It is my first time being on the road and staying away from home during a dog show – the Portland Rose classic is a big 4 day All-breed show. Its fun to play around in the Best of Breed ring as we try to garner points towards our Grand CH title.
Over the weekend we got Select 2x and went Best of Opposite 2x which equates to 4 more points towards our title. Wahoo!
What a fun start to the Western Washington cluster with a Select win and best owner Handler in breed under judge Lou Guerrero
We like to take our dogs everywhere we go (if we can). On this gorgeous wintery day, we went hiking at the beautiful Snoqualmie Falls and Maddy and Arrow came with us 🙂
Getting Best of Breed is an honor. Once you are the best in your breed, you get to show against the best in breed in all the other breeds in your group.
For beagles, they are a hound and so go back into the ring with the best of breeds such as Afgans, Deerhounds, Bassets, Dachshunds, Whippets, Greyhounds….well you get the idea. 🙂 There are a lot of amazing dogs in the same ring.
Well today, Maddy got 4th place in Hound group – how exciting for us!! We are well on our way to our Canadian CH title.
I think Maddy quite likes the hotel life while showing in Canada. Ha!
We have started working on Maddison’s Canadian CH title while we wait for her to be old enough to finish her health clearances in 2016. September 26/27th we had a great time at the Mount Cheam Kennel Club meet in Chiliwack getting Best of Opposite in Beagles (thank you judge Satoshi Bessho) and group 4 in our 12-18 month class (thank you judge Maxine Moinier) on the Saturday. We took Best of Breed (thank you judge Takahiro Miyagawa) on Sunday.
Arrow and Maddy are besties and sleep like this every day. I cant help but think Arrow must think she is a beagle after all
Our daughter B wanted a dog of her own. We told her we would be happy for her to have a dog of her own if she would save up $200 towards the purchase price, and research the perfect breed for her.
She worked all Summer long, pet sitting and doing chores for neighbors. And she created lists of the things the perfect dog would have. The biggest thing was she wanted a dog that was potty trained (so an older puppy or young dog) and that would like being dressed up, didn’t require much exercise and wasn’t too big.
She came up with Cavalier King Charles – luckily one of our local vet techs, Julia, is a CKCS breeder and I know she is very health conscious and so I thought she would be a great resource. She put us in touch with her close friend Alisha from Lockestar Cavaliers and they told us about Arrow.
Miss Arrow came to live with us and immediately made herself at home. We are delighted to add CKCS to our kennel.
Stella is growing up well – she is a spunky little girl with loads of personality – these pictures were taken when she was about 9 weeks old. She could have made a cute show pup.
Unfortunately, her bite is not perfect. As a breeder, I could put doggie braces on her (yes that is a real thing)…but ethically I would know that it could show up again in her bloodline if I ever chose to breed her. And I don’t want to cut corners as a breeder.
We made the sad decision to home her as a pet. Sometimes I believe that God has a plan greater than we can imagine and Mike and Michelle got in touch with us about a puppy. Stella has gone to her new home in Oregon and I couldn’t be more thrilled with how cherished she is – and that she has 3 beagles and a Lhasa as fur siblings 🙂
This is little Stella – Jessie’s final puppy. With progesterone testing and perfect timing, she produced only one puppy, so we made the hard decision to spay her on delivery.
With breeding, we take our job very seriously – not just extensively health testing our dams – but also making hard decisions if we need to.
Unfortunately, Jessie had trouble getting pregnant and trouble whelping. It is no one’s fault – it is just the nature of nature. But we believe that its unfair to Jessie to make her go through this again and so spaying her means we can have her as our couch potato from now on.
Little Stella was 5 oz at birth and took about 30 minutes to breathe steadily. She is now nursing well and growing perfectly. We are in love.