New Years Updates - All moved in...

I got distracted from the blog due to our moving! But we are all moved in now and the dogs are loving the new place. They spent the first few days doing Whippet zoomies around the yard and they have their own room now were they can sleep at night and they all LOVE their room, surprisingly. I thought they would hate it because the ones that sleep in crates at night would be sleeping away from their humans, but they love it! We are still working on things such as hanging photos and stuff but we are settled for the most part. Going to be doing some construction work in the next few months, we are going to replace the back porch, going to make a nice big deck where we can sit out and enjoy watching the dogs play and have a BBQ :) We also have a building out back that we are going to convert to a small kennel eventually. Well, about 2 days after moving in, my Crested girl came in season and I shipped her off to Conneticut for her rendevoux with BB King (if I did not post before, Belle - my Basenji girl - didn't catch from her breeding, so no Basenji pups). We got 5 (FIVE, hussy) breedings on her and I should be able to palpate her sometime this weekend or this coming week to see if she is pregnant. Pictures of the 'hopefully' proud parents to be ...

Quizzie had just finished her Championship with her 3rd major, at the Atlanta, GA shows. So she's gotten all but 2 points at the Atlanta, GA shows :) If she's pregnant, she is due to whelp during the Whippet National, so I will not be going as planned :( I'll stay home with her and mom will go with Rupert and Helen to the National. I'm incredibly excited about Crestied pups though! Going to be building her a new whelping box this or next weekend.

Well, I can't remember EVERYTHING that has happened since I last posted, but Tigger has picked up a 5 point major and 3 points towards his AKC FC, so he now has 11 points and a major, just needs 4 points and a major towards his FC. Anna also picked up a 5 point major and has 8 points and a major towards her FC. Choo Choo got his JC this past weekend and has started lure coursing, his first trial last weekend placing 5th out of 22 dogs! Quincy finished his SC and is running great after some bad puppy stuff he was doing a few months ago. Bosley finished his MC as well! Lester has gone to his new home with Dawn Hill and is renamed Spencer, he'll get to do coursing and showing and we're so excited about him! Big news on Brom - he's picked up a few AKC show points and MANY UKC show points. I think he has 95 points towards his UKC Championship and only needs 5 for it! I believe he has 2 AKC show points as well, so he's doing so good - we are incredibly proud of him!! Frenchie has also recently picked up a fresh AKC show point, and Leo is just waiting for major shows to come along as he is singled out. Anna picked up a major the beginning of this year and only needs one more major for her AKC Ch.! Oh - almost forgot, Joker also picked up a 5 point major towards his AKC FC so I think he has 12 points and a major towards his FC. Dido is out on the show circuit with our good friend and owner of her grand pappy "Blaze", Barbara Wayne. She picked up a point last weekend and now she's in PA where I think there are majors for 4 days. So hopefully she'll pick up one, she's coming back home after this weekend. It's the first time we've been without our "Little Diddle" and we miss her as does her brother Rupert. Blaine also picked up 3 RWD since he's been shown I believe, he's so close but he'll get there - he's doing great and learning the ropes and learning to deal with being away from 'mom'. We're proud of him and hopefully he'll get to play with the bunny next weekend! I think I covered everything from this year so far, and will try and keep updated now that we are all moved in and settled :)

Cheers, from the Shannon Down crew...

Krys