2019—Getting a Fresh Clean Start by Laurel Drew

Scents & Nonscents February, 2019

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Teaching People and their

Dogs for over 50 years.

Meeting Schedules

Back Cover

Next Meeting Feb 22

Getting a Fresh Start 1

Tracking Test 2-3-19 2

January Minutes 3

Joke of the Month 4

Jan Minutes Cont 5

Brags, Brags & More 6-7

Prez Sez 8

Officers, BOD & Oth-

ers

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Inside this issue:

Getting a clean start in 2019 just might

mean cleaning that dog and house! If

your friends have stopped coming to

visit or get a peculiar expression on en-

tering your home, it might be more

than having an overly friendly dog

jump on them. It just might be time to

freshen up both the dog and the house.

Where to start is easy. Clean the dog

first with a good bath and don’t ignore

the ears and nether parts. Check for

any unwanted passengers too. With

our winters tending to stay warmer

overall, your dog might just pick up

fleas, ticks, etc. even in winter. But

remember, if you use flea treatment on

them, give it a few days before bathing

the dog. You don’t want to cancel the

treatment. Be sure to either keep them

inside, use a blow dryer, or wait for a

warm afternoon to do that bath, or go

big and take him/her to the groomer.

When you bathe the dog, be sure to use

a good dog friendly shampoo, not just

any bath soap or shampoo, and use lots

of fluffy towels to dry that hound so it

won’t get a chill in winter. Pay special

attention to the ears and see if your

hound needs the anal glands squeezed

too. If they are scooting their butts,

they really need to have those ex-

pressed, even if you need to see the vet

to do it. Impacted anal glands can turn

into a real problem. And don’t forget

the teeth! Check their teeth regularly

and if they are becoming scummy, it’s

off to the vet for a good cleaning. Most

vets will clean teeth, and we have at

least two good doggy dentists in the

area too. Call me if you ever need a

referral. Using dental chews can keep

the dentist put off for a while, but don’t

ignore the procedure. It’s a lot better

than losing teeth which is highly possi-

ble with the popular smaller dogs and

those with short faces. It is also help

prevent foul breath.

If he or she has farts that would drive a

skunk out of the place, check your pet’s

food. That is the most likely source.

Talk to your vet about food brands and

how various proteins affect their diges-

tive systems. Read the labels on the

various pet foods. You might have to

do a bit of experimenting, but getting a

dog food that really works well for

your pet is a boon in every way.

Now, about that house! Start by taking

all the dog beds out and washing them

or at least their covers. Let the insides

air out, and spray with a dog safe deo-

dorizing spray. While those are out-

doors airing, give your house a good

cleaning.

When you start the cleaning, I suggest

starting high and sending the dust

downwards if there’s much of it. Then

vacuum the floor thoroughly. This

means using a heavy duty vacuum,

making sure you empty the bag often,

and sprinkle baking soda on the floors,

especially carpets, before vacuuming.

Use a four way pattern if you have

time. In other words, vacuum east to

west, west to east, north to south, and south to north. This stirs the carpet fibers around more and

does a much more thorough job. After you’ve done this, then get out the big shampoo machine or, if

your machine has them, the appropriate attachments and shampoo the rugs. Be sure to move all the

furniture and get those crevices too. BIG job, and if you’re like me it may take two days, but it’s

really worth it.

After you’ve done that shampoo, again going all four directions, take on last run with clean hot wa-

ter and vinegar (3parts water to 1part vinegar) to give it a new fresh look and scent. Then have a

neighbor stop by and give it the sniff test. Don’t trust your own nose. When you bring those clean

beds in and put their freshly washed covers on them, be sure to add a sleeping cover over all that,

one that can also be popped into the clothes washer.

We all get to be nose blind to our dogs and houses. I’m always reminded of that ad on t.v. of the

person gets into their car and turns into an Old English Sheepdog. I’m sure that’s how people are

affected by my car. Which reminds me that you may want to get yours thoroughly cleaned, even

detailed, when you can.

