Hoogstraten

This weekend was the show in Hoogstraten (Belgium) where I had entered both Howard and Flirt again.

We started off later as planned and I arrived just before the show started, luckily for us Shelties were the last to be judged in the ring after Spaniels, Collies and Nizinny's so we had plenty of time to get the dogs ready and looking good again :-)

Both of them were entered in championclass again.

Howard was not that much interested in showing himself off, he doesn't mind going to shows but is more interested in doing something with more action and when I take him to shows several weeks after each other he just doesn't seem to be interested anymore.

Despite this he still got 1st Excellent in his class and in the challenge for Best Dog had to be content with the Reserve CAC / Reserve CACIB.

Seems like Belgium is just not the place where Howard is lucky at the shows, he has 2 CAC's towards his title but still needs another 2 to finish it...

We'll be back ;-)

Than finally it was Flirt's turn, she behaved much better than last week and showed her little socks off.
I was so happy that it finally looked like if she gets used to the noise at the shows in Belgium, also today there was a lot of dogs barking, loud music in the mainring which was close to our ring and a lot of big dogs close to where we where.

Flirt got 2nd in her class with Excellent (not may dogs did get graded Excellent) and in the end also had to be content with the Reserve CAC / Reserve CACIB behind the BOB winning bitch.

So now out of 6 shows she has 4 Reserve CAC's, 2 Reserve CACIB's, 1 CAC, 1 CACIB and a 3rd place and so far has always been graded Excellent.......

We also had news that Howard's son Krishna Heartbreaker from Ohmtalteufel (Howard x Ch.Dawnville Where There's Smoke) won a CAC on Sunday, this makes 3 out of a litter of 3 that did win CAC's.

Very proud of Krishna's succes ofcourse.

Next to the show in Belgium I spent my weekend walking the dogs at different places, they enjoy it so much to run around and explore.

I also do need to show you the picture of my little niece that I have received today:

Nina is my brother's daughter and sooooo adorable :-)