2/24/10
TBNTC members didn't let the wintet weather affect their accomplishments at the Midland, TX shows. Erwin Davenport and Jennifer Hays owned "Raider" completed his Conformation title with a major win, earning his dam "Reggie" the ROM designation with 5 champion get; Ken Slump and Deane Hall owned "Happy" completed his Conformation title with a major win and their "Lucy" earned two majors; Beth Kravetz "Poppy" earned two majors; and Sandra Stemmler's "Sam" swept Best Of Breed all four days and captured a Group 4th, 3rd and 2nd. A very nice representation for our members and congratulations to all!

1/29/10
The Norfolk Terrier Club presents the 2010 FUN DAY in Rhode Island the first weekend in June. READ MORE...

1/28/10
New AKC Title: Grand Champion takes effect May 12, 2010. Read More...

10/27/09
Date: March 6, 2010
in conjunction with the Detroit Kennel Club (benched show)
at the Cobo Convention Center, Detriot, MI
Sweepstakes Judge:  Mr. Lorenzo Mosby
Regular Class Judge:  Mrs. Rosalind Kraus Kramer

7/30/09
The first specialty for The Bluebonnet Norfolk Terrier Club has concluded and was hugely successful. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all of you who attended and supported our specialty. We enjoyed majors for every show in the cluster and thank all those who helped keep those majors together for the benefit of all the exhibitors.

Gloria Geringer did an oustanding job on her Sweepstakes entry and what a great hand she has on these puppies! Gloria obviously loves the breed and we appreciated her taking on this last minute assignment in the abscence of Marjorie McTernan.

Larry Adams took control of his assignment of the regular classes with knowledge and enthusiasm. Everyone appreciated his thorough judging of the entry and his comments at the banquet Saturday evening.

Special thanks go to Denise Faulkner for her donation of original Norfolk Terrier drawing and prints and to Kelly Levon for the hand made soaps; Robert and Kathy Tant for the standards and club banners; and to Bianca (Execustive Chef for Lucianno's) for donating the room charge for our banquet and providing the fabulous meal and service. Sandra Stemmler donated a number of great auction items, among them a designer tote that had Claire Johnson's name on it (if you know Claire, you KNOW how she loves bags!!).

A more complete report on the specialty will be forthcoming.

A little bird told us that Marjorie McTernan is recovering at home and almost back to her mischievous self :)

6/27/09
Breed counts are up for our Specialty weekend in San Antonio with MAJORS all five days in both sexes!

Marjorie McTernan is recovering at home and is soon expected to be up bouncing around. Your good wishes never hurt if you'd like to email her at jmmcternan@comcast.net

6/20/09
Long time breeder Marjorie McTernan underwent surgery recently and is expected to make a full recovery. Our best wishes to Marjorie and her husband Jim. Marjorie was to judge our inaugural Sweepstakes event in San Antonio and will be sorely missed.

Members Robert and Kathy Tant celebrate their first BEST IN SHOW with their Ch. Arriba Chunky River. Chunk was bred by members Patsy Wade, Judi Hartell and Marsha Muse and was handled to this win by Judi.

4/26/09
Beth Kravetz
Tally Ho-Ho-Ho, CGC, ME, OA, OAJ, MXP, MJP, NFP
Miss B Bingley, CGC, NA, OAJ We were signed up for a 3-day agility seminar with Stuart Mah (at a training place in Dripping Springs, about 2 ½ hours from my place in Texas), but only as an auditor.  Stuart works continuously without a break for 9 straight hours, and although he had some useful information and training styles/systems to convey, 9 hours of so of sitting on my keester, and my dogs in the X-pen, was too much for me and not all that helpful.  So, I bailed after 1 day and went to the second day of a dock diving competition (in College Station.…a lot of Texas real estate was traversed this weekend!) where Bingley got her first 3 NATIONAL title qualifying legs and was third in the lapdog division finals (I won’t say how many dogs were in the finals!)  She had her personal best jump of 4 feet 1 inch, up from her maiden (regional competition) jump in November of 3 feet 10 inches.  She is getting more confident about jumping into that big pool!  She now has 3 (of 5) regional qualifying legs and 3 (of 5) national qualifying legs.  I’m hoping to get both a National novice dock dog and Regional novice dock dog titles on her this summer.  She would be the first Norfolk with a National title, I think.  (Marian Shaw of Spring Cove Kennel in Maryland has the other dock diving Norfolk (Noel) and Noel was the first Norfolk to get ANY dock diving title, a regional one.  So…. Something for us to aim for!!)

2/13/09
Peanut Butter recall affects pets... several new pet food items have been added to the recall by the FDA. Details >>

1/8/09
Congratulations to The Bluebonnet Norfolk Terrier Club on gaining recogniition from AKC. We are now an accredited independent breed club!

From Jim Kinney with regard to Division of the Chicago Club:
The NNTCGC has divided into The Norwich Terrier Club of Greater Chicago and The Great Lakes Norfolk Terrier Club. We will operate separately and have not discussed the website at this point.

Our new Parent Club, The Norfolk Terrier Club is up and running with its new web site at http://www.norfolkterrierclub.org/Home.htm

12/20/08
The TBNTC Online Store will open its doors soon with a variety of Norfolk gifts, collectibles, accessories and jewelry. Meanwhile, we hope you'll enjoy the other sections of our new web site.

Dues notices for TBNTC will be mailed out in January - please be sure to support our raffle for a new Dual Core laptop to be given away at our specialty in July. Raffle tickets will be included in your Dues notice. If you are not a TBNTC member but would like to buy raffle tickets, contact Jennifer Hays.

TBNTC will host Estate Planning For Your Pets in conjunction with our specialty in July - look for details in the Specialty section.

The new Lone Star Norwich Terrier Club has named Joan Jung as their Show Chair for the upcoming Norwich specialty in San Antonio, TX in July 2009.