Spring 2017  Saber Tails 63    

Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen Club of America

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

By Tiffany Cannon

Saber Tails

Individual Copies for Sale

Additional copies of Saber Tails are available for individual purchase as supplies last.  A certain number of over-

runs are produced by the printer with each issue of Saber Tails.  If you would like to order an additional copy, 

you may do so now.  Purchase price is $10.00 for each copy - includes postage for those mailed to addresses 

in the United States.  Additional postage required for overseas delivery.

Send requests to Tiffany Cannon at alwayspbgv@aol.com.  Send checks made payable to PBGVCA to PBVCA, 

PO Box 26716, Phoenix, AZ  85068.  Be sure to include a note with your payment indicating the check is for 

additional Saber Tails  and confirm to quantity being ordered and the delivery address.

Many of us in the Club have just returned from Charlotte, North Carolina where we 

enjoyed the annual National Specialty and Eastern Regional Specialty.  It was a very 

exciting show and a wonderful event National Show Chairman Bev Childs put to-

gether for us along with her hard working committees.  Having chaired a National 

before, I can certainly appreciate how much work goes into this annual event and 

understand how exciting it is to finally see it happening.  Our next edition of Saber 

Tails will feature reports on all the various activities.  We hope you had a chance to 

join us, but if not, we will give you a good look into what you missed in the next 

edition.  

This edition of Saber Tails is full of many articles on a variety of topics.  I am so happy that we are getting more and 

more contributions from a variety of club members.  We all have so many wonderful experiences with our PBGVs and 

it’s a fantastic thing to share all those special memories with other people who appreciate them.  Special thanks to 

everyone who has contributed.  And keep those articles and photos coming.  If you have a story you’d love to tell, but 

aren’t confident in your writing, grammar, punctuation or story-telling skills, no problem.  There are four of us who 

participate in the Editorial Committee and we are always happy to help you organize your thoughts and adventures 

into a publishable article.  We are always in need of stories for “Tails” From the Clown Hound Files.  Contact me at alway-

spbgv@aol.com if you have some content for an upcoming edition.  We definitely want to hear from you.

This edition also features a member opinion piece.  We value your opinions and want to make everyone feel welcome 

to contribute.  We will insist that this magazine stays positive for all our club membes to enjoy.  To help us stay true to 

that basic idea, we have come up with some publication guidelines  discussed by the Board at the mid-year meeting 

in Reno that will help you understand how the editorial committee and Board of Directors will determine what should 

be published to the membership and how.

Enjoy the articles,  photos and information. And have a wonderful Spring.

P.S. - Safe travels to all who are headed out on spring breaks and remember that it’s getting warm.  Don’t leave your 

dogs in a car when the weather gets warm outside!