Hemangiosarcoma Study

Overseas Qualifying Shows Crufts 2015

http://www.crufts.org.uk/overseasqualifyingshows

Catalonia Championship Dog Show 2013 Rankings

http://caninacatalana.com/index.php?pagina=campeones13

KCM 2014

South Specialty CEPPB 2013 - INFO

IX MONOGRAFICA DE ZONA SUR Nambroca (Toledo), 8 y 9 de Marzo de 2014 -Jardines del "Restaurante Asador Las Nieves"- Autorizada por la R.S.C.E. Juez: M. Eric Desschans  (Bélgica)
Inscripciones: 1º Plazo hasta 8 de Febrero 2º plazo de 9 a 21 de Febrero -Precios- Cierre de inscripciones 21 de Febrero de 2014   Inscripciones: Marina Fano Govillar  Francisco Macía, 13 - 5º C   -    48014 Bilbao e-mail: marina@fano.jazztel.es Teléfono: 94 4759195	Programa: Sábado, 8 de Marzo 18,30 h. Test de Selección - Test Simple- Hotel KRIS DOMÉNICO 22 h. Cena de Club en el Rest. Asador Las Nieves Precio 26 Euros (Ver menú) Hay un menú especial infantil Reservar: Pedro Serrano - Tels: 925 233028 y 697 309451e-mail:  D_AQUIVELT@hotmail.com Domingo, 9 de Marzo 9'00 h Entrega de documentación 9'30 h. Comienzo de los  Juicios -RIGUROSA PUNTUALIDAD- 14'00 h. Elección Mejores Sujetos y Entrega Trofeos 14,30 h. Comida de Club
Inscripciones (Word) Tríptico 1(pdf)  Tríptico 2(pdf) Hotel

Kosova Kennel Club

The FCI welcomes one new contract partner:

The FCI General Committee has the pleasure to inform that a new national canine organisation has just signed a partnership contract with our federation: the Federata Kinologjike e Kosovës (Kosova Kennel Club - KKC), whose president is Mr Saud Kajtazi.

The Republic of Kosovo is thus joining the big FCI family now counting 89 members.

Welcome to our new contract partner!

Purina Pro Plan Incredible Dog Challenge 2013

Here it is. This is the performance of Mona Konishi and her Belgian Malinois Laika that earned a perfect score of 100 at the recent Purina Pro Plan Incredible Dog Challenge. Congratulations to this amazing team.

CEPPB Spanish Specialties 2014 - SPAIN - www.ceppb.es

MORFOLOGÍACalendario previsto de pruebas puntuables para el Campeonato del CEPPB 2014
Fecha		Prueba/Lugar	Juez
8 y 9 de Marzo		IX Mon. Zona Sur NAMBROCA - (Toledo)	M. Eric Desschans (Bélgica)
5 y 6 de Abril		XVI Mon. Zona Este SANT ANDREU SALOU - (Gerona)	M. Brice Roise (Francia)
7 y 8 de Junio		XVI Mon. Zona Norte ANIEVAS - (Cantabria)	M. Emanuele Boriero (Italia)
20 y 21 de Septiembre		XXXII Especial de Cria del CEPPBCAC NAVA DEL REY - (Valladolid)	Mme. Pauline Stern-Hanf (Holanda)
Nota: Ante la imposibilidad de acudir de alguno de los jueces previstos, podrá ser sustituido por otro Juez Especialista acordado por la Comisión de Cría. NOTA: Se ha solicitado de la RSCE que el punto obligatorio para el Ch de España de la RSCE que se juzgará los días 24 ó 25 de Mayo de 2014 en la 86º Expo. Internacional organizada por la RSCE sea juzgado por un Juez Especialista. De ser así, la prueba será considerada como Especial Pastor Belga puntuable para el Campeonato del Club 2014.
Nuevo Título a partir de 2011
Hoja de Inscripción en Mon. de Zona y Esp. de Cría
Tarifas Inscripciones en Mon. de Zona y Esp. de Cría

“It’s all in how they’re raised.”

http://paws4udogs.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/its-all-in-how-theyre-raised/?relatedposts_exclude=1600

