Last Sunday saw us travelling up to Coventry for the Papillon (Butterfly Dog) Club’s Championship Show. The entry was massive, even for Paps, with just over 300 dogs entered!

For boys we had Winston, Sam, Mac, Storm, Jason, Wallace, Igor and Solei, and girls Tosca, Sarah and Sally.

Winston got a 2nd in a large Minor Puppy class with 16 present, Sam 2nd in a large Junior Dog class with 15 present, Mac nothing in Post Grad Dog (20!) and Storm nothing in Limit Dog (23!) but he did make the cut. Jason & Wallace nothing in Open Dog and Igor beat Solei into 2nd in the Phalene class. Solei wasn’t showing as well as usual but not enough to cost him the class, I wasn’t necessarily expecting Solei to win it but it should’ve been between him and Thackery (who was 3rd) not Igor!

Sally nothing in Open Bitch (missing tooth), Tosca won Phalene Bitch and my little Sarah only went and continued her streak by winning Maiden Bitch! I think she was seriously considered for the RCC as well, the judge seemed very interested in her and asked her age (not usually done at that point and I think I was the only one she asked), then once she found out she was only 12 months stopped looking at her! I will be surprised if Sarah doesn’t do *something* this year, she really should 🙂 Igor beat Tosca for Best Phalene in Show (I was handling Igor whilst S had Tosca and I thought she had it in the bag!)

In other news we have puppies! Five born early this morning, two days early, three boys and two girls.

Solei is marking worse than he ever has at the moment, it’s driving me mad! I did wonder if he could have a UTI but the chances aren’t that likely (especially being a boy) and he’s fine except for peeing in the house. He’s so subtle as well, always seems to do it when I’m not looking even when I’m watching him like a hawk! However, I’m aware of him going in the house three times since yesterday evening and I’ve caught him 2/3 times and told him off so hopefully he’ll stop soon. It’s getting very wearing! I had Storm here for two and a half weeks and this started a couple of days after he went back home so I think maybe Solei’s insecure and trying to stamp his mark on his territory! You’d have thought he’d have been doing it whilst he was here though :rolleyes: I mean they were marking a bit whilst Storm was here but not like this – it’s partly where he’s going which is the problem – ie up the curtains and up the side of my quilt! Of course right now he’s curled up on my arm fast asleep looking as if butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth.

It’s been a really long week, times drags so much. I wish I had more energy! Things that don’t seem much to ask…are. I got my first “proper” DS game (ie need to use the buttons to move around) this week and I’m really struggling with the controls. I know with the GBA you could get a thing that clipped over and had a joystick instead of the pad, wonder if there’s anything like that for the DS?

A week today I’ll be watching the Papillon judging at WELKS though 😀 I’m really looking forward to that, I just hope Solei goes better than he did last weekend! We’ve only got Sam, Mac, Solei, Jason and Tosca going so it’ll be quite a quiet day and our classes will be over comparatively quickly (dogs judged before bitches and the only bitch we’ve got is Tosca who is in Minor Puppy which is the first bitch class).

I’ve just upgraded WordPress as well so let’s hope everything works properly! It’s a bit of a shock to the system, the admin panel is very different!