Fun Photos from the CISC Eastern Fun Match

CISC Eastern Fun Match Photos

Hello Folks,

A huge Thank you goes out to my puppy owners that came to the CISC Eastern Fun Match with Judge Monika K from Iceland. A great time was had by all, and lots of laughs and smiles and tons of presents made for a fun day for all.

Enjoy the photos and a few more yet to come.. look for the full published results in the coming fall newsletter from the Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog club.

Barks

Judges Seminar over the weekend.

Good Morning Folks,

I love this photo of the crew, with myself and Monika Karlsdottir visiting from Iceland. The dogs look sooo young, hard to believe that this was taken two years ago, I think I will have to try and get some group photos of the dogs this summer for the albums.

What a good long weekend, Jason took Friday off work, and stayed home to work on one of the new inside Dog pens that has a pop out door to their own private 20 by 8 by 6 doggy run. I still need to paint and do the finishing touchs but I am thrilled to have it come up for the girls heats, as I will be able to safely keep everyone inside, without having to use very much to almost no crate time, instead they will have large indoor pens in the attached dog room, and their own outdoor pen to hang in.

We have plans to set up three more in the same area so that will be a wonderful help in being able to manage the dogs while the females are in heat and the males can't be with them etc.

Otherwise, we worked outside on friday a bit, and got some more scrubs planted, we are creating a flower bed and garden with bushes to help provide shade in front of the dogs pens, will give the dogs more shade, and will make it look nicer for everyone.

So Friday night was getting ready to go Saturday for the judges seminar, so up bright and early on saturday and off we went, good drive, lots of rain but still it was a good drive, and we arrived on time, and the hosts where wonderful..

I loved their dog training area!, I want one LOL, they have a huge covered areana, half is smooth cement, with ring mats down, for show/obedance training, and the back half, a full size agiltiy training center, sweet! It was a great set up, and I would love to someday have something simular for my own dogs to train in on property.

So the semianar itself went very well, we gave out the Standard with drawings, and we have the DIF video, and many other books and four ISD's for the judges to see. We had two males, two females, two long hair, two med coated, Black tri's and yellow gene dogs. lots of white, and little white, so a good cross section of the breed in these terms.

The judges where interested and very kind to us, they asked lots of questions and seemed quite interested in the breed. All in all a wonderful way to spend a few hours, everyone who knows me, knows get me talking about ISD's and I can go forever LOL

However last week, we had those very bad wind storm (knocked the rabbit hutch over) and I was outside in it a bit, and got wind in my ears, and so over the week, my ears and throat just kept getting worse and worse, by Saturday, I was on full meds to appear normal :) and when done, got in the truck and my head felt like it would explode, so took some more meds and had a nap on the way home, thank goodness for willing hubbies that help in these things, Went to bed early saturday and most of sunday morning, was spent getting some extra sleep, Jason was in charge upstairs and the dogs seemed to think that is fine, but most of them piled on the bed with me and gave me much needed cuddles and kisses to make me feel better, nothing much better then a living, loving furry hot water bottle ;)

So after I got up, worked outside in my gardens for a few hours and then was tired again, so went to bed early last night and am a bit better today, and have started my normal chores, so far so good.

The dogs a fab, everyone is doing great, training is good, we are all loving the extra time outside, and they are all getting much more one on one time taking turns hanging out in the yard with me while I am working outside.. I try and switch them off, so they all get time out of the dog yard and out with me. and they all run and run and then they come back and hang with us.. and stick their noses into the ground, or boxes or whatever we are doing.. with this sweet, "What are you doing? look and a few of them know the word dig, and so we have to have a talk about, no digging in my gardens LOL

Otherwise found a stash of eggs in the barn, I knew those hens had found a place, tons of eggs, most of them fresh and good so that is great, barn critters are doing well..loving the new green grass, but today they are going to have to stay inside, I am not up to being out in the winds today to help graze them.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, and my goals for the week, painting, planting, gardening, cleaning the outside chicken area, getting better, dog training classes, (advanced agility starts tomorrow night) and getting packed and ready for my harris semianar in toronto this coming weekend.

Barks

Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club-Four Day event and Icelandic Sheepdog Dog Show Booster!

On behalf of the Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club I am happy to bring you information about the coming National Four Day Gathering of Icelandics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in Aug 2007.

Booster Update,

The CISC is very pleased to annouce that its been confirmed that the Swedish Judge at the four day events, "Annika Ulltveit-Moe" has been to Iceland as a judge, and Monika K says that any Dog/Owner/Breeder who places in her Breed Class as BB, BOS, or BP should consider these wins to be high praise indeed.

