Photos of the Presentation Dinner and the Doggie Christmas Party have been uploaded and are on the "Photos" page. Latest news of our Pathfinder Guide Dog puppy is now on the Jutone website, www.jutone.co.uk.
______________________________________
5th October 2011 Obedience Training at Plymouth
We have been receiving a large number of requests for training classes in the Plymouth area. Due to the high cost of hiring premises in Plymouth and the low number of people attending the classes we had to discontinue classes in Plymouth several years ago.
We are now pleased to announce that we will be holding obedience classes at Kitley on Thursday evenings. Terry, our obedience trainer at Hennock, has been holding basic obedience classes for the agility section for some time now but he has decided to open the classes to German Shepherd Dogs and owners who do not wish to go on to the agility class. He will start with basic obedience and develop to more advanced classes if there is enough demand.
For more details please phone Terry on 07776 493395, evenings after 7.30pm
For several years the Club has made a monthly donation to Guide Dogs for the Blind. Recently we had a letter from the bank telling us that our standing order was no longer being taken and had been cancelled. At the time of the AGM we became aware of an organisation which provided trained dogs to guide blind people. What was particularly interesting was the fact that this organisation only used GERMAN SHEPHERD DOGS! Well, we all know that one GSD is worth ten Labradors!!! This organisation is called Pathfinder Dogs and was formed in 2003. The Committee decided unanimously that we would now support Pathfinder Dogs to supply GSD's as guide dogs to blind people. To find out more about Pathfinder Dogs pleaseclick their logo on the "Links" page. There is also more information on the Jutone & Felsental website www.jutone.co.uk
On Sunday 14th August 2011 the Display Team were at the Hennock Country Fayre which has become an annual appointment for the team. There were 16 dogs in the display and the long programme with the agility display was performed. The organisers commented that it was the best display that the team had ever put on and it was very much appreciated by the large crowd. Jim and Sandra manned the Club tent all day with "Cyd" Jutone Channan and puppy "Eric" Felsental Sword who drew in a large number of people. We have already been booked for next year!
On 10th July 2011 the Display Team were in action again at Imperial Park, Exmouth where a charity "Doggy Day" was held. The display went down very well with the crowd and we have already been asked to pencil the date in our diaries for next year. We have two more displays booked for this year, details are on the "Shows and Events" page
Our 2011 AGM was held at the Hennock Training Ground on Sunday 3rd July. It was well attended by members who were interested in the progress of the Club. We are in a strong position both in financial terms and generally as a Club. Tracey Burn and Alan Barnes who have become active members of the committee since they were co-opted last year were elected as full members. Improvements in facilities planned for the next 12 months were discussed as well as our accounts. Everyone is looking forward to the next 12 months.
It is with much sadness and regret that we announce the death last night of Sara Gray of the Megamax Kennels after a long illness. Sarah had long connections with the Club and will be greatly missed by all her friends in the breed section. Our deepest condolences go to her husband, son and young daughter.
Sunday 1st May 2011 at the West of England Ladies Kennel Society Championship Show was just like a normal Sunday at our ringcraft class as most of our ringcraft members were there! We were all lucky enough to be well placed in quality classes and our dogs were a credit to the South-West and the Club.
Petra Minhinett 2nd in Yearling Dog with Belezra Torino
Anne Swift 2nd in Limit Dog with Veneze Dino
Jim Apps 3rd in Veteran Bitch with Zeline vom Luttersbruch
Jim Apps and Sandra Tucker 3rd in Puppy Bitch with Jutone Dakota vom Felsental
Denise, Dave and Emma Hensley 2nd in Yearling Bitch with Zuberg Xandina
Very best congratulations to John and Pauline Cullen and their Champion Elmo vom Huhnegrab. Elmo was "Best of Breed" at Crufts last Friday and went on to win the Pastoral Group, the best result for a GSD in many years. A very pleasing result after the appalling treatment of the "Best of Breed" last year. (please see the Chaimans update on the Kennel Club's "Undertaking" page)
________________________________________________
The "Top Ten" Lists for the 2010 UK showring have been published. Congratulations to Club members John and Pauline Cullen and their Veneze kennel. They were Top Breeder and their Champion Elmo vom Huhnegrab was Top Dog. Veneze Ada was Top Dam and Veneze Chaos Top Bitch. Almost a clean sweep! Congratulations to Terry Kessel and Mary Brimacombe whose Conbhairean Ursus at Kesenburg was ninth in the Top Dog list. Terry, Mary and their dogs are regularly at our Sunday training sessions.
