Its never a good sign when you look at the calendar and realize that not only are you going to a show in a time zone an hour ahead of you, but that Sunday is daylight savings as well!
We left at 1am Saturday morning to drive out to the Garden City, KS shows. Its a 4.5 hour drive from our house, so figured we could take our time and have some time to rest and relax before we actually had to show. Two hours into the drive, I suddenly realized that the only shoes I brought with me were the flipflops I had on my feet. You would not believe how deserted Wal-Mart is at 3 AM!! lol. I'm just glad they had shoes that fit, and that would work for dog shows :) Problem solved for $8.99!
Got to the show site around 6 am, got all our stuff set up and we were able to play with the dogs and relax for a few hours. Pyro was first up at 9 am, and, the goofy redhead decided he needed to skip his way around the ring (lol...at least he has fun!!) and came out with second place out of 3 puppies. This is his last show as a puppy, btw. We got to relax and play with the puppies until noon. Stacey and Rodger brought thier boys, and we got to play with ZZ and Gibbs and Dex and get them to relax in the building as well. Pointers were HECTIC! LOL. Between Stacey and I, we had brought the entire class entry, and I was handling 3 of the 5! Louie won his puppy class by bouncing around the ring and generally having a great time! Gibbs won the BBX class with his son ZZ going second. Dex won Open Dog, and looked great with Rodger handling him (and it was Rodgers first time ever in the show ring!). Winners dog (and the major) went to Dexter, with Reserve going to Gibbs. Prada won her class and went Winners (only bitch entered) She hopped, skipped, and bounced her way around the Best of Breed ring and the judge gave BOB to the GORGEOUS special, Josh (Ch Taharis Too Wild To Be Serious), BOW to Dex, and BOS to Prada. Louie ended up going Best Puppy over Prada.
Sunday, we had Dobes and Pointers both straight up at 9 am. Cynthia Huckfeldt was kind enough to take Pyro into the Puppy class for me so I could handle the Pointers. Pyro won his class with her expert guidance. Going into Pointers, Louie won his class, and judge Charles Trotter couldnt stop telling me how gorgeous he was, but how I needed to let him move out to his true ability. In Bred By, Gibbs won the class again with ZZ going second, and Dexter won Open. Winners dog again went to Dex, with Reserve going to Lou. Prada actually kept all 4 feet on the ground, and went Winners bitch (again, only bitch entered). Best of Breed again went to Josh, with BOW/BOS going to Prada (for a major!! YAY!). Best Bred-By went to Gibbs.
I got back over to the Dobe ring in time to take Pyro back in for Winners, and he ended up with Reserve to the major!!
All in all, it was a great weekend, with Sunday being just awesome. Gibbs came home with us, and will stay out here for a bit. We are going to see if we cant pack some weight on him while hes out here as he has the same "I dont really want to eat" issues that his Mom and Brothers have! So we DEFINATLY have a full house! lol.
Off to another show in a few weeks, hopefully one of the boys can pick up another single or two (dont think there will be majors) and Prada can cross for another single or two.
On a personal note, got my approval letter from Tricare for my surgery! YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!! After it is all said and done, I will have to post (*clean*) before and after pics. I'm so excited, but I'm so nervous as well. They are going to remove between 8 and 10 pounds overall to get them down to a managable size, and I cant wait to be NORMAL! LOL.
In the mean time, dont forget to vote for Pyro in the Bissell contest!!!!
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