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PRESS RELEASES FROM AKC AKC Introduces Online Record Keeping -- Free, Web-based Service Helps Breeders Manage Dog and Litter Records -- New York, NY – The American Kennel Club ® is pleased to announce that Online Record Keeping, a new service for breeders of AKC ® registered litters and dogs, is now available. Any breeder with a My AKC account now has access to this free service, which provides a centralized area to manage and maintain dog and litter records online. “We are pleased to offer breeders of AKC dogs this new complimentary online feature to help them manage their dog and litter information,” said David Roberts, Assistant Vice President of Registration and Customer Service. “Breeders can access their personalized breeding, ownership, and registration records from any computer with internet access at any time. This service is only the beginning of a variety of online features planned for the future.” With the new Online Record Keeping service, breeders can record mating and birth information for litters and view offi cial AKC litter registration information including dog registration status for all puppies in a litter. There is also a handy address book function that gives breeders an easy place to store contact information for coowners and puppy buyers. And the AKC’s secure, password protected breeder record service keeps your information secure and private. In addition to being able to record and view information, breeders can also quickly print AKC Dog Ownership, Breeding, and Litter records. If the breeder completes the necessary fi elds in the record-keeping system, all of the information required for AKC record-keeping rules and regulations will be pre-populated on these forms. This new service also allows a breeder to record sale and ownership information for the puppies and to manage puppy records by adding notes about breeding and whelping. For those breeders that have already taken advantage of online dog registration to record sale and new ownership information for their puppies, this information has been moved to the Online Record Keeping section of My AKC for easier access. If you have an authenticated My AKC account (or want to start one - just go to the home page on the upper right hand box and start the quick process), maintaining your dog and litter records online is just a click away. AKC Companion Animal Recovery Introduces Revolutionary Microchip New chip to provide more affordable alternative for veterinarians and animal shelters Raleigh, NC – In its continuing effort to improve the pet recovery process in America, the American Kennel Club’s Companion Animal Recovery (AKC CAR) announced that it is introducing a revolutionary new microchip identifi cation system to the market. The new AKC Companion Animal Recovery ID System microchip is technologically superior and more affordable than microchips currently on the market. AKC CAR and Electronic ID Devices, Ltd. (EID) have entered a distribution agreement, where AKC CAR has become the exclusive distributor of TROVAN microchips in the United States companion animal market. TROVAN transponders have been in production and used in a variety of applications since 1991, using the most modern operational and manufacturing technologies available. The new AKC Companion Animal Recovery ID System microchips are part of the American standard, complying with the installed reader base used for identifying lost microchipped animals in most animals shelters throughout the United States. This new system will provide veterinarians, animal shelters, breeders and pet owners an alternative to the more expensive microchips currently being offered in the market,” said Dr. Carmen Battaglia, President and CEO of AKC CAR. “Our commitment is to increase the number of pets microchipped and enrolled in our recovery service in order to increase the number of lost pets that we recover.” Through a newly-designed delivery system, the AKC CAR microchip is implanted between the shoulder blades just below the skin of the pet. The two-piece, patented delivery system places the microchip in the pet while the lancet is simply retracted, leaving the chip in the precise location intended. Other applicators push the microchip out of a needle into the skin creating a risk of breakage and imprecise placement. Additionally, the AKC CAR microchip is smaller than other microchips and less likely to migrate. There are many reasons to support the AKC Companion Animal Recovery ID System. AKC CAR: Is the nation’s largest not-for-profi t recovery service Provides a live operator, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Has enrolled over 3.5 million animals and recovered over 320,000 Has a long-term commitment to the pets in the database Funds veterinary student scholarships, search and rescue teams, and disaster relief Continues to offer free updates to the pet’s record Follow these easy steps to get started: Upon enrollment, every pet owner receives a FREE metal collar tag containing the pet’s microchip number and the AKC CAR recovery hotline (1-800-252-7894). The tag is a critical part of the recovery 1. Login to your My AKC account. process, particularly if the pet is found by an ordinary citizen without 2. Sign up for Online Record Keeping services from the main page. a microchip scanner. 3. Go to the My Dogs and Litters section. “AKC CAR has worked diligently to identify and distribute 4. Click Breeder Records to view, create and maintain breeder a superior microchipping system,” continued Dr. Battaglia. “We records, view AKC litter and puppy registration information, and are confi dent that this new microchip will lead to even more pet manage puppy records. recoveries.” For more information on the AKC Companion Animal Recovery For more information go to: http://www.akc.org/services/breeder_ ID System, visit www.akccar.org/microchip or call 1-800-252records.cfm 7894. The Basenji Club of America, Inc. BULLETIN - 38