_________________________________________________
Congratulations to Tina and Geoff Melsome and their dog Felsental Ferrari (Enzo). Enzo was picked as "Best of Breed" at the Exeter and District Canine Society show on 4th December 2010. Another wonderful result for our ringcraft section.
__________________________________________
On Sunday 14th October we held the tests for the Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme at all three levels. Those who took part had been working extremely hard for several weeks to train their dogs to a very high standard. Congratulations to all of the members who took part especially those who qualified two dogs.
Bronze Test
L to R; Emma with Dotty, Sandra - the KC Qualified Judge, Alan with Ace
Silver Award
L to R; Emma with Sammy, Andrea with Rex, Sandra and Alan with Diesel
Gold Award
Sandra with Tina Melsome and Tara. They became only the third pair in the Club to acheive the Gold Award
Best Puppy in Show Chisholm's Bohlkenbridge Just-Joll
Best Puppy Dog Swift's Veneze Dino
Best of Breed Keen's Clokellys Lola
Best Opposite Sex Swift's Veneze Dino
We are very pleased to congratulate our Club members who had a clean sweep of the major prizes. Best congratulations to John Chisholm, Anne Swift and Carol Keen.
Obedience Results
Beginners Sumner's Abbie Lankey Lou (W.S.)
Best GSD George's Estone Morannon
Novice Dog Callachan's Taken By Storm (B.C.)
Best GSD Makkai's Magicmapps Thunder Storm
Novice Bitch Warren's Cocobola Singin' the Blues for Shamorel (B.C.)
Best GSD Carpenter's Lawnick Restless Heart
Class "A" Iles Dusterette at Weatherile (W.S.)
Best GSD Slade's Zakanja Banana Magic
Class "B" Lewis' Saartjie Just So (W.S.)
Best GSD Holley's Honeylands Tiger Feet
Class "C" Scott's Callawen Dancing Star at Kallies O.W. (B.C.)
No GSD entered.
Congratulations to all our winners. It is very pleasing for the organisers of the show to see competitors coming from further and further afield. As a GSD club it is also very pleasing to see GSD's in nearly all the classes and being highly placed overall.
The GSD Club of Devon look forward to seeing you again in June 2011!
________________________________________________
1st November 2010
With regard to the GSD Club of Devon's statement regarding the Kennel Club "Undertaking" (see the page on this website). We are very pleased to announce that after 30 years of negotiation the word "Alsatian" has been dropped from the name of our breed. With immediate effect the breed will be known simply as the "German Shepherd Dog".
_________________________________________
12th September 2010
We have received a letter from the Kennel Club confirming that we have been given an "Excellent" grading by the Field Officer for our Golden Anniversary Championship Show.
8th August 2010
The Display Team was in action at the well known "Hennock Country Fayre and Horse Show". The Team have been practising for several months and the 17 dogs in the arena gave a really good performance of this years routine. Only those who were there will know what effect the smell of a hamburger had on some of the dogs.............!! We have managed to obtain a few photos of the display which are on the 'Photos' page.
______________________________
The 50th Anniversary (and our last) Championship Show was held at Newhall Equestrian Centre. Despite low entries on the day it was a show that will be remembered to mark our half century. It was described by the KC Field Officer as "nice people and a very pleasant atmosphere", a very kind comment in these troubled times for the breed.
