The Newfoundland Club
Founded in 1886 - the world's oldest continuously registered Breed Club
ConNeCT study
(Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease in Neonatal Puppies Experiencing Unexplained Death, Diagnosed by Micro-Computed Tomography)
On behalf of Caroline Cutler (veterinary cardiologist and project lead), we are reaching out to inform you about an important research study investigating the potential role of undiagnosed congenital heart disease in unexplained puppy deaths. Led by a team of UK-based veterinary cardiologists, this collaborative project aims to improve our understanding of the issue and explore ways to reduce its occurrence in the future.
How Can You Help?
We are looking to raise awareness of this study within the breeding community and would greatly appreciate your support in sharing information with your breed club(s). Specifically, we would like to invite breeders to participate by allowing post-mortem heart examinations for any puppies that sadly pass away before four weeks of age.
What Does Participation Involve?
Breeders who wish to participate should ask their local vet to reach out to the research team via puppyhearts2025@gmail.com. They will be required to take deceased puppies to their vet, who will perform a post-mortem as part of the study. Inclusion of your puppy in the study will not incur any costs to you. The post-mortem examination of the heart will be provided at no cost. We anticipate that local veterinarians will also perform the extraction free of charge. However, if a fee is necessary, please ask the veterinarian to contact the study organisers for approval before proceeding, so they can review and authorise the quote. We recommend highlighting to them that all participating veterinary clinics will be acknowledged in study publications.
Next Steps:
If you’re open to sharing this information, please read or download the owner information sheet;
DOWNLOAD THE OWNER INFORMATION SHEET (.pdf)
DOWNLOAD THE OWNER INFORMATION SHEET (.docx)
For further details, please contact the research team at puppyhearts2025@gmail.com.
We apologise in advance for any upset this email may cause as we appreciate it's a sensitive topic, but we hope the findings from this research may provide valuable insights that could lead to better screening and prevention strategies for heart disease in dogs. If you or anyone in your community need support after losing a pet, please consider using Blue Cross’ pet bereavement service: Blue Cross Pet Loss Support | Pet Loss.
We truly appreciate your time and support in helping to improve our understanding of congenital heart disease in dogs.
Your sincerely,
The Health Team
Canine Health and Welfare
The Kennel Club
Open Show - 22 February 2025
Our first Open Show of 2025 was held at the Kennel Club Building, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire and was judged by Mr. Albert Easdon (Yakee) with Special Award classes by Miss Lucy Mottram (Ponniz).
Championship Shows - 19 October 2024
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Our two 2024 Championship Shows held simultaneously at the Kennel Club Building, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire were judged by Mrs. Jan Groves (Bridgestone) and Mrs. Sue Benyon (Kaijasholme).
The full results pages are available - photos of the class winners to follow;.
FULL SHOW RESULTS WITH CRITIQUES AND PHOTOS OF CLASS WINNERS - SUE BENYON
FULL SHOW RESULTS WITH CRITIQUES AND PHOTOS OF CLASS WINNERS - JAN GROVES
Membership Renewals
Memberships are due for renewal by the 31st of December each year. Renewals made after 30th March in the following year pay a 'late renewal' fee of £5.00.
Existing members can renew their annual membership using the Membership Renewal Form or
Water Test Regulations - May 2023
In use by all three UK Breed Clubs
The new Water Test Regulations have been agreed and ratified by all three UK Breed Clubs and come in to immediate effect for all official test Water Tests.
DOWNLOAD THE WATER TEST REGULATIONS
There is a new Addendum to the Water Test Regulations for 2024.
Club Membership
New Members Welcome
If you would like to become a member of the Newfoundland Club, please download complete and return our application form.
New members should be proposed and seconded by existing members but if you don't know any existing members but would still like to join, please email our Membership Secretary, Linn Kleinman.
Facebook - Special
This Facebook page, entitled "Newfoundlands - The Truth and Nothing But The Truth", is separate from our main Club page. It contains information and advice for all Newfoundland owners and prospective Newfoundland owners.
Our BREEDERS FOR LIFE scheme is designed to provide a quality assurance mark for prospective Newfoundland puppy purchasers that the breeders follow the very best practices in their breeding program.
It is hoped that the scheme web site will be found by those searching the Internet for Newfoundland puppies and provide the essential information about Health Testing for our breeding stock and encourage people to be discriminating when selecting a breeder.
There are criteria for becoming a Breeder For Life member, such as three consecutive years and current membership of one or more of the UK Newfoundland Breed Clubs but breeders or stud dog owners do not necessarily have to be Newfoundland Club members - see the Scheme Requirements page for details.
We cordially invite suitably qualified breeders to join the scheme - an Application Form can be downloaded here.
Scheme memebers will have a public profile page on the web site and will be able to advertise their litters too.
Newfoundland Welfare
We are always looking for new homes suitable for dogs taken into our care. If you need to rehome your Newfoundland or would like to give a forever home to a Newfoundland, please contact one of our Welfare Co-ordinators;
for Scotland & Northern Ireland
Helen Gray on 07979 028935
for England & Wales
We very much appreciate donations to help us with the costs of re-homing and rescue which can often involve substantial veterinary costs. You can make a donation via PayPal using the button below;
Draught Test Regulations
In use by all three UK Breed Clubs
We are pleased to announce new Regulations for official Draught Tests which have been jointly agreed with the Northern Newfoundland Club and Southern Newfoundland Club.
GDPR
(General Data Protection Regulations)
The regulations came into force in May 2018 requiring that we receive positive consent from our members to store their data and to communicate.
If you have not done so already, please download the form, complete and return it to the address shown on the form.
Alternatively you can email the completed form to secretary@thenewfoundlandclub.co.uk
Newfoundland Puppies
Info and insights for prospective owners
Newfoundlands can be wonderful companions and as puppies are adorable. However, it is important to know what owning a Newfoundland entails so we have produced a couple of guides which contain lots of useful information and advice. We encourage you to download and read them carefully.