There
were 37 dogs entered under Australian Judge Mrs. Margaret Burgoine in San
Jose CA on October 15, 2004. Excitement rippled as corky Mini-Bulls
strutted their stuff, tails stiff and faces either smiling or glinting steel
male-to-male.
Okay, there was a bit of a mess with
ribbons that read Miniature Pit Bull Terrier Club Of
America, (we will explain later) but first things first! Here’s the
magnificent Breed Winner…..
BOB: Ch. Kingsmere
Moondoggie
by Ch. Graystone White on White x Darby
Fair Kingsmere Can-Do
Owned by Linda Lethin and Terry Martin
"”Smudge” is 2002 & 2003 Pedigree Award
Winner, Van Hildrikhusen Trophy winner, and twice Nat. Specialty BOB. He is
WKC BOB winner with multiple Group placements. Smudge is twice MBTCA Stud
Dog, was in the top 5 Terrier producers of 2002, and is already the sire of
17 Chs. Including 3 Van Hildrickhusen Trophy Winners. His owners say “He’s
done just about everything we have asked him to do! Who knows what the
future will hold for all of us?”
An exquisitely feminine Breed
Representative:
 BOS
& AOM:
Ch. Tecuya's Sweet Miss Stache
Ch Kingsmere Moondoggie x Ch
Tecuya's Gild the Lily
Bred by: Brenda Smith
Owned by: Deborah L. McFeely and Brenda Smith
“Stache” finished in four shows with all
majors before she was one year old. She ranked fourth in the breed in
2003. In Addition to her AKC championship she holds an International
championship and received an International Best-In-Show Puppy at 14 months.
Stache has won her share of awards even
with the stiff competition of showing against her brother “Moe.” She is
lively, fun loving and a beloved pet. Her favorite game is tug-o-war.
“Girls just want to have fun” is what she’s all about. Look for Stache and
her brother Moe at Westminster 2005.
The wonderful day was marred only by the
Ribbons and Trophies fiasco. The class placements etched onto each trophy
mug were painted over with a red heart. President Giselle
Simonds explained that painting them was preferable because otherwise,
they would have been wasted (they were dated 2004) or perhaps there wouldn’t
have been enough 1st place trophies. She went on to say the
heart is associated with San Francisco and goes along with the Bay Bridge
which was also etched onto the mugs. The show was in San Jose, not S.F. but
she told this easterner “it’s all the bay area.” Giselle said there
were more 2nd and 3rd place mugs than there were
entries in each class, so she deemed it expedient to have an artist paint
over the placements, even glazing the heart so it “wouldn’t wash off.”
She wasn’t sure why none of the trophies are indicative of a National
Specialty win.
And then there were the ribbons on which is
printed The Miniature Pit Bull Terrier Club Of America. That’s
right. Pit Bull. Gisele said “they were the same ones used last year
and not one single person complained about the “microscopic” mistake.”
She added that she didn’t even know about it. That explains why, true to
reports, she offered no apology to exhibitors for the ribbons. She assured
this editor that the ribbons will be replaced but added “only if they
complain.”
Well, bully people have a great sense of
humor and tremendous tolerance but the fact is, there were complaints!
Treasurer Deb McFeely has already spoken with the ribbon company and
reports “(they) will be reordering a die and redoing the smaller ribbons
and the middle ribbon to the rosettes.”
Corrected ribbons will be sent to
all who received the bad ones. Safe to say, in the future all ribbons
and trophies will be checked well in advance of the show date.
 The classes were certainly filled
with quality!
WD
& BW: CH. Jiltrain Give Me A Clue
The exciting red Imported from
England in October 2004 by Owner: Zane Smith
“Blade” is two years old with a
distinguished record in the U.K. He was Best In Show, Miniature Bull
Terrier Club of England 2004 and has 2 CC’s and 2 Res.CC’s. In Ireland, his
record is equally impressive with Ch. Show Terrier Group winner in Ireland
(only MBT to ever win a Group in Ireland) and Blade was Top Mini Bull in
Ireland 2004.