The Northern BSD Club - 2014 News, shows and events

 

 http://www.nbsdc.co.uk/news.htm

Anatomy Muscles are Crucial

Muscles are crucial in locomotion

I have been reading the discussion regarding angulation and bone frame in relation to locomotion and speed, with great interest. The main emphasis in this discussion seems to be the skeletal portion of the motor apparatus in dogs and other species. From courses in biomechanics and kinesiology, I always understood that the skeleton has a supportive function to enable an animal to move, but that the muscles with attached tendons, ligaments, aponeuroses, etc. are the actual producers of force, thus speed!!

In the muscle, the muscle fibers are functionally organized into motor units. A motor unit is one nerve fiber attached to multiple muscle fibers. Upon an electrical stimulus of the nerve fiber, all the muscle fibers of the motor unit contract simultaneously. The type of nerve fiber is important in electrical stimulus (myelinated vs unmyelinated), but the bottle neck in speed of transfer of electrical stimulus to the muscle fibers would be the synaptic attachment of nerve fiber to the muscle fibers (=motor endplate). It takes time for the neurotransmitter (usually acetylcholine) to release and be reabsorbed into the presynaptic vesicles. Neuronal feedback about the length of the muscle occurs via proprioceptors in the muscle (muscle spindles) and tendons (Golgi tendon organs). The connection is established in the brain stem. This neuronal feed back system also takes some time, but should generally be similarly fast in similarly sized mammals.

The division of muscles, based on gross anatomy in poulty, into 'white' and 'red' muscles has been obsolete for a large number of years. In 1930, Eccles and Sherrington were one of the first to study motor unit contraction properties, but it is Burke and coworkers in the 70s who connected these contraction properties with histochemical profiles of the muscle fibers in cat motor units. With the crude histochemical methods (enzyme-histochemistry), muscle fibers are already divided generally into:
 type I  -  slow contracting, fatigue-resistant, oxidative fibers
 type IIA - fast contracting, fatiguable, oxidative-glycolytic
 type IIB - very fast contracting, easily fatigued, glycolytic

The part, which is considered of primary importance for the contraction of a muscle  fiber is myosin (actually the heavy chain). Myosin filaments slide over actin filaments (remember your biology classes?). The faster the myosin is able to slide, the faster the muscle fiber is able to contract. With the development of immuno-histochemistry staining methods, more and more different types of myosins are recognized in striated muscles. E.g., Motor units of masticatory muscles contain a myosin, which is  previously found only in the heart: cardiac-alpha. This myosin is not found in any  other skeletal muscle in the body but the chewing muscles, and not in all species!

Motor units containing this myosin are fast-contracting, but do not easily get fatigued. Guess that's why we -humans- can BS for hours and hours without getting  tired (sorry, couldn't resist <G>). Moreover, superfast contracting myosin has been found in feline chewing muscles (not in canids) and with the development of more antibodies for staining, more types of myosin have been found (fetal myosin, embryonic myosin).

In the 80s and 90s, studies have elucidated that -dependent on the task of the muscle (maintaining body posture vs locomotion)- a muscle could consist of predominantly one type of muscle fiber, but most skeletal muscles of the body  contain more than one fiber type. E.g. the soleus in mammals (main purpose is to  maintain leg position) has predominantly type I fiber. Gastrocnemius is mixed type IIA and IIB. The muscle fibers in muscles are not static. It has been speculated that in addition to a genetic predisposition toward a specific type, many external and internal factors determine the muscle fiber type. Electrical stimuli (via central nervous system), hormones (gonadal, thyroid), day/night rythms (melatonin production), old age (whatever that is) are a few factors that may induce a change of muscle fiber type.

Estrogen triggers the change of muscle fibers into the slower types. Artificially altered conditions such as stretching the muscle also created a change in muscle fiber type (shift toward the slower fibers).