Lastly, remember to keep dog safe house spray handy for those unexpected, non-doggy visitors.

There’s nothing like keeping people guessing as to whether or not you have dogs. Another trick is to

have mildly scented pet safe candles burning, but remember to keep them at a level where an errant

tail won’t dump one over and burn down your home.

The last caveat is to be sure to use pet-safe products for all of this cleaning. Poisoning your dog in

the process of cleaning everything really defeats the purpose.

SDOC hosted its 44th Tracking Dog Excellent Test on Sunday, February 3, 2019. Judges Charlene

Dunn and Jeff Shaver provided challenging tracks that allowed the six dog/handler teams to show

their talents through the grass meadows and sandy arroyos in the Big Foot Tracking Area, southwest

of Placitas. There were five local teams and one out of state team entered, and the day provided a

varied mix of sun, clouds, wind and a few raindrops. Two dog/handler teams successfully worked

the 800 + yard track, finding two intermediate articles and the glove at the end of the track. Congrat-

ulations go out to Tom Redmon and Copper Rose Coopers Gone Country TDX and Rich Cummings

and M’Soaring De Tchurka La Noire TDX SCN SIN. The four other teams worked hard on the chal-

lenging tracks, but either missed an intermediate article or went off track.

I would like to thank the members who assisted with the trial: Lynn Wilson, test secretary; tracklay-

ers Leslie Swisher; Bob Owen; Lisa Frankland; cross tracker layer extraordinaire Bob Kipp and

Kristen Madden; judges transportation Carol Clay, Kristen Madden, and Suzanne Levy; test worker

transportation Ginger Golden, and stakers Leslie Swisher, Dave Madden and LeAnn Miller.

Thank you also to SDOC and the membership for continued sponsorship of tracking events!

Gloria Napper-Owen, Trial Chair

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January 2019 General Meeting Minutes

by Stephanie Boutz, Recording Secretary

In Attendance:

Officers and Board Members: Betty Pearson, President; Estelle Metz, Corresponding Secretary;

Stephanie Boutz, Recording Secretary; Sue Babcock, Treasurer; Peggy Chandler, Board Member, Christy

Stern, Board Member, Cathy Dunbar, Board Member

Directors: Annie Newsted, Tracking; Barbara Mitchell, Obedience/Other

Absent: Jeff Robb, Vice President; Stephanie Kourestsos, Board Member

The meeting was called to order by Estelle Metz, Corresponding Secretary, at 7:03 P.M. on Janu-

ary 25, 2019 in the training room of the SDOC facility, 7050 San Pedro NE in Albuquerque

The minutes of the November and December 2018 Membership Meetings were approved as pub-

lished. Peggy Chandler moved, Sue Babcock seconded. Motion carried.

Officers and Board Reports:

President:

Congratulations to everyone who titled at the Agility Trials!

Betty and Sue went over some of the new procedures and ideas for securing the building due to the break-

in:

Do not leave anyone in the building alone at night. There has to be at least two people leaving together,

and we need to make sure that cars are moving before we leave. Peggy made signs to post with these in-

structions.

We are going to install an extra strip of metal on outside doors to make it harder to pry them open with a

crowbar. We’ll install a safe in the office, and post a sign in the window that says there is no cash in the

building overnight.

We are looking into adding extra cameras so every side of building will be covered, and monitors in the

lobby so that people leaving can see if there is anyone outside. We may Install an alarm system that could

be programmed to go on and off at certain hours and could have a panic button. We need additional light-

ing outside.

Betty is open to any further ideas; please let her know if you think of something more.

Treasurer: The 2018 Profit and Loss Statement was reviewed. The insurance company is cover ing

the cost of damage to the building and the stop payments on the checks that were stolen.

