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.

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.

Mimi Pictures........

Grand Ch Major Points



New AKC Champion !!!

Grand Ch Major Points

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 !

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.