Booster updates to continue to follow in the coming days/months leading up to it.. We are looking forward to this amazing four day Iceland Sheepdog Event, and please feel free to contact the club for more information or if you would like to help in some way.

For those of you that can't make it up, consider supporting a win, and get your Kennel name out there.Also anyone out there with puppies that want to bring them up to help build the puppy class, bring them on up!

For full details on the event, see below.

Hello Folks,

Well it looks like we have the basic plan in place for our first National Canadian CISC Icelandic Booster and Weekend Event. At this time, things can change, and if so, we will let you know, but for right now this appears to be what will be offered, if you are coming by Motor home, the club highly recommends that you reserve your spot as soon as possible, its my understanding that the Alberta Kennel Club will have their official premium list online in May, I will announce as soon possible.


It would appear that we will have folks coming from Eastern Canada, Eastern United States, Western Canada, and Folks from all down the Western Coast of the United States to the show and CISC Icelandic Booster.


We look forward to seeing you all in the future, for those in the states, I highly recommend that you start working on getting your dogs CKC registered if you are interested in coming up.

Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club - National Gathering/Booster

Overview Aug 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. - Held at Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Alberta Kennel club is hosting Four CKC Conformation Shows

The Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club is working with the AKC to host a Icelandic Booster-Aug 4th

The booster Judge will be Dick Beauchamp-USA

Judges are (conformation to be announced)
Carlos Fernandez-Renau - Spain.
Dick Beauchamp - USA. -Icelandic BoosterJudge-Saturday
arie Merchant - Australia.
Annika Ulltveit-Moe - Sweden
Darle Heck - Canada

Also being held at this Four Day event will be
Four CKC Agility Trials
Four NADAC Agility Trials
Four CKC Obedience Trials
1 CKC Rally Obedience
3 ARPT Rally Obedience Trials

Standard Classes offered for Conformation at the CKC Show

Junior Puppy-A dog between 6 to 9 months of age on the day of show
Senior Puppy- A dog between 9 months & 12 months on the day of the show
12 to 18 months- A dog between 12 & 18 months on the day of the show
Canadian Bred - A dog which is born in Canada
Bred by Exhibitor- The Handler of the dog is also the owner and breeder
Open Class- For all dogs
Specials Only - Dogs who are Canadian Champions only


Non-Standard Class (held by CISC) These are fun events, they do NOT count for offical points, but will be given club awards! Non-Standard Fun Classes Judge to be announced.

Award of Merit
Brace
Stud Dog and two or three Get
Brood Bitch and two or three Get
Parade of Veterans
Parade of Obedience and Working Title Holders
Best Med Coated Stud and Bitch in Class
Best Long Coated Stud and Bitch in Class

The CISC will be offering Prizes for all winners of the Non-Standard Classes and BB, BOS, BP in the regular classes for the Icelandic Booster. Prizes to be announced.

We will also be giving out our first Breeder Award.

The Alberta Kennel Club will be offering Cash an prizes for the Icelandic Sheepdog Booster as follows

The Alberta Kennel Club will provide beautiful rosettes for the following classes the day of your Booster. BB, BOS, BW, WM, WF, RWM, RWF, BP and HQS for an Iceland Sheepdog in Obedience the day of your booster.

In addition to the prizes the CISC will offer, the Alberta Kennel Club will offer the following prizes for your Booster. BB $25.00; BOS $15.00; BP $10.00; and Highest scoring Iceland Sheepdog in Trial $15.00.

Overview of the Four days gathering at this time (adjustments to be made in future if required)

Friday-Conformation Show, Agility, Rally or Obedience Trials available
Friday CISC -After hours, Meet and Greet, with wine and Cheese.

Saturday- Icelandic Sheepdog Booster, Agility, Rally or Obedience Trails available.
Saturday CISC Extra’s- Non-Standard Classes to be hosted by CISCRing of Fire-After Hours, AKC CGC test being hosted by RF, this will be an official AKC CGC Test with Title earned if you pass. Contact information for registration to be announced.

Sunday- Conformation Show, Agility, Rally, or Obedience Trials Available
Sunday CISC-Hosting a CGN test -Sharon S is in charge of registering, tester is Lori Rogers. This is a official CKC CGN test with title earned if you pass

Monday- Conformation Show, Agility, Rally or Obedience Trails Available
Monday CISC- After last show/trails, we will be hosting a Awards Gathering and hope to encourage everyone to stay and get their photos taken for "History of the breed"

Ring of Fire Icelandic Sheepdog Club in the United States members will be coming up to support the CISC booster and also are looking at supporting some of the prizes, details to be annouced in future.

