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Show news
For those who may not have heard on Facebook or Dawn’s blog, Vegas’ owner had some exciting news this weekend…his first show was on Saturday and he was BEST OF OPPOSITE SEX for a 3 point major! That makes the third puppy to be pointed on their first weekend out.
I tell you, this part of breeding my first litter sure has been nerve-wracking and fun! Watching them grow up, hoping that they each fulfill the promise that we saw in them as youngsters. With so many of them in show homes, my nerves have been tripled! LOL Only time will tell whether all of them will grow up as nicely as we hoped, but so far I’ve been so very proud of all of these babies and their owners.
I think Vegas looks very handsome. Young still, yes, but what an eye-catching boy!
Photo taken by Dawn Fisher...thanks Dawn!
Show update, and Vegas!
Nash and I headed to Louisville this weekend for a couple days of shows at the CWCCA supported entry up there. The entry wasn’t quite as large as it has been in years past, but there were still quite a few lovely specials there, and a solid entry of class dogs and bitches to make majors in dogs for all 4 days, and 2 days in girls. Friday and Saturday also had sweepstakes, which I love taking puppies to! I only entered Nash on Friday and Sat, just wanting to get some more experience under his belt before the Nationals and not really pushing for points…he still has a lot of growing up to do, but the Louisville site is great for getting puppies acclimated to large, busy shows.
Friday in sweepstakes Nash won his class and was pulled out by the judge (Emily Fish) for another look with the eventual winner, a very nice puppy owned/bred by Vivian Moran. He was second in his regular class. On Saturday we had a little better luck…he was the only one in his sweeps class (and didn’t get an award past that), but won his regular class and then went on to Reserve Winners Dog under Mary Belloff. Thankfully he showed better on Saturday than he did on Friday…he was very excited to be there, had his tail up which he rarely does, and generally had the attention span of a gnat. By Saturday he had settled down (and worn down) a bit. 
Also, I was thrilled today to get some pictures from Joyce of the Vegas-man! No stacked shots, just some cute pictures of his handsome self being a dog. They’re going to dip their toes in the show ring in April!
In which I question the wisdom…
…of creating a litter full of very smart, eat-anything-not-nailed-down puppies.
I received a lovely report from Harmony’s people the other day. Apparently she has figured out how to open drawers (!!)…she just grabs on and pulls while walking backwards. Cindi and Patti are missing a few items (whoops) and will be investing in child locks soon. Ha! It’s so very naughty…but I have to laugh, too.
On the wonderful side, Harmony just graduated from intermediate obedience class and will be heading to an advanced class soon. Patti is doing a lovely job training her and they have started attending a class for service dogs together. They are hoping that by the time she’s a year old she’ll be ready to take her CGC and Delta Society therapy dog tests, and get her certification as Patti’s service dog. And I’ll tell you what…as proud as I am of the show dogs from the litter and their owners, I am JUST as proud of this family! I know that Pilot’s owners will be thrilled also…grandma Alice, in addition to helping propagate the trashund genes, seems to have contributed a few more desirable traits also. 
She’s also a Delta Society therapy dog. I’m glad that Harmony can use her evil powers for good, also.
Eeek!
Well, I entered the Atlanta shows knowing that sometimes they pull pretty large entries. In fact, when Lizzie was a baby she made her debut at those shows and it was a 5 point major in bitches. *blink* (she was reserve both days) Now it’s her son Nash’s turn to dip his toe into the show world, and the entry was posted today…yep, a 5 point major in boys. Can I admit that I got a little tingly/excited when I made the entry for him? It was my first time to ever enter in Bred-By, and somehow that’s just really cool.
If you’ve missed it on Carolyn’s blog or Facebook, sister Lucy has done really well on HER debut weekend in Portland. Reserve Winner’s Bitch twice to majors! I’m thrilled! Many friends and family are showing tomorrow and Sunday still, so good luck to everyone!
Pupdate – Harmony! And yes, I’m still alive.
Well we’ve had a pretty terrible month here. Charlie came down with H1N1 right before Thanksgiving and shared it with me, so we had to cancel our trip to Ohio to visit with my family. Nash is officially in the “too awkward for photos” phase, so you may not be seeing much of him for a while LOL! Our weather here has turned lovely and rainy…we had a flash flood 2 nights ago that put our street and entire yard under about a foot of water. Hooray! Thankfully our house is built on a crawl space, so we didn’t have water issues in the house, but our yard is a mess and it is going to take weeks for the crawlspace to dry out. Nash thought it was great and tried to jump into the swiftly running water (before I realized exactly what was going on)…stupid puppy!
