Welcome to the first issue of the DVHC Rumba, the official and or now irregularly published newsletter of the Delaware Valley Havanese Club. We hope this achieves our purpose: to provide you with information, news, and lots of glorious photos of havanese while bringing us together as a club. We are now a large and dispersed group, so it makes being in touch and informed even more critical.
It is YOUR CLUB, so if you have some item you'd like included or even a SOUND OFF! column, let us know and we'll try to work it out.
My job as president is to be sure our programs and initiatives are moving along nicely. An added benefit is that I am also an AKC Delegate for another club and as such can keep our membership well informed on rulings and changes with in the AKC. Of interest to those of us with small dogs is the new AKC policy on aggressive dogs on the show grounds of any AKC show. "Any dog, that in the opinion of the Event Committee, attacks a person or a dog at an AKC event, resulting in an injury, and is believed by that Event Committee to present a hazard to persons or other dogs, shall be disqualified. When the dog is disqualified by the Event Committee pursuant to this section, a report shall be filed with the Executive Secretary of The American Kennel Club. The disqualified dog may not again compete at any AKC event nor be on the grounds of an AKC event unless and until, following application for reinstatement by the owner to the American Kennel Club, the owner receives official notification in writing from the AKC that the dog's eligibility has been reinstated."
For those club members that are also breeders you may be interested in the AKC’S new breeders listing on the AKC web site. You can go to www.akc.org and you will find the link off the front page of the AKC web site. Also of general interest is the fact that you can now register your litter or you dog online by going to the above AKC listed web site address. The AKC has reported that about 30% of all litter are now being registered online.
Happy Holidays and see you at ringside!