We look forward to seeing the booster become an internatinal event., We invite any Icelandic Sheepdog Breeders or Owners from the United States that has a CKC registerable Icelandic Sheepdog to come up to the event!

If everyone is able to get to the four day shows that are planning on coming now, we will have a 5 point major in Males, and a 5 Point major in Females, so let us hope that these Majors will hold.

Hope to see you there, but if you can't make it consider sponsering a prize and start thinking about next year for the coming shows the East!

Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club Website

Hello Folks

The Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog has a new website, please feel free to check it out.

http://canadianicelandicsheepdogclub.blogspot.com

As always the club is growing by leaps and bounds, the last two years we have seen a great deal of new members!

Barks

Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club Breed Booth

Hello Folks

So a few thank you's need to go out, first thank-you to my hubby, who took friday and monday off work to hold down the farm, and make sure that I feel that I can go off to the show with my dogs! A huge thank-you to Scott/Laura for their hard work with regards to booth bunny duty and help thoughtout the weekend in many ways, plus it was lovely to get to have a good visit and for our nice dinner out together on Sunday evening.

A big thanks to my handler Linda Thompson, who got to meet Freyja or Fray-Fray for the first time, and who was very surprised to find out that she was a black tri, was expecting that it was a chincilla, but fell in love with her.. and was very pleased with in the show rings. Can't wait to see what she thinks of Zander now that he has another year to mature, she loved his brother last year but felt that Zander needed at least another year to mature, so he comes out this year, and I think that the black tri pair, one med and one long should just be stunning together.

So it was a long drive down, taking just over ten hours on Friday, but I took the express route home(paid toll road) and was it worth it, getting home in just over eight hours.. The show itself was lovely, the flowers were stunning and the plush red carpet in the rings just added to the show. It was so nice to see the ladies and gents all dressed up in their suits and dressed on Saturday evening but it sure was a long day, I was up at 6 am and at the show by 8 am and we did even get into group saturday night till after 9 pm, so a very long day for a young pup, and then there was a nice wine an cheese gathering after the best in show, then back to bed and the rings started again at 8am the next day, thankfully the Icelandics were not in that early, and so I was able to get to the show by 10am to start running the breed booth. Scott and Laura were driving back and forth, so they got in closer to noon on sunday an after that late of night and drive, who could blame them for getting a bit more sleep in the morning, plus I was only ten min away, so it made alot more sense for me to get there early and give them a bit more sleep time.

There were many folks that remembered us from last year, and came to say hello, and there for even more that had read about the breed but never meet them in person before that were interested in learning more.

The color photos were a hit, and it was great that we were also able to show colored photos of the breed faults for everyone to be able to learn them right from the start.

Everyone have a great day, just doing some laundry catchup from the weekend, and will start training and prep work for the next show in April.

Barks

Greenstone Black Pearl -A six month old Icelandic Sheepdog Puppy, Black Tri Long Hair, and Belglen Roskva a 16 month old female Long Hair Red/White Icelandic Sheepdog.

CGN Test for Aug Show hosted by the Club?

Hello Folks

Question for you all, if you were given the choice or chance would you like to have a CGN test hosted by the Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club at the AKC dog show in Calgary in Aug?

I am looking for feedback on if this is a good idea. I know that with the number of folks thinking of coming up to Calgary for the Canadian National Icelandic Sheepdog Gathering, and four days of CKC Shows, that the CISC is looking to make this a very special long weekend.

We are already looking at one evening being a socal for a meet and greet, one evening would be awards and club meeting, and now we are looking at adding in a CGN test for the dogs, this would greatly increase the number of Icelandic Sheepdog that could go home with a new CKC title.

Please write and let me know what you think or what you would like to see considered to be added?

isdpuppies@hotmail.com

Barks

Just one of regular articles for Canadian Icelandic Sheepdog Club Newsletter

WELCOME to COOKING FOR DOGS January 2007 Issue
By Valerie Sharp

Hello Folks and Merry Christmas and a very happy new year for 2007.

Well, its that time of the year that we are so busy that we can’t seem to even find time to sit down but it is also that time of the year for presents!

So here is a lovely gift for your fellow dog lovers, find a lovely glass Jar, and fill with the following recipe, tie with a pretty ribbon bow, and in the bow put a dog bone cookie cutter.

