French Bulldog Jamboree Donors & Sponsors
I have a ton to write about the Jamboree, but first and foremost I need to thank all of our wonderful sponsors and donors. With their help, our silent auction and raffle raised almost $600 for the new ECFBC rescue fund, which is an outstanding acheivment for a first time event.
All of our success was thanks to you – we thank you, the dogs thank you, and our thrilled winners really thank you.
Please take a moment to check out the great companies and individuals who made our day a success, and if you patronize them, make sure to tell them we say a rousing “thank you!”.
Sponsors
Essex Cottage Farms and Urban Wolf
A HUGE thanks for supplying ALL of the first place prizes!
Pets4Life Home Made Raw
Another HUGE thanks for supplying all of the gift bags, as well as the much appreciated CoolLicks!
Donors
If I miss anyone, please please PLEASE email me! There we so many of you, and you were all amazingly generous.
Sheila Trecartin, Animal Communicator
In Dogue, Owen Sound (Monika, you rock!)
Sew Crazy Dog Lady (we love you, Jen – but you’d better be here in person next year!!)
GollyGear and Hope Saidel (kisses for you and for Dax)
Tailblazer, Owen Sound (the most incredible costumes and pet beds and… well, everything!)
Cathy and her world famous (former) pet grooming salon
Jennifer Price and the Fabulously Manly Uni Balled Rumble-icious
Colin and Family
Lisa R and Mary Ellen – for everything and for being there!
Ruth Ann (and her tent!!) and Puppy Dog Tails
Spoil Me Pets, Mount Forest
Pet Valu, Hanover
Terry and Susan Snider and Family – and SOLO!
The Poppy Tree (you made my daughter very, very happy when she won a set of your prints!)
Wag N’ Train, Kitchener
Carla’s Creatures (the best custom portaits ever!)
Paula’s Papillons (Oh. My. God. How awesome are these felted French Bulldogs? Bidding wars ahoy!)
Kay Reil and Citizen K9 (Great gift bag, and our most fearsome bidder!)
Frum’s Glass Menagerie (such gorgeous, gorgeous pieces!)
French Bulldog Jamboree Weekend Photos
Unedited as of yet, but here they are!
Weighty Issues, Yet Again
I am slowly but surely losing my mind in the last few days before the Jamboree. I have already asked friends to please, please smack me in the head with a hammer if I dream up another harebrained idea like “Hey, let’s invite a great big bunch of French Bulldog people to come and spend a weekend in the middle of nowhere”. Immediately afterwards, I of course mentioned how next year I’d like to combine the Jamboree with our Regional Specialty. Hammer, meet head – Head, meet Hammer.
Weight and the Canadian French Bulldog Breed Standard
A few people were rather irate at my recent entry discussing the issue of the Canadian French Bulldog Club’s apparent proposal to change the weight portion of the Canadian standard from a disqualification to a ‘fault’.
For the record, here’s the proposed changes that the Canadian Club has considered submitting:
Size
Preferred weight 9 – 14 kgs., size being in proportion with the weight but soundness not to be sacrificed for size.
For the record, the standard currently states:
Size
A lightweight class under 22 lb. (10 kg); heavyweight class, 22 lb. and not over 28 lb. (10-13 kg).
and under disqualifications is listed:
over 28 lb. (12.7 kg) in weight.
Clearly, this indicates that the Canadian National Club fully intends to change weight from a disqualification to a (weakly worded) fault.
Personally, I object to the insinuation that a larger dog equals a sounder dog. If this rational were true, we’d have to assume that Mastiffs are the most physically sound dog breed alive, with Chihuahuas the least sound and shortest lived. Anyone else see a problem with this theory?
At any rate, whether you’re pro standard change or con, you do have to wonder if, in this time of increased scrutiny on the breed standards of all purebred dogs, and Brachycephalic breeds in particular, the most pressing issue we need to address in our standard is the question of weight.
Rather than worry about weight, how about adopting the statement in the UK standard which specifies that
Dogs showing respiratory distress highly undesirable.
There’s a change to the standard that I could personally fully support.
In other news…
The Eastern Canada French Bulldog Club (with an area of operation including Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes) is now active, and actively seeking members. The new club website, at http://www.frenchbulldogscanada.com, should be up and running by the end of next week, if I haven’t collapsed from exhaustion before then. Either way, please come and check us out! But not today – today there’s nothing much there to see 😉