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President’s

by CATHY CLAPP Message

Hello Fellow Chowists! award our first recipients of the Chow Chow
Hopefully, wherever you are, winter is Versatility Program Awards which recognize
those Chows that have excelled across multiple
coming to an end and spring is in the air! venues. Applications can be found on the
And that means it’s nearly time for the 2025 CCCI Website in the Members Only section
National Specialty Show! We hope that you if you would like to see any of your dogs
have made your plans to attend. We are included in future years.
looking forward to seeing so many of you
in Wilmington, Ohio the last week of April. The final day (Thursday) will be the CCCI
We have so much planned for this year. We National Specialty Show. This show is so much
will have FastCAT for the first time with more than just another show. It’s the time to
our National Specialty, run by Speed Dog show off your new pups, your veterans, your
Coursing LLC, and are looking forward to pride and joy of all ages. Consider entering
seeing who the winners of our very first a Brace or Team, or Stud Dog or Brood
Tortoise and Hare Awards will be. What Chow Bitch. Show off the results of your breeding
is the fastest? Which is the slowest? It’s all in program or that Chow you had the foresight to
good fun. purchase because you never know who might
Plan to arrive by Monday evening because be watching. The National Specialty isn’t just
that’s when the party will start. Our first event for showing what you’ve got, but a chance to
will be the Parade of Titleholders and Rescues look for potential stud dogs or source for a
with the theme, “Come Fly With Me.” We will new puppy.
host our very first Tiny Hat Contest, open to Don’t have a
Chows and their humans to raise funds for dog to show?
both the Welfare Fund and the Junior Handler Come join us
Fund. Don’t have a Tiny Hat? We’ll have some anyway. This is
there for you to rent or purchase. Both of a celebration of
these events will be rolled into the Welcome our breed, old
Party so please be there in time to join in the friendships and
fun. new connections.
Tuesday will be jam packed with FastCAT, I hope that we
will see you at
Obedience, Rally, Sweepstakes and Members’ the Royal Canin
Education along with the Judges’ Education Roberts Centre
Seminars. It will culminate with the Auction in Wilmington,
Tuesday Evening where you will have the Ohio, Host Hotel
chance to bid for many unique and wonderful the adjoining
Chow items. Holiday Inn. Our
Wednesday will start early with FastCAT and Superintendent
will also include the two Regional Specialties, is Executive Dog
hosted by New England Chow Chow Club and Shows. The dates
the Chow Chow Club of Greater Chicago. are April 28 – May
The National Membership Meeting will 1, 2025. We’ll see
be held at 4 pm and the evening you there!
will end with the Annual Awards
Banquet. We will present our
very first inductees into the
CCCI Hall of Fame and

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