Duke's Paducah Win

                                Lawood Abby's Moonlight Marathon

"Duke" 's first (major) win !!!

Paducah KY dog show 2012

We traveled a little over two hours this weekend to this year's Paducah Kennel Club's annual dog show.    It's held in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of an old corn field with absolutely no shade.    It's always in June and it mostly alway's hotter'n (well you know).     This year however is was relatively plesant with a nice breeze even thrown in.     We camped in the Papillon Motel (our luxurious pop up camper) next to several of our very good dog show friends.    We had a short but very enjoyable trip !!!

Since Mimi finished her Grand Championship last month, she got to stay home with the pet sitter this weekend.    I don't think she understood why she had to stay home.    She's been going to the shows for three years now.    I don't know if she's gonna like retirement...   lol.

Anyway,  we just took Kix  and Duke to the show this weekend.    It felt funny just showing boys and not having any girls to show.    Both Kix and Duke won second place in their respective classes on Saturday.    Duke won "best papillon puppy" in the B match Saturday afternoon,  got a group 1 in the Toy Group and got to go back in for Best in Show.   We just wanted to enter him in the match to try to improve his table work and he ended up trying to show out.    On Sunday Kix got third place in his class.     Duke was entered in the 6 - 9 puppy class on Saturday and due to the way his birthday fell we had to bump him up to the 9 - 12 class on Sunday.    Duke was  the only entry in the 9 - 12 puppy class on Sunday.  Duke showed very well  and to our suprise managed to get the nod from the judge for Winners Dog for his very first points ( and a THREE POINT MAJOR to boot).

I'll try to take a more recent photo of him and get it onto the Blog.    He's changed a bunch since the pictures here.

More later ...  Yall stay tuned.

Our Babies .....

The puppies got their first puppy shots last weekend, so it's reasonably safe to let them go outside for their first soiree out in the real world (an evening on the front deck).   They were a little apprehensive but that will be short lived.  It won't be long before the zooming begins.

Rowdy 05/30/2012

This is Faith 5/30/2012

JTDFA / CKC Dog Show Jackson TN 2012

The show held each year in Jackson TN is our home show, so we not only show the dogs (four of them entered all four days), but also work our tails off setting up everything and making sure all the t's are crossed and the i's are dotted.     Let me tell you all of that makes for tons of work.    We started the week on Monday with handling classes,  then went up to the fairgrounds on Tuesday to mark off RV parking spots.   We then carried the camper up Wednesday morning and stayed the rest of the week at the fairgrounds.  I was in charge of Vendor Relations and Laura was in charge of RV parking and logistics as well as the B Match on Saturday night.     Whew....  am I ever glad that's over.      By the time we got finished on Sunday and helped tear everything down, get all of our stuff home and unloaded Laura and I are about as pooped as you can get.   

Ok, on to the results.     Mimi needed another major and one single point to finish her grand championship.    She also needed to defeat at least one other champion to finish also.   So...   we broke our other finished AKC champion female Brooklyn out of retirement and entered her all four days also.    Well,  as our luck would have it Brooklyn won Select Bitch on Thursday for a 3 point Major towards her Grand Championship points total defeating Mimi.   (but that's still good) 

Mimi won Select Bitch on Friday for a 3 point Major / with defeated champions (that would be Brooklyn)  and then only needed "one stinking point to finish)

Both Mimi and Brooklyn were defeated by handlers on Saturday.

On Sunday Mimi wins  Best Opposite for another 3 point Major !!!   That finished her Grand with four (4) Majors !!!

So...    Mimi   is now   Grand Champion Lawood's Misty Christmas Memories and she can now join the newly Re-retired Brooklyn into permanent retirement.    They both can just enter into the "Couch Potato Hall of Fame".

Next show is the second week in June at Paducah Ky.   Now we're starting all over again and it's back to concentrating on showing the puppies and trying to get them finished.    It's a never ending hobby, but it sure is lot's of fun. 

Tha' Puppies

Rowdy

Hey,   what do the puppies look like now you might ask ???   Well, here you go........ The top one's the boy and the girl is below.    The boy started out with the name Sunny but as time went along he started feeling less like a Sunny and more like a Rowdy so at least for now he's Rowdy. lol

The girl has always been Faith.    As a matter of fact she has even had her official "FAITH" crate tag since before she was even born.   I guess you can tell we were kinda hoping for at least one girl.

Faith

Maury County Kennel Club dog show April 28 - 29

Well we were scheduled to attend the Maury County Kennel Club dog show April 28 and 29th.      One of Laura's very best friend's mother passed away recently and she wanted to attend the memorial service so she said that we would either have to not go on Saturday or I could go and show the dogs SOLO.   Well, I've shown before,  but this would be a first for me to be totally in charge of  logistics.    Sooo.....   Laura sent me off Saturday with Kix and Mimi (who came into season two days before the show ... Great)  and Duke (who was along just for the ride ... we're trying to get him over his tendency for car sickness) and we headed off to Franklin Tennessee.   

Well I managed to get to the show site (thanks to Miss Garmin) and get the dogs in the ring without any major misshaps.   All of our Papillon friends said I did a decent job showing the dogs on Saturday (not sure they would tell me if I didn't ...  lol).     Anyway I managed to win Reserve Winners Dog to a major with Kix.   Dang ...  so close ...   He needs another major.    And I won Best of Opposite bitch with Mimi and won two more points toward her grand championship.     Not too bad for the Lawood second string.

On Sunday,  Kix got second in his class  and Mimi won Select Bitch and one more point on her Grand.    This brings her to 22 points.   She needs one more major and also needs to defeat one more finished champion and she's got her Grand Championship title.    Hope she doesn't drag this out !!!

Stay tuned ... more later.

New Abby Pups are HERE !!!

Well after one C-section and two trips to Nashville, the new Abby pups are here.   Both mother and pups made it through the ordeal just fine.    There all home now.    The larger one with more body color is the boy and the smaller one with the wide blaze is the girl.    It's a little early to be picking out names but so far we've come up with   "Lawood's Dusty Trails into the Sunset" for the boy (Sunny) and "Lawood's Gotta Have Faith" for the girl (Faith)  ..  (subject to change of course)...   :)

Lawood Paps --- Busy, Busy, Busy

Just got back from the Birmingham show and we were fretting and hoping that the very fat very round Abby would wait and not go into labor while we were at the show.   We had an appointment to take her to the reproduction specialist on Wednesday so they could do xrays and determine when or if to do a C-section this time.    Abby has had a rough time with the last two litters, so we decided to take her to the pro's this time.

The x-ray showed at least two very large puppies (maybe one more) it was kinda blurry.    Anyway, she made it and we left her in Nashville.    Now we wait .........   

Wish her luck !!!!     And wish for girls this time.    We have enough stinking hardheaded boys.