Responsible Dog Ownership Day
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
Miami, FL

AKC Sanctioned Match


and joining us
Miami Dade Animal Services passing out information and trying to educate the public on
Responsible Dog Ownership
 
Above Juan Dominguez-Bendala, Xiomara Mordcowich and Gary Boyett, volunteers for Miami Dade Animal Services

 Gulfstream GUARDIAN ANGELS Rottweiler Rescue
a Purina Pro Plan Rally to Rescue Ambassador
The group made "Responsible Dog Owner" T-shirts for this event


Gloria Alayon and what breed is this? A wannabe Rottweiler?

LET THE SHOW BEGIN!

Match Chair Sandy Herzon
 
judging Rat Terriers, a new breed approved by AKC

Watching Obedience


Dobermans
 
Best Senior Puppy 
  
 Best Adult
 
Grace Acosta's Rottweiler "Ladron" carting the children!

and even those club members who were not showing brought their
"spoiled rotten" kids to the match!  


Wilma Lozano and Lourdes Cofino
 
from our match chairman...

WOW! Awesome. Glorious Indeed!

The GMDC Match in conjunction with the AKC’s Responsible Dog Ownership Day was a Steamy Success!

 The 2^nd Annual GMDC Club Match in conjunction with the AKC’s RDO Day was held at Belen Jesuit High School, Sunday the 16^th. The weather was great, although a bit hot and steamy, with the rain hovering close and only making a refreshing, momentary appearance.  

The turnout was better than last year, with more than 25 breeds present, over 60 dogs entered, including Rat Terriers that are the newest breed now accepted by the AKC in the miscellaneous class.  

Work started early at 7 AM as the busy bee volunteers that showed up at the crack of dawn transformed the Belen Jesuit High school baseball field into a temporary dog show venue. The canine event was covered by a Miami Herald reporter and attended by over a hundred participants.  

Besides the conformation and obedience match, there were a half dozen special canine interest groups participating as part of the nationwide AKC-sponsored Responsible Dog Ownership Day event.  

• Several GMDC & MOC members set up an AKC table filled with brochures, pins, stickers and other promotional material supplied by the AKC to spread the word about all the canine programs offered by the #1 registry in the country. 

• The AKC’s Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Testing was performed throughout the day by club member Maki Nieto-Menendez. 

• Miami-Dade Animal Control provided 3 of their spokesperson at the function and passed out valuable dog owner-related brochures and pamphlets to those in the crowd. 

• A Rat Terrier Specialty Match, chaired by GMDC member Andrea Werner was held to support the newest breed to be added to the AKC’s lineup of breeds. We had a great turnout with 6 Rat Terriers in competition. I had the honor of judging the Ratties of which the Best Of Breed Adult is ranked in the Top 5 in the country in another registry! 

• The GGARR Rally For Rescue Rottweiler rescue group, hosted by Grace Acosta set up a tent and was passing out Responsible Dog Owner shirts, plus a raffle was offered to raise funds for their cause. 

• K-9 For Kids Inc., a community service program group sponsored by Chambray Labradors and GMDC member Maki Nieto-Menendez had over half a dozen of their members present, with brochures and flyers available for those interested in volunteering their time for hospital and school visitations. Several new recruits were signed up and a new member successfully completed the CGC Test and will now go through the TDInc. evaluations to be registered as a K-9 For Kids Team Member. 

The slogan for this year’s match was “It’s All About The Dogs” and all those that came out and supported our club’s annual-to-be match proved how tight our dog community is with a very fun-filled day of friendly chitchat, camaraderie and canine competition. If you missed this year’s event, mark your calendars for next year’s match, as the wheels are already turning to make it even a better one.  

A great big thank you to all that came out and volunteered their time, especially the judges, Debbie Bates, Hector Hector, Pino Renzulli, Grace Acosta, Jackie Kurzban and CGC Evaluator Maki Nieto-Menendez.  

Thank you to the ring stewards and ring attendants Stuart Drake, GMDC members Arlene Tanel, Diane Snowden and Jessie Herzon.  

Thank you to the boys from Belen Jesuit that Grace had come by to help.  

A huge thank you to Jessie and Johanna Herzon that prepared all the paperwork in advanced and then manned the registration and provided the judges with their assignments. Thank you to Ryan Herzon and Mathew Menendez for running the concession stand. Thank you to those that hung around at the conclusion to clean up, there were so many I know I will forget some, Lourdes and Peter Cofino, Wilmay and Pino Renzuli, Grace and the Rottie Rescue group, the Chambray gang……….. Maki and Angel Menendez, Wanda and Courtney, Rosie Feeley, Faith and Neil Wasserman, Kathy and Karen Gjertsen, Ray and Lydia Castellanos, Susy and Bill Felix and others.  

If you guys are game, I am! Let’s do it again next year!  

Sandy Herzon 
Match Worker

Mark your calendar
our All breed shows
Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9, 2007
visit our website

www.miamidogclub.org 

page created by Grace Acosta