Things must have been chaotic, apparently I never posted after my highly exciting experience! Tut tut, won’t do…

On the 17th we had an open show, under a breed specialist judge. I can’t remember if I mentioned it or not but I’d been looking forward to it because I knew she liked Phalenes and knew what she was doing! I also knew she really liked Morris and he would almost certainly get BOB.

Sarah was a little sodling 😀 She was perfect, just the way I like her! Silly about showing her teeth but other than that she was fine. On form actually….at the end when we were all standing the dogs and the judge was looking down the lineup she was leaping 6 feet in the air, landing and standing beautifully, barking at me, repeat! It was very funny. Sam won the class, she got a 3rd.

Solei fidgeted a bit on the table (need to do a bit of table work with him before Crufts…he’s started moving when the judge goes over him again) but nothing major and moved beautifully as Solei does 🙂 And he won his class! That’s the first “proper” class he’s ever won at a general open show. The only others he’s ever won there have been 2 dogs in the class (including him) and the other has shown really awfully with their tail down.

Then he had to go back in for the challenge, and he got Reserve Best of Breed!! Sometimes they have rosettes for RBOB, unfortunately not at this show. But they also don’t always award RBOB so we’ll take it 😆

Sarah then went back in and got 2nd in a large AV Toy Puppy class 🙂 So it was a fantastic day.

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Then yesterday we went to another open show, but nothing remarkable. Sarah wasn’t quite as good (it was only a class of 3 and she wasn’t really in the ring long enough, she just found her feet properly after she’d been placed!) but not atrotious and did enough to get a 2nd, behind her brother of course! We’ve done the 1/2 with those two so many times over the last few months. They only have 1 show left in puppy now (well Sam has Crufts as well, but that’s not a puppy class in the conventional sense), I’ll be sad when it’s over. Been a fun few months! Still, we’ve got the Phalenes and Winston to come out now; they’ll be 6 months old on the 18th and 16th of March.

And I’m feeling a lot less stressed about the dogs now, we don’t seem to have upset tummies anymore 🙂 Thank god for that!