20 and are left with the younger one... We are a two-dog house. This one-dog thing is awful, especially with this particular dog... And so, even though the baby is due any time now... we're probably getting a puppy at the end of February... but it will be our 4th Berner... I'm not TOO panicked about it... But I *do* feel a LITTLE crazy!! :-) --Elizabeth ==== Elizabeth Malcolmson with UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. CDX & DD Remembering Tycho & Zoey, treasured beyond measure Rockport, MA, USA
A new UD
I read over on the OBED-COMP list that Marjie Cherry finished Dunbar's UD!! Well, that was either a big "oh, by the way" or I missed it... But in case any one else did... Hey, Dunbar the herding wonder dog finished his Utility Dog title last weekend!! He now has his UD, OA, OAJ, TD -- a VERY versatile dog! Congratulations, Marjie! --Elizabeth ===== Elizabeth Malcolmson with UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. CDX & DD Remembering Tycho & Zoey, treasured beyond measure Rockport, MA, USA
Berner-L Histio Rollcall
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anesthetic procedure
This thread about pre-anesthetic has been very interesting, but I wonder if I've missed anything to deal with the coming-out-of-it process -- when Ptolli had her OFA x-rays done, she had what the vet termed a "storm" coming out of it and they had to restrain her for ten minutes while she came out of it!! Scared the dickens out of me to hear about it hours later! --Elizabeth ==== Elizabeth Malcolmson with UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. CDX & DD Remembering Tycho & Zoey, treasured beyond measure Rockport, MA, USA
Brag! UUD Ptolli!
Our little girl has done it again -- and in beautifully fine style yesterday! Not only did we get to come home a day early (I'm serving up breakfast instead of just arriving at the show site!), but she won Utility B with a 191 (11 points higher than last week!) -- and received a lovely (and very appropriate -- it was raining hard!) Pedigree bath towel for a prize! She is now: UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. CDX & DD I get dizzy just looking at all that -- she is three years, eight months old!! --Elizabeth ======== Elizabeth Malcolmson with UUD Ledgewood's Ptolemy, UDX, DD, Can. CDX & DD Remembering Tycho & Zoey, treasured beyond measure Rockport, MA, USA
