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Dog Breeding: A Promising Future?
From The Editor
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News & Updates
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Nightfire Papillons, Germany
Fred the Service Dog
Von Willebrand’s Disease
In Glorious Colour
Hin Satori Chin, Russia Storage Diseases and GM2 gangliosidosis Agility - Fun for everyone - and their dog Marjaniemen Cavaliers, Charlies & Chin, Finland The American Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club 2013 National Severe Allergic Reaction & Anaphylaxis
Thank you for your patience in waiting for this issue of The Global Toy Spaniels. It has been a very busy few months since the last issue; trip to Arizona, car crash, websites hacked which required weeks worth of work to fix and then a last minute switch to a new publisher after the original publisher made some drastic changes to their business structure and website. The switch actually worked out for the best as the new publisher offers features that the other one did not, some of which you will see in this magazine. I particularly enjoyed putting the breeder features in this issue because the breeders show such a willingness to work with and help breeders from other countries in a very nice display of international co-operation. I think this bodes well for those breeds in the long run when genetic diversity is becoming such
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