May 2010

A big thank you to these people for making the new obedience and rally top dog statistics systems possible:

A special thank you goes to Darwin Boles for helping me all along the way.

A huge thank you to David Buchan and John Hautala from Thunder Bay. David enthusiastically agreed to help with obedience and rally results and soon found himself swamped day and night with results, more results, and even more emails and phone calls. When we found the backlog of results was overwhelming, David convinced John to come onboard and thanks to these two, there is now an obedience top dog system and a rally top dog system. If you are ever in Thunder Bay please look up David and John and thank them, they are amazing.

The goal for the obedience and rally top dog stats is to have results and statistics online within 1 to 2 weeks after a trial has taken place. If your club is hosting obedience or rally trials, please help us with the results for your events. We can't do it without the help of the clubs.

..Sue Coghlan, Canuck Dogs

March 2010

This new version of Canuck Dogs has been an enormous undertaking. Starting with the design and development and finishing with the transfer of a massive amount of data from the old site to the new site, it could not have been done without the help of some terrific people. These people worked tirelessly and cheerfully put up with my endless early morning and late night emails and phone calls.

Todd Chant, developer and database architect extraordinaire.

Todd has designed an amazing database to take this site into the future. His programming skills are unparalled and he made this site possible. Through all the late nights and weekends, Todd made it look easy when it wasn't. I have worked with many good developers on many projects and Todd is the best of the best. Thank you, Todd!

Shelley Gerig, Keetukka Siberians

Shelly deserves a medal for the amount of work she did to transfer the data from the old site to the new site. She worked for weeks on this project and was always asking 'What's next?' Shelley was always available to point me in the right direction when I had questions. Shelley, you are amazing!

Ralph Curnew, Pwani Ridgebacks

Ralph worked night and day on some tough data transfer sections, including an endless list of agility trials and judges. The next time you see Ralph at a show, ask him how many agility trials and judges there are in Canada! Ralph, I can't thank you enough.

Kris Brown, Wolf River Siberians

Shelley suggested Kris would be a good person to work on the project and she was right. Kris put in a huge amount of time getting many shows and other events set up in the new system. She got a crash course in Canuck Dogs 101 and lived to tell the tale.

John Macdonald, Cuorda Cavaliers & Atlantic Editor

Last but not least is John who is the amazing editor of the Altantic section with iron nerves. John put up with endless phone calls, emails, massive system changes, new processes, and all with a cheeful "full speed ahead" outlook. John makes the hard look easy and has been an inspiration to me ever since I have been working on the site.

Thank you to all of you, it would not have been possible without you.

..Sue Coghlan, Canuck Dogs Editor