Corresponding Secretary:

AKC has closed out the VST Event held 11/25/2018

AKC & the U.S. House and Senate released the final version of the Federal Farm Bill dealing with the

import of unknown numbers of potentially contagious, unhealthy dogs into the United States. Coordinated

efforts for control have been strengthened along with additional measures.

AKC Supports federal protections for victims of domestic violence if a pet becomes a victim.

AKC acknowledges receipt of SDOC’s application for Obedience and Rally Trials to be held Friday

5/10/19. AKC has approved the above events.

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How to Contribute:

SDOC’s newsletter “Scents & Nonscents” is published 11 times per year. Contributions are welcome at any time,

provided they are in an electronic format (*.txt, *.doc, *.jpg, *.tiff) and

received by the deadline.

Send your items and ideas to the Editor, Linda

Stephens

lindastephens2005@ comcast.net

Deadline for each issue is the 5.th of each month!

Information is believed correct at the time of printing, however the

Editor and staff bear no responsibility for errors or

omissions.

The Editor is deeply indebted to Allie Wimber for copying and mailing,

and to Sue Babcock our Webmaster

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Joke/Cute Photo of the Month

Comments from - Your Editor

Remember the KEY EXCHANGE will be on March 29.

Another reminder about leaving the SDOC training

site—always lock the door and if at night leave in pairs

so no one gets in trouble with would be thieves.

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Training Year

(per the SDOC

Training

Regulations)

For these

purposes, the

training year will

be from

December 1 to

November 30 of

the following

year. The total

hours of any

class which

begins on or

before

December 1 will

be credited to

the following

training year.

SDOC

WEBSITE

ADDRESS

IS

www.sdocnm.org

Be Sure to Check the Website for complete

class information , class applications and

special updates.

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Carol Franks thanks the club for the beautiful Christmas Cactus.

Board Members:

Peggy: Any unclaimed trainers’ bags are going back to Cabela’s on February 28,

2019.

We will have a speaker at the February meeting. Stuart Garber is going to do a

presentation on nutrition.

Training Directors Reports:

Agility: Peggy Chandler - Mica Tyler is applying to be an AKC Judge. She has to

conduct an Agility Course Test. The test will be held at SDOC on February 2. Day of

entries will be accepted.

Tracking: Annie Newsted – The Tracking Class has 7 students.

There is a TDX Trial on February 3 in Placitas and a TD Trial on February 24. Need

workers for both times.

AKC announced proposed changes to Tracking Regulations.

Obedience/Other: Barbara Mitchell - Deb Tabor is going to have a Novice Only

drill on Saturdays.

Jill Warren is having Friday Night run-throughs the month of April prior to May

shows.

Still have two crates that can be give away. If anyone wants them, please contact Bar-

bara.

New Business:

Annie requested bigger cement bumpers on south side of parking lot. People drive

through the parking lot from Blake’s, and it’s dangerous.

Membership Readings: First readings: Patty Wade

Brags: There were many brags by the membership! Congratulations! Remem-

ber to give Linda Stephens your brags for the newsletter!

Announcements, Other Items:

Terry Brown: We need lots of help for the May Trials.

Barbara Mitchell: The Golden Retriever Club will offer the Trophy for the high-

scoring Golden in the May Trials.

The next meeting will be February 22, 2019 at 7:00 PM and will feature a special

presentation on canine nutrition from Stuart Garber.

Meeting Adjourned at 7:42 P.M.

SDOC Board

Meetings are held

on the Tuesday

prior to General

Membership

meetings at the

SDOC Training

Building. Minutes

are available for

review by

contacting the

Recording

Secretary at

k9dance

@comcast.net

or at any General

Membership

meeting.

The MACHs were flowing pretty

well today at the Weim Trial.

First off was Susan McGowen and

Jedi with their MACH 4!

Next was Linda Kipp and Kayla

with MACH 1!

And last but not least was Peggy Weigle and Luke with MACH 3!

