Canton Pomeranians

I send my warmest greetings to everyone for the holidays. May peace and grace reign over everyone for the coming 2010 New Year and hoping that all your dreams come true.

The Philippine Pomeranian Club Inc organized as cluster of dog shows last weekend with show results detailed as follows:

I have heard some good news from India. Our homebred Ph Ch Canton Versace won 6th Best in Show under Judge Mukul Baid and 8th Best in Show under Partha Chatterjee in Guwahati, India, last Sunday, November 29, 2009. In India, they have 8 Best in Show winners for an ALL Breed dog show. This means that Versace won the Breed and implies that he also won Group 1; or the very least a Group 2 since there are 7 Groups.

This write-up is really major rehash from our web’s TIDBITS section(“Chocolates are sweet” and “Merles are exotic”) and it is also an article that will be coming out of the December 2009 issue of the magazine Animal Scene wherein our championship pointed chocolate Janesa Lindt Excellence and our homebred show merle Canton Blue Calico will be featured in its front cover.

I have just received the following email dated October 27, 2009 from Pam Carpenter of Australia and it reads as follows: “Hi Basilio Have exciting news. Grand Ch. Canton Country Classic won the prestigious Queensland Dog of the Year competition on Saturday night.

I happily received some very good news from Italy informing me that our homegrown Canton Pomeranians did a clean sweep with all the major Pomeranian wins in the International Dog Show in Bastia Umbra. Judges were Ernesto Capra and Pierluigi Buratti.

Good Breeding is like shooting a dart game. One basic fundamental is the ability of the breeder to predict the outcome of the litter and have uniformity in his breeding program. This is achieved thru Selective Breeding. By proper selection of your breeding stock, you in effect can dictate your future. Can you imagine that all the Pomeranians that you see today have the same Adam and Eve. If you look at their pedigrees, you will be surprised that many of them are close relatives and yet they do not look or resemble each other.

Rupom Yvonne of Canton is my first Russian dog who arrived last Wednesday, September 23, 2009. She is a four months old bitch puppy sired by my own Ph Ch Canton Pumpkin Prince(pictured left below) and the dam is a Canadian import, Russ Ch Damascusroad Harness the Wind(pictured right below).

Being Kennel Blind is a Canine terminology referred to a breeder who is blindly in love with his stock such that he is ignorant and totally ignores the faults/shortcomings of his animals. At best, he may admit these but is always very quick to rationalize and justify them. He will go to the extent of saying that other dogs that are not his are not worth a hoot. Only his dogs are good.

The garbage referred in breeding lingo is the undesirable aspects of the canine specimen. It could be divided into the following classifications which may be overlapping: (1) Faults specified in the Breed Standard, whether they be minor, major or disqualifying faults; (2) Features not in conformity to the Breed description which may not necessarily be specified as faults but rather a divergence in Breed Type; (3) Other General Issues which need not be specified since they are applicable to all canine population such as: Undescended Testicles, Unsoundness in Structure, Diseases, Temperament Issues, etc.