April 2002 Issue

On our cover

Another Sydney Royal Show enthusiastically sponsored by Nestle Purina Petcare, featuring the Best in Show (Ch Peelhunt Ruler) and Puppy in Show (Fermoy Constellation) winners.

Features:

• CRUFTS - Many Individual Reports
• Mike Macbeth enthuses about Italt's Collare D'oro
• WA Contest of Champions
• Arthritis in Dogs
• Belconnen and ACT Cocker Specialty
• Thai Canine Carnival Chen Weng woh
• Chan Weng Woh report on Judging the Poodle Specialty in Denmark
• Sydney Royal Pictorial

Articles:

• Bounty on Dog Skins
• Pet Passports to be Extended
• Terrier returns after 5 years
• "A Dingo stole my wallet"
• Miss Showgirl at Gunning
• Dog owner's prayer
• Diary of Zimbabwe carer
• Anxiety Responses
• Loss of Famous American dog
• Ray Underwood AOM
• Obedience Training by Ann Bulke
• Linda Bennett writes on Operant Conditioning
• Dr Zorna visits NSW SAR Dogs

Breed Signatures

22 superb pages of Sled Dogs

• Early Siberian Huskies
• Sled Dogs
• The Sled Dog is a Wolf
• Siberian Huskies in Antarctica
• Survival Characteristics of the Alaskan Malamute
• Basic Standard set by the Eskimos'
• Basic Standard continued
• Re-defining your vocabulary with respect to Alaskan Malamutes
• The Eskimo Dog
• Vive la difference!
• Vive la difference! continued
• The Pain and Joy of a Blizzard in Australia
• Show Dogs
• IDITAROD 2002
• A new Austraian Breed - the Anaree Dog
• Anaree Continued
• In Far North, Fabled Dogs Come Bounding Back
• Australia Post honoured Huskies in the Austraian Antarctic

Regulars:

• THE Dog Groomer - Cheryl LeCourt
• Ron Sorraghan begins "Stories Herd at Dog Shows"
• Garry Somerville's Collar and Lead
• Communic8tor
• NZ News
• Letters
• Informant

• And - as always - some of Australia's most beautiful dogs