MID NOVEMBER 2007

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Thank you for our Thornapple friends & family around the world!

The AKC/Eukanuba National Championship airs on Animal Planet & Discovery Channel on February 28, 2008.
Check your local listings for air times.  For more information about the AKC/Eukanuba National Dog Show,
please visit   www.topdogshow.com   

thornapple@bignet.net      Ellen's cell -- 517-202-6462
"Laws against something 'that other guy' does will eventually get
US because we are all someone's 'other guy.' " Walt Hutchens,2007

For unknown reasons, a number of emails, especially international, are not making
it to our Outlook Express. If we do not reply to an email, please resend the email.
Unfortunately, we are cursed with no internet options other then dial up. If anyone
anywhere in this world has the power to send DSL our way (SBC DSL is only 1 mile up
the road in downtown Vermontville, Michigan), we will be eternally grateful! :))

November Begins

http://www.consumerfreedom.com:80/news_detail.cfm/headline/3498
THE PETA INFOMERCIAL

Friends from Sweden!
Alexander & Angela Munkvall hit it off with Austen & Shayna
at the 2007 USASA Nationals!

Thank you Anna-Lena for sharing a few photos from Nationals 2007!


GOOD NEWS FROM THE NETHERLANDS!!!!
Hello! This weekend Sydor was 1st on the Euro Dog Show in Belgium in the
baby class with very promising, Judge is Dr. Sophia Kaluzniacki (USA).
Petra & Sydor -- THORNAPPLE SHOOT THE SLAPSHOT -- Sired by Cruzan!
CONGRATULATIONS PETRA!!!!

BIG NEWS FROM JAPAN!
Dixie gave birth to an incredible 11 fat & sassy Cruzan babies on November 17!
Proud Mom is CH Thornapple Dixie Darling "Dixie" ** Sire is Ch Thornapple Single Barrel
WOW .... they are beautiful!
CONGRATULATIONS TOMOMI!
    
3 days old!  STUNNING!!!!

Mr. Venti *** IvoryIsle's Coffee Bean *** sired by Ch Thornapple Single Barrel "Cruzan"
Bred & Owned by Amanda Hutchinson **  IvoryIsle Australian Shepherds
  http://www.ivoryisle.com

Evan Brandenburg says --- You know the drill!
www.usasfoundation.org
Make your Junior Awards Program donation today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR SWEET LITTLE PUMPKIN!
HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY MISS HUDSYN ROSE BRANDENBURG!
We LOVE you!!!  November 10, 2007

Hallo, I send greeting from Czech Republic. Puppies after DIABLO and of my
 BONNY SUE growing very hopefully. Bitch on this litter Dainty Sweet Puella
Fera - "Kessi" (she stayed in my Kennel) had huge success in International dog show.
She won BEST PUPPY in Show!!! I send some Fotos of Kessi. I am enjoying of her.
With kind regards, Bohunka
www.puella-fera.com

Another wonderful Ami Romanelli photo shoot!!!
Subjects - Erica Escalada & Gang!
Location - West Palm Beach, Florida
We LOVE Ami's photography!!!!

    
Erica Escalada will be featured in the Jan/Feb 2008 Aussie Times ** Photography & Ad Design by MERCURY AUSSIES!
http://manodlynjake.tripod.com
Thank you,  Ami Romanelli, once again for sharing your beautiful photos and ad design.
CONGRATULATIONS ERICA ON AN OUTSTANDING YEAR IN ASCA & AKC!

CH Thornapple Duramax "Diesel"
Erica Escalada's Junior Handling Dog Extraordinaire!

EEEUUU!!! Stray dog with fleas! Call Animal Control!
OOOPSIE ... it's Ami's husband, Jordan Romanelli, doing his best Diesel impersonation!

(There is a resemblance, wouldn't ya say? ... Diesel says --- the sooner Animal Control gets here the better!)

Your help is needed! Stop AB 1634!     <http://petpac.net/r/1834/8706/>

AB 1634 is back! Our opponents including the Humane Society of the United
States (HSUS) and PETA are mounting a major lobbying effort and amassing
huge warchests in an attempt to pass AB 1634, the mandatory spay/neuter
legislation.

We are only weeks away from the new showdown and we need our supporters to
help now. As I have said, those of you who thought AB 1634 is dead. are
"dead" wrong. AB 1634 is scheduled for hearing by the Senate Local
Government Committee in January.

Just as you cannot wait until the day of the dog show to select the site,
collect entries and pay for trophies and ribbons, PetPAC cannot wait until
the day of the hearing of AB 1634 to contact legislators, reproduce signs,
brochures, news releases, air TV commercials and organize rallies.

Of course this means we need to ask our supporters and all of our clubs for
to make a contribution today! Every dime you donate to PetPAC goes to fight
AB 1634 and stop PETA and HSUS from destroying our pet owner rights.
<http://petpac.net/r/1835/8706/> Contribute to PetPAC today!

