UpdatesPosted by Susanne 23 Jul, 2010 08:45:05Long, warm and pleasant evenings for people and animals. Shows in the weekends, and having the pleasure of living with the most fun and cute little puppy right now.
The beardies - are doing well. We have two "extras" here right now - Pita and Moses. Their "parents" are coming home from a two weeks holiday thsi weekend, and will pick up both of them on Sunday.
Milla is living with my parents at the moment (quite enough with 5 dogs in my appartement!). But I recon she is looking forward to coming home to us, and get all her dog-friends back again.
IF she is pregnant, she is 3,5 weeks on the way now. Nothing shows, she is eating normally and behaves and looks just the same. I am planning to do an ultrasound examination on her next week.. perhaps.. maybe.. If I remember to do it..
Moby thinks that there are WAY to many dogs at home now - he just want to sleep outside in the cool evening breeze, preferably without two beardies and a boston puppy running wild all over the place.
Mac doesn't really appreciate Moxy's total and full admiration. And he is really NOT okey with her thinking that he is her own squeeky-toy! Okey - he can work as a bed for her, and keeping her warm. But being bit by her?? No way!
Mody the Boston - so full of herself! But having the most fun with every single little thing, enjoying er life to the fullest and being just a baby.
Later on today we're of to two national shows just 2 hours drive form home. Taking the caravan, so we're going to enjoy the beautiful weather outdoors most of the weekend at the showground. I'm sure the dogs will appreciate the outing as well.
A few more weeks now - holiday from work - with or without puppies!
Susanne
UpdatesPosted by Susanne 03 Jul, 2010 07:25:12Well - where to begin?
World Dog Show - we had a great trip there, the three dogs and us (Monica and I). The car and caravan behaved perfectly, the WDS Camp was just as good as any campingsite, easy to find ones way around the showground, and just a fabulous show.
Mac impressed on the clubshow on Wednesday under Mike Lewis. Mac was placed 3rd in a beautiful championclass, and then 4th best male (even beating the 2nd in championclass).
Moby won the veteranclass on Wednesday, was no. 2 on Thursday. Managed to get some shopping done, buying sensible and planned things - not just "fun stuff". The dogs got a new bed in the caravan, I got a new Oster 2-speed trimmer, some new combs, a Paw Plunger and alot of snacks for the dogs.
Friday - what a day! We had planned a nice and interresting day at Bogerudmyra kennel (Marit Sunde - living in Nibe, just around 120 kilometers from the showground) - talking about boston terriers and looking at her litter she had at home. A few hours later we left with the most gorgeous little boston bitch! It took at couple of days to find out what her name is - but it ended up in MOXY. Moxy meaning ""Self possessed confidence. An attitude of fearlessness in everyday circumstances. The capacity to stand alone in favor of an unpopular opinion or course of action with a casual demeanor" (Urban dictionary) I'm sure it's a perfect name for her!
Saturday - coming home with 4 very tired dogs - and Milla very much in season...
Wednesday and Friday - Moby and Milla was mated.
Next week we have a couple of holiday"guests" (Pita and Moses) who are coming to stay for a couple of weeks. That is going to be great fun for Moxy - having someone to play with!
But first - today we're off to Trondheim (500 kilometers) to show Moby and Molly. Mac and Moxy tag along for the ride, but luckily Milla is staying at home!
Keeping our fingers crossed...
Susanne
UpdatesPosted by Susanne 20 Jun, 2010 08:12:41Tomorrow we're off for our trip to Denmark. So today we will get the caravan ready, try to figure out and remember every little bit of "stuff" we could need in almost a week of caravaning... Luckily the weather is no lovely and sunny (yesterday: rain and thunder) - so alot of trips up and down to the parking infront of the house is definately infront of me today!
Maybe I even bath/groom some of the 4-legged participants as well.
Moses is safely placed with Pita and her owners, and he has been there a few days now - so we know that he is thoroughly enjoying himselves..
Tuesday: Arrive at the Dog Camp - at the showground. Really looking forward to seeing those enormous areas (room for 1500 campers!)
Wednesday: Danish Clubshow in Herning (just 7-8 kilometers from the WW-show)
Thursday: Beardies shown at the World Sog Show
Friday: Going to friends and seeing a litter of puppies
Saturday: Drive home - or at least the main part of the trip home.
Hope to find wi-fi on the way...
Susanne
UpdatesPosted by Susanne 16 May, 2010 08:46:43The boys here is making their mark on the beardieworld a little all over the place now.
Mac recently had two litters in Germany, some still available to suitable homes, I think. This giving him a total of 31 pups in 3 different countries.
Moby's first litter in Hungary was born two days ago - 8 beautiful pups. Now he has 70 pups born in 3 different countries, living in at least 5..
And he got yet another "batch" of grandchildren at kennel Artic Wool the same day.
