Breed Notes Then the weather did it’s best to upset many of us, we were lucky as we did not see snow, as many of you did but the temperatures dropped and dropped. Meanwhile our central heating pump decided to die, leaving us with no heat or hot water. Despite having added insurance to cover, have you ever tried getting hold of the Emergency lines? – If I heard “Your call is important to us” once I would currently be a millionaire – being on hold for the KC is easy peasy compared to locating these people. From 8am Tuesday morning, in fact, I don’t think I have ever been as cold in my life – and the temperatures kept falling with my temper and composure (lack of of) rising. Eventually we had a young man who arrived on Friday evening, late, who managed to replace the pump and get us a very temporary fix until replacement items, including pipes and other plumbing equipment is sorted early this week. Just keep you fingers and toes crossed for higher temperatures please. Meanwhile, I hope many of you will have been able to access some of the very interesting articles produced for the AICSS All Ireland Collie & Sheepdog Society Facebook pages. If not, go and have a look, you may find something of interest or to make you smile there, under the heading Collie Chat – The Staying Connected Collection. Devised by the Officers and Committee, over the past week new articles have been added with subjects covering Mating, Tube Feeding, Buying a Collie puppy, Growing Up with Collies, Grooming and many more from some interesting contributors.
Back to our KC, who are still struggling to get their new website, user friendly, what a time to make changes when all anyone needs in life is stability and access to as much information as possible! A recent Press Release, confirms that there will be no changes to the Kennel Club Stud Book Bands for 2021 and that bands will remain as 2020! This applies to all shows (what do they know that we do not?) until 31st December 2021 and will be reviewed at the end of this year.
Carole Smedley |
