The Show

Well this past weekend, my mom and I went to a dog show. Initially she was only planning on taking our two Lowchens, Liesl and Pia. Then we decided that a road trip would be good for all the dogs so Mom and I packed all 9 dogs in 3 crates, loaded them into the Jeep and we were off! The show was in Paintsville, Kentucky, aka the middle of nowhere. It was like a 4 hour drive which I slept through most of. We got up at about 3 am so we could get going early. The dogs love when the get to go for a drive, they get all excited and run around everywhere, wimpering and barking. Of course, we're trying not to step on anyone so theres constant shouts of "Move Claire!" "Shut Up!" "Josie, get out of the way!" "Shut UP Claire!!!" Yeah, it's interesting doing all that at 3 am. We put the 4 puppies in one crate, Jo and Claire in one (keep the 2 alpha females together and they will have a truce and behave), and Liesl, Daisy, and Pia in the last crate. Luggage was easy since it was only for 2 days. (technically only a day and a half really...) The dogs did remarkably well, no one crapped or barked. Two of the puppies, Ziggy and probably Faye, got car sick quite a few times so we would stop occasionally and clean the crate, let everyone out, then load them up and hit the road again. Liesl was the only Lowchen there so of course she won but didn't win group.
We met some other really cool people. Theres a couple just starting their Ridgeback. She's a beautiful girl, only like 16 months or something like that. They had a young guy showing her who did junior showing and he showed her well. He was 17 but he looked a lot younger, poor guy. :) We then met a family who had 5 Afghans. Mom and I were just standing there talking to the Ridgeback couple and she just came up and asked if we were busy. We said no so she asked if we would help with the showing of her Afghans. We were like umm, we show toys but we can try, maybe... Really all we had to do was hand off the proper dogs at the right time while she and her daughter (prolly about my age) showed them in the ring. The dogs were beautiful, the daughter was very nice, the mother was just a tad bit more than bizarre... yeah not someone I'd want to be long term friends with. So that was the show, the big one is coming up in Georgia...an 8 hour drive. *gag* This was really more of a practice for Liesl because she has a shot at a major in Georgia. Theres gonna be like 8 Lowchens there so who knows, maybe we'll get lucky. Liesl did very well at the show so I think even if she doesn't win in Georgia, she'll still do us proud. Yay Liesl! She's a cutie. (Yes, we are dog people. We have excellent dogs that most breeders can't hope to get their hands on. So they are gorgeous and expensive. And thats that.)