CCCI INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS…a website sneek peek!!
Hello my friends…it’s been a while since I have updated you all on the progress of the CCCIIRC. Recently Love Banghart (Rebelrun Chows USA) who is the Committee chair for the CCIIRC, was invited to do a talk at the CHOW CHOW CLUB 115th ANNIVERSARY SPECIALTY SHOW IN THE UK coming in July 2010. We are so very excited,,as this is the perfect opportunity to spread the news about the potential and future of the archive and library which the committee has been tirelessly working on this summer.. Details about the show are below including the other incredible speakers attending the show!!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. IT WILL BE A SHOW AND WEEKEND TO REMEMBER!! STEVE AND I ARE ALSO HOPING TO ATTEND!!
The Chow Chow Club presents 115th anniversary …
WEEKEND SPECTACULAR !!
JULY 9,10,11 , 2010
at Harper Adams College
Newport Shropshire, UK
Events to include :
Educational seminar, Stakes dog show, Championship show, Social event with meal & dancing
plus many attractions yet to be announced
weekend – overnight accomodation
SATURDAY
MORNING ITINERARY
Seminars
9.30 – 10.00am coffee on arrival
10.00am – 10.20am Mrs M Odenkirchen (Mi-pao)
“Chow Collectables”
10.20am – 11.00am Mr P. Odenkirchen (Mi-Pao)
“Breeding Soundness & Type”
11.00am – 11.30am Mrs Love Banghart – CCCI International Relations Committee
11.30am – 12.10pm Mr Robin Searle
“Line Breeding”
An informal question and answer session will follow finishing no later than 1pm
Ticket Price : £12.00 which will include Lunch
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AFTERNOON ITINERARY
Let the Fun Begin!
4 Class Stakes Show
Entry form to follow – a percentage of fees will be spread across class prizes.
Judge : Mrs S. Stafford
Light Refreshments served in the Hall
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EVENING ITINERARY
GRAND DINNER DANCE
Wine and Canapes on arrival in the Main Bar
Invitational Parade of Champions (Vote for your favourite Champion)
Live Entertainment
2 Course Evening Meal followed by Coffee and Mints
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SO BACK TO THE NEW WEBSITE…….. We are opening up the home page (aka FRONT DESK) to give you all a sneek peek at the progress we have been making. Most of the links are locked still, but we wanted to give you an idea how incredible this site will be for resourcing educational materials as well as providing a central archive for valuable historic documents and imagery of our ancient breed.
You will notice as you view the homepage, the reference to CLUB AFFILIATES. This will be explained more fully later on, but in short….every club/country will have a representative at the CCCIIRC site who will be adding materials to the site from their club/country.
Thank you all so much for your letters and comments following my last post about the newly formed CCCIIRC committee. We are very pleased to be moving forward at such a steady pace and will be updating you all again very soon .
CLICK THE LOGO TO SEE THE SITE
And to all Chow Clubs Internationally, Worldchow would love to know of any major events and articles you would love to share. I’m always looking for materials to publish at the magazine so please feel free to submit articles for consideraton (with permissions if authored by someone else) All topics are good as long as they pertain in some way to our breed.
Do you think maybe they could discuss spending some money on genetic research for all the diseases the breed is plagued with, instead of blowing money on useless dribble?
Thanks for your always candid input Sam. As for spending money, this database is staffed by volunteers. If you are volunteering to help with health research I’m certain the CCCI, OFA, CHF and other health registries would be very happy for the extra worker bee
So far it looks very user friendly and pro-active with well-rounded information promising to be available in all aspects of the chow chow. Thanks to everyone for their unselfish hard work – looking forward to the progress!
Thank you for keeping us up to speed.
Ciao!
Bernice
Thank you so much Bernice for taking a look at the site and for your comments. We are getting excited to start “populating” the site with data. I am trying really hard to make this user friendly as you mentioned which will involve some testing and tweeking as the site becomes public. You know how it is when you develop a website………you look at it every day and it’s easy to miss the obvious sometimes…lol!
We will be relying on comments from visitors to help fine tune the navigation etc.
“And to all Chow Clubs Internationally, Worldchow would love to know of any major events and articles you would love to share.” – I’m sure some private input is ok too …
The event in UK feels very much like a must. “Breeding soundness & type” in particular … and meeting chow fanciers worldwide. – As I’m ageing and never really learned to dance this might be the chance.
Sam has a point of great interest in my opinion. I’ll enclose a link to a genetic research programme from Finland:
http://www.koirangeenit.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=86
The most information is in Finnish – left side up/down info can probably easily be translated.
I attended The Finnish Chow Chow Specialty just recently and blood samples were collected. Super!
I’m glad to see some effort is being made in the purebred dog breeding world. It’s pretty sad that the Chow, one of the oldest breeds in the world, if not the oldest, has no genetic studies being done to save the breed from it’s certain demise. Cockapoos, labradoodles, and several other crossbred dogs have genetic tests available to breed healthy dogs, yet we have none for the Chow, sad!
Thanks Tuula for the helpful info!!! Sam we have a lot of studies being done in the US which include our breed. Most health issues in canines are not “breed specific” and cross the lines from one breed to another at some point so clubs invest in studies with the Canine Health Foundation and varuiys University studies . One of many examples of Chow specific studies I know of, is there is a stomach cancer study at the U of M being conducted where they are collecting genetic and pedigree information on Chows only.
I would love if you could post the links for the mix breed genetic studies Sam. I had no idea anyone was creating genetic markers for crossbreeds. That would be very interesting to see what they are doing.
http://www.vetgen.com/AllBreedsList.aspx
http://www.vetdnacenter.com/canine-disease-test.html
http://www.caninegeneticdiseases.net/DNAtests/TESTSnow.htm
http://www.healthgene.com/canine/breeds_list.asp
http://www.offa.org/dnatesting/
http://www.optigen.com/opt9_test.html
Those are just a few, as you can see, some breed clubs cared enough about their breed to make the tests available, not the CCCI though. Just keep spending money on stomach cancer research, that is the least of this breeds problems.
It’s pretty easy to come up with these tests, as most of the diseases related to the Chow are recessive in nature. I watched the lab come up with a test for the black angus, they figured out several diseases in the matter of a couple of months, they are pretty good at it these days. All it takes is for the breed club to find a university or a dna lab to start the process of finding the mutations, the tests are simple after that. The CCCI is more concerned about having parties and such though, so I guess it will never be done.
Thank you Sam for posting these links to US purebred health screening sites. I was wondering if you also had the links to these tests you mentioned in your previous post.
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Cockapoos, labradoodles, and several other crossbred dogs have genetic tests available”
If you are not a member of CCCI please join and become active in this important cause. I agree all breed clubs will need to step up their involvement in health issue research…… but the only way the clubs can make progress is by enlisting breeder, veterinarian, and judge involvement and participation. The entire community needs to network and actively test their dogs for this to work .
If you look through all those sites you will see the tests for the crossbred dogs.
When the club decides they want to get serious and one of the “big name” breeders wants to sponsor me, I’ll join the club and get involved. Right now I am having alot of fun with my cattle, it’s refreshing to be involved with people that care about their breed.
I’m so struck by the wonderful looking chows shown in the vintage illustrations above. How different and quaint those dogs appear in contrast to the immensely overdone shuffling, snuffling grotesques created by the fancy. Bone! Head! Coat! Type!
Feh!
Chow VIII, I couldnt have said it better myself!!!! I love the word “quaint” to describe the simplicity of the true chow type. Nothing out of sync….all a picutre of symmetry. Thank you so much for your comment.
Sam what kind of cattle do you breed. My relatives are cattle breeders as well