THE BU EDITORIAL

Virginia Zurflieh, editor

THE BU HEALTH-TESTED BOXERS PAGE

There are several exciting things on the agenda this month, none of them especially controversial, for a change. :-) Our Feature Dogs for this issue are the BU Health-Tested Boxers, whose ranks have swelled considerably since the last issue. Please check out the "new kids on the block," and consider taking out a BU Free Ad for your own health-tested boxer.

ABCF MEMBERSHIP DRIVE!

If you’re interested in Boxer health, you will also want to check out the new American Boxer Charitable Foundation web page, accessible by clicking on their URL, located on the first page of this issue of BU. The ABCF is now offering memberships in the foundation - memberships that come with a subscription to an ABCF Newsletter, AND -- for this year only -- a limited edition ABCF travel coffee mug designed by the artist, Mike McCartney, especially for the Foundation. Yearly membership is only $25 -- the health-care bargain of Y2K! Be sure to visit the ABCF table in the lobby at the ABC.

GET ME TO THE ABC ON TIME!!

This issue includes information on just about everything you always wanted to know about attending the ABC...but didn’t know whom to ask! RV parking, Awards Dinner reservations, Echocardiogram sign-up forms, airport shuttle service, alternate motels, and - to tie it all together - Joyce Baker Brown’s directions to Frederick and the Holiday Inn FSK (the show site motel) from all three nearby airports!! If you’re as "directionally challenged" as I am, it just doesn’t get any better than this!

Of course, Pat will be photographing the Agility, Obedience, Futurity and Specialty competition for the Underground ABC Slide Shows, as she did last year, and we’ll also be covering the membership meeting, health seminar, and judges’ and breeders’ seminar for the latest news on all boxer-related subjects under the sun! Tune in around June 1.