With your continued support we will fight the multi-million dollar lobbies
who want to pass AB 1634 and use it as a model for the rest of our country.
Help us stop AB 1634 once and for all!

Read more about what PetPAC has been doing over the past
<http://petpac.net/r/1836/8706/>  few months, what our opponents are saying
about us, and what we need to accomplish in the few short weeks ahead.

Sincerely,   <http://petpac.net/images/email/bill_hemby2.gif>
Bill Hemby    Chairman



Mrs. Betty Jo Patrick

Judge Mr. Kenneth Rayner

WHOOO WHOOO!!!  GO MEGAN & SWAY!!!!
CH Ragtime Where It's At
Just wanted to let you know that Sway and I had a fabulous weekend; Back to Back Group 1’s!
 Thanks to Mrs. Betty Jo Patrick and Mr. Ken Rayner for the breed and group wins.
As soon as photos are available I will send copies.  Hope every one had a good weekend
at the shows elsewhere.  Megan X  Sway CONGRATULATIONS!!  We can't wait for photos!
TOP 20!!!  Invited to the AKC/Eukanuba Invitational!
Breeders Summer Jewel Fuls * Ragtime *** Amy Garrison & Ellen Brandenburg * Thornapple

File Photo 2006
NEW CHAMPION Thornapple King Of Stars "Sirus"
CONGRATULATIONS  Vikki Davidson on your FIRST AKC Bred By Exhibitor
Champion which entitles you to a AKC Bred By Medallion!
Thank you Mrs. Linda C. More ** Grand Rapids Kennel Club Show ** Nov 11
West Michigan Harvest Cluster

Sirus' handler & co-breeder, Vikki Davidson, prays ringside Sunday morning for a new Bred By Exhibitor champion!! :)))
Aaron Brandenburg is not sure what to think! (she's going to KILL us when she sees this!)

          

CONGRATULATIONS, Shayna Garrison, on an AWESOME weekend at the West Michigan Harvest Cluster!
1st Place Open Junior Handler ** BEST JUNIOR Handler ** Muskegon KC ** Judge Mrs. Debra L. Davis
1st Place Open Junior Handling ** Kalamazoo KC ** Judge Mr. James E. Frederiksen
1st Place Open Junior Handling ** Grand Rapids KC ** Judge Miss M. Ann Schwartz
Shayna moves to Open Intermediate Junior Handling next dog show weekend!
Shayna has 5 1st place junior handling wins in 2 weekends to qualify her for the AKC/Eukanuba Junior Invitational 2008!
5 more 1st place wins will qualify Shayna for Westminster Kennel Club 2009!

Jane Gottschalk pictured with her special Thornapple, Nugent!
Thank you, Jane & Alex Gottschalk, for making dreams come true!
Because of your generous gift, Shayna is able to travel to California to
compete at the Invitational! You are very special to us! xxxooo
We designate you VITs!!! VERY IMPORTANT THORNAPPLES!
  Shayna & Shamba send BIG HUGS yours way!  Love, Amy & Shayna & Ellen
GOOD LUCK SHAYNA .... AT THE 2007 AKC/EUKANUBA INVITATIONAL!

Alex Gottschalk puts Nugent through his agility paces!

file photo 2006
CONGRATULATIONS, Jayne Holligan, on winning BEST IN SPECIALTY SHOW with Spitty!!!
American CH Thornapple Powercore "Spitfire" *** BISS *** Judge John Ritchie (Dykebar)
National Australian Shepherd Association ** Handled by Lisa Bridges ** MORE info & photos to come!

     

    

 
FUN IN SWEDEN!!!!!  Chauncey & Boom romp with Niklas, Damon, Enya, Trazzle & Janis!
Thornapple Move Over & CH Thornapple Dr Thunder are with Anna-Lena & Niklas Munkvall -
Easy Australian Shepherds - on a 2 year lease.  Contact Anna-Lena @ munkvall@easys.se

 

    
 
Just thought you would appreciate that Zippo is passing on his love of swimming to his kids.
 This is one from his last litter (Jinx is her pet name) and at 5 months old she loves to swim,
trying to catch the splashes as she swims around the pool. The other photo is of Zippo himself
obviously (lol) having just climbed out of the pool and ready to leap onto his daughter again!
Those same games that Scorch and Zippo played dunking one another are the games he plays with Jinx.
Summer is just getting going in New Zealand ** Zippo frolics in the swimming pool, as our weather
turns chilly & we anticipate our first snowfall! Thank you, Di, for sharing these wonderful summer photos!

    
While they swim in New Zealand, Lucy - Thornapple Ruby Passion - romps (and rests after her romp))
in the first snow of the year in Sweden! Thank you for sharing, Marie!

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