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Interview with


        Prof. Ma. Rocio de Vega






                                                                         PCCI Quarterly interviewed Professor
                                                                         Maria Rocio de Vega a few months ago.  The
                                                                         interview was a walk back to the history of
                                                                         the PCCI through the eyes of one of the
                                                                         longest serving past presidents of the Club
                                                                         giving a  glimpse of how the  PCCI evolved
                                                                         through the years to what it is right now,
                                                                         a huge and vibrant pure-bred dog owners’
                                                                         organization.





                                                                         When did you start with dogs?
                                                                         There were dogs in my family even before I
                                                                         was born.

                                                                         What kind of dogs?
                                                                         My grandfather used to import German
                                                                         Shepherd Dogs from Germany. I can’t
                                                                         remember this, but I was told that we were
                                                                         one of the very few people in Manila who had
                                                                         Japanese Spaniels.


                                                                         What was the name of your
                                                                         grandfather?
                                                                         Don Antonio Lozada. He was a lawyer.



         1997, with Mr. Aramis Lim, who was a PCCI All-Breed judge at a PCCI   When was this?
         All-Breed Dog Show held in Greenhills Xavier School Gym         It was in 1930s before the war.


        When you were born, what was the first breed that you recognized?
        It was GSD, but the GSD then looked entirely different from the GSD of today. The breed has evolved. The type
        was different 50 years ago.


        What was your first purebred dog?
        I had a Japanese Spaniel when I was as a child. It was one of the dogs of my grandfather. They called him Choto.
        After that, we had also Cocker Spaniels. My very first dog that I considered a companion in life was a Toy Poodle.

        Where there any dog shows at that time?
        None that I know of. The only dog shows that I know began with the PCCI during the time of Ms. Hannaford but
        I was not active in it then.
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