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Our 14th annual Bounce & BBQ is now part of the history books. Thanks to everyone who came, and who brought fabulous food and bouncing Beardies! We hope all the dogs slept very well yesterday — we humans certainly did!
Here’s a little slideshow of photos from the Bounce. If you want any of these individual photos, just ping Karen.
Listen up, Mainiacs! Our 14th annual BCCME Bounce & BBQ is happening on Saturday, July 13, from 12-4 at Val’s house in Scarborough. Gather up your Beardies, your lawn chairs, and some goodies for the potluck and come on over! The Charlie Brown Memorial kiddie pool will be out for the pups.
We’ll provide the hot dogs, hamburgers, and drinks. Vegetarians with stuff that needs grilling: we can provide you a space to grill your entrees.
As usual, we’ll also have a brief Annual Meeting and elections. Please consider writing yourself in on the ballot if you want to be an officer or a Board member. We can really use all the warm bodies we can get. Bring your checkbooks, too — we’ll take your membership renewals, plus we’ll have our annual “paper bag” raffle!
For more information about what to bring, check out the BBQ event page here. We have a handy-dandy RSVP form so you can tell Val you’re coming and what you’re bringing. This way, we don’t get 20 containers of potato salad. We also have a Google map so you can generate custom directions.
Here they are:
We apologize for the suck-tastic ring times, but they were much worse before the show chair argued on our behalf. Most of the time, we get our requested late-morning time, but this year, we have a popular judge and requested a popular ring time. We’ll have a blast anyway!
Before we show, we’ll have finger foods and munchies in the party tent. After we show, we’ll bring out the late lunch buffet and hold the raffle. Stick around!
16 Bearded Collies 2-6(5-3)0
4 Bearded Collies SWEEPS 1-3(0-0)0
1 Bearded Collies VET SWEEPS 1-0(0-0)0
16 Bearded Collies 2-6(4-3)0
The judging programs are up for the Cluster weekend!
The numbers are out! Here are our Beardie entries for the May shows:
Thursday, 5/16: 1-3(3-0)0
Friday, 5/17: 2-3(3-0)0
Saturday, 5/18: 1-3(3-0)0
Sunday, 5/19: 2-3(3-0)0
The judging programs aren’t out yet, but we’ll post them as soon as we can.
The Chickadee Cluster is one of the few remaining small local clusters in the State of Maine. This year, three all-breed clubs will be combining efforts: Central Maine KC, Lewiston-Auburn KC, and Penobscot Valley KC. BCCME is supporting the Bearded Collie entries on Saturday and Sunday of the Cluster We’ll have rosettes and trophies — and the host clubs are having catered lobster dinners on Friday and Saturday! For the performance folks, there are double obedience and rally trials on Saturday and Sunday.
Other special attractions happening at the Cluster:
Closing date for the shows in this Cluster is Wednesday, June 5 at noon. The superintendent is MB-F.
Here’s a link to the Premium List.
Our judges for the weekend (for Breed and for Group) are:
Thursday #1: Nathaniel Horn
Thursday #2: James Noe
Friday: Gloria Geringer
Saturday: Charlotte McGowan
Sunday: Ray Filburn
The BCCME Specialty takes place on June 1 at our traditional venue: the Ladies’ Dog Show at the Crackerbarrel Fairgrounds in Wrentham, MA. Tish Pollock (Runningmtn Beardies) will be our Sweeps judge, and Dana Cline will judge Regular Classes. Of course we’ll have the usual humongous buffet lunch and “paper bag” raffle in the club’s party tent, plus the trophies will be amazing!
On June 2, we’ll host our Supported Entry, with Garry Newton judging.
The Premium list is available here. MB-F is the super, and the closing date is May 15. Come on out and play!
Note the change of venue this year! The Cluster takes place at the Cumberland Fairgrounds in Cumberland, ME.
They’re having the following Special Attractions this year:
Our Supported Entries will take place on Saturday and Sunday. As always, we’ll have fabulous trophies and good company! Did we mention cheap lobstah?
Our judges for the weekend:
The Premium list is here. The superintendent for the shows is MB-F. Entry deadline is May 1.
The street address for the Cumberland Fairgrounds is 174 Bruce Hill Road, Cumberland, ME.
Use the handy Google Map to generate custom directions. Note that Google uses Blanchard Road for the street address.
Don Marshall is offering these doggie items from Barbara’s equipment collection. He is asking for donations to BCCA Rescue in her name for these items. All items are located in Bedford, MA. Make any arrangements for pickup with Don.
If you’re interested in any of these items, contact Don at dmrelion98@gmail.com.
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Don’s description:
First there is a whelping box. We paid about $200 to $250 for it many years ago. I would suggest a $50.00 donation to Beardie Rescue in Barb’s name.
The yardstick shows the dimensions. It is made of plywood, untreated or painted in any fashion because the puppies might chew on it.
The bottom comes out easily for cleaning.
I added holes for 1″ dowels so the mother could not squeeze a puppy up against the wall. I put metal hose clamps on the outside of the dowels to keep them in place. Dowels and clamps are not included.
The front has a cutout so it is easy for the mother to get in and out when the puppies are small. Then I added a board to close up this cutout when the puppies got large enough to crawl out This board is included. I simply screwed it on (screws included,) but sometimes I used C clamps.
The box has small wooden pads on each corner so it is an inch or so off the floor.
The bottom piece has enough clearance so one can wrap a couple of sheets around it and then drop it in place. This makes it easy to keep clean.
Another item is a set of tracking equipment, 4 flags on posts, a tracking harness, a pamphlet by Virginia Parsons et al, all in a shopping bag from one of the specialties. I will even put the shopping bag thru the washing machine. There are also several of the treats that they use in tracking. Donation amount ????
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Finally I have a 10 foot by 10 foot by 6 foot tall galvanized screen outside yard. It has a single full height door. I looked one up on Amazon and they wanted $1200 for it. Selling it for $200. It is sold “as is, where is,” so the buyer needs to do the disassembly.
There is a miscellaneous collection of small items, puppy feeding and water dishes, many Beardie and other dog books, puppy jackets, etc.
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