Your CCCI 2025 National Specialty Trophy Committee has been hard at work attaining some wonderful prizes for next year.  We hope you are as excited as we are as we tried our best to select items we hope you will be thrilled to win and then actually be able to use.

For our big placements, including BOB, BOW, BOS, BOBOH, Best Junior Handler, Reserve Best Junior Handler,High in Trial (Obedience), High Combined (Obedience), High Combined Triple Score (Rally), and High Combined Double Score (Rally), we have stunning custom braided leather leads from Dazzleque Custom Leads (Kathryn Netser). All leads are in the colors of the win (Purple & Gold for BOB, Red & White for BOS, etc.). Conformation leads have beads while those for Obedience and Rally do not.

Major placements such as Best in Sweeps, BOS in Sweeps, Winners Dog, Winners Bitch, Select Dog, Select Bitch, Award of Merit and High Scoring Champion of Record will receive a crate mat with the 2025 logo. The background of each mat is in the colors of the win. Best Puppy, Best Bred-By-Exhibitor and Best Veteran will receive medium sized blankets with the 2025 logo.

Class placements in conformation and Junior Handler will be custom powder coated combs by Howling Winds

Trophies. Class placements for Puppy Sweeps are bibs and for Veteran Sweeps Slobber Towels from Caroline's Creations in the UK . Bibs and Towels are in the colors of the placement and embroidered with the 2025 logo.

Class Placements for Obedience and Sweeps are three pocket training aprons with the 2025 logo.

Last but not least, Best Beginner Puppy and BOS Beginner Puppy will receive dog travel bags with the 2025 logo. These are nice bags that come with containers for food and 2 silicone travel bowls and are large enough to include your chow's favorite treats and toys for any adventure.

To top it all off, we will have fabulous rosettes from Rave Ribbons by Carol Rappaport . You can check out her work on Facebook.

We are excited, but we need your help to pull it all off. Specific awards can be donated anywhere from $25 for first place in a class to our top prize of $275 for Best of Breed. You can donate an entire class (1st – 4th) in any of the breed or sweepstakes classes for $75.

While a few placements have been claimed the vast majority are available. Don't know what you want to donate? No problem - donations of any amount may be made to the General Trophy Fund. All donations received by the end of this year will be included in the Premium List and in the Catalog. Also, you may include in your acknowledgment the memory of a past dog or person or in honor of a living dog or person.

To find out what is available and to stake your claim, please contact Trophy Chair Vickie C. Ireland at vireland@sunlink.net or 570-220-7117. It's first come, first served so don't wait to cover your favorite class or placement.

Please use the   pdf 2025 CCCI National Specialty Trophy Donation Form(117 KB) when making a Trophy donation so the donation can be marked correctly