MACH Esmonds Opinicus Nordike CD TD RN MX MXJ MXF HIC TT CGC, V
VCD1 / ARC Versatility / CRC Silver Achievement Award
2 - Front and Finish Gold Agility Awards
ARC Versatility Excellent Eligible / CRC Gold Achievement Award Eligible
( 2/3 CDX )
8 Double Q's towards our MACH 2
1 MACH pts
2008 Top Ten Open Standard
2008 Top Ten Open JWW
2009 Top Ten Excellent Standard
2010 Top Ten Excellent Standard
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V-2 Ch Nordike Tribeca All That Jazz Can CDX, Am CD, BH, TT, CGC, TDI
Bred by Ann Felske-Jackman and Norma Dikeman
Born May 25, 2004
Griffin's call name and registered name come from ancient heraldry. The following is from Shield and Crest: An account of the Art and Science of Heraldry by Julian Franklyn.
The griffin is very popular, for it has numerous
virtues and apparently no vices. Notable among the former are vigilance, courage
and strength. It is sharp of eye, keen of ear, and, it is reasonable to assume,
faithful as a dog. Perhaps, when emitting smoke and fire from its
nostrils--blazoned, sometimes, as fumant, although purists maintain that this
term should apply only to such things as brick-kilns--it is in the act of
protecting its master.
A debased griffin, that was evolved in the sixteenth century and named opinicus,
has the limbs of a lion, the tail of a camel, the ear-bedecked head of an eagle,
a neck on which there is a difference of opinion--it is either that of an eagle,
or is scaly, rather snake-like and long--and a pair of wings giving scholars an
opportunity again for disagreement: they are either those of the eagle, or are
not bird-like at all, but membranous, like the wing of the bat.
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