June 2009 - If you visit this site often, you'll notice some differences. In particular, photos of Shep and Oakley, two Akbash Dogs in need of rehoming, are gone. This of course is good news, as permanent homes have been found for them.
ADI welcomes Janet Davis as our new Chair of Rescue. You'll learn more about Janet in Volume 82 of the Sentinel, which is about to be released. Janet is also the photographer of the magnificent snowy photo at left on the cover of volume 80.
ADI's annual general meeting, referred to as the Gathering of the Akbash Clan, was held earlier this month in Virginia. Our hosts were Renard and Chinette Turner. We had a wonderful time! Details will appear in the next Akbash Sentinel, followed by photos on this web site. 
If you are current member of ADI but have not received a Sentinel in the last few months, there may be problems with delivery by the postal system. Please contact the Sentinel publisher, Martine Dubuc.
There is a problem in our membership/joining/renewal section. This is a fairly new web site, and we're a bunch of dog enthusiast volunteers trying to learn the ways of web design, so please be patient. There is (legitimate) confusion over membership types and costs. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can join ADI and receive an electronic version of the Akbash Sentinel for $15US per year. If you would like to receive print editions of the Sentinel, mailed to your home, the cost increases to pay for printing and mailing. The annual membership fee with mailed Sentinel is $30 in USA and Canada, and $40 elsewhere. A fourth option is to purchase a lifetime membership, which includes print version of the Sentinel, for $1000. We are working to bring these options to you through the PayPal/joining portion of this web site. In the meantime, here's how to get around our snafu's ... go to the rescue/rehome section, press on the donate section, then the donate button. Send $15, 30, 40 or 1000 as described above, using PayPal and your credit card. THEN - and this is important - please contact Barb Lehmann, our treasurer, by e-mail, and tell her that your 'donation' is really a renewal or new membership. She will arrange to have the appropriate information (mailing address, e-address, etc.) obtained. Barb is at belsbusa@verizon.net. Sooner or later we shall have our technical glitches figured out, but in the meantime, we have this indirect solution.
Coming soon in the Akbash Sentinel ... part two of a photo-essay on the early days and weeks in the lives of Akbash Dog puppies.