In other words, in my opinion, more important factors in the production of speed have been overlooked when only discussing the angulations and bone frame of animals. One of the crucial factors is the muscles and the type of muscle fibers. The speed of contraction of the muscles determines the force-velocity curve, therefore the speed of motion of an animal. In addition to muscle fibers and their contractile properties, the organization of a muscle into motor units contribute to the production of force. The larger the motor units, the faster and stronger the muscle. Small motor units are necessary in fine motor control (like hand muscles) for coordination of movement. Large motor units are generally found in leg muscles. Lastly, the anatomy (architecture) of a muscle with tendons and aponeuroses is believed to be important in force production as well. Serial organization of muscle fibers (in parallel muscles) can make the fullest use of the distance between origin and insertion of the muscle. Pennate-fibered muscles have the greatest number of muscle fibers placed parallel between origin and insertion of the muscle. During contraction these muscles shorten less and develop higher forces than parallel-fibered muscles.

This is merely a summary of the complexity of muscles, which may explain the endless discussion regarding the influence of skeletal angulations on locomotion speed......

by Siawn Kwai

Understanding Fronts

by Richard G.Beauchamp________________________________________
This article was published in the February 2008 issue of Dogs in Review.

Just recently a friend of mine and I were sitting at ringside watching a breed we are both very interested in. After watching a bit I remarked (quietly, I though) that the dogs in the breed we were watching were certainly uniform - if not quality, certainly in their faults. There wasn't a dog in the ring that had a decent front - all poker straight, and this was a Sporting breed!

The young lady sitting on my left leaned over and said, "I hope you don't mind me intruding but I've just started in this breed and I've heard other people make the same remark, about fronts that is, and I don't think I understand what they're talking about." I assured her I didn't mind at all and asked her just what it was that she wasn't clear on.

"Well," she went on, "I hear people say a dog is 'straight as a stick' in front and that seems to be a criticism. But other times someone will say the dog has a beautiful straight front. Obviously this is a compliment. And then it seems that a Terrier front can be both good and bad. I want to breed for the right thing, but I am not at all sure what the right thing is."

Her questions really made me stop and think. Quite frankly, she hit upon two universal problems we deal with in the dog game today. It is amazing how few people have bothered with that first important step in breeding, judging or just showing dogs. It's "Purebred Dogs 101 - Basic Canine Anatomy."

Her confusion also cast the light on just how ambiguous common dog terminology can be. What seems perfectly clear to some of us may well be an unfathomable mystery to others, particularly so when everything we talk about has two or three different names and several different meanings.

Perhaps our newer dog fanciers' reading habits have a bit to do with it. My contemporaries and I cut our teeth on McDowell Lyon's The Dog in Action, Burns and Fraser's Genetics of the Dog and Rachel Page Elliott's Dogsteps. I think we are more apt to find copies of "How to Win Westminster" or "how to Become an All-breed Judge: on the bookshelves of a good many of today's novices. Perhaps I'm way off base, but I'm inclined to believe that's starting at the wrong end; few journeys I know of begin at the destination. I guess that wouldn't be here or there except for the fact that there are probably  more litters born in the homes of the new people than there are in homes of people we will politely refer to as "veterans" of the dog game. These new people shape the dog breeds of tomorrow.

But back to our lady at the dog show and her questions of fronts. My friend and I did our best to give her a quick primer on fronts and I told her not to feel alone in her confusion in this area, in that I find fronts to be the least understood and most underestimated portion of a dog's anatomy here in America. I promised the young lady I would put some constructive thoughts down on paper and mail them off to her. I dutifully jotted down her address on the back of my catalog and then promptly proceeded to lose my catalog!

Nevertheless, the whole thing got me thinking. Judging by the manner in which some breeders have neglected fronts in order to achieve some other characteristic makes it obvious they have no idea how important front construction is to correct conformation and proper movement.

I did put some of my ideas regarding fronts to paper in hopes that some kind soul would find my catalog and return it to me. At this point, however, I have lost all hope of ever finding Concerned Young Lady again. All the same, I thought perhaps there might be others who will read this (or someone you know who should) and my time would not be for naught.