Dogs: Herr Otto Körber-Ahrens (Brunnenstraße)
Minor Puppy Dog Baker & Robinson's Corjon Tazz
Puppy Dog Armstrong's Geeswood Jay
Junior Dog Cullen's Veneze Erik
Yearling Dog Swift's Veneze Dino
Post Graduate Dog George's Romainville Mikkee
Limit Dog Cullen's Veneze Conner
Open Dog Gray's Videx Tyson at Megamax
Bitches: Herr Rüdiger Mai (Bierstadter-hof)
Minor Puppy Bitch Cullen's Veneze Frankie
Puppy Bitch Armstrong's Geeswood Jade
Junior Bitch Bowen & Wadlow's Conbhairean Winona
Yearling Bitch Belfield's Kassieger Rianne
Post Graduate Bitch Taylor's Samaravic Shayla
Limit Bitch Sheffield's Willowdale Keifa
Open Bitch Hall's Gayvilles Zora
Best Puppy Dog - Armstrong's Geeswood Jay
Best Puppy Bitch - Armstrong's Geeswood Jade
Best Puppy in Show - Armstrong's Geeswood Jay
Dog CC - Cullen's Veneze Erik
Reserve Dog CC - George's Romainville Mikkee
Bitch CC - Sheffield's Willowdale Keifa
Reserve Bitch CC - Hall's Gayvilles Zora
Best in Show - Sheffield's Willowdale Keifa
Congratulations to all the winners. Thanks to everyone for bringing their dogs such a long way and making the day one to remember. Congratulations to all of our Club members who did well on the day especially Georgie Sheffield and her very deserving "Best in Show" Willowdale Keifa. Pictures are now on the "Photos" page.
______________________________________
Winners of the Obedience Open Show held at the Hennock Training Ground
Beginners
121, Mrs S. Lindsey's Ruperts Golden Boy (Golden Retriever)
Best GSD in Class, 206, Mrs T. Young's Sapphires Magic at Tralanas
Novice Dog
41, Val Craven's Cody of Plas Major (Working Sheepdog)
Best GSD in Class, 110, Jen Jessop's Estone Ridgerider
Novice Bitch
82, Ms S. Head's Tilly Takes Off (Working Sheepdog)
Best GSD in Class, 181, P. Trigg's Gefni Cornish Cracker at Nansough
Class "A"
199, Sylvia Wootton's Revelstoke Funky Music (Working Sheepdog)
No GSD entered
Class "B"
72, Winner and Best GSD, Jenny Gould's Zakanja Bitter 'N' Twisted (German Shepherd Dog)
Class "C"
192, Mrs G. Wetherall's Forevermagic Taylor Maid (Working Sheepdog)
No GSD entered
Congratulations to all our winners and thanks to all those who made it a very pleasant day particularly the judges and all the stewards for their hard work. We hope to see you all again in October!
We are pleased to congratulate our Club members who did very well at the Joint GSD Club's Two Day Show run, this year, by the GSD League of Great Britain, probably the largest GSD show held in the UK.
Carole Keen's Clokellys Chipsi, 4th Minor Puppy Bitch
Petra Minhinett's Jaxungate Jaffa, 5th Minor Puppy Bitch
Carole Keen's Clokellys Coco, 5th Puppy Bitch
Sarah Julian's Gazjackhof Carly at Lindmark, 4th Yearling Bitch
Petra Minhinett's Belezra Torino, 3rd Junior Dog
Terry Kessel and Mary Brimacombe's Conbhairean Ursus at Kesenburg, 1st Yearling Dog
Anne Swift's Veneze Dino, 2nd Yearling Dog
Dave, Denise and Emma Hensley's (and others) Zumander Bacchus, 3rd Limit Dog
______________________________________
2th March 2010
Many congratulations to Club member Carol Keen. Carol's dog, Clokellys Lagos, won "Best Dog" and "Best of Breed" at Crufts yesterday, 11th March 2010. This is a very great achievement for this local dog. Lagos has only recently returned from Germany where he qualified SchH3 and AD so it has been a very special year for him and Carol so far! He is now well on his way to becoming a Champion.
