Our next general meeting will be held on August 15 at the home of Steve Campbell at 2 PM.  We hope to see many of you at the meeting.

Please contact the club secretary Jean Underwood at doxwood@aol.com for all information on the meeting and directions.

Click on the link What's New for all the latest news from the members.

Other Interesting Dachshund events both past and future:

Just for fun, it might interest you to see what a Dachshund Specialty looks like in Europe. Click on the link below to be taken to the 2008 French National Dachshund Specialty.

French National Dachshund Specialty Once there, you can see the results and a slide show of some of the dogs that were entered. It might be helpful to note that poil ras means smooth, poil dur means wire, and poil long means long hair. They have three sizes at FCI shows, standard, nain which is our mini, and kaninchen which is the smallest size. A hint while you are watching the slide show: precedent means previous and suivante means next.

For an interesting article on  showing in conformation and how a preferred breed type emerges and is rewarded by some judges, click on the link: http://www.thedogplace.org/Articles/Breeder/0901-Preferred-Type_Gammill.htm

For news from the Fédération Internationale Cynologique click on the link FCI Magazine. You will be able to see what has been happening and, if you click on the Standards and Nomenclature tab (above the area where you click to see the magazine) you will see that, in FCI countries, since they recognize three varieties and three sizes, Dachshunds have their own group!

The FCI World Show for 2011 will be held in Paris, France, from July 7-10. Palrez-vous français?