Spring 2016  Saber Tails 37    

Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen Club of America

Vice President’s Report: Bob reported he had prepared the 

Rescue Release and Waiver form.

Recording Secretary’s Report:  Minutes will be approved 

by email. Names of the Conformation judges for the 2017 

Regional and National Specialty will be sent to Beverly for a 

blast email and to Veronica to publish in Saber Tails. 

Corresponding Secretary’s Report: Susannah reported that 

Calendar is completed and ready for mailing. She will take 

some to Eukanuba to sell.  She reminded the BOD to mail 

their Judge nominations to her.

Treasurer’s Report:  

Current assets total $51,845.74. This is a $1,703.851 de-

crease over the September 2015 amount of $53,943.60. 

Overall, there is a net loss of $13,042.39 through October 

2015. This includes a net loss of $20,135.23 in General op-

erations, offset by a net income of $630.31 in Hunt activi-

ties and a net income of $6,462.53 in Show Event activities. 

The General operations cost center includes $2,737.45 in 

Rescue expenditures of which $1,221.91 has been reim-

bursed by the Foundation. The Foundation is waiting for 

the submittal of these expenses by the Rescue Committee. 

The overall net income for Hunt activities is $630.31. Show 

events cost center includes net profit for the 2015 Spe-

cialty of $6,457.18 and a net profit of $139.64 for the Top 

20 Event offset by a net loss for the 2016 & 2017 Specialties 

of $979.86 due to pre-event deposits and Photo Contest 

income.

The Treasurer’s report was accepted as presented.

The Budget will be discussed and voted on in December. 

Saber Tails:  Bob Cohen:  Saber Tails will be going to the 

printer this week. 

Lindley joined the call at 9:32 CT.

MTB, Westminster: Bob reported that the AKC is not of-

fering sufficient reimbursement for the February 2016 

Westminster MTB volunteers. The PBGVCA is being asked 

to supplement the reimbursement for our participants. 

Discussion was held on the benefits versus the cost associ-

ated with MTB at Westminster.

MOTION: 11-15-06 (Williquette, seconded Cannon) Move 

to not participate in Meet the Breeds at the 2016 West-

minster Dog Show. Motion passed.

Old Business: 

Jo brought this discussion back to the BOD.  

From the Mid Year Minutes, 2nd Saturday Session:

“The Board believes the Hip Dysplasia test has served 

its’ purpose and should be taken off of the Club Health 

recommendations and that the POAG test be added. This 

should keep health testing costs lower and more breed-

ers and owners might do health testing. The Board sends 

this back to the Health Committee for their input.”

The Health Committee suggests that the hip evaluation 

be left in the CHIC designation.

In order to make the CHIC designation more relevant 

and less expensive, the BOD of the PBGVCA recommend 

removing the OFA Hip Evaluation. Studies have shown 

that there is only a small incidence of Hip Dysplasia in the 

PBGV and many Vets are expressing the opinion there is 

no need to continue hip evaluations in PBGVs.  

 

  

Concern was raised about what the perception of this 

recommendation would be and that we need to do more 

public education about this issue.  Bob suggested we put 

an article in Saber Tails to explain the reasoning behind 

this discussion 

MOTION: 11-15-06 (Quintenz, second Cooper) Move to 

revise the CHIC Protocol to add POAG and delete the 

OFA Hip evaluation for PBGVs. Motion failed.   Voting for: 
Cooper, Quintenz, and Swaine. Voting against: 

Bustin, 

Cannon, Cohen, Henson, Holoubek, Megli, Willmann, Wil-

liquette.

Bob asked Jo to write an article for Saber Tails and the 

Board will revisit this discussion at a later date.  Vickie will 

ask Dr. Bell to possibly include Hip Dysplasia in his Semi-

nar at the 2016 National. 

 

 

 

Motion: #11-15-07: (Holoubek second Willmann) Move to 

adjourn. Motion passed.

Meeting was adjourned at 11:02 Central.