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UPCOMING EVENTS October 29 -WC/WCX

Volume 43 Issue 6 Summer 2016

SPECIALTY JULY 2016

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May 15, 2016 Denton Kennel Club 12-18 month class Winners Dog & Best of Opposite Sex Emery Rave Just Add Water (Pettengill) FAITH CITY KC Saturday 4/30/16 RWD RAZZLE-SKYWATCHER'S SEE'N IS BELIEVE'N ( Meddaugh ) FAITH CITY KC SUNDAY 5/1/16 RWD RAZZLE-SKYWATCHER'S SEE'N IS BELIEVE'N ( Meddaugh ) Summer Classic Dog Shows, Oklahoma City, June 29-July 3 6-9 Puppy Dog -- 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 1st, 2nd placements RAZZLE-SKYWATCHER’S SEE’N IS BELIEVE’N ( MEDDAUGH ) 6-9 Puppy Bitch -- 3rd, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 2nd placements July 2nd was also Best Puppy ( Goldens ) July 2nd Puppy Sporting Group, 1st Place SKYWATCHER’S BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL U ( FELIX ) Austin Kennel Club, April 16, 2016 6-9 Puppy Bitch 1st Place Wingtip Happy As Two Can Be (Jury - Wingtip) DFWMGRC JULY SPECIALTY – July 7, 2016 6-9 Puppy Dog Sweeps Class - 1st Place Regular Class – 2nd Place Razzle-Skywatcher’s See’N Is Believe’N ( Meddaugh ) 6-9 Puppy Bitch Sweeps Class – 1st Place Regular Class – 1st Place Skywatcher’s Believe Me When I Tell U ( Felix )

OBEDIENCE and RALLY Abeline Friday May 20 Grad Novice- 1st UCD, UR02 Belvedere Third Time's a Charm DN BN CD RA ( Ingram) Grad Open-2nd UJJCH,UCH, SHR ,UCDX,UR01, Manor's Anapolis PCDX,CDX,BN, GN, GO ,RE,JH, DS, WC, CCA,ASCA CD (Ingram) Bluebonnet Cluster April 2016 BN- TITLE!! Denali's Touchdown Hound (Long). WAGD May 2016 Level 1 World Cynosport -TITLE! Both One Ash Just N Boots (Long) One Ash Rompin' Donkey at Denali (Long) TVSSC Obedience Trial, 6-25-16 1st leg Beginner Novice B and 1st leg Novice B Ch. Tempo-Razzle-Wyndehill Solo Home Run RN, CGC (Brown, Meddaugh) TVSSC Obedience Trial, 6-26-16 2nd leg Beginner Novice B and 2nd leg Novice B with 3rd Place Ch. Tempoo-Razzle-Wyndehill Solo Home Run RN, CGC (Brown, Meddaugh) Utility B – 3rd Place Open B – Qualified 2nd UDX Leg UCD Rio Spirits Lonestar Firewater MH UD RE GO GN BN AX AXJ XF WCX VCX DE CGC CCA (“Z”) (Farmer/Todd) CONFORMATION

May 14, 2016 Denton Kennel Club 12-18 month class Winners Dog & Best of Opposite Sex Emery Rave Just Add Water (Pettengill)

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LONE STAR STATE CLASSIC – July 8-10, 2016 6-9 Puppy Dog Friday – 1st Place, Saturday-1st Place, Sunday-2nd Place Razzle- Skywatcher’s See’N Is Believe’N ( Meddaugh ) 6-9 Puppy Bitch Friday-1st Place, Saturday-1st Place, Sunday-1st Place Skywatcher’s Believe Me When I Tell U ( Felix )

DOCK DIVING

June 26, Dallas Air Dogs Dock Diving Senior Advanced -TITLE!! Cadet, Manor's Anapolis (Ingram) Junior TITLE!! Charm, BelvedereThird Times a Charm(Ingram) K9 Water World, NADD Trials, May 23, 2016 Dock Novice CH Birnam Wood’s Barb E. Dahl CGCA (Jury - Wingtip) K9 Water World, NADD Trials, June 15, 2016 Dock Junior CH Birnam Wood’s Barb E. Dahl CGCA (Jury - Wingtip) Dallas Air Dogs, NADD Trials, July 9, 2016 Dock Senior Wingtip Happy As Two Can Be (Jury - Wingtip)

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Pet Oxygen Masks Help Firefighters Save Lives. Animal O2 Masks have proven to be an effective method of saving the lives of animals overcome from smoke inhalation & toxic fumes. I want to acknowledge the very generous contribution from the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club! Their contribution will allow us to supply 6 additional Life Saving Animal Oxygen Mask Kits to local North Texas Fire Departments so they will have masks kits available for our pets when needed. DFWMGRC members are active in conformation showing, obedience, hunt tests, agility, tracking, and therapy work.

I want to thank everyone who has contributed!