On a positive note (I think), Lizzie has decided to come into season again, 2 months later than usual. I’m actually kind of happy about it, if she stays on her regular 6 month schedule that means she wouldn’t be in standing season during the National anymore. Will be interesting to see what Nash thinks and yes, I know that you can’t necessarily trust almost-6-month-old puppies not to figure it out. 
On to Miss Harmony! I know some of you see her on Facebook, but I got a nice note from her kind owners and wanted to share.
Aloha! Here are a few pictures of Harmony. She is always excited to go with me to work each day. Her “aunts” all love her and she’s spoiled absolutely rotten. She’s coming along great being my Service Dog and she’s official now at work. As of yesterday she weighs close to 19 pounds. Not as big as her siblings but that’s okay with us. Her nicknames, so far, are Harmony Pup, Puppity Pup, Pup, Little Bit.
She Loooooooooves belly rubs, balls, squeaky toys, playing tug, being cradled and she’s an absolute snuggle bunny. She’s very intuitive in taking care of me and my PTSD. We’re basically just taking her natural instincts, characteristics and such and developing them. We can’t tell you how much we appreciate being able to be able to take care of her. She is a total joy and pleasure. Thank you again sooooooo very much you chose the perfect dog for us. Thank you.
Aloha & Blessings,
Patti & Cindi
Not a show dog, but a pretty and flashy girl anyway!
Harmony and Patti
Pupdate – Wall-E! (Miles)
I got a lovely note from Wall-E’s family and wanted to share with some new photos!
Just checking in to let you know how little Wall-E is doing…
He’s Great! He and Cosmo are best buddies now, and really like each other. Wall-E has more energy than Cosmo (to be expected!) and is more vocal in his playing, but they make great playmates. And since they look SO much alike (seriously– it’s uncanny, they are going to be TWINS when Wall-E’s full grown… except for the freckles. that will help us know who’s who.), it’s a riot to walk them together. He’s like a mini-Cosmo!
As far as personality and behavior, as I mentioned earlier he’s a pretty vocal pup, but overall he’s fairly mellow and “cool.” He loves everyone and everything and (so far) has no fear. Which is good, because when people want to stop and coo at them, Wall-E gets the petting and Cosmo observes from his normal, just-out-of-reach-no-you-cant-pet-me distance. It seems to take pressure off and they both get what they want!
He is very loved Of course we love him best, but he has become a bit of a mini-celeb in our neighborhood, lol! It’s cute.
Thanks for the update, guys! It makes me happy to hear how he’s growing up and fitting into your family.
Puppies available!
My friend Laura Prosser in southern Tennessee has some lovely Cardigan puppies that are looking for loving pet homes! These cuties are nearly ready to go home, so if you’re interested then go ahead and contact her. I went to visit them on Halloween and they are all beautiful, sweet babies who should make great, healthy pets. You can contact Laura at prosser13@charter.net and see more pictures of the babies on her blog, http://lybertygirl.blogspot.com.
In case you missed it
No, I’m not keeping two puppies.
The pet home that I was hoping would love to have Lucy never contacted me back despite multiple attempts and messages. She was never “out of the running” as a show-quality puppy, but up until this point this home had been very good about communicating with me and they seemed wonderful, so I really wanted to be able to place a puppy with them. I honestly don’t care that they changed their mind or got a puppy elsewhere, but I do sincerely wish that they would at least have let me know about it rather than leave me hanging for days wondering whether she had a home or not. Regardless, that’s neither here nor there. So once it seemed that I didn’t have a pet home waiting for her, we looked at her again for show and the consensus was that she really has quite a bit to offer.
Mandy discussed it with Keith and Jo, who own Pilot’s beautiful sister Clem, and they are going to own and show Lucy. She flies out next week to Spokane!
If you’re keeping track, that does indeed mean that 7 of the 9 puppies are in show homes. It feels a little crazy to say that, and I certainly never expected or planned for it! I feel *extremely* lucky that there was such a good amount of quality in the litter AND that I had so many people (and friends) who were interested in showing one of these babies. Now I just keep fingers and toes crossed and bite nails that they all turn out well!
Poor puppies
"You help get mine off, then I'll help get yours off"
Nash puppy. I liked this picture because it shows his "reverse shiner", he has a ring of light reddish hairs right around his eye on the dark side.
"Maybe mama will help me..."
Lucy's ears were mostly up, but one was creasing a lot so I taped anyway.
I call this "Longing". Brady is a toy hoarder, but Lucy does her best to get him to share.
Pretty please??
12 Weeks
My non-dog-person husband sweetly agreed to snap a few pictures for me. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice for Lucy’s pictures that he was standing all the way up, hence the lovely look-down-upon-thee angle of her side photo. He did reconsider his approach before we got to Nash, thankfully!
LUCY
NASH
The photo above was the better picture of his front, but I loved the expression on this one!
