From: John Haddix <jhaddix@...>
Subject: Re: [greatlandnavhda] Greetings!
To: greatlandnavhda@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 8:33 AM

Cheryl and Tom

I have a 1.5 year old Deutch Drahthaar.  I was the vice president for the group in Anchorage but now live in interior Alaska.  I am in Delta Junction monday through Friday and Fairganks on weekends.  During the spring and fall I work with my dog several times a week and would love to meet up with other versatile dog owners to train.  Last year I trained with the interior Alaska Gun Dog Association, in Fairbanks, which is a retriever group, on weekends, and during the week I trained with spaniel folks in Delta Junction.  There was also the occasional short hair owner and Drahthaar owner that I trained with. The NAVHDA group in Anchorage lost a lot of momentum because we could not get folks involved in training days.  We were often lucky to get one person to show up for a training day.  As far as testing we found that we needed at least 15 dogs to test to be able to make ends meet (paying for judges to travel from the lower 48 ect).  We n ever had 15 dogs at a test so one of the officers paid the additional costs out of his pocket.  We tried a few things to generate funds to pay for tests but were not able to get folks to show up.  The few training days that i set up out at Falcon Ridge on Pt McKinzie I had very low or no attendance at all.  I think that at this time it would not be advisable to start another club in Fairbanks.  There is cost for insurance, you have to have enough officers to meet the minimum offices, and i forget what else.  Having said that though, we could get together and do some trining sessions in Interior under the umbrella of the NAVHDA group in Anchorage.  If there is enough interest we may even be able to generate some revenue and have a test in Alaska.  Just because the group is based out of Anchorage it does not mean that tests have to be conducted there.

John Haddix 


----- Original Message -----
From: cheryl cavota <snowydiamonds@ yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:29 pm
Subject: Re: [greatlandnavhda] Greetings!
To: greatlandnavhda@ yahoogroups. com

> I was interested in attending training sessions and testing my
> (intact) LH weimaraner and also a SH weimaraner
> (neutered/unapprove d product "grandson" of Show Champion "Evad"
> and lives to hunt/retrieve) this past summer and fall but the
> website never has updated information and there are never
> responses to this forum.  What a disappointment for all of us
> scattered around the state,  I am located in Nome so my dogs hunt
> and fish w/me but I would like to try to obtain titles on my Long
> Hair weim. 
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> I went to The Netherlands to get my LH in 2007.  His dam is
> hunting tested and approved for 3 breedings/litters, hunts, is an
> International, Luxemburg and Deutch show champion and his sire is
> a hunting LH approved for breeding -both out of Germany.  I admit
> I was not persistant in needling members/officials to accomplish
> this throughout this past Spring, Summer and Fall but warn others
> now, I will be this year;)  Hope to meet you and your dog in
> person, in the fields and classes... Cheryl and Boris Van
> Valckesteyn DOB 12/21/06 
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> --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Tom Temple <fbxgunnut@yahoo. com> wrote:
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> From: Tom Temple <fbxgunnut@yahoo. com>
> Subject: [greatlandnavhda] Greetings!
> To: greatlandnavhda@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 8:25 PM
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