On 9 different email addresses and do not want to read any of them. Do you think I should go back to bed?
No. Unless they are spam, (delete all), enjoy the fact that you have people who are interested in you - much better than the alternative.
Not spam - I just have a lot of email addresses. Ummm - well a few more than nine but some are from Google Alerts on different subjects so I went back to bed. And they keep on coming. OK so I have my ISP main email address which comes through Mozilla Thunderbird. And I have the Domain I bought which also comes through Thunderbird. It is actually my KC registered affix. And that is one special name which nobody can have it as it was registered for life. And then there are ten gmails and one yahell and one hitmail wot comes fru Mozilla Firefox and I think I need to go back to bed - again.
Yes, I also took mine out for life - I think it cost 8 guineas in 1961. (Though I notice the KC have the registration date down as 1965 on MyKC! - I must get up to the roof space and have a look at my old certificates, one day). I think that must make it the best bargain I have ever had, though my life membership of the Northern Cavalier KCSS must run it very close!
I have no idea when I registered my KC affix. I just remember having to give six names and they actually gave me my first choice. And it is mine. My UK KC registered affix.
@Malka If you join up to MyKC the Kennel Club may well have your date shown correctly. It is actually quite interesting to find that you have owned a larger number of dogs than you thought. This is because many of your puppy buyers never bothered to transfer them! A little off topic but: My big niggle with MyKC is that it doesn't show the amount of health testing that anyone did, (or did not do), before the current schemes came into being. For example, my dogs were hip xray marked under the Pass, Fail, Breeders Letter scheme, which was the standard at that time. Though I still have their certificates, no results appear on their records, as the current hip scoring scheme was not in existence at that time! When MVD became a concern, our dog's hearts were tested at shows, by Peter Darke or one of his colleagues. The heart testing scheme was then in its infancy, and the grades were verbally notified, and recorded, but were not certificated. I also remember Peter Bedford examining eyes at Championship shows. This also grew into a KC scheme, when certificates became available for a standard fee. Only my dogs eye certificates appear on the official KC record, which does make it seem as if older breeders cared little about health testing, rather than actually pioneering it. A similar thing seems to be happening recently in Cavaliers, as many of the most concerned breeders had MRI scans for SM/CM carried out at an early stage of the research. These breeders now find that their scans do not meet the criteria for the KC scheme, and need to be redone. As MRI scans and readings are very expensive, there has naturally been some resistance to retesting, leading to the perception that there has been a low take up of the KC scheme by Cavalier breeders.
@CaroleC - I actually do not want to know. There were no health tests for Griffons then and as most of my pups were sold as pets I kept all the papers even though they were registered with the KC. I registered them but most people did not want papers - so the pups were registered in my name and were never transferred. I do not even know whether there are health tests for Griffs now. I was not a BYB - and my pups were born and lived in the house and were fully house-trained before they went, and apart from a few top show quality, were sold as pets with no papers even though I had registered them. Probably all gone now but I still have the papers, and every time someone took a pup home I would take a photograph of them with the pup - still got them. Well all my tribe lived in my house. Because they were my pets. Not breeding machines.
