What's New

Just Like Clockwork...

Used with permission from Today’s Breeder magazine, Nestle Purina PetCare.

From the Health menu look under "Breeding & Reproduction"

Accredited Colleges of Veterinary Medicine – Offering Clinical Trials

A listing has been compiled by the HRC to help increase awareness of the many different types of research and therapies that are currently being offered by the various veterinary medical schools here in the US. The listing can be found on the Health menu.

Upcoming Events...

under "Show & Events", has been updated with numerous upcoming OES events. If you known of an event that includes OES's please let your Regional Director know about it so he/she can submit it for the website.

Westminster page...

can be found under the "Show & Events" menu.

Two New Articles from the OESCA Legislative Liaison...

"Legislative Alerts" can be found under the "Club Information" menu.

OESCA Wins Best In Show...

at the 2011 AKC/Eukanuba Invitational Meet The Breeds. Visit our Meet the Breeds coverage, under the Shows & Events menu.

2010 OESCA Annual Awards...

announced during the National Specialty are available from the Members Area, the 2011 National Specialty Results page and here.

Migration to wider pages throughout the website...

has begun. Some pages may experience short interruptions. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Again, I wish to thank Deb Lengyel for her assistance.

Enhancement to Members Look-Up

The Members Look-Up feature has been enhanced by the addition of a Goggle Map of the members location. The map is located at the bottom of the details page.

Introducing a gallery of photos submitted by OESCA members for your enjoyment and to reflect how these wonderful dogs touch our lives.

The "Fun" Photo Gallery is accessed by a new "Just for Fun" main menu item.

Note: the Gallery is displayed on a NEW WIDER PAGE layout that is being tested.

I wish to thank Deb Lengyel for her continuing support of the website by providing us with the redesigned wider banner/header.

Members "Fun" Photo Gallery - Photo Submission

Photos submitted by OESCA Members will be displayed anonymously in a Fun Photo Gallery for the enjoyment of all, members and non-members. Additionally, photos may be placed though out the website to enhance the appearance of the webpage/website. They may also be used in any OESCA endorsed printed or digital publication.

Access to the photo submission form is from the Members Area and also from the members Profile page.

"County" added to membership address information

Please update your membership profile with the County you live in.

Is your OES CHIC ?

See those that are.

New Online Membership Management System

Each membership will have its own User Name and Password, of YOUR choosing. Once logged in you can access your membership profile page where you will be able to update your password, mailing address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and many other items about your membership. If you lose or forget your password, you will be able to request that it be e-mailed to you.

Your NEW membership User Name & Password will also be used for access to the OESCA Members Area.

NOTE: To use the NEW system and to continue to have access to the OESCA Members area, the primary member MUST have a valid E-mail address on file.

Pedigree Search - Enhanced

The OESCA Open Health Registry Pedigree Search database, now available from the "Breed Information" menu, has been enhanced.

Added is the ability to dynamically ("on the fly") calculate Wright's Coefficient of Inbreeding (COI) and the Ancestor Loss Coefficient (ALC) and display them for the first 3 generations in "Pedigrees", "Reverse Pedigrees", and "Trial Pedigrees.

Also new, is the capability to display photos for the first 3 generations in pedigrees. You can use our submission form, accessible by clicking on the "Additions/Corrections" button on the search page, to submit photos to be included into our database.

For an example see this pedigree.

Recognition for AKC Breeder of Merit

By displaying a thumbnail image of the AKC Breeder of Merit for OES web banner in the Breeder Referral listing for the member. Let me know if you have received this recognition from the AKC and would like the thumbnail placed by your listing.

Go to TOP of page

In the lower right corner of most pages is a small icon , clicking on this icon will take you to the top of the page, making the menu easily accessible..

Member Look-Up

You get to it from the "OESCA Member Area" menu.

To use it, enter any amount of information in any field. Example: MI in State will list all members in Michigan, mi in Last Name, will list all members with "mi" in their last name. Currently for the Breed Interests fields you must enter only the first letter. Example "C" for Conformation. These fields will eventually be replaced with check boxes.

From the Results page, click on the magnifying glass icon to view the Details page.

This new function will be refined as testing continues.

Other examples: entering "great" in Region and "H" in Herding will display all members In the Great Plains Region with an interest in herding.

Note: All references in quotes above, are entered without the quotes.

Glycogen Storage Disorder (GSD) in some OES
We need your help!

There is research being done on OES by Colorado State University (CSU) and Florida State University investigating what what is believed to be Glycogen Storage Disorder (GSD) in some of OES. This disorder is associated with low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). CSU has requested that we ask the members of OESCA for any animals that have had one or more hypoglycemic episodes (low blood sugar) in their OES. The purpose for this request is to help determine if this is an isolated problem in a small group of OES or if it could be a more wide spread disorder. We ask that you report only dogs who have had documented (i.e. blood work performed by their vet) cases of hypoglycemia. Please send in the medical histories of such dog if possible. It is not necessary to send in pedigrees on these dogs and all information shall be kept strictly confidential.

Please contact David C. Twedt, DVM, Diplomat ACVIM, at Colorado State University for more specific information (david.twedt@colostate.edu) or Michelle Redfern, DVM (member OESCA HRC at redfern1@windstream.net for general information regarding this disorder and how you may be able to help ongoing research.

New Fundraising Merchandise for Rescue

CLICK HERE

Created by artist Karen Fischbach