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… Now Available Meet The Breeds materials (click link) Order the posters from the shop then take them to your local office supply store to get laminated for display in your booth.  Downloadable printouts will be made available soon for your table to hand out to people visiting your booth. A variety of stickers to give away also available in the shop.  … Let The Shops at TSK help with your next fundraiser The Shops at TSK is set up to help raise money for whatever need arises. Currently most items in the shop are funding the TSK rescue account. Also we are working with The Staffordshire Bull Terrier Club of America to help them raise money for their huge 4 day event in Louisville, Kentucky in March. All items with the SBTCA logo or show theme logos help to pay for those shows and surrounding events through their show chair. TSK does all of the work, pays all the bills and sends SBTCA show chair one Venmo payment at the end of their fundraiser which includes profit from those sales. TSK can help your club in the same manner - we can pay at the end of a campaign, or we can pay you monthly - your choice! The biggest advantage to allowing us to host your merchandise fundraiser is that you put up ZERO money for product. We ask for a one time set up fee to cover our technical set up time and we can offer design services for a fee as well. After that we send you 80% of the profit. The other percentage helps us keep our lights on so we are here for you 24/7. We also handle any misprints or incorrect item re-orders for you as well. Our many print providers do the shipping for you and they carry your products which are digitally printed to order. This results in your club never ending up with leftover product, not having to pre-guess sizes needed, you get a huge variety of sizes and colors and styles - and you can offer your logo on multiple products! Our vendors update product all the time so we are able to offer your followers a nice variety of merchandise. TSK will work with you to create a plan that works for you! Contact sales@thestaffordknot.com today to begin! … Hello subscribers and followers - we are about to launch our online auctions here on the website - we are trying something new in order to reach a bigger audience and also so I don't have to stay up late monitoring FB every night - the auctions will work similarly to those on the big online auction sites. This is all new for us too so please be patient if there are bloopers or kinks to be worked out. Please send a private email or message if you see an issue we need to work out. We will do our best from our end to make this work for everyone. Remember - we only take electronic payments via Paypal or Venmo. Also please read all details so you know if you are responsible for PP fees, (Vinmo has none), shipping costs or insurance for the items you win. Overseas folks will have to pay shipping. US folks may not on smaller items so read carefully. Proceeds all go to the TSK rescue fund. You can read where we donate to here on our website if you haven't already been following us on FB when we post those details each Spring. Thank you for the support - new items added… Exciting times lie ahead for Staffordshire Bull Terrier enthusiasts worldwide. Not only is the team at TSK busy year round gathering articles, interesting interviews, gathering historical data and photos for our followers, but now we can also be followed on Twitter and Instagram as well. Those signed up for our publication get first notice when new issues and special editions are uploaded. Our new books (Interpretation and Illustration of the Written Breed Standard - A comparative discussion - UK & USA) have been published for 3-4 months and have been a tremendous hit! The eBook has especially been popular as people realize how simple it is to have a copy handy on tablets and phones to take with them anywhere they go. This is also a terrific tool for those judging or studying to become a judge. We also have another big exciting project in the works for those interested in learning more about the breed. We put out a poll not long ago on our FB page asking if you were interested in a new mentoring program and it seems as if you are! Stay tuned for this new project which is being developed right… Mats at indoor shows are usually provided. These are for your dog's assistance by allowing more stability and grip to the floor surface. Take cognisance of the fact it is dog which should be taking advantage of the mat and not the handler. Much to my amusement have seen this little indiscretion applied many times...Due to its great popularity over the last twenty odd years or so, the 'stafford' has become one of the most competitive breeds to exhibit. With an im to improving your chances in the ring, consideration should be applied to two requirements. Firstly, your dog must attain a standard of breed acceptability and you ...When people refer to the top line they mean the vertebrae of the spinal column from the base of the neck to the beginning of the tail. When judge’s critique’s mention that a particular dog has a level top line, they don’t, or at least shouldn’t mean a perfectly level one as this would be......of recording Staffordshire Bull terrier strains and pedigrees based on the ‘Line and Family’ method has been exhaustively covered by Mr. H.N. Beilby, of Bromsgrove, whose outstanding services to our breed I have referred to in Chapter II. His findings are published in great detail in the second (1948) edition of The Staffordshire Bull Terrier.Frequently breeders and judges are asked by various publications to write about their ‘favourite’ Staffords, of course with the show ring in mind. Funnily enough when I go on a nostalgia spree, especially at Christmas with a few hot punches inside me, it is not the show winning Staffords, which bring tears to my eyes,...