Moses is not reproducing himself (because of his elbow arthritis (AA)) - but the PR he gives the breed with just being his own cuddly and lovable self. It can't be meassured how many people he has convinced that they should have a beardie or two..
Milla is hopefully waiting yet another month with getting into season (because of my working schedule), so she can be mated this year. I'm sure she'll enjoy being a mum, and with her good looks and wonderful temperament - I have high hopes for her kids as well.
Hoping for an interresting summer and weekend in the showring with all the Taildown'ers. The three that has been shown this yeas has certainly been doing well (all getting CC's), and we still has two more to come out in the ring later on.
That is Jessica (Taildown's Dream Team) a black/white 3,5 year old (littersister to Moses), that was shown a few times a couple of years ago (one CC).
The other one is a 1,5 year old girl called Pita (Taildown's Jitterbug), a fawn little giril that was the pick of litter bitch in our last litter...
See you!
Susanne
UpdatesPosted by Susanne 02 May, 2010 15:10:45The beardies
A weekend without any shows, plans or "to do" tings.. So maybe it's time to give them all a good groom and bath.. It's been a few weeks, and I recon all of them are coming with us to NKK show in Kristiansand next weekend. It would be nice to having them clean and looking okey again soon - now they mostly resemble thumbleweed....
The caravan
Got a telephone from the dealer last week, and the markese we ordered has arrived. This will give us alot more space, and do our camping-weekends much more comfortable. The dogs will have more room to walk about, we can give them a big puppy pen to sleep in at night, maybe have the car accessible as well.. So now we can bring even more dogs!
Next show
Elmer and Moby is entered, hopefully the judge will agree that they are really, really nice...
Susanne
UpdatesPosted by Susanne 28 Apr, 2010 14:22:13Now the first caravanweekend is over.
And yes - a Caravelair might not be the warmest of caravans, but it worked out well even if the temperature were around freezing at night.
4 dogs with us for the trip (Moby, Milla, Mac and Elmer) and they were alle friends and happy for their weekend out. Moses was at home with my brother and father - and REALLY enjoyed pretending to be a spoiled family pet for the weekend..
The show on Saturday was a great thrill. Elmer did his very best in the ring, enjoying the judge, the tiny ring, the slippery floor and just about everything in the hall. Showing like a dream - getting the CC, best male and beat the bitch for Best of Breed!
His sister Molly (Taildown's Jellybaby) was 2. best bitch - so it was soooo close we had best in both sexes....
The show on Sunday didn't start all that well with Elmer being beat already in juniorclass. But he got the CK (reserve CC) and climbed all the way up to 3rd best male. But Molly took over where the brother left off - her first CC, best bitch and Best of Breed!
So now they are 3 CC winners in this litter - and I am very, very proud of them!
UpdatesPosted by Susanne 09 Apr, 2010 08:11:31Weather...
Since Easter the weather has been so "warm" during the daytime that the snow is starting to go away now.
This resulting in really dirty dogs, of course. But with another week or so with nice weather I hope we'll be rid of the snow for this time. Looking forward to that!
The dogs
Are all well, happy and almost "back to their old self" again. Mac has probably done a little growing up when he was away, as he is more self confident around Moby now. But at the same time he is not as playful towards Moses - so ones gain is anothers loss, or something like that.. (Although they DO play a little)
The caravan season
In two weeks time we have to have the caravan ready for the first trip of the year. (Recon all the snow is gone by then) It's two dogshows and the clubs annual meeting in the middle of them..
I've just entered Elmer (Taildown's Jukebox) for the shows, and are really looking forward to seeing him again.
I've checked it inside, and it looks like everything is in just as good shape as last year, and it seems like it has "survived" all the snow this winter as well.
The breedclub
I'm very happy that I'm not up for any election or anything on the annual meeting. But I'm rather annoyed that some seem to think that the breedclub is their own little playground and totally lacks respect for the work others have put in it.
But I guess that's a normal thing to feel about it - right? And I'm really not sure if i want to bother to care too much about it either.
Weekly play-dates for the dogs
Very soon now - the snow is melting, and as soon as it has dried up - we'll start too meet up again and let the dogs play and run again! All of us are rellly looking forward to that, of course!
Susanne
UpdatesPosted by Susanne 17 Mar, 2010 08:11:20Finally - yesterday my little gang of Beardies are now home all toghether for the first time in about 7 months..
All four seems to be happy about that, and all they want to do is be let outside so they can play in the snow. We still have at least a meter tall piles of snow infront of the fence - so yesterdy Moses just walked straight over, not even noticing that he suddenly was over in the neighbours garden.
Strange to come back to a full winter - after a week in the absolutely springtime. Half way down Sweden the snow wasn't visible from the roads anymore, and from there on it was just warmer and greeer the further south we came. Lovely!
NOT looking forward to seeing all this snow melting in my lawn....
Susanne