His record in the USA (in two months of
shows) is #3 MBT IN America 2004, gained by having achieved BOW MBTCA
National Specialty and BOW MBTCA Regional Specialty, plus he is a Multiple
Best of Breed & Group Placer
Red was In! This little red girl swept the boards,
WB
& AOM: VIP'S
Pocket Change O'BJ
By Ch Kingsmere Moondoggie x Victoria’s
Secret O'BJ
Breeders: Fran Smith-Milteer & Barbara J. Andrews
Expertly handled at the Specialty by Brenda Smith.
Owned by: Fran Smith Milteer
“Penny” is a grandbaby from two of BJ’s
best imports. Her impeccable pedigree and lovely type = a blueprint for
victory. She was also WB at the prestigious Van Hildrikhusen specialty. Fran
says “We are looking forward to a bright future which includes a
mini-vacation in balmy Palm Springs Kennel Club January 8th & 9th.
Please come by and visit Penny for a little “change.” She needs only
singles to finish her championship and having qualified for the Crufts Dog
Show, would very much like to visit London.
Deb McFeely sums it up nicely, "One of the
highlights of the day was the awards party we all attended with the BTCA it
was fun, full of laughs and the food was great. At the show there were lots
of puppies jumping all over the place and this gave lots of unexpected joy
to the atmosphere. Even the hotel visitors were taking pictures and
laughing. Excitement was in the air. Everywhere you turned you saw a
bully!"
I’m Julie Grider, the
Trophy Coordinator for the MBTCA.  I’m not a writer; I tend to write as I would speak. I’m not sure
everyone is aware of exactly how the MBTCA gets funds for trophies and have
been asked to explain how it works.
It was decided
several years ago that the MBTCA would not give trophies at the Nationals or
any MBTCA Specialty. The trophy monies would be used on health issues within
our breed. The trophy money went to the K9 health fund for Lens Luxation.
For years there were NO trophies. If your MBT won breed at the MBTCA
Nationals it received a ribbon, nothing else. Our obligation with the K9
health fund is now over, so as of last year the MBTCA
started setting up a trophy fund again.
There are however,
members that do not want money spent on trophies. They are very vocal
members. Yet everything I do is split 3 equal ways between the trophy,
health & rescue funds. The only thing that is raised for trophies only is
the Caffepress site. That money is strictly for the trophy fund. What people
don’t understand is everything goes full circle. If you have nice trophies
that people want to win, they will enter their MBT to have a chance at
winning it. That gets you more entries per Show. We have auctions at those
shows and the money raised benefits all three funds, which means more people
will be attending the auction to raise more money.
If we’re going to
raise money for the three funds we must get people to the shows! NO trophy
money comes from the General fund. ALL trophy money must be raised and we
are only allowed to spend that money that is raised, not a penny from the
General Fund. If the trophy fund has $2,100.00 that is ALL the money that
can be spent on approximately 70 trophies! Now go buy 70 awesome Crystal
trophies for $2,100. It can’t be done. We get the best trophies we can with
the funds we have. Sadly, the biggest complainers of the trophies are
people who never gave one dime to the Trophy Fund. How can we get nice
trophies if no one donates to the fund?
A trophy fund is not
a new thing to do within a club. Our club is very small, with just over 120
members. Raising money is hard with so few people. It is very hard when
people fight you the entire way! A friend of mine came up with the idea of
people sending in pictures of their MBT and she would make a MBT quilt with
the submitted pictures. I’m taking the quilt and having the MBT’s names
embroidered onto the quilt. This is all being paid for by me. She is doing
all the sewing. Can you imagine how much time she’ll put into this? I post
to the MBT yahoo list asking for pictures to be submitted and I explained
that the money would go to The Health, Rescue & Trophy funds. That it would
be split three equal ways. Are people excited? NO WAY! They instantly
start in that the money should be for Health only, or Rescue only. Then they
came up with the idea that who ever won the quilt should pick where the
money goes? I’m sorry that isn’t happening when I (Julie) will spend
probably $400 on the material & embroidering.
Trophies are a fight
all year long. It all boils down to; if you want nice trophies, please
donate to the trophy fund. When you hear someone complain about raising
money for trophies, please stand up and say money should be raised
for trophies. That’s what other clubs do. Just say you want nice trophies
at our shows.
Julie Grider
yellow317@comcast.net
Envision/Registan
MBT’s
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