Dog Jar Cookie Recipe and Directions

Multi-Grain Biscuits

In a bowl mix
1 ½ cups white flour
1 cup whole wheat Flour
½ cup of powdered Skim Milk
½ cup wheat germ

Mix well and put into a pretty glass jar, with instructions to add
1 cup Water
1 egg

In a large Bowl mix all ingredients. Knead on a floured surface, Roll out and cut into half inch stripes, you can make thin cookies (Roll about 1/8th thick, normal thick, 1/4th inch thick and for thick cookies, ½ inch thick) or if it comes with doggy bone cookie cutter, use it instead.

Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 300 degrees for 40-45 min, then turn off oven and let sit for a min of 4 hours or overnight to harden.

Extra’s that can be added. Add only one per batch
½ cup of parmesan cheese
½ cup of chicken cooked and shredded
½ cup grated carrots
½ cup grated apple

Enjoy and everyone have a great winter.

News about coming Iceland Trip

Iceland, 19th May 2006


Dear friends,

We apologise for the delay in replying, we have been waiting for replies from the coach company and the guesthouse.

About forty people have registered to come to Iceland for the ISIC anniversary in September, this is many more than we expected and we are delighted to get such a great response. We are looking forward to seeing you all and sharing what will surely be an unforgettable weekend together.

Here is the itinerary for the weekend 15th – 17th September 2006:

Friday evening
We all meet in the evening at the guesthouse to welcome you.

Saturday
Depart from the guesthouse at 08.00 sharp. The sheep gathering is 90km. from Reykjavík, the sorting pen we will be visiting is called Reykjarétt and is situated in Skeiða- og Gnúpverjahreppur.

This sorting pen was originally built in 1881 from lava rocks and underwent extensive restoration in 1981. The gathering of the sheep from their summer pasture up in the mountains each autumn and sorting them out to their respective farms has been a traditionally celebrated for centuries by friends and relatives on the farms in the area.

We will be offering sandwiches and soft drinks for sale during the sheep gathering. Afterwards we will drive to a nearby farm restaurant called Húsatóftir where we will be served traditional Icelandic lamb soup. The prize for the soup will be ISKR 1.000 and you can eat as much as you want.

On the return journey we will be stopping at Thingborg, where they sell locally made woollen crafts and it is possible to see how the wool is worked and the items are made.

We will also stop at Kerið in Grímsnes, a 5000 – 6000 year old volcanic crater filled with water. It is a very beautiful area; there have been a couple of concerts held there.

Then everyone will be driven back to Reykjavík. There is nothing formally organised for Saturday evening as most people will probably be tired after the day’s activities and another full day planned the next day with the dog show.

Sunday
The DÍF breed club show in Ölfushöll at the farm Ingólfshvoll in Ölfus. The show hall is 50 km. from Reykjavík by coach. We have a judge for the show; Zindy Munsterhielm-Ehnberg will be coming from Finland.

The time the show starts will depend on the number of dogs registered for the show. In January there were 80 dogs registered and we started at 11.00.
After the show there will be an evening meal in the show hall dining room. There will be a set menu of roast Icelandic lamb with assorted vegetables, desert and coffee afterwards for ISKR 2.450.

There will be no admittance charge to the show and refreshments will be for sale in the show hall dining area throughout the day.

Transportation
The return coach trip on Saturday will cost ISKR 1.630 per person and ISKR 880 on Sunday. This is assuming there will be 40 passengers.
Please could you let us know if you will be travelling with the coach.

Accommodation
We have arranged a special deal with the Borgartún Guesthouse. The guesthouse has 22 rooms, all non-smoking with TV and en-suite bathrooms. There is a comfortable sitting room with TV and Internet facilities, breakfast buffet is included. There are a number of excellent restaurants nearby. The Borgartún Guesthouse is on the main bus route into the city centre or a 30 minute walk by the sea wall takes you to the centre. Reykjavik’s main swimming pool is only a 10 minute walk away with hot pots and steam bath.

Prices per night including breakfast:
Single room ISKR 5.850
Double room ISKR 7.740
Triple room ISKR 10.080

More information about the Borgartún Guesthouse can be found on their website: http://www.gjtravel.is/borgartun.asp?strAction=getPublication&intPublId=114.

We have made a block reservation but we need to confirm actual numbers as soon as possible. We would be very grateful if you could let us know if you will be needing accommodation at the guest house no later than 26nd May and the exact dates you would like to stay.

GJ-Travel’s offices are in the same building as the Borgartún Guesthouse so if you have other excursion arrangements while you’re in Iceland it could not be simpler. More information can be found on their website: http://www.gjtravel.is/

Hoping to hear from you soon.

With best regards on behalf of the DÍF board,

Þorsteinn Thorsteinson

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