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Shiloh Shepherd Times,
DECEMBER 2005
Happy Holidays
Everyone! Welcome to the Season full of Joy and Celebration! May your homes be
full of good cheer, great food, wonderful companions and lots of love.
Our pets sense our stress and may react to it in inappropriate ways.
This is a time for lots of patience and gentleness. Ideas for future newsletter articles are greatly appreciated. Contact our newsletter staff today.
Dear ISSDC Members: I can’t tell you how much we appreciate the hard work, dedication, and passion exhibited by our members for the betterment of the Shiloh Shepherd breed. From the bottom of our hearts we thank you all. The year 2006 should be equally exciting for us! We will be calling on you for help over the next 12 months with some big projects we have lined up. We need a logo and some breed specific art work. We want to build an open database that covers everything from pedigree information to pictures to health data. We want to expand our membership and chapters. We want more events on the west coast and central states as well as western and central Canada. We want to have a Stud Book and Bitch Book section of Member's Only website. Hopefully we will have our Versatility and Futurity program formed. We want to do some sort of Judges Education tool on our Breed Standard. We want more focus on events for our “companion” Shiloh’s. And we would like to see the advertising for our club systemized. Phew, that’s a load of projects. So to all of you from the Board of Directors, have a safe and blessed holiday and we’ll see ya next year!! -Wendy Fullerton, President
We are growing rapidly and the past several months have seen the expansion of many regional chapters. Each month we will feature chapter reports to showcase the activities held. Click on the following links to see what is happening. OUR NEW REGIONAL
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Also, you will see the very same relatives that were there just last week will all be coming back to your house soon to eat all of your food again, and then leave. Not to mention you will be dining alone instead of sitting at the table with your humans. You may also get lucky and have some packages to unwrap with toys and goodies for you. So Fuzzy, enjoy the Holidays and the CJ gang wishes you and yours a blessed, safe, and warm season's greetings!! "Since Christmas is for children,
here is my picture as a pup"
Dear ISSDC Members, We also want to invite new members, the ISSDC is open to everyone! Perks of membership include a monthly newsletter, free advertising for breeders, puppy announcements, keeping up to date with club activities such as shows and play dates, training advice and more. So join us in moving forward for the betterment of the breed.
It was a beautiful autumn day. The sky was clear, the air was crisp and the leaves were yellow, brown and orange. The grass at the cemetery was still bright green. The casket was a deep wood tone. The old man in the casket would have appreciated the beautiful box he was lying in. Hundreds of people had come to pay their respects to the old man that was about to be lowered into the ground. Inside the casket with the man were baseballs, trophies, newspaper clippings, photos, dog collars and ribbons from a dog show. But none of these people were looking at the casket. They were all looking at the two large shepherd dogs that were sitting with the man’s family. They were awesome looking dogs, but you could see the sadness in their eyes. They would go from sitting to lying down and their eyes were always on the casket. Every once and a while a family member would pat them on their heads or scratch them behind their ears. But they didn’t look up; they just looked at the casket. People around the gravesite talked about seeing the old man walking his dogs. They knew how much he cared about those dogs and how much the dogs cared about the old man. The people remembered how the old man always talked about his family, children and the dogs. He was very proud of his family and very proud of his dogs. The dogs were young, two years old and four years old. The man’s children were full grown and young adults. But the old man was too young to die. All the people were looking at those two dogs. Some people knew the man when he was a young athlete. Some of the people were here because the old man had helped them one way or another. And some of the people were there because they had become friends with the old man through the dogs. The old man was well respected throughout the area. He held a very important
position within the community. But the last few years the old man lived
for his family and his dogs. At the cemetery there were quite a few children.
People knew the old man helped many of these children with their problems.
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ISSDC POINT QUALIFICATIONS January 2006
Thank you, Jan Burke, for all your hard work assembling the show calendar. Check out the complete2005 Show Calendar at Jan's website.
In conjunction with Our Shiloh Shepherd Directory we now have a new Club Map. Take a peak at where we all live and add a picture of your favorite Shiloh .
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FROM
THE BOARD
Dear Abi. My humans are really acting strange and I knew
you could tell me why. Last night, they dragged an entire tree into the
house! Then they laughed, drank red stuff and put lights all over that
tree. Well, I am here to tell you, when I hiked my leg up to 'mark' that
tree as my own, I got quite a shock... literally. My humans were yelling
and then worried about me... knocked me tail over tin cups. So Abi, exactly
what is going on now? These humans are so hard to figure out. Very
fuzzy Shiloh in CT
