Top Notch Toys - September 2016

IN lOVING MEMOry

dUaNE c. dOll 1/17/39 – 7/19/16 Co-Founder, Publisher and CEO Since 1983

President and Editor-in-Chief jOsEPH NEIl McGINNIs Editor BONNIE GUGGENHEIM

Managing Editor cOrtNy WHItE Ad and Editorial Design

jOE McGINNIs, dIaNE GrEENE-WalsH, cOrtNy WHItE, ErIka rUtHErFOrd, MElIssa GarrEtt aNd MIcHaEla BradlEy Advertising BONNIE GUGGENHEIM 863.738.8848 • bonnie@dmcg.com PRODUCTION OFFICES 8848 Beverly Hills, lakeland, Fl 33809 Office Manager Subscriptions and Circulation MIcHaEl VEras 863.816.8848 • michael@dmcg.com Production Co-Ordinator

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Advertiser Relations saMaNtHa adkINs 863.816.8848 • samantha@dmcg.com Director of Web Development National Distribution Manager daNIEl j. cartIEr 615.618.4797 • daniel@dmcg.com Production Manager dIaNE GrEENE-WalsH

On the cover: GCHP WINSOME’S HOME RUN FOR NIRVANA Pug, Owned by Elois Veltman and Virginia Flatley

16 FROM tHE EdItOR-IN-CHIEF 24 tOY tALK by BONNIE GUGGENHEIM 46 tOY BOX 48 tNt tOP tWENtY 48 tNt ALL BREEd SYStEM 50 tNt BREEd SYStEM 52 tNt OWNER-HANdLER SYStEM

54 AFFENPINSCHERS IN YELLOWStONE! by PaM PEat 57 BREEdER’S FORUM: CHIHUAHUA with kylE POtts 58 tHE ENGLISH tOY SPANIEL CLUB OF AMERICA 2016 NAtIONAL SPECIALtY: CELEBRAtING OVER 130 YEARS OF AKC RECOGNItION by HEatHEr taUEr-rEId 62 BREEdER’S FORUM: MANCHEStER tERRIER with cHarlEs & dEBBIE WIllIaMs 63 BREEdER’S FORUM: MANCHEStER tERRIER with dIaNNa tExtEr 64 HIStORY OF tHE MANCHEStER tERRIER by rOd HErNEr 66 HIStORICAL PHOtO COLLECtION by MarI-BEtH O’NEIll 68 jUdGING tHE MANCHEStER tERRIER by rOd HErNEr 70 jUdGING tHE MANCHEStER tERRIER by jO aNN EMrIck 71 HAVANESE NAtIONAL SPECIALtY CANdIdS photos by BONNIE GUGGENHEIM 72 tHE EVENt CALLEd BARN HUNt by laUrIE cOWHIG 74 BREEdER’S FORUM: PUG with MIcHaEl & MIcHEllE aNdErsON 75 BREEdER’S FORUM: PUG with BOB & kEVEN BIrdWEll 76 PUG HEALtH UPdAtE 2016: FOCUS ON SPINAL ISSUES by cHrIstINE drEssEr, dVM 77 AdVERtISING & SUBSCRIPtION RAtES 78 INdEX tO AdVERtISERS

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