Little Bird October
12, 2010 - This
first piece of news
is like finding a worm in my berry. It didn't surprise me that
much and I wasn't turned off by the double treat. I mean after
all, this guy Salas is what you people call a first rate pain in the
side, or somewhere. I remember him from the
Handler Scandals report I did.
Handler
Eric Salas
lost the suit filed by Chris Christensen Systems Inc. The
Texas Court found Salas guilty of violations of the non-compete
agreement and granted Plaintiff Chris Christensen Systems Inc.
$400,000.00 in damages and reaffirmed the injunction against Eric
Salas for a minimum of 5 years. TheDogPress covered other problems
surrounding Salas and coincidentally, another well known handler who
is back in the news.
Like I said, this is bonus in my berry because I heard the
boss hen talking about
Andrew Green and Robin said that was what you call a "weird
coincidence" since he was the one involved before. Do you guys
plan this???
Grand Champion Title
had everyone excited and people getting dogs back in fine feather so
they could fly around the ring and have fun again. But at the
show I just flew in from there was a bunch of
people in a real uproar about it. One guy said it is just
another gimmick by AKC. A pretty lady drinking something with an
cherry in it looked up at him and said "It is all about the money.
Again... AKC is looking
at $$$ instead of the credibility of our sport and hard work as
breeders. Sure it helps clubs but that extra fee goes to AKC."
The guy with the glasses who wasn't drinking anything leaned
back in his chair. "Sure, and the Grand title can bring out prematurely retired
champions and I thought it was great. Then I found out that Judges were told that they had to award the
title. What the hell is that about?"
Well I
squawked that back to the office and here's what BJ said. "Having shown cats in both CFA and TICA, I thought AKC
had borrowed a great idea. A Grand Championship or Supreme Grand
Champion title is the ultimate achievement and cat judges would
never award a cat just for showing up!!! When multi-group Judge
Lynette Saltzman strenuously objected, AKC relented but many
judges still feel the pressure."
So okay
dog people, I don't get it.
Having been given a juicy cricket, are you going to let it hop
away? What are you going to do to keep the title from being
shrunk to a speck in the dirt by
judges with no back feathers? I don't do the email thing but
Dennis said just click
Grand Champion and share your thoughts with subscribers and the AKC.
He said if you keep it short and quotable they will include it in
a follow-up report to be sent to AKC. BJ nodded and said she
thought your collective opinions still matter to AKC but only
if the Board is aware of it and something about them being hard of
hearing.
It’s not even Halloween but you guys are already scared. The AKC
Canine Health Foundation has struck a deal with the gargantuan
pharmaceutical company, Pfizer. I heard the reported income to CHF
is a quarter million a year for the next couple of years. Is it
only me or does anyone else wonder whether or not this will
compromise the good works of the Canine Health Foundation? To many
health professionals, it’s a lot like the fox guarding the hen
house. CHF doesn't do anything for birds, that's for sure but
I hear enough to know how prescription drugs help or harm
quality of life in animals as well as humans. I have friends
in both species so I'll be listening for more on that subject.
I sat on Stacey
Kubyn's wires for a while. She's an attorney you know.
Interesting what they talk about. But she also has big hairy
dogs that speak Russian. (editor's note -
http://www.esquirecaucasians.com/ ) She said Jeannine Depalma was
arrested for filing a
false police report alleging that her Caucasian dog prevented her
from being robbed or car-jacked or something like that. A lot
of static on the line. But then it cleared enough I could hear
Mrs. Kubyn say that falsely reporting an incident is a
"Class A Misdemeanor" which I think means the law can put people in
a cage just like my canary friend. From what I could hear, this happened on Deplama’s way back
from the UKC Premier show. I hate missing that. They say
it is a lot of fun for dogs and people and I plan to fly up to
Michigan next time. Lost my trickle of thought there.
Where was I? I remember, one of the ladies said "Depalma cut a deal with prosecutors and
pled GUILTY to the lesser offense of disorderly conduct."
A bird
doesn't lie to get attention. We just preen and prance around,
Except for parrots. They get attention by talking to people,
saying silly things. I talk to people too but I am a pretty
serious guy.
One last tidbit that I think is important to you guys.
Norma Worley, director of Maine's Animal Welfare Department, reported that the HSUS proposed a rules change to Maine's Low
Income Spay-Neuter Program which would stipulate that no dog or
cat purchased from a breeder would ever be eligible for the
program.
Okay, I get the idea. It sounds like the Human Society is
sneaking in the bad door but I heard someone else say that they
could be in court for discrimination against poor people. If I
had ears, that would have got them up. I don't know
him but they said Jay Kitchener is "on it" whatever that
means. He is Secretary for the Federation of Maine Dog Clubs
and Responsible Dog Owners and sent notification that the Federation
disagrees. He got a petition signed and public hearings are
going on. I hope they bring out the discrimination.
Don't misunderstand, people don't do the surgery thing on us birds,
actually, they poison us with pesticides but that's another story.
Personally I am against all that neutering stuff but I might fly
down for one of those public hearings and get back to you. I
think you people need to watch this one carefully. Me?
I'm off to somewhere warm and dry!
http://www.thedogpress.com/Columns/Salas-HSUS-Grands-CHF-Depalma-10101.asp
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