 
HOW IT'S MADE
I am neither an engineer nor an anatomist. Most of what I know about anatomy I learned from laymen and in laymen's terms. I consider myself quite fortunate to have received my education in dogs from what was probably the last wave of the great dog men and women of the old school. Things were much simpler then. We had fewer technicians but there were more people who just imply knew dogs. A dog was either a good one or it was not and their judgment had little to do with much else.

But then as now, there were certain basics that had to be understood before one could ever hope to breed or recognize a well-made animal. This knowledge is also important so that we can all have a common point of reference from which to proceed.

Every breed of dog, whether it is a Bulldog, Fox Terrier or Great Dane, has two bones in its forehand assembly the size, shape and angulation of which determine not only how the dog looks but alos how it moves. These two bones are the shoulder blade (scapula) and the upper are (humerus).

THE SCAPULA
Let's take a look at the shoulder blade (scapula) first. Most (but not all) breeds are in need of what we refer to as either "well laid back" or "well angulated" shoulders. The degree to which the shoulders are angulated depends upon the breed's purpose and function, but even at that the variance is not great. A well laid back shoulder that is attached to an upper arm of similar length permits a breed to move with easy, ground-covering reach. It is usually matched by a fairly well angulated rear. This is typically found in our Sporting dogs, among others. I've always thought the Sporting breeds were an ideal place to begin studying dogs in that the other breeds or Groups are simply more than or less than these dogs who work in the field.





At any rate, dogs who aren't required to traverse the woodlands all day long or whose duties revolve around hauling really don't need as much angulation. But only where a breed is required to have short, stilted movement would upright shoulders be desirable. A perfect example of this restricted gait can be seen in the properly moving Chow Cho.

One can only assume that if a breed standard calls for movement as far removed from the norm as the Chow Chow's, it is a critical point and should receive great consideration from the breeder, exhibitor and judge. As important as short, stilted movement is to a breed like the Chow Chow, or the rolling gait is to the Bulldog, so should we demand most other breeds to get about easily and naturally with a minimum of effort and little strain. For the purpose of this article, we will confine ourselves primarily to breeds in which ease of movement is both a natural entitlement and a requirement of the respective breed standard.

So then, how does the layman go about determining the degree of shoulder angulation? If can easily be determined by putting the thumb and index fingers of the right hand at the uppermost points of the shoulder blades and the same fingers of the left hand at the point of shoulder (where the shoulder blade joins the upper arm). The imaginary line that runs down the center of the blade between these two points, and hot it deviates from the vertical determines the degree of angulation. If you extend that line to the ground in front of the dog, it will, in most cases, mark the extent of the forward reach of that dog. We will look at how this forward teach can be restricted as we go along.



Anatomical perfection would have the shoulder blade slope back from the vertical at a 45-degree angle to allow maximum reach. Please note that I say "anatomical perfection" would have this be so. Nature,  however, is not so compliant and if you speak to most judges and experienced breeders they will tell you one seldom if ever encounters true 45-degreed shoulder layback.

But please, because this degree of angulation is so seldom achieved, don't misconstrue the fact to mean should scrap the whole idea. Failing to reach the North Pole on our early explorers' first try didn't eliminate the North Pole! Perhaps all this yapping about how seldom you find the ideal shoulder angulation is responsible for so many exhibitors treating it with utter disregard. Something has set us off in the wrong directions and we have need to get back on track.

The result of being negligent in our demand for ideal shoulder angulation is not confined to movement alone. Upright shoulders make the neck shorted than it should be and the back longer, thus destroying the dog's correct balance. These badly articulated shoulders are often connected to short upper arms which are also poorly angulated, thus moving the entire front end assembly too far forward on the ribcage. This results in a lack of forechest and a nearly straight line from throat to fee. This construction is frequently accompanied by a hollowed out cavity in the chest area between the legs. Construction of this nature indicates lack of endurance due to restricted heart and lung room.

The correct front for most of the long-legged Terriers, much to the surprise of many Terrier breeders themselves, also requires a long, sloping shoulder blade. The straight front line of the "Terrier font" is actually created by a short, nearly upright humerus (upper are) - not by upright shoulders! Some authors believe that the short upper arrm evolved because it was advantageous in "going to ground;" the dog could work on its keel (lower chest) with its legs free to dig. Here this straight line front is a virtue.