Other members of the Club also qualified for and attended Crufts but didn't quite achieve the same success.
____________________________________________
12th December 2009
Our Christmas Dinner and Presentation Evening was held at the Cromwell Arms Hotel. During the evening several prizes were awarded and medals were presented to the display team. The highlight of the evening was the presentation of framed "Life Membership" certificates to the Club Secretary, Sandra Tucker and the Club President Erika Markus. Mike Lewis, the agility trainer, was also made a Life Member but was unable to attend the Dinner. Photo's on the "Photo's" page.
_____________________________
7th December 2009
We intended to hold our 2010 Open Obedience Show in July in conjuction with our Championship Breed Show. It came to our notice that this date clashed with a two-day obedience show. We have now received KC licences to hold the Obedience Show on 19th June 2010 at the Hennock Training Ground. Details will be on the "Shows and Events" page.
The Doggy Christmas Party was held at the Hennock Training Ground this afternoon. Suprisingly, it stopped raining for the duration of the games and costumes were kept dry. As usual a buffet was available for the humans afterwards. Photos are on the "Photos" page.
Congratulations to Emma Broadhurst with Samantha, and Andrea Nemcova with Rex who passed their Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme Bronze award. Also congratulations to Claudette Martens with Treeck and Geoff Melsome with Enzo who passed their Puppy Foundation course.
L to R: Geoff with Enzo, Emma with Samantha and Claudette with Treeck
____________________________________
4th November 2009
Our "Open" show was held on Saturday 31st October. Unlike the June show it was dry all day and we were pleased to see record attendances. Due to the date of the show we gave it a halloween theme! (please see photos page). We would like to apologise to anyone who had difficulty finding the venue, a mindless moron had stolen or damaged all but one of our direction signs.
Novice Part 1: O'Neills Jardneka Oleanna (Belgian Shepherd Dog)
Novice Part 2: Johnsons' Chanlee Patter of Muddy Paws (X Breed)
Class "A": Benstocks' Joby Joe (Working Sheepdog)
Class "B": Clarks' Saartjie Mischief Maker (Working Sheepdog)
Class "C": Scotts' Callawen Dancing Star at Kallijes (Border Collie)
Congratulations to all of our winners especially as we had a number of first time winners in the obedience classes this year. Thanks to all those who were kind enough to make favourable comments and those who made constructive suggestions, several of which will be taken into use at our next show. Thanks to the usual committee members who put up the rings and tents on Friday (in the rain) and took them down again on Saturday evening. Lastly we would like to thank the judges, ring stewards, stay stewards and table stewards without whom there would be no show.
______________________________
We are pleased to announce that we have now acquired a floodlighting system for the Training Ground. In future we will be able to offer evening training sessions all year round. We were previously only able to hold evening training sessions between April and October.
______________________________
9th August 2009
Our Display Team were one of the top attractions at the Hennock Country Fair on Sunday. A record number of 18 dogs put on an excellent display of obedience, agility and a few special tricks to the largest crowd at the show for many years. It was very hot on the day but despite this the display went very well. Thanks go to Terry and all of the handlers who took part for all of the time spent practising for the show. Please see pictures on "Photos" page
_______________________________
5th August 2009
The Chairman commented in the press on the suspension of Challenge Certificates by the Kennel Club for German Shepherds in 2012.
In an article in the Express and Echo Jim commented on the unfairness of singling out the German Shepherd Dog "for health reasons" as ALL other breeds mentioned in the programme "Pedigree Dogs Exposed" had still received their allocation of CC's for 2012. This article was also reproduced in full in the GSD Breed Council "National" magazine.
_________________________________________
Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Tests - Silver and Gold Levels
The above tests were held at the Hennock Training Ground on Sunday 21st June 2009
Congratulations to Tina with Tara, and Sarah with Mac who passed the Silver Award. Special congratulations to Phil with Zoe, Malcolm with Kyi and Sarah with Lararth Sonny and Breed Champion Zuberg Lyric who passed the Gold Award, the highest level. The Officers and Committee of the Club are very proud of the outstanding level of training and the time spent by each handler and their dog to achieve this level of success.