Thank you all for helping us supply these first 27 Animal Oxygen Mask kits to 9 area Fire Departments.

Mark Kmieciak

Greater Houston Golden Retriever Club. Seminar on August 20, 2016

Seminar: Pythiosis Awareness

Date: August 20, 2016

Place: Trini Mendenhall Sosa Community Center

1414 Wirt Road

Houston, Texas 77056

Time: 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM

Speaker: Mr. Robert L. Glass

The Greater Houston Golden Retriever Club is hosting a seminar on August 20, 2016 on the awareness of Pythiosis. Pythiosis results from the infection with the fungal-like organism “Pythium insidiosum” and it occurs in Equines, Canines, Felines, Bovines, Humans and other species. To read more on this bacteria go to the websites “pythiosis.com” or “Pavlab.com”.

Our speaker, Mr. Glass is the President and owner of Pan American Veterinary Laboratories, Hutto, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science, Medical Technology and his credentials are American Society of Clinical Pathologists Certificate and American Association of Laboratory Animal Science, Texas Branch; several academic affiliations with various veterinary schools in Brasil and Argentina. Has published several publications, have a patent on the “Method for Treatment of airway diseases” and now has a Patent Application for “Pythium Immunotherapy”.

A light lunch will be served. There will be a limited number of seating, and if you wish to attend, please RSVP me no later than August 12, 2016.

Elaine Donnell Email: ecdtennis@yahoo.com

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PYTHIOSIS/Swamp Cancer Pythiosis is more commonly seen in warm, wet areas with lush vegetation, such as the Gulf Coast region of the US. While horses are more commonly the victims of Pythium infections, dog pythiosis is now being diagnosed on a regular basis.

History: Exposure to standing water (ponds, gullies, puddles); Pythium lives and grows on plants near water and reproduces via a “swimming spore” (zoospore) that travels through water to a new plant. This is the infectious stage of Pythium that can also infect an animal through a break in the skin or by being ingested.

Cutaneous Skin infections start as lesions that look like small puncture wounds. These turn into large ulcerative abscesses that grow quickly and don’t respond to conventional anti-fungal drugs and medications.

Gastrointestinal (GI) disease shows up weeks to months after exposure when the dog may show the following symptoms: 1) Diarrhea, starting as an intermittent soft stool with or without blood progressing to a consistent watery stool, often with blood. 2) Vomiting after eating starts when the patient’s intestinal tract becomes swollen and thickened to the point that food cannot pass through the infected area. At this point the patient is in real danger and weight loss begins because the animal is getting very little nutrition from its food. 3) Blood appears in the feces as the lesion grows and spreads to lymph nodes, etc. damaging the surrounding tissues and blood vessels. The damaged blood vessels may release blood into the intestinal tract. Blood in the feces is partially digested giving the stool a black, tarry appearance. In some cases the blood loss and diarrhea becomes so severe that fresh “red” blood appears in the feces. 4) Weight loss occurs as the patient’s ability to digest food decreases. In advanced cases patients may lose 50% of their body weight. 5) Loss of energy and activity is seen in advanced cases due to nutrition loss and perhaps due to pain as damage to the intestine continues.

Usually diagnosis is made via Barium X-Ray or ultrasound, which shows a mass in the intestinal tract, often near the junction between the stomach and the small intestine (duodenum). Often this mass is presumed to be some type of cancer. It is extremely important to do a blood test to diagnose or rule out pythiosis. The cost is $45 and if the patient has pythiosis instead of cancer there is a treatment that has shown significant success at a cost most owners can afford; $150 for a vial of 3 injections (Jan 2016). Send blood sample to Robert Glass/PAVLAB.

While several treatments may be used to combat Pythium infection, none of the conventional treatments have shown more 20-25% success. Even when the lesions are in a location that allows surgical removal of the mass, success is limited. A recent development in this arena is an Immunotherapy product. This product is a mixture of (non-infectious) proteins purified from the Pythium organism which is injected into the patient. This treatment seeks to stimulate the patient’s own immune system to fight the infection and has demonstrated a success rate as high as 53% when used in conjunction with conventional treatments. This treatment was initially developed to treat pythiosis in horses and has shown above 90% success in that species. Research and clinical trials are ongoing on a “Canine” version of this product, which has shown very encouraging results (+/- 75% success) in initial small-scale studies. Robert L. Glass, President Pan American Vet Labs 166 Brushy Creek Trail Hutto, Texas 78634 www.pavlab.com 800 856 9655 Leonel Mendoza, MSU, PhD Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program/Department of Microbiology Michigan State University 354 Farm Lane, Room N324 East Lansing MI 48824-5672 **2010 National Mycology Award Dr. Richard D. Hansen, President Pythium Technologies, Inc. Newcastle, Oklahoma For more information & photos of Cutaneous Pythiosis. www.pavlab.com https://www.facebook.com/groupls/pythiosis/ www.pythiosis.com