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SDDTC Open Show.New date.

Sunday, 17 January 2010 10:19

Southern Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club Open Show.
The date of our annual open show has been changed,the venue has been double booked so our show has now moved to a different date,2 May 2010 (subject to KC approval) the venue will ba the same as usual.Our judge this year is Alan Norcross (Paynor)The AGM will take place in the morning followed after lunch with the show.Schedules will be posted to members in due course.Anyone requiring a schedule please contact Hon Sec Jane Withers 01635 201489.

Dandie Dinmont Terrier Glaucoma Research Update

Thursday, 26 November 2009 19:51

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Glaucoma is among the leading causes of blindness both in humans and in dogs. Glaucoma is defined by elevation of the intraocular pressure. Glaucoma can be hereditary or secondary due to some other ocular disease. Using a genome-wide mapping approach with canine-specific markers we have identified a novel glaucoma locus to CFA8 in Dandie Dinmont Terrier dog breed (DDT) with a late-onset disease. The overall associated region is large covering about 10 Mb of sequence but fine-mapping narrows the best haplotype to a 2 Mb critical region. Our ongoing re-sequencing efforts of the entire locus aim to identify the causative mutation, which may help us to understand the genetic background of glaucoma across species. The identified locus maps to a syntetic region previously associated with human glaucoma too.

SDDTC Championship Show 2009

Tuesday, 22 September 2009 13:19

The sun shone on Cricklade on Sunday 20th September when we held our annual Championship show.

Judge Dave Scawthorn found his BIS in Beverly Deacon's mustard dog Ch/AM Ch Pennywise Burning Ambition For Cassencarrie,BCC and BOS was Billy and Jackie Shore's Ch Swanwillow Savannah, again a mustard, RDCC went to Pat Bannister's Ch Banburg Alfresco, a mustard handled by Paul Eardley and RBCC was Glen Tinsley's Cloverwood Razzberry Ice,again mustard,BPIS was a new one,Venord Windcharm owned by the Harrington family and handled by her breeder Karen Plastow,again mustard,BVIS was this time a pepper bitch,Stinchcombe Love In The Mist owned by Cynthia Bailey.

Obituary: George I Johnston.

Wednesday, 15 July 2009 09:52

Sadly I have to report the death of George I Johnston ( Sykemoor ) who died on Tuesday 14th July. I had known George and his late wife Cynthia for many years, George was a gentleman, one of the old school, he had a great knowledge and understanding of the breed which he had owned along with his father since WW2, a lot of his learning came from their association with the Jardine family and the Waterbeck Dandies.One of George's most famous dogs was Ch Gladsmuir Gay Godess, whelped in 1952 bred by FL LT and Mrs Peter Townshend she won three CC's from 1954 to 1956. George's other great love was Basset Hounds though I will leave that part of his life to others more qualified than me to comment on.

SDDTC Open Show 2009

Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:07

We held another successful Open Show on Sunday 12th April at Cricklade Town Hall. The AGM took place in the morning and it was agreed by the members to donate £2000 to Prof Lohi in Finland to aid his continued work into mapping the DNA of the Dandie to help in finding the gene which carries Glaucoma.