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Volume31
INo.2
SummerIssue
June2015
OnTheCover
CongratulationstoGCHSoletrader
ZeeOrZed,BestinSpecialtyShow
atthePBGVCA2015National.
ZeewasbredbyGavinandSara
RoberstonandisownedbyJanice
Hayes,DonnaMooreandWendy
andMartinDoherty,shownby
JaniceHayes.Alsopictured:Judge
PatTrotterandPBGVCA
PresidentBettyBarth.
Saber
Tails
NewsfromthePBGVCA/FeatureArticles
President’sMessagebyBettyBarth..........................................................................8
PhotoContest........................................................................................................8
NewMembersandNewsNotes...........................................................................10
PBGVCAOfficers,Directors,Committees,ChairsandLiaisons..........................12
FromourAKCDelegatebyAnneGallant.............................................................14
PBGVCABoardMeetingMinutes........................................................................16
PBGVCATreasurer’sReportbyGloriaSwaine.......................................................25
NationalCritiquebyPatTrotter............................................................................26
NationalSweepsCritiquebyBettyBarth..............................................................28
National:TheObedientPBGVphotosbyBobCohen............................................30
RegionalSpecialtyWinners:APhotoAlbum......................................................32
NationalSpecialtyWinners:APhotoAlbum......................................................34
TheTop20EventRecapbySueSmyth..................................................................36
AroundtheSpecialtyphotosbyBobCohen...........................................................38
LaChasseAmusantebyRobertSweeney................................................................40
TheTriathleteAwardbyVickieWillmann,MeganEsherick,JulietFranzen,
JoanBurke,BruceToenjes,LoraMegli.............................43
2014AwardWinners............................................................................................46
NewTitles:January,February,MarchandApril,2015........................................48
PBGVHealth&RescueFoundation:FromthePresidentbyLindaMurray..........50
MerciBeaucoup...................................................................................................51
UpdateonSeizures,Cancer,NeuteringandNutritionbyLauraLiscum..............52
OFA/DNA/BloodBank/CHICUpdates.................................................................53
WhatisGlaucoma?..............................................................................................58
Congratulations:MilestoneMembers.................................................................59
StoriesfromRescue:LacibyJoanMann...............................................................60
TheHealthyPBGVbyLauraLiscum.....................................................................62
AHealthyPBGVCANationalbyLauraLiscum.....................................................64
DealingwithPOAGbyRebeccaBelflower.............................................................66
SaberTailsAdRatesandDeadlines....................................................................IBC
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Doherty,Martin/Wendy..........................BC
Esherick,Megan/David............................17
Hayes,Janice..................................IFC,3,4,5
Koprovic,Bill/Pat.....................................15
Litman,Ross.............................................13
Moore,Don/Donna.......................IFC,3,4,5
Prott-Clugston,Karen..............................11
Reading,Nick/Pat.......................................7
Willmann,Tim/Vickie...............................9
Zigich,Jan................................................13