Dear Readers,

2014 is drawing to an end. It was a successful year, with great achievements for the FCI and for dogs worldwide.

2015 will be a challenging year for our Federation. We are indeed faced with anti-canine legislations and different issues that might badly affect our beloved 4-paw friends. However, I am convinced that, working together, the FCI team, all over the world, will succeed in overcoming those difficulties, for the benefit of dogs worldwide.

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Rafael de Santiago
FCI President
Junior Ring at the International Dog Show in Jerez de la Frontera (ES), 1-2 November:

Here at the SCAOCC (Sociedad Canina de Andalucía Occidental – Dog Society of Western Andalusia) we have been focusing on our youngest handlers for some time now. We know how interested they are and how much effort they put in as we see this reflected in the way they get involved in the shows and competitions we organise year after year.

We have a duty not to let them down, so we wanted to make 2014 a special year and, as a result, we are organising a Junior Ring at the 2014 Jerez Dog Shows. This is a “space” in which the youngest handlers are able to take part, discussing their opinions and experiences as well as acquiring all kinds of dog-related knowledge.

Apart from being a physical place where they can practice, learn and put their junior handling skills into practice, we want it to provide them with a forum so that they can discuss their concerns and needs.

We want to listen to their opinions and want young people to continue to take part in the activities which we at this Dog Society organise.

We hope that these activities will promote the special bond that is always to be found between young people and dogs and that it will also make them more responsible when it comes to facing up to challenges in the future.

María-José Haro Kay
President of the SCAOCC

© Marcelino Pozo (Photo ImagenMainake SL)
Over the two days (Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd November) the young people were provided with a colourful ring in which there were four people looking after them (Borja Thovar, Marta Bernal, Alba López and Macarena Rueda – the first three of whom are former junior handlers while the last still is one).
© Marcelino Pozo (Photo ImagenMainake SL)
We had a chat for all of the little ones on the Saturday morning.
© Marcelino Pozo (Photo ImagenMainake SL)
On the Sunday afternoon – in the main ring – there was a show performed by Borja Thovar, Marta Bernal, Alba López and Macarena Rueda.
© Marcelino Pozo (Photo ImagenMainake SL)
On the Sunday afternoon – in the main ring – there was a show performed by Borja Thovar, Marta Bernal, Alba López and Macarena Rueda.