A long shoulder blade and a short upper arm is not as easy a combination to achieve as one might think in that the upper arm and shoulder blade, like all bones in the canine skeleton, seem to have a natural inclination to approximate the length of their adjacent neighbor. In other words, if the "the toe bone's connected to the foot bone," like the old song tells us, the bones in the toes will attempt to approximate the length of the bones in the foot proper. Or another example: a man with a long forearm is invariably going to have longs hands, etc.

Thus, what we are more apt to get in dogs (even in Terriers) is the unhappy combination of a short, upright shoulder and a similarly proportioned and placed upper arm. Therefore, in order to breed the well-angulated, ground covering front, one must pay attention to both the length and angulation of the shoulder blade and the upper arm.

2009 Quick Judge's Reference Brochure

http://www.abtc.org/jtwofive/images/stories/judge_ed/aguideforjudges/2009quickrefbrochure/ABTC_JEC_QUICKGUIDE_final.pdf

dog vs dog

Régionale Nord 2014 CFCBB - 19.04.2014

FCI - WORKSHOP SAR

BHCN Day 4 Young & Old 2014

http://www.belgischeherder.nl/

FCI OBEDIENCE - JOOP DE REUS MEMORIAL CUP 2014

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show 2014

The 2014 Judging Program for Westminster KC Dog Show will be available January 20th, so on that day be sure to visithttp://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/!

CFCBB - NATIONALE ELEVAGE CHIEN BERGER BELGE 2013

AKC’S CANINE GOOD CITIZEN®, AKC S.T.A.R. PUPPY®, AKC COMMUNITY CANINE

http://www.akc.org/events/cgc/training_testing.cfm

Canadian Kennel Club - FCI 2014

Rafael de Santiago, Président de la FCI, et Michael Shoreman, Président du CKC, ont le plaisir de communiquer les conclusions de la réunion très productive qui s’est tenue au siège du CKC à Toronto (CA), le 6 janvier 2014; les deux organisations s’accordent à reconnaître les bénéfices communs d’une coopération étendue. Dans le futur, la priorité sera donnée aux actions suivantes :
- faciliter le ...processus de reconnaissance par le CKC des livres d’origine des membres de la FCI
- s’assister mutuellement en ce qui concerne la reconnaissance par le CKC d’un nombre plus important races reconnues par la FCI, et par la FCI de races reconnues par le CKC (et pas par la FCI)
- améliorer le profil des équipes représentant le CKC lors de Championnats de performance (Agility, Obedience, Chiens d’Utilité,...) de la FCI

Rafael de Santiago et Michael Shoreman aimeraient exprimer leur reconnaissance et leur enthousiasme dans la perspective d’un futur positif pour les deux organisations.
Rafael de Santiago (FCI President) and Michael Shoreman (CKC Chairman)

Journée du Laekenois - Laeken - dag

Dog-paddle science debunks notion of underwater trot

A Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever demonstrates her dog paddle at full and then half speed for the sake of gait science. A new study finds that a dog's swimming stroke is more akin to a run than a trot.


 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dog-paddle-science-debunks-notion-underwater-trot

Paris Dog Show 2014 - Statistics

CHIEN DE BERGER BELGE Tervueren  le  dimanche 12 janvier 2014
Classe	Juge	Nb. Ch.	Ring	Heure de jugement

OUVERTE MÂLE

M.   GRIOL MICHEL

4

23

9 H 50

JEUNE MÂLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

3

22

10 H 55

INTERMEDIAIRE FEMELLE

M.   GRIOL MICHEL

2

23

10 H 10

OUVERTE FEMELLE

M.   GRIOL MICHEL

3

23

10 H 20

JEUNE FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

2

22

11 H 10

PUPPY FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

1

22

11 H 20

VETERAN FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

2

22

11 H 25

TOTAL : 17

CHIEN DE BERGER BELGE Malinois  le  dimanche 12 janvier 2014
Classe	Juge	Nb. Ch.	Ring	Heure de jugement