Congratulations to Laura Echeverria and her Australian Shepherd "Ace" for

earning their PACH at the Weimaraner Trial in Jan at the Expo. Ace also has

MACH titles already. Yeah, Ace!

Lots of cake tomorrow.

Congratulations to all the teams

Carol Clay’s Little Torpedo Gwyneth Mclaye “Gwen” earned her MACH 2

January 18th at the SWAT agility trial.

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Brags, Brags and More Brags

Join SDOC’s

YAHOO! group:

SandiaDogOC

@yahoogroups

.com

Contact

Rosemary

Burtch at

rosybee

@earthlink.net

with questions

Want to become

a member? Get

an application in

the lobby at the

Club building,

or download

from the SDOC

web site!

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Sherry Rogers’ Rottweiler Dazzy finished her AKC breed Championship in grand

style at the Phoenix shows. She earned 12 points in 3 consecutive shows, finishing

with 18 points and 4 majors, including Winners Bitch at the Grand Canyon State

Rottweiler Club’s Regional Specialty. Dazzy is now CH Cannon River Bedazzled,

CD, BN, RE, CGC, HCT. Now back to obedience and herding!

Thank you to Mica Tyler (Judge), Michele Becknell (Trial Co-Chair), Toi Tschohl

(Trial Co-Chair), Susan McGowen (Chief Course Builder) and Mike Provine (Course

Builder/Equipment God) for an outstanding ACT today at the Club.

The handlers and dogs had lots of fun and it was good to see these folks succeed.

Congratulations all,

Peggy Chandler

Tom Redmon and Copper Rose Coop-

ers Gone Country TDX

Rich Cummings and M’Soaring

De Tchurka La Noire TDX SCN

SIN.

.

January has fled. I know not where and here we

are in February. We have a full month with various

trials our members are attending both in and out of

state. Good luck to all of you trialing and don’t

forget to send your brags to Linda Stephens to be

included in upcoming issues of the S&N.

We have had many classes start so far this year,

both in agility and obedience and they are filling well. More are being

posted on the website so if you are looking for anything special keep an

eye out. If a class is not what you are looking for check out the drills

Don’t forget we are having a guest speaker at the meeting this month.

Come and hear Dr. Stuart Garber, from Santa Fe, who has input about

keeping our dogs healthy, a topic in which we should all be interested

If any of you have ideas for speakers or ideas for meetings, please let a

board member know.

Enjoy the month and the time spent with your dogs, working, trialing,

walking or just being with them. The next meeting will be 22 February.

Hope to see you there.

Betty

Prez Sez

By Betty Pearson

To register

for any Agility

class, contact:

Stephanie

Kourestsos at

AgilityReg

@sdocnm.org

or 828-9660

REMINDER:

Drills cost $10

per dog per

session.

To register

for any

Obedience

class, contact:

Betty Pearson

conchobar66

@

hotmail.com

505-898-

2706

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Has your dog

accomplished

something

new? E-mail all

the details to

the Editor.

AND—if

there’s a “CH”

or “X”

anywhere in

that title,

please include

a picture of

your dog!

Members of the Board:

Officers:

President: Betty Pearson

Vice President: Jeff Robb

Treasurer: Sue Babcock

Corresponding Secretary: Estelle Metz

Recording Secretary: Stephanie Boutz

Board of Directors: Peggy Chandler, Cathy Dunbar, Stephanie Kouretsos, Christie

Stern

Ongoing Programs:

Obedience Director: Barb Mitchell

Agility Director: TBD

Tracking Director: Annie Newsted

Editor: Linda Stephens

Production Staff: Allie Wimber

Web Wizard: Sue Babcock

Maintenance Projects: John Clendenin and Len Stans

Thank you one and all!

Officers, Board of Directors & Others

To order

SDOC t-shirts

and

sweatshirts,

contact Estelle

Metz

Stay warm or

be cool, in

style!

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training building) - always at 7:00 p.m.

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February 22

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April 26

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