This too will Pass.........

Well, Laura came out of the other room the other night just in time to see Kix with "something" in his mouth. She just had time to say "what have you got" and "give me that" ... but Kix said

"GOONK" and the mystery item was gone ... on it's way on a doggy intestinal roller coaster ride. We looked around and discovered a zipper with the little piece that you grab to zip something up ... MISSING. Yikes, surely he couldn't have chewed the little flappy piece off of a metal zipper and swallowed it .... SURELY.

Well, out comes the three percent peroxide and we made attempts to make him spit the mystery object back up but that didn't work. So... with visions of surgery bills dancing in our heads.....it's off to the vet we go hoping it was just a false alarm.

So... Here's a picture of Kix's first X-RAY !!! and the zipper thingy plain as day.

Sheesh ...

Oh ... For those of you that are concerned.... Everything came out ok in the end so to speak (pardon the pun).... :)

Ozark Kennel Club Dog Show -- Nov 13 -14

Two long distance dog show weekends in a row. We're all exhausted and looking for some well deserved time off !!!

Laura and I traveled back to Missouri this weekend to the Ozark Kennel Club dog show. The show this year turned out to be Majors in both Dogs and Bitches both Saturday and Sunday. This was great since Cruiser only needs one more Major to finish his championship. And both of our Girls could use a major win also. Mimi is getting very close to being pointed out and we don't want to be chasing "two" majors for her. Brook just needs points of any kind right now.

Ok, Cruiser showed well both days but didn't get winners Saturday or Sunday, so the major chase continues.

Brook showed very well both days. She needs to settle down a little more ... (OK a lot more). She's still a wild little puppy. She even got away from Laura while showing in the ring Sunday and ran out of the show ring (yikes) !!! I just saw Laura running after a flash of black and white fur. I thought that Laura was going to have a heart attack. It's a thousand wonders that she caught Brook. Her favorite game is "catch me if you can". Some lady outside the ring stepped on the lead that she was dragging and Laura was able to return her to the ring.

Mimi didn't win anything Saturday, but won "Winners Bitch" Sunday for a four point Major !!!
And won "Best Opposite" also. So, Mimi now has one of her two required Majors in the bag. She now has 10 points toward her championship. Cruiser better watch out or little sister is going to pass him and finish before he does and he'll just be eating her dust.

We're going to take a winter break from dog showing. Thanksgiving and Christmas is just around the corner. We'll enjoy that and start back full blast shortly after the first of the year.

Joplin MO Dog Show Nov 6 - 7

Ok.... We took off work Wed. Thurs. and Friday. Our original plans were to go to Knoxville for a four day show. Since Cruiser desperately needs another Major win to finish his championship, and we did not think that Knoxville would be a Major, we decided to skip Knoxville and go to the dog show in Joplin Mo. Joplin is in the extreme Southwest corner of Missouri. That is over a six hour "one way"road trip for us (ouch)!!! While we were there we made a little junket into Oklahoma and Kansas, just to say that we had been there, plus once we left Kansas, I always wanted to be able to say "Toto... I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore".... :)

Ok, back to the dog show results. Cruiser won his Bred By class both days and won Reserve Winners Dog on Sunday. Mimi got a third place in her class on Saturday and Won her Bred By class Sunday. No points for either dog but I guess we made a respectable stab at it. Casper and Brook just went along for the ride.

Next weekend we'll be back in Missouri for the Springfield show. Brooklyn gets to show next time. Wish her luck. She needs her first points. There will be over 1200 dogs in Springfield and it's Majors for both Dogs and Girls both days.

More Later..............

Home Alone (2)

Well, no dog shows this past weekend. Laura and I both got to just stay at home and get stuff done around the house/petting zoo. All in all it was a nice cool peaceful weekend.

Two of our kids had birthdays this weekend. Casper is 4 years old and Brooklyn is a whopping one year old. As wild as Brook is, she's lucky to still be here. She has settled down somewhat though. Usually as in times past we take pictures of birthday dogs with stupid birthday hats on, but this time we decided to spare them the embarrassment. Casper (Lawood's Fiery Ghostrider) was born on Halloween weekend. He's another one of our puppies that named himself.

Next weekend it's off to dog shows again in Joplin Missouri followed by Springfield Missouri the following weekend. So, BREAKS OVER PUPPIES it's back to work for you guys knocking down those MAJORS.

Cruiser and Mimi are showing, as well as Brook (we're breaking her out of moth balls) and Casper's going too (just for moral support).