INTERMEDIAIRE MÂLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

3

22

9 H 25

OUVERTE MÂLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

5

22

9 H 40

CHAMPION MÂLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

1

22

10 H 00

JEUNE MÂLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

1

22

10 H 05

INTERMEDIAIRE FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

1

22

10 H 10

OUVERTE FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

7

22

10 H 15

CHAMPION FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

1

22

10 H 40

JEUNE FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

2

22

10 H 45

TOTAL : 21

CHIEN DE BERGER BELGE Laekenois  le  dimanche 12 janvier 2014
Classe	Juge	Nb. Ch.	Ring	Heure de jugement

CHAMPION FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

1

22

9 H 20

CHIEN DE BERGER BELGE Groenendael  le  dimanche 12 janvier 2014
Classe	Juge	Nb. Ch.	Ring	Heure de jugement

INTERMEDIAIRE MÂLE

M.   GRIOL MICHEL

4

23

9 H 00

OUVERTE MÂLE

M.   GRIOL MICHEL

2

23

9 H 20

JEUNE MÂLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

1

22

9 H 00

OUVERTE FEMELLE

M.   GRIOL MICHEL

5

23

9 H 30

JEUNE FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

2

22

9 H 05

PUPPY FEMELLE

MME   MC LAREN AMANDA

1

22

9 H 15

TOTAL : 15

ENQUÊTE SANTÉ BERGERS BELGES

ENQUÊTE SANTÉ BERGERS BELGES

Le Club est très conscient de l’importance de la santé pour nos chiens, c’est d’ailleurs l’un des critères de sélection parallèlement aux performances en conformité au standard et en travail.

Ce sont les Clubs de Race qui sont responsables de la gestion des races dont ils ont la charge.

Lors de mon élection en tant que présidente de notre club, j’ai proposé à notre comité la création d’une Commission Santé, ce qui a été validé.

J'ai voulu mettre en place une Commission Santé de façon à avancer dans ce domaine, et que le CFCBB soit le moteur

par rapport aux autres clubs de race.

Nous avons commencé à travailler sur ce dossier, le Dr Schaffner nous a fait une présentation lors de la réunion éleveurs

de la Régionale de Provins, idem pour le Dr Descamps lors de la réunion d'octobre, j'attends sa validation pour mise sur le site et dans la revue. Je tiens à les remercier tous les deux.

Comme je vous en ai parlé à plusieurs reprises, nous allons continuer à avancer, peut être doucement, mais c'est un travail de longue haleine. Dans un premier temps, c'est à dire maintenant, nous allons mettre sur le site une enquête préparée par Léa Devaux et l'équipe du Pr Grégoire Leroy, avec qui j'ai échangé.

Le Berger Belge est pilote dans l'élaboration de ce questionnaire santé qui sera mis à disposition des autres clubs de race, le CFCBB sera le premier club à lancer ce type d'enquête.

Cette enquête est anonyme, merci de prendre quelques minutes pour y répondre,

et merci aussi de votre investissement pour notre race.

Je suis bien évidemment à votre écoute pour tout avis ou question.

A bientôt 

Marie-France Varlet

Présidente 

Le lien vers l'enquête

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZBHYVb_PXT_UNjAJHQmQ9Q4G8UEHtO5NYA_p3TZhrr8/viewform

   ANNEXES AU QUESTIONNAIRE

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courtesy: CFCBB

Como conseguem?

http://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/como-conseguem-1618577

American Belgian Laekenois Association - ABLA 2014 National Specialty info

http://belgianlaekenoisclub.us/PREMIUM%20ABLA%20Specialty.pdf

http://www.belgianlaekenoisclub.us/

2014 AKC/Eukanuba National Championship Judging Panel Released

http://caninechronicle.com/breaking-news/2014-akceukanuba-national-championship-judging-panel-released/

KUCBH MONDIORING 2014

FMBB 2014 - EXHIBITION

http://fmbb2014.com/en/exhibition/

2014 ABMC National Specialty - USA

http://malinoisclub.com/abmc2014/

WORLD DOG SHOW 2014 TRAILER

MICHAEL SCHUMACHER and his malinois "Shiva"