Long-Dangerous Tails

Unfortunately it has been a very bad year for dolphin strandings on Cape Cod. Today  the Brewster Police received a call about several dolphins in distress on the Brewster bayside beach. I responded and found six dolphins on the sand flats and three more circling in very shallow water. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has a marine mammal stranding network that responds to all such standings. IFAW was contacted and came to the scene. All nine dolphins were alive and removed from the beach. They were placed in the IFAW transport trucks where they were examined by a veterinarian. The animals were transported to the ocean side of the Cape and all were able to be released. I have posted a link to an article in the Cape Cod Times.

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120201/NEWS11/120209989

If you are interested there are more dolphin pictures today on the Cape Cod Times website. Scroll down to  “Latest Time News Photos” (in the middle column)

http://www.capecodonline.com/

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Each year the Cape Cod Kennel Club recognizes new titles earned by member’s dogs from December 1 to November 30 of that year. Although the CCKC is affiliated with the AKC, the club acknowledges all new titles regardless of the venue where they were earned and provides a plaque with the titles listed.

The following was read to the members at the Annual Awards Banquet last night…

“Alta-Tollhaus Ivan is a 2 year old male German Shepherd Dog owned and loved by Jack and Lynda. In February, at just over a year old, Ivan earned his Companion Dog Title (CD)  in three consecutive trials. In March he competed in the Carolina German Shepherd Working Dog Club show in North Carolina and placed 1^st earning his SG1 rating.  A week later Ivan was entered in the Bahamas Kennel Club International Dog Show & Obedience Trial where he earned his Bahamian Championship and Bahamian Companion Dog (Bah. CD) and Bahamian Rally Novice (Bah. RN) Titles. In September Ivan earned his AKC Rally Advanced Title (RA), again in three consecutive trials, one with a perfect score of 100! The following week Ivan competed in and passed the Begleithundprufung (BH). In October Ivan competed in the North American Sieger Show in Virginia where he earned SG9″.

Bahamian Ch. SG Alta-Tollhaus Ivan

BH, CD, RA, CGC, Bah. CD, Bah. RN

The following was read about Dylan

“ShadowGlen’s Midnight Dylan is a 6 ½ year old male black Labrador Retriever, loved, owned and handled by Lynda & Jack. This year Dylan continued to compete in the Preferred Agility Classes and he loves the 16 inch height jumps! He earned his Excellent Agility Jumpers Preferred (AJP), Agility FAST Open Preferred (OFP), Agility Excellent Preferred (AXP) and Agility FAST Excellent Preferred (XFP) Titles. He is now working on his Master Preferred Titles”.

Bahamian Ch. ShadowGlen’s Midnight Dylan

UD, RE, MX, AXJ, XF, AXP, AJP, XFP, CC, TDI, CGC, Bah. CD, Bah. RA

Julie,

Here are a few more scenic pictures (without the dogs on them!) that we took during our walk yesterday.

…I could not resist adding a couple more of Ivan! 

After an unseasonably mild Winter we got our first snow storm today.

Obviously agility training was out of the question…

So we went for a walk in the Bell’s Neck Conservation area in Harwich

….but when it’s in the high 50′s, sunny & no wind on January 7th you MUST go to the beach!