Yeah I just realized I never posted the results for the dog show...blonde moment! Daisy did finish so she is now a champion. I had to go to the superintendant to make sure I had tallied the points correctly, I had so she was moved up a class. I got to take my picture with her and the judge. That was a nightmare in and of itself. Daisy would not stack for the world. I would get her in a semi-acceptable stand and then the photographer would say her front foot was off by like a quarter inch. So Id try to move her one foot and then she would just jump right out of position. It took us like 15 minutes for two shots. Even the judge was trying to help me stack her but Daisy just wasn't going to do it. Im standing there thinking, Im just going to kill her. It was so irritating I can't begin to describe. When we finally got the first shot it was a whole other battle to get her stacked again for the second shot. Once we did that though the photographer said he thought the second one would be a really nice one. We should get the picture in another couple weeks or so. Ziggy did very nicely as well, any dog needs 15 points to become a champion, and within those, there needs to be at least 2 majors. A dog can have 50 points but if he hasn't received 2 majors (meaning he beats X number of dogs for his breed) then he is not awarded his championship. Ziggy already has one major, over those 4 days he cleaned up the rest of his points. He now has 14 or 15 but lacks one major. We should be going to another dog show relatively soon so hopefully we can finish him, all it takes is one day and then we don't have to worry about him and we can focus on our girls.
I had the dogs out this afternoon on stackers on the grooming table. The grooming table and the show tables at a show are about the same size. My mom got the stackers so we could work with them on proper stand positions on the table. All they are is a metal X kind of base with 4 little stands for their feet that you can slide on the X to the desired position. The dogs didn't seem to like it too much mainly because they have no room to move, they move and they fall off. So Daisy and Rosie did not like that at all, Ziggy didn't like it but did better than the other 2, Liesl was very good with it. Granted, it took her a couple times but then she stood very nicely and didn't move. Now Jo, that was an utter disaster. Shes already a champion and has been out of the ring for a few years. We want to get her back in though so we can create a major, mainly for Ziggy. So I thought we might as well work on stacking since that is usually the hardest thing for our dogs. She would not do it, I couldn't even get her to keep her feet on the stackers, she would just jump off. So I had to attempt to hold her back feet on the stackers while adjusting her front feet. After several attempts with that she stayed on them but crouched all the way down and was terrified to stand up. So after anoth half dozen trys of trying to get her on them AND stand her up, she finally did. I sweet talked her while I gave her the inspection that a judge would do. She stayed the whole time so then I took her down, lavished her with praise and gave her a treat. She took it and ran inside. lol So I think if mom or me does this with all of them, just once a day, by time the next show rolls around they should be able to stack beautifully on the table, and whats more important, they'll stay that way. Walking Ill work on once I know when the show will be. They're usually pretty easy to flip into that mode. So theres the fascinating part of the afternoon, I don't thinking cleaning really counts. Daisy is sleeping in the little bed by me, upside down...shes annoying as heck sometimes, but still sweet.
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