The Show: St. Clairsville

Another weekend means partying, drinking, and having horrible hangovers. Well, that may be a lot of people's weekends but my weekend "partying" ivolves hundreds of dogs, loads of gay men in suits, and women that think they are the queen of the universe. If you guessed dog show, you are correct. 8 dogs packed in the back of the jeep and a 2 hour hour drive...well 4 for my mom. Oh and the best part? It was outside...it had been raining so everything was wet and muddy and mom and I certainly weren't equipped for that fashion wise.

We were in our traditional showing clothes which are made for the moderate temperatures of the indoors. We had long skirts, nice short sleeve shirts and dressy sandals. For an inside show that look always works, it is nice enough to go into a ring but casusal enough so we don't feel uncomfortable. This wonderful show was outside on some fairground in 52 degree weather and puddles in the middle of the ring that I of course stepped in, covering my foot and sandal in muddy water. Good news is that we had all 5 Affens entered in the show so we had to win everything. Theres a mad dash trying to switch off dogs in between, thats always fun. The judge was nice though and understood when our poor unsocialized little pups pulled away as he examined their heads. It was sort of amusing as he was examing Ziggy which I happened to be showing...every time the judge has to put their hands underneath to make sure both testicles are intact...when the judge did that he suddenly looked up at me and said, "Oh, he pulled up!" I almost burst out laughing. When a male dog feels something cold (as the judge's hands were) he will tighten up his testicles but since Ziggy's are still small he can pull them up almost into his entire body. I found that amusing...poor little Ziggy. So Georgie actually beat his brother which was pleasantly surprising, we got Faye's and Rosie's numbers confused so Rosie should have won but Faye got the point...oh well. There's the show...dogs were good, weather sucked.