Silver Level. Tina Tina with Tara and Sarah with Mac. Sandra the examiner in the centre.
Gold Level. L to R. Malcolm with Kyi, Phil with Zoe, Sandra the examiner and Sarah with Breed Champion Zuberg Lyric and Lararth Sonny.
________________________________
The above tests were held at the Hennock Training Ground on Sunday 14th June 2009.
Congratulations to Tracey with Tia, Sandra with Sheba, Alan with Diesel, Sue with Harley, Chris with Sam and Emma with Samantha who were all successful in their tests. They are shown below with Sandra Tucker, the Bronze level examiner.
________________________________________________
Open Breed and Obedience Show - 6th June 2009
We held our June Open Breed and Obedience Show yesterday. Despite the very heavy rain (therefore no photo's) and a poor entry in the Breed classes, both of which were due to circumstances beyond our control, the show went off really well.
Breed Winners:
Best of Breed; Aldridges' Edser Anton
Best Opposite Sex; Davies' Silverleigh Niamh
Best Puppy; Davies' Silverleigh Vermer
Obedience Winners:
Beginners; Budds' Latchets Zest (GSD)
Novice; Woottons' Diagemtas Cassie (BC)
"A"; Yeo's Crofthandy Summer Wine (WS)
"B"; Allens' Plasmajor Cloud (BC)
"C"; Forkes' Seaspirits Whizz
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of the judges, stewards inside and outside the rings, and all of the show officials for their hard work and good humour throughout the day despite being soaked to their underwear! Thanks also the members who helped to prepare the showgound on Friday and dismantle it on Sunday. We would also like to thank Shirley and Avril in the kitchen for making the lunches go so smoothly.
Jim Apps, Show Manager. Sandra Tucker, Show Secretary. Terry Welch, Chief Obedience Steward.
________________________________________
The 2009 AGM was held at the Hennock Training Ground on Sunday 17th May. The Chairman's Report and the Treasurer's Report show that the Club is progressing well and in a sound financial position. There are a long list of improvements and maintainance projects for the next 12 months but we are well placed to go forward with them. Tina and Geoff Melsome, who were co-opted to the committee last year, were unanimously elected as full members of the committee. All other officers and members of the committee due to retire were re-elected unopposed. An informal discussion took place after the AGM and some idea's for activities for the next year were suggested. Apart from the necessary formality of the AGM this was a productive discussion without having to take time away from our normal afternoons training.
Crufts 2009 Sunday 8th March 2009
Crufts is a world famous dog show and just to qualify for entry is an achievement. Only the very best dogs in the country are allowed to compete.
A number of our members were lucky enough to qualify this year and did very well.
Congratulations go to:-
Carol Keen Clokellys Lagos 1st, Special Junior Dog
Sarah Julian Lararth Sonny 3rd, Good Citizen Dog Scheme - Dog
Sandra (our Secretary) Jutone Lisa at Chrisinge 1st, Veteran Bitch (handled by Jim, the Chairman)
Denise Hensley Zuberg Deenika 4th, Veteran Bitch
Marina-Jane Julian received the 2nd prize for the German Shepherd Dog Breed Council's "Most Promising Young Handler" 11 - 16 years age group for 2008.
Congratulations to Emma Broadhurst with Samantha, and Andrea Nemcova with Rex who passed their Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme Bronze award. Also congratulations to Claudette Martens with Treeck and Geoff Melsome with Enzo who passed their Puppy Foundation course. 
Silver Level. Tina Tina with Tara and Sarah with Mac. Sandra the examiner in the centre. 
Gold Level. L to R. Malcolm with Kyi, Phil with Zoe, Sandra the examiner and Sarah with Breed Champion Zuberg Lyric and Lararth Sonny.
