Majors all the way ’round

FFT Space Cowboy (some people call him Maurice) won his first major yesterday.

FFT Well Said (Ella) did one better, winning Best of Breed under breeder/judge Bobbie Wood, for her second major.

Nate coached the Colorado School of Mines swim team to a 1st place win at the Thanksgiving Invite in St. Louis. Five of his swimmers [...]

Stevie..takes the money and runs

On this snowy Sunday morning in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains I’d like to share about Stevie. Named after Steve Miller, Stevie is a female. She, along with her two brothers, are named after Steve Miller Band songs. Joker is FFT The Joker. Maurice is FFT Space Cowboy (’cause he speaks with the pompitous of love). Actually the boys’ names come from [...]

Ginny’s Snowy Chloe

Wednesday night (a week ago Wednesday) I put the dogs out to potty and look what I found 5 minutes later. I had pulled the wicker furniture toward the house to protect it from the storm, Chloe jumped onto the chair, then to the table and was perusing the yard from what she apparently thought was [...]

Best of Breed littermates

Wishing Ginny Good Luck at the Pueblo shows this weekend. Here’s littermates Chloe and Ethan in September, winning Best of Breed. Ethan on Saturday under Norman Patton. Chloe on Sunday under Dr. Robert Smith.

I’m baaaack…

After being gone for a week, I arrived home yesterday afternoon. Rick flew in Thursday, picked me up and off we went to sight-see for a couple of days. Sight-seeing in the rain makes for some rather interesting images, which I’ll share later.
The dogs did awesome National Specialty week, from Stevie’s 5-point major to Margo’s [...]

Ethan’s Best of Breed photo

Ginny sent this…

Braggin’ about Mary’s Roman!

Mary, you must be very proud!

From Mary:
Julie, just had to share this from my trainer at Cloud Nine.  Dawn is
owner/trainer who has quite an ackomplishment list in conformation,
obedience, agility with all her dogs.   Since I can’t take credit for the
genetics, thought I should pass it on to you.   I will probably have her [...]

Ginny’s garden dogs..

I thought I’d forward these pictures to you that were taken a few weeks ago in my garden. We captured them minutes before it rained……the dogs are “au-natural” ….the way they look at home most of the time.
 Take care, Ginny
Ethan, Cayenne and Chloe

Ethan, aka Little E…

Ginny’s Chloe

 

Debby on…Edie’s graduation

For eight weeks Edie and I have trekked down the hill early each Thursday evening for a Basic Obedience course. It’s required for enrollment in our current objective, the Beginning Rally Course which starts March 27th.
Edie was one of 3 little dogs in the class. The other two, a Corgi and a Lakeland Terrier. The other ten [...]