Got a message from my puppies back home

Well, they are not puppies anymore...

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In the picture:
My "mum" Annika and one of the Duffer-Flow puppies back home, my grandchildren!. I´m so proud of you Flow...

See more? Take a look at the films about "Flow and the Seven Puppies".

Can you please let me see these tonight Jan?

Showing in Australia

Yesterday, after a couple of apparent false starts, I got to go in the show ring and show these Southerns that I do know my stuff! I had had the fun of going to watch a) a Corgi Show, b) an all breeds competition, c) wait for it, a Borzoi show, there was talk of a Labrador show, but seems the venue was changed but not the official printed calendar.

Well 5am start, which was great fun, I was ready, but still Jan spent time exercising and settling the other dogs and horse down for the day, then she had the nerve to eat breakfast, but at last into the car. I must say, that Cate who travelled in the section with me, is a wild one, I actually had to tell her to settle down. Seems we got to the show in plenty of time to dry me off after the morning grass romp; the two minor males had their fling in the ring, two intermediate males did their thing, I went and did mine. I have to query how awake Jan is at 9.10 am in the morning, the judge asked how old I was, and she said 4 .... months! The judge assured her she realized it was years, not months, and that she hoped my handler's 'flu was getting better fast! No one else in my class, so I cleaned up the top award with no effort. Dog Challenge we had three of us in the ring, easy peesy, and the bubbly Minor Dog went reserve challenge.
Just Cate for Bitch challenge, and she took the opportunity to leap and lurch with another handler for Best of Breed, which just made me shine and command the ring to myself.

This is for Best of Breed

video by Lyn Ayers who claimed she was a novice, I don't think so!

The judge didn't seem interested in me for group (no accounting for taste), Cate reckons she got half a look for her class in group, but she may be boasting, Reggie (he's a nice chap I met at the show) did the breed honours with Intermediate in Group.

Got shown again at two Clumber Club members competitions over lunch - I think Jan is starting to speak Swedish, she seemed more in tune with me for them!

Well, I hope there are more shows, that one was great fun!

Home at last

This morning I cam HOME, at last. Just the weekend staff on at the quarantine kennel, and they didn't give me my breakfast. I knew something good was up, dogs had left never to be seen again after similar mornings!

Ah, there they are, meandering down the driveway with a member of staff, chatting away - well at least Jan has that soft toy again, but she had a heck of a time getting the lead over that and my head - ho ho. For goodness sake, here I am jumping and spinning around and they stopped to collect the unused food, yet apparently I am not to have any!

Nice looking car, but Jan can lift me up (can't have her getting slack in her duties!). Suburban roads, tunnels, strange smelling countryside - a gravel road, and ow, here we are! One hour is nothing for a seasoned traveller like moi.

The Pembrokes really don't warrant me stopping, but I will mark the shrub in front of them; a very sleepy UK Clumber woke to speak to Jan, then, carried on a treat when he saw me - so what, I ask, lets move on.

For goodness sake, that Judge has tickets on his status around here, I will just saunter past and chat to the two barking girls. No, no time, at the moment girls, look grass, and another building, and MORE Clumbers, wow, bit rowdy, let's check out this exercise area. Ow, apparently the first two girls are coming too, never mind I will just meander off on my own, hey, goats, I wonder what else is here. Time for a good shake and a romp, that's more like it!

So apparently time to go back, ah, breakfast, at last! Time for a snooze in the sunshine, on my blankets and time to get to know the two girls I met first. Excuse me, things to see, things to do.

cheers!

ps, Jan says she has put up my page on her website, check it out!