KENNELS FROM THE PAST Taysenji Kennels Elspet Ford I have often been asked how I started with basenjis. In the had something you wanted to take away from him. It was sudden death to try to dislodge him from your favorite chair, and he would fight to the end anything that was male with four legs, which, as we ran a boarding kennel and always had strange dogs about the place, hope that some may find my story of some interest I will now delve was a bit awkward to say the least. This dislike of his own sex was into history. the end of poor Zambi as he tried to finish off one of our Alsatian In 1950, when I got married, my husband & I decided that we boarders one day. would buy a smooth fox terrier and show it. Little did we guess Strange to say, he was badly missed as he was a dog of great the pleasure and enjoyment that action would entail. To this day I character, hardly any of it good, but like all basenjis, a great charmer don’t know why we wanted to go to dog shows. I had always gone in spite of his failings. I can remember him benched at dog shows to look at the New Year’s Day show in my hometown of Aberdeen, howling the place down & other exhibitors shouting over the noise but only as a horse & dog-mad teenage spectator. In those days that they had always thought that basenjis were noiseless. they really did hold the show on January 1st, which must have Before he met his unfortunate end, we had mated him to Mrs. been a bit rough on Scottish exhibitors after a hectic Hogmanay. Sadler’s black bitch, Miliku, from whom we got a litter of four Now they have learned their lesson, and hold it on the 1st Saturday pups. in January. At this stage Mrs. Sadler and I went into partnership and the The choice of dog was much easier to understand. I had a “Taysenji” prefix was born. “Tay” being Loma for black and the dearly beloved fox terrier, called Bobby, for most of my childhood “senji” part is self explanatory. so what other breed could it possibly be? The best of the black dogs that Zambi sired was booked to go We had varying successes with Jenny, nothing very much, but to South Africa to Mr. Bert Blewett of the Bessemer Basenjis. In enough to get Henry and me well and truly bitten by the show exchange I was to get a red bitch of his breeding. As often seems to bug. happen, the black dog, Taysenji Dopa, had an accident just before In 1953 we went out to Northern Rhodesia accompanied by he was due to leave for the Union. He ran into a thorn bush and two small sons and of course Jenny. The story of our life in Africa badly injured one of his eyes. As he was the very best of the litter with Jenny and all the other fox terriers doesn’t really come into in spite of his injury we decided to go ahead and send him down the story of the Taysenji Kennels, so I will skip over that part. to Mr. Blewett. He was badly needed as a stud dog. The basenji One day whilst walking the Main Street of Kitwe I met an population of South Africa was very small and a great deal of American lady with two little dogs, one red & white, the other inbreeding had, of necessity, taken place. black & white. Though I had never seen a basenji in the flesh, I Mr. Blewett did very well with Dopa (means Hunter) and only knew immediately what these two prick eared curly-tailed dogs needed one C.C. for his championship when the judges decided were. We got talking and Mrs. Sadler told me that she was a that he had lost the sight of the injured eye and withheld the award. missionary’s wife and how the tribe they had been connected with A lot of the South African dogs being shown today are descended in Liberia used basenjis for hunting and as meat. On hindsight I from Dopa, a Coptokin bitch who was litter sister to my Coptokin don’t remember knowing much about the breed at that time, but I Copper Beautique, and a couple of Fula dogs that were imported must have read something about them somewhere, at least enough by an American couple who were employed on the first American to create a fair degree of interest in them. I was fascinated by Mrs. satellite tracking project. Sadler’s stories and the dogs. Then just after that meeting there In return for Dopa I got back a little red bitch, Timsha of was an advertisement in the local paper “basenji dog looking for Bessemer, who mated to Mrs. Sadler’s red male, Kogi, gave me my good home.” I couldn’t get to the address quickly enough and first ever Champion, South African Champion Taysenji Titema. brought Zambi home with me. Kogi means Stomach in Loma, and if ever a dog was well Zambi of Andersley was I think bred in Africa by the sister named that one was. He loved his stomach and the things that went of our Mrs. Anderson of Andersley fame, but unfortunately I no into it. He was a really fat basenji. Roslyn tells a lovely story of how longer have his pedigree. It seems to have got mislaid sometime when they got him first in the Liberian village where the Sadlers during our travels. Anyway, he was a very handsome tricolor dog, were missionaries, Kogi was a really fat little puppy and one day and I now realize that he was a very good specimen indeed. His he went missing. Roslyn feared that he might end up in someone’s previous owner’s reason for getting rid of him was that he would cooking pot as the Loma people were one of the tribes that ate lie in the middle of a busy crossroads and let the cars find their way basenjis for meat. So she called the local witch doctor, threatened around him. That may well have been the truth, but it was only him with a lot more magic than he was capable of if anything half the story because it didn’t take us long to find out that he had should happen to the pups and sent him to warn the villagers. In every evil habit that a basenji ever thought of and a few more that due course the pup was returned home and ever after that there was belonged to himself. a very bewildered puppy in the village. He couldn’t understand He would tear the curtains, doors, walls, and house to shreds why nobody wanted to talk to him when he went visiting their if anyone was stupid enough to shut him in. As for kennels, they fires. The Africans were taking no chances. were demolished in a night in between the screams and howls of Around this time Roslyn and I decided it was time we got rage and loneliness. He would have your hand as a tasty extra more basenjis, so arranged to get two dog puppies from Miss Mary snack should you put it near his food whilst he was eating or if he Miller in Monrovia. The two dogs that arrived were Tahzu, the The Basenji Club of America, Inc. BULLETIN - 39
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