15 May 2010

Three updates all at once! Please read and enjoy them all. Now available at your local News Stand is the latest edition of Gun Dog Magazine, featuring the article, "The Drent Who?" by noted outdoor author, and dog trainer Dave Carty. The article is well written, and fairly presents our favorite breed of dog, the Drent!

13 May 2010, the AKC has formally accepted the Drentsche Patrijshond into the FSS program. Our dogs will soon be able to participate in all AKC Companion events! AKC Performance events should follow on or about 1 Jan 2011, we have requested to be able to participate in both Pointing & Retrieving hunt test & trials per keeping with the history of the breed. If granted we will be the second breed to have such an arrangement. In order to participate in events, your Drent will need to be enrolled in the AKC’s FSS program. The American Kennel Club has made an offer no Drent owner should refuse! They have offered ALL U.S. Drent owners, for a limited time only, a NO FEE FSS registration! If you take advantage of this “batch turn-in” to the AKC – ALL registry fees are waived, which will save you 85 dollars!  Here are the details…Your FSS application MUST include: A LEGIBLE photo copy of your Drents 3 generation pedigree Your dogs DPCNA pedigree is acceptable.  Dutch, Belgian, Danish, Swedish & NAVHA pedigrees are all acceptable.  Please DO NOT send original pedigrees.  Two color photographs; three-by-five-inch, providing close-up front and side views of the dog in a standing position, are required.  Proof the dog is either micro-chipped or tattooed.  Properly completed, and signed in ink application.  All FSS applications must be received by the DPCNA President Not Later Than: 1 Sept 2010. It is important to note: Drents without a three generation pedigree may enroll in the FSS program, but are not allowed to participate in AKC events. So if you have a U.S. Bred and born Drent, it may still be very possible to have your dog registered with the DPCNA to get the pedigree your dog needs to participate. Additionally, for members in good standing the DPCNA will put together and sending out a "users guide" to make all of this easier to use and understand as soon as ALL the details reveal themselves. Please keep checking back here for updates.

18 April 2010

Our first newsletter has been published and distributed to all active DPCNA members, and a few friends of the club who have been particularly helpful.  In this issue are exclusive pictures of the DPCNA’s first two litters, hunting stories, the minutes from our board meeting, and more.  We’ll post the news letter on our web page for everyone in the fall, when issue #2 is due out.
I’d like to take a moment to thank Lifetime Member James Johnstone for being the clubs’ liaison with the Canadian Kennel Club.  Thank you Jim!  Many hands make for a lighter load.

The DPCNA annual meeting was held September 26 - Oct 3 2009 in Idaho Falls, ID. It MIGHT have been a coincidence those dates coincided with four grouse seasons (blue, ruffed, sharptail and sage) and two partridge seasons (Chukar and Hungarian). But then again, probably so :-) I believe it is safe to say everyone had an amazing and wonderful time, oh, and yes there was a meeting that took place.   

Last but not least, Thank you Family Lambregts for being a most generous host!