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Onward to Canada!
Okay, after spending the last 2+ hours bathing, blow-drying & brushing
Bodhi, I think we're almost ready for our trip North. :-) Renaissance Dog Shows & the Belgian Shepherd Club of Canada's National Specialty in Chilliwack, British Columbia. We'll be showing in breed (altered class--pretty cool of the Canadians to offer this class to us that want the practice w/ our "non-regular" dogs! grin), and in obedience. I'll also be handling a friend's Scottish Deerhound in breed all weekend & for their regional Hound Specialty. Plus...I'm "puppy shopping"*, so I'm going to be busy! We're headed out early Thursday a.m., hope to be back early enough Sunday night to get a few hours of sleep before work Monday a.m.! I've heard that the Canadian shows are a blast, I can hardly wait! (*hoping to see something up there that piques my interest, just as long as they're registerable blacks!) Shelly & The Boys: Coda (CollieX) & Bodhi (BSD) -- Updated Website: http://www.geocities.com/shellybrosnan/index.html |
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"Shelly & The Boys" wrote in
: Okay, after spending the last 2+ hours bathing, blow-drying & brushing Bodhi, I think we're almost ready for our trip North. :-) Dang, I wish I could get over to the mainland! Will be thinking of you while I run 2x Senior Hunter over here in the swamps of Vancouver Island, -- Kate and Storm the FCR |
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"KWBrown" wrote in message . 4... "Shelly & The Boys" wrote in : Okay, after spending the last 2+ hours bathing, blow-drying & brushing Bodhi, I think we're almost ready for our trip North. :-) Dang, I wish I could get over to the mainland! Will be thinking of you while I run 2x Senior Hunter over here in the swamps of Vancouver Island, And we will be thinking of you & Storm--and happy we're NOT in a swamp! :-) Best of luck, I know we'll be there all weekend, heading back after the show on Sunday. I think we're estimating about 7 hours of driving. (It's our "warm-up" run for Wisconsin next month...) Shelly |
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"Shelly & The Boys" wrote in
: And we will be thinking of you & Storm--and happy we're NOT in a swamp! :-) Best of luck, I know we'll be there all weekend, heading back after the show on Sunday. I think we're estimating about 7 hours of driving. (It's our "warm-up" run for Wisconsin next month...) Trip report, please! (One fail (mostly handler error), one pass in Senior Hunter. The sweetest, most delightful pass. I burst into tears when Stormy brought back the last bird at the end of an 11-hour day of testing). -- Kate and Storm the FCR |
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On 11 Apr 2005 23:45:14 GMT, KWBrown
wrote: (One fail (mostly handler error), one pass in Senior Hunter. The sweetest, most delightful pass. I burst into tears when Stormy brought back the last bird at the end of an 11-hour day of testing). verrrrrry cool! handler error is a bitch, isn't it? Congrats Storm and Kate -- Janet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bestfr...bedience/album |
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"KWBrown" wrote in message . 4... Trip report, please! It was beautiful! The weather cooperated, the site was nice (it was at Heritage Park in Chilliwack), the place where they held the herding was excellent. With that gorgeous mountain range as a backdrop things couldn't have been nicer. Well, the hotel room (on the 2nd floor) could have had an elevator! But other than that, it was a nice trip, made only better by the friendliness of nearly everyone we came across. (We ate a place called Boston Pizza, excellent food. And I'd never eaten Baked French Onion soup...it was superb!) My friend's boy earned a 4 pt and a 5 pt major, so he's only needing one more Can. point for his Ch. up there (he's only needing one 3pt major down here). I handled her Deerhounds for a brace, what fun, we made it to Group level but she took them in when they went on to Best Brace in Show only to lose to THE cutest brace of Frenchies I've ever seen. In the Specialty, Bodhi earned Reserve Male in the Altered class, the win went to an absolutely beautiful Veteran (who also earned BOS in the Veteran Sweeps, so I do not feel badly about the judge picking him over us, they truly deserved it!). Bodhi was sweet & kissed the judge, and had a wonderful time playing "Pretty Boy". :-) He loves to be groomed, and so this led to a mini-disaster right before we went into the Obedience ring on Sunday. He thought it would be fun to hop up onto the Stewards Table (not being used), it was very slippery and he fell off, back onto the concrete! I hear a collective gasp from the crowd as I'm trying to make sure he's okay, and keep my cool. The Steward patiently waited as I gave him a once-over, put a big smile on my face when I decided he was okay, and in we went. Not surprisingly, his On-Lead heeling was Not Pretty. While he seemed okay, I was a basket-case after his wipe-out! Then we went on to Figure 8, and on his 1st sit at heel, he looked up and gave me the biggest, sweetest grin and I knew we'd be okay after that. I lightened up, and the rest of our performance was wonderful. We qualified, but no placement. However, I don't feel badly at all about that, the 4 placers were all very seasoned competitors (3 of them are from down here). So, we'll have to come back up for some of the shows this fall (Cloverdale or Abbotsford maybe) to finish his Can. CD. We did earned the ribbon that I was hoping to earn, the Belgian Shepherd club offered a "Brains & Beauty" rosette--very big and pretty--to entrants who placed in their conformation class (non-regular classes included) and qualified in their performance (herding and/or obedience) event. So, Yay for Bodhi! Yay for us. (One fail (mostly handler error), one pass in Senior Hunter. The sweetest, most delightful pass. I burst into tears when Stormy brought back the last bird at the end of an 11-hour day of testing). Very nice. Great job to the both of you!! Shelly & The Boys |
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Janet B wrote in
: handler error is a bitch, isn't it? Brutal. There's *so* much to learn, and it's really hard when it turns out that I let down the team. -- Kate and Storm the FCR arfenarf at hotmail dot com |
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"Shelly & The Boys" wrote in
: So, we'll have to come back up for some of the shows this fall (Cloverdale or Abbotsford maybe) to finish his Can. CD. I hope I can make it up for one of those shows... We did earned the ribbon that I was hoping to earn, the Belgian Shepherd club offered a "Brains & Beauty" rosette--very big and pretty--to entrants who placed in their conformation class (non-regular classes included) and qualified in their performance (herding and/or obedience) event. So, Yay for Bodhi! Yay for us. Yay indeed! Congratulations on a fun and rewarding weekend! -- Kate and Storm the FCR arfenarf at hotmail dot com |
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"KWBrown" wrote in message . 4... "Shelly & The Boys" wrote in : So, we'll have to come back up for some of the shows this fall (Cloverdale or Abbotsford maybe) to finish his Can. CD. I hope I can make it up for one of those shows... I will let you know if we plan on it. I have a friend (lives about 20 minutes from me) that goes to Canada all of the time. She's asked me to go along several times, next time I might have to take her up on it. :-) Shelly & The Boys |
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