DSSA UKC Show

The Desert Southwest Shetland Sheepdog Assoc. had its annual show weekend last weekend. We hold 2 shows on Saturday and 2 shows on Sunday. These are all day events and by the end I and the rest of the club members were exhausted. Our shows were very successful and everyone had fun. We had a photographer at these shows who took TONS of photos. Proofs of these photos can be seen at www.davidscantorphotography.com

One highlight of these shows was that Heidi, a bitch we cobred (Sunnyvale Hide N Seek) won all 4 Sheltie champion classes and went on to two Best in Shows! Heidi was shown by her owner and cobreeder, Beki Vale.

Jed at the Shows

We took Jed to the AKC shows February 5 & 6th. We are very pleased to say that he was Winners Dog & Best of Breed both days!

We've been tagged!

We've been tagged so I'm suppose to open my pictures file and post the 5th picture from the 5th folder. Here it is...

This is our son-in-law, Casey, with our two grandsons - Cavan, age 3, and baby Gage. This photo was taken Christmas 2008. Below is a picture of the two boys with mom, Rebecca, opening presents.

New UKC Champion

new U-CH. Istari Full Throttle

Keith took Crash to the UKC shows this weekend to get him some ring practice before the Sheltie specialty show next weekend. And, they did great! Keith and Crash were Winners Male, Best of Winners, Best of Breed and placed in the Herding Group each show.

First Match

Edward and Jacob went to their first match over the weekend. Here are a few candid pictures of Edward with Keith and Jacob with co-breeder/co-owner, Beki Vale.


Training Session???


Edward in the ring:


Jacob trucking along.

Today as I was watching the news about the plane crash into the Hudson river (thankfully everyone survived), Edward was digging his way to China on a round, fluffy dog bed across the room. Scratch, scratch, scratch - lay down and check it out. Get up, scratch, scratch, scratch some more. Finally, he lays down and it must be just right because he heaved a great sigh and rolled over on his side... RIGHT OFF THE BED!!!! At which point Jacob came bounding into the room, jumped on the dog bed and curled up and went to sleep.

I wish I'd had a videocamera with me!

Trouble and Mischief ???

Since retirement I’ve settled into a routine now of staying up until 3 a.m. and then sleeping until 10:00 a.m. So this morning I’m woken up (around 8ish) because I heard the swimming pool man. A few minutes later I hear him leave and I start to snuggle back in… only to think “hmmm, the puppies didn’t bark. Maybe I should go take a look.” (The puppies are in a double x-pen on the patio between the living room and the pool.)

So I toddle out of bed and there’s Jacob (bi black) in the pen where he should be. And, there’s Edward (bi blue) happily running around the pool! It appears that Edward climbed out of the short side of the pen. Luckily he didn’t fall in the pool.

So, today we were busy rearranging things with taller x-pens. I keep thinking that Trouble and Mischief would be more appropriate names for these two than Edward and Jacob.