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February 2010
  • This year's VCA National Gun Dog Championship at Stockton Plantation in Newington, GA, was won by Jim Gingrich's Burr Oak Old Number Seven ('Jack'); the National Puppy Championship was won by Saginaw Redneck Cowboy ('Tex') owned by Mark Johnson.  Congratulations to all the participants, and especially the winners!

December 2009
  • The club now has its own 'Fans of the VCCNE' page on Facebook.  Click on the  button above to view photographs, keep track of spontaneous get-togethers, and stay in touch with club members and friends.
  • The club received a letter of appreciation from the Vizsla Club of America for its sponsorship of the National Field Championship Trophy in memory of club member, Lisa DeForest.  This year the National Field Championship saw a repeat winner, Berry's Taking Chances ('Lotto'), owned by Carrie and Mike Syczylo of Martinsville, IN.  To repeat as a winner is impressive, especially in country as diverse as Arizona (2008) and Virginia (2009).

September, 2009
  • Welcome to the launch of the new Vizsla Club of Central New England website!  The Board would like to thank Bryan Harrington for his seven years of building, maintaining, and hosting our previous site as a labor of love and out of dedication to the breed.  He established a high bar and we hope this website has met his previous high standard.

August, 2009
  • The VCCNE Annual FUN DAY was held on August 29th in Franklin, MA.  Masterpeace Dog Training Center provided a wonderful indoor space for off leash play, agility and socialization for both dogs and their owners!  It's a good thing we opted for indoors, as the passing hurricanes provided plenty of rain on Saturday!  More than 20 families and close to 30 Vizslas attended the event!  It was a day of comparing 'war stories', watching our silly red dogs play and appreciating time spent with other folks who feel the same way we do about this breed.  A brief agility and obedience demonstration was given (very short given the fact that my Belle was really not in the mood!!) and a relay race with 10 dogs on each team was held involving three jumps and a tunnel - it was a lot of fun. We had some fantastic raffle items - everything from pajamas to paintings!  Raffle proceeds were $140 with further donations bringing the RESCUE donation total to $171! From the event entrance fees we were able to pay for the facility rental and had an additional $65 to go to the VCCNE general fund! We had 10 RESCUE dogs in attendance including Big Bella, who was just picked up that morning!  Rescue dogs and their owners were given a parade of appreciation with booklets - "Rescues Are Special" - and toys provided for the participants.  The potluck meal was absolutely wonderful and believe it or not we managed to keep the food on the table and the dogs off the table! Thank you to all who came to this event and made it a success! A number of pictures from the event have already been posted to the Members Gallery section.  Submitted by: Lesli Hyland

  • On August 1st the Club held its Annual Meeting and Versatility Testing day at Sharpe’s Farm in Hopkinton, NH.  In addition to the Versatility Testing, we also offered mock Hunt Test braces and an Intro to Birds session for younger dogs.  It was a full day but we managed to accommodate 28 dogs.  In addition to the usual single round of Field testing, it was the first year we had offered two rounds of Obedience and Conformation testing and as a result attracted a number of entries from our neighbor club, the Connecticut Valley Vizsla Club.  Four dogs finished their Versatility Certificates at our event, including two from the VCCNE.

July, 2009
  • On a sad note, we lost one of our Lifetime members, Lisa DeForest, in early July to a debilitating, and not fully understood, illness.  Lisa was a modest, perhaps even shy, person who devoted herself to the breed for well over 25yrs.  She was committed to breeding hard-running dogs, believing that field-trialing was the proving ground for a dog’s character and quality – and bred two Dual Champions along the way.  She also won the National Field Championship twice – and was the first person (of only two ever) to produce a dog to win both the National and the National Amateur Field Championship in the same year.  (The events are generally run in the same week.)  With this in mind, the Board has sponsored this year’s National Field Championship trophy in her memory.