Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
New Post ... Finally ... Yaaaah
Ok.. Ok.. I know, I have been lax about posting anything new. Trouble is we didn't have anything to announce. We've been going to shows lately and only showing the boy's (Kix and Duke) but other than Duke's win a couple months ago, its been quite a dry spell. So there really hasn't been a lot of stuff happening to blog about.
We did let the dogs out about a month ago and at one point they seemed to be raising more ruckus than normal, so I went outside to see what all the fuss was about and discovered a small Copperhead snake INSIDE the fenced in dog yard. I managed to get all the dogs inside and went back out and "dispatched" the intruder. However, Mimi our newly crowned "Grand Champion" had let her curiosity get the best of her and she had decided to see what a copperhead smelled like and had got bitten. Great, ... so me and Laura rush her to the vet and got shots and antibiotics for her. Her face was very swolen and she looked like a Japanese Chin for most of the day. I stayed home with her and watched her all day. Anyway, she was feeling better by that afternoon and she's absolutely fine now.
Ok on to more cheery subjects. Here's pictures of the newest puppies. We haven't posted pictures of them lately either. They've blown their puppy coats and have hit that growing spurt that all Papillons have early on and are in that long lanky stage we all call the UGLIES. But anyway, here's pictures of our skinny teenagers.
We did let the dogs out about a month ago and at one point they seemed to be raising more ruckus than normal, so I went outside to see what all the fuss was about and discovered a small Copperhead snake INSIDE the fenced in dog yard. I managed to get all the dogs inside and went back out and "dispatched" the intruder. However, Mimi our newly crowned "Grand Champion" had let her curiosity get the best of her and she had decided to see what a copperhead smelled like and had got bitten. Great, ... so me and Laura rush her to the vet and got shots and antibiotics for her. Her face was very swolen and she looked like a Japanese Chin for most of the day. I stayed home with her and watched her all day. Anyway, she was feeling better by that afternoon and she's absolutely fine now.
Ok on to more cheery subjects. Here's pictures of the newest puppies. We haven't posted pictures of them lately either. They've blown their puppy coats and have hit that growing spurt that all Papillons have early on and are in that long lanky stage we all call the UGLIES. But anyway, here's pictures of our skinny teenagers.
Rowdy and Faith
Rowdy
Faith
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
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.
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.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
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.
Monday, May 21, 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.
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.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Tha' Puppies
Rowdy
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
Monday, April 30, 2012
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.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
New Abby Pups are HERE !!!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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.
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.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Birmingham dog show results
Birmingham dog show April 5,6,7,8 results. Mimi won Select Bitch on Thursday and also on Sunday. She won Best Opposite on Friday and Saturday. That should (if we calculate correctly) give her six more points toward her Grand Ch. That brings her up to 19 points.
Duke is six months old now and can be entered in the "real deal" dog show 6 - 9 puppy class. He won his class two days out of the four day show. Pretty good for his first show. He did show very well and we were quite pleased.
Kix won his class also three out of four days.
All in all it was a pretty good weekend.
Duke is six months old now and can be entered in the "real deal" dog show 6 - 9 puppy class. He won his class two days out of the four day show. Pretty good for his first show. He did show very well and we were quite pleased.
Kix won his class also three out of four days.
All in all it was a pretty good weekend.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
2012 Country Music Cluster Dog Show
Well like we mentioned before, We just got up Saturday morning and scurried over to Franklin Tn for the 2012 Country Music Cluster dog show. It felt funny just driving up, showing, and driving back home. It felt like we were forgetting a bunch of stuff. No suit cases, no hotel, and no multiple loading and unloading.
We chose to only show one day out of the four day's. We thought that judges just weren't right for our type of dogs and the other three days would be a waste of time. Turns out Saturday's judge looked the other way too. Oh well. And that's all I have to say about that. (Forrest Gump)
We bred one of our Females (Abby) about three weeks ago. I guess the only exciting aspect of the whole weekend was getting an ultrasound of Abby to see if we were indeed going to have puppies. We got great news. On or about April 15 we hope we'll have at least three fat healthy girls. No we don't know for sure, we're just hoping for girls. We have enough hard headed boy dogs !
We chose to only show one day out of the four day's. We thought that judges just weren't right for our type of dogs and the other three days would be a waste of time. Turns out Saturday's judge looked the other way too. Oh well. And that's all I have to say about that. (Forrest Gump)
We bred one of our Females (Abby) about three weeks ago. I guess the only exciting aspect of the whole weekend was getting an ultrasound of Abby to see if we were indeed going to have puppies. We got great news. On or about April 15 we hope we'll have at least three fat healthy girls. No we don't know for sure, we're just hoping for girls. We have enough hard headed boy dogs !
Monday, March 5, 2012
Tupelo Kennel Club -- March 3 - 4 2012
Mimi
We traveled to Tupelo MS on Friday after work straight into the severe thunderstorms and tornados that were going south of us and going to miss us had we stayed home. I know that's not the smartest thing for us to do but I guess we're that dedicated. We loaded up Kix, Mimi, Minkle and Duke and headed south. It was about a two hour trip to the hotel. We theorized that if we took our time and arrived at 9:30 or 10:00 the storms would have already passed through and we'd be ok. Turns out we didn't have any problems.
Ok... Kix got second in his class both days. Kix has been sick lately and had to spend three nights at the vets office. We were just glad he is feeling better and was able to show this weekend. We were extreamly worried about him.
Mimi won Select Bitch both Saturday and Sunday and earned four more points toward her Grand Championship !!! That brings her up to 13 points so far. She's over half way. So she's the only one that earns the "three exclamation points" this time out. Way to win Mimi !!!
Duke was only entered in the Puppy B Match on Saturday. He did reasonably well but got second in his puppy class. He's just here for the practice and he's doing well so far. Duke will be 6 mos old this weekend, so he'll be able to be entered into the "Real Deal" very soon. We're going to sit him out for a while and let him grow some coat and ear fringes before we start showing him in the classes.
See you guys next time ... Stay tuned. Next stop is the Nashville Kennel Club show this weekend in Franklin TN. We're just going over to show one day on Saturday. Wish us luck.
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