Farndon Ringcraft Club

30/11/2023

Most improved team Nicola and Fergus

29/11/2023

Looking forward to seeing you all tonight, MATCH NIGHT Followed by DOG OF THE YEAR !!

27/11/2023

Everyone Keep an eye out in your messages for the DOG OF THE YEAR invites

15/11/2023

Looking forward to seeing you all tonight 7pm

26/10/2023

Congratulations to Nicola & Fergus who are
our match night winner for October .
Thanks to our match night judge Sophie Butcher

25/10/2023

Looking forward to seeing you all tonight for MATCHNIGHT - 7pm onwards Farndon Memorial Hall

24/10/2023

Don't forget MATCH NIGHT tomorrow !!
Everyone welcome !!!!

18/10/2023

Your Responsibility to your Breeder.

We talk a lot about what a good breeder is expected to do for you. We require them to health test their breeding dogs, guarantee the health and temperament of each puppy, be there for you 24/7 for up to 18 years — longer than most other relationships you are likely to have in your life.

We haven’t really talked about your responsibilities to your breeder.

I have done a lot of thinking. Breeders tend to be very private people. They don’t tell you about the three weeks they spend getting almost no sleep except for quick naps next to the puppy pen because Mother Dog needs some help. Maybe her milk hasn’t come in. Maybe her mothering instincts are a little slow to arrive. Maybe she wants you to show her how to be a mum. Maybe she died. Regardless, those first three weeks with puppies are often more intense than the first three weeks with a human infant.

Feeding six or eight or ten or 16 puppies every two hours is exhausting. We haven’t got our mother-in-laws, husbands or best friends here to help us. Struggling puppies count on us to be their ICU nurse. It is no surprise that our maternal (or paternal) instincts go full bore on us, and we bond to these guys for life.

Not everything goes well with every puppy in every litter. Losing a puppy is deeply traumatic. We fight so hard to save them and often can’t. Death is not pretty. Death is graphic. It is not peaceful. It leaves a scar on our soul.

After we get through the first three weeks, we spend nearly every waking moment watching, thinking, analyzing, cuddling, loving and, inevitably, bonding. Could you hold a baby in your lap and not feel anything? Neither can we. By the time your puppy leaves our house, that puppy is as much a part of our heart as it is yours.

Things go wrong. We get that. Best intentions fade through no fault of our own. Maybe a job was lost. Maybe the terms of your rental agreement changed. Maybe someone in your family became sick and needs all your attention. Maybe one of a million things.

Breeders get that. We are people, too. We have lived as much life as you have. We know the world is not a perfect place. We also know that sometimes, despite our best intentions, we may have mismatched your puppy to you.

Whatever the reason, we know that not every puppy is going to live its full life with the people we placed it with. Divorce, death, gosh. Anything can happen.

But we love our babies (and we love you), and we want to be here to help. If you can no longer keep your dog, please be open and communicative. If your dog has a close relationship with someone else, let us know. That contract you signed with us? The one that offers our lifetime assistance? That applies to the puppy, no matter who owns him.

But more importantly, please be kind to our hearts. If you lost a grandchild — say your son and his wife were divorced and the wife cuts off all communication with you — that would hurt. You would feel sad, lost, a little panicky.

That’s how we feel when we lose track of a puppy.

So, please. Stay in contact with your breeder. Let him or her share in your dog’s joys and frustrations. Let them be a shoulder for you. Let them provide a listening ear and support. And please please please let them know where your dog is, and if you can’t keep it, please let them be involved in any placements that may need to occur.

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11/10/2023

Looking forward to seeing you all tonight for ringcraft - 7pm onwards Farndon Memorial Hall

21/09/2023

Last night we celebrated Vera Allen recent 80th birthday with Cake & Bubbles.
Happy Birthday Vera xx

22/08/2023

Just incase you haven't already seen the new changes by the Kennel Club.

AMENDMENTS TO JUDGES EDUCATION PROGRAMME CRITERIA

The Kennel Club Board has approved amendments to the Judges Education Programme (Breed Shows) Level 1 and Level 2 criteria.

These amendments will come into effect for shows held on or after 1 January 2024 and apply to judges signing contracts from the date of this announcement (21 August 2023). Existing CC judges are exempt from this requirement.

Judges Education Programme (JEP) Level 1 criteria is as follows, with amends in italics:

• Minimum of five years proven interest in pedigree dogs

• Attend a Conformation and Movement seminar hosted by a Kennel Club Accredited Trainer

• Complete a minimum of two full-day stewarding appointments

• Attend a Requirements of a Dog Show Judge seminar and pass associated exam (either in person or online via Kennel Club Academy)

• Pass the Points of a Dog assessment conducted by a Kennel Club Accredited Trainer

Previously it was a requirement that passing the Points of a Dog assessment and Requirements of a Dog Show Judge exam was part of JEP Level 2 criteria.

Consequently, JEP Level 2 criteria is now amended as follows:

• Attend a Breed Appreciation Day (BAD) and pass a multiple-choice examination for the respective breed

• View ring stewarding seminar and take online quiz via Kennel Club Academy

• Complete critique writing seminar and take online quiz via Kennel Club Academy

Whilst completing the critique writing and stewarding seminars remain a JEP Level 2 requirement, the Board has agreed that they can be undertaken at any time, and that the judge does not need to wait until they meet Level 1 criteria, and are recommended to view prior to stewarding or judging.

Judges sitting multiple-choice exams held at Breed Appreciation Days from 1 January 2024 will be required to meet the amended Level 1 criteria.

Helen Kerfoot, Chief Operations Officer at The Kennel Club, commented: “This change to JEP Level 1 criteria will further enhance education of upcoming judges and equip them with the necessary means to judge as they undertake their first appointments.

“We have listened to feedback and it is hoped that these changes create a more logical order of education for judges and will also ensure that exhibitors have confidence that judges have attained a preliminary level of training at any level of show.”

Further information is available by emailing [email protected]

26/07/2023

-Looking forward to seeing everyone for ringcraft tonight, 7pm onwards then MATCH NIGHT at 7.30 :)

27/06/2023

Don't forget Match Night Wednesday night !!
7pm Onwards !!!

07/06/2023

Looking forward to seeing you all later for ringcraft - 7pm onwards Farndon Memorial Hall

30/04/2023

https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/media-centre/2023/march/the-future-of-discover-dogs/?utm_campaign=1230547_KC%20enews%20-%20April%202023&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Kennel%20Club%20Limited&dm_i=52XO,QDHV,3B4I1D,37T4D,1

The Kennel Club has announced that the London Discover Dogs event will not be taking place in 2023. It will take a break for a year, with the aim of bringing it back with a refreshed and reinvigorated new look in 2024.