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BCCME 19th Annual Bounce & BBQ, July 13

June 29, 2024 /

The 2024 edition of the BCCME Bounce & BBQ will take place on Saturday, July 13 from 12 noon – 4 PM at Val’s house in Westbrook. Mark your calendars!

This year marks our 19th annual Bounce & BBQ! (Wow — time to start thinking about what to do to mark our 20th!)

We have a special attraction this year! Deb King (who has a Beardie, Emma) is our special guest for this year’s BBQ. Deb will do a demo of the Happy Ratters games. Happy Ratters and Barn Hunt are two growing dog sports where your dog tries to locate a (safely caged) rat using his/her nose. The rat cage is hidden in a maze of obstacles (Happy Ratters) or hay bales (Barn Hunt). Happy Ratters and Barn Hunt promote teamwork between you and your dog — your dog learns to take signals from you, and you learn to read your dog’s body language to know when s/he’s found the rat. There are Happy Ratters events around Maine multiple times per year.

Every year at the BBQ, we also hold our Annual meeting and elections. We’re always looking for folks to help out, so if you want to chair a new committee, join an existing committee, or are considering running for an office or the Board, just say the word. Even if you’d just like to host an event and invite the Beardies to bounce around your yard, that would be wonderful.

Membership Renewal Time!

The BBQ marks the time for all good Mainiacs to renew their club memberships! Hustle on over to the Join Us! page to download the printable form or renew online.

Our 2023 Event Calendar!

March 1, 2023 /

Our 2023 events are here, so check them out on our Events page.

This doesn’t have to be the complete and exhaustive list, however. If any member would like to host an event, just say the word. The Board will be happy to lend whatever suport you might need, including refreshments, paperwork, or whatever you’ll need to host a successful event.

June Specialty and Supported Entry at Ladies’, June 4-5, 2022

April 7, 2022 /

Great news! The Premium List is available for our Specialty and Supported Entry (hosted under the BCCA umbrella) at the Ladies’ Dog Club shows.

Here’s the link to the Premium List.

For all the details about our judges, deadline dates, and other things, come visit our event page.

Have Fun! Win Lobstah!

May 16, 2021 /

BCCME is hosting not one, but TWO fundraising raffles with gift certificates to GetMaineLobster.com! If yours is the winning ticket, you could end up with something like this:

We have other Wicked Decent raffles, too &mash; including a Noz2Noz soft crate hand-painted by Val!

Tickets for each drawing are $5 each or 5 for $20. The drawing date is Sunday, June 13.

Want to learn more? Want to get your tickets? Check out our Fundraising page!

Happy Spring, Mainiacs!

March 21, 2021 /

Hi Folks!

I hope you’ve all been keeping safe and well. Now that we’re emerging from winter hibernation and from the pandemic lockdown, it’s time to talk about what 2021 brings for BCCME.

The Board met this afternoon via Zoom to discuss our events. Here’s what’s going on:

  1. The May shows in Cumberland, ME have been canceled.
  2. It took a while for the official word to come from the town, but the Ladies’ Dog Club shows in Wrentham — where we hold our regional Specialty — *will* be taking place on June 5 and 6. The show format will be drastically stripped down from previous years: no party tent, no lunches, no spectators. If you don’t win your class, leave. (Sounds like a blast, right?) Anyway, we’re still holding the event. Pat Colombo is our Saturday Sweeps judge, Bob Lamm will judge regular classes. Our Sunday judge is (I think) Jon Cole. Entries will open mid-May, and MB-F is the super.
  3. The June shows in Cumberland *will* take place on June 24-27 at the Cumberland Fairgrounds. We have supported entries on Saturday and Sunday. MB-F s the super for that show as well.
  4. The event you’ve all been waiting for: The BCCME Bounce & BBQ! Tentative date is Saturday, July 10 from 12 noon – 4 PM. We’re still figuring out the logistics, such as whether people should bring their own picnic lunches. Sme of us will have been vaccinated by then and some of us won’t be yet, so we’ll have to mask and distance ourselves — but we’ll still be able to get together. Anyway, the Bounce will take place at Val’s new digs in Westbrook.

We’ll send more information as we get it. In the meantime, why don’t you folks tell us how you’ve been? We can’t wait to see you!

Some Photos from the BBQ!

July 14, 2019 /

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.

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Judging Programs for Ladies’

May 30, 2019 /

Here they are:

Saturday
Sunday

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!

Judging Programs for the Southern Maine Coastal Classic

May 9, 2019 /

The judging programs are up for the Cluster weekend!

Entry Breakdown for Southern Maine Coastal Classic

May 4, 2019 /

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.

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