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CKCS of Hawaii Contacts:
President:  Kaye Walsh
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phone: (808) 237 - 8472

Updated: 29 August, 2011

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club of Hawaii

March, 2009 Newsletter

by, Kaye Walsh, President
237-8472 Home or 284-5328 / 284-3109 Cells

Dues Reminder 

Hello members, still waiting for 2009 Dues for many of you other than new members who joined at the October Halloween Bash at the Beach or Christmas Cookie Exchange. Dues for those members are good through 2009. Please mail to the Club address, PO Box 628, Kaaawa, HI 96730 (or bring with you next Saturday to the Hawaii Kai Dog Park - see below)

Let's try the new Hawaii Kai Dog Park next Saturday, April 4, 2009 

With our very unpredictable weather and strong winds, it's just been too difficult in the past to try planning outside events during the first months of the year and this year has been no exception. We will start now hoping for better weather and see if we can get those Cavaliers together for a little fun next Saturday at Noon for whoever can make it. No food allowed in the enclosure, be sure to bring water, your chairs and perhaps some throw toys like Frisbee's and let's see what they can do. Perhaps we could talk about Rally and I can show you a little bit of how it works as I took Ella to a few classes to see if she would like it. She's a little old to start something such as Rally, but she really seems to enjoy it and tries very hard to understand what I want her to do. The basics really are as easy as they say if you have a compliant dog. A map and driving instructions are below. If we have enough interest in having a monthly informal get together at the Park, this might be a good way to see each other between bigger events. We can talk about it then. Some of our members have been to the new park several times and say it's just great.

Thanks to Gerald Luke 

Wanted to mention again how much we appreciate all the terrific photographs Gerald takes for us that are posted on the website by Jim Arcate. The shots of the Hilo AKC Show are wonderful. Please visit the website often as new pictures and other links and information show up regularly. Email Jim with any ideas you might have from the direct link to him on the website. He is always looking for a new Cavalier of the Month so send in those pictures! 

Pet Expo - Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10, 2009 

Pet Expo is coming up again soon and we need 10 volunteers to help man the booth during the event. Each family (two families at a time) would do "booth duty" for a two hour shift with their Cavalier(s) either Saturday or Sunday: 10 to 12; 12 to 2; or 2 to 4. Last year each family doing booth duty got a nice cap with an embroidered Club logo. This year we have purchased really nice Club logo embroidered black canvas carry bags which you can use to "show your colors" when you are out and about. Brigitta and Tony Roberts will be setting up the booth on Saturday morning and will do booth duty from 10 to 12. Gerald Luke will do booth duty from 2 to 4 on Sunday afternoon and take down the booth. Everything stays put on Saturday evening so nothing need be done by those doing the last shift on Saturday. We need one more family to be in the booth with each of them at those times and then 8 others to do the shifts in between. I will be in Hyannis, Mass this year at the American Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club Nationals and won't be back in time to assist in booth duty this year. Everyone who has participated in the past has really enjoyed it and those Cavaliers really like hamming it up on the table with everyone coming by to admire them. Please let me know if you can participate this year and what your preferred time would be. 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
Halloween Bash at the Beach and Annual Meeting, Saturday, October 10, 2009 

We have again been invited by Beth Worrell-Daily and her family to have our Halloween Party and Annual Meeting at their lovely beach house in Laie. We had some rain last year and many of you weren't able to make it, but our luck can't be bad two years in a row, so the party is on! For those of you who need plenty of time in advance to arrange your schedules, you can now work some magic to be free that weekend and get those costumes ready. Last year's Grand Prize Winner was Champion Camilla Barker Bones as "The Mummy"- so let's all be creative and have lots of fun. 

American Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club Nationals

Our parent Club holds a National show each year, and this year Brian and I are attending hoping to learn a lot and meet some of the country's best breeders of Cavaliers. It is being held in Hyannis, Mass from April 26 to 30th. In addition to the standard dog show competitions there are quite a few education seminars which I will attend and come home with my brain chock full. As a Regional Club we are trying to raise the awareness of mainland Cavalier people that we are here doing the best we can for the breed. On behalf of the Club, we shipped a box of individually wrapped chocolate macadamia candies (the kind you get at Costco in tubs), each of which has a label saying "With compliments of the CKCS Club of Hawaii" and lists our website, one bag for each of the Welcome Bags which we be given to all attendees and judges. Seemed to me everyone in the country associates chocolate macadamia nuts with Hawaii so when they eat their goodies, they will think good things about us. We are also contributing in a small way to shirts that will be given to those competitors whose dogs make the first cut since there are many, many dogs, and very few ribbons. Our Club is listed in the program catalog as being contributors. I understand that the National Club has also made up flags for each of the Regional Clubs which will be flying in the convention center and I submitted our logo so they could make one for us. We are working hard to make our Club part of the mainstream Cavalier world.  

One of my main topics of conversation with breeders will be the difficulties we face in obtaining good dogs here in the islands. From other dog club people I have been told that it is possible in bring in a dog as young as ten months without going into quarantine through the immediate entry system; blood tests, rabies shots, etc. It is also possible to bring in a puppy but it is necessary then to go through the entire four month quarantine system. There are people who have done it, but it requires a lot of dedication to go out to the quarantine center every day for care.  If you would be interested in obtaining a dog from one of the excellent kennels on the mainland who breed puppies for excellent health, and many of which are candidates for show, please send me an email and let me know. Gerald and Joanne are also attending Nationals and Gerald will be taking many fabulous photos. I plan to have an event later in the year where we can set up a projector, show pictures and discuss what we learned as well as a Q&A session. 

Experiences and references for veterinarians 

I receive requests from Club members and others for veterinarian references for different areas of the islands, on Oahu and Neighbor Islands as well. If you are pleased with your vet and would like to share the information, please send me your thoughts so that we can prepare a list to provide new Cavalier owners with information to help them find a vet in their area, or if their current vet is retiring we can help to find them a new one who has had experience with our breed.

Summer picnic 

We would like to have another big summer picnic at Waikiki Playground in June or July unless any of you have any ideas of a better place to hold the event. We are ALWAYS open to suggestions about event ideas, so please let us hear from you. If you have any dates in June or July that you already have conflicting events scheduled, please let me know so that we can have as many members attend as possible.