Icancelled our show. The show we had been planning for a year, the show that broke all our entry records for the past decade. It wasn’t an easy decision. I have a reputation to uphold as the last person to prepare for a hurricane/metro impact/zombie apocalypse…I have handlers contacting me to make sure the show is still on, reminding me their livelihoods depend on my decision; I have all those memes on Facebook telling me “it’s no worse than the flu…”
Thanks to Dottie James for sharing this sweet photo of Wilma catching a catnap during one of her days in quarantine.
As I am wont to wonder, now that I am approaching advanced maturity and tend toward remembrance of things past rather than to future anticipation: Did what I did make increasing sense and show some degree of intellectual progress as time passed; or did I fall into a rut early on and go with the flow? Hair graying, waistline thickening but brain in neutral; an all too common syndrome.
During decades of judging purebred dogs, I have evolved a philosophy and a technique I am very comfortable with and which best enables me to fulfill my good judging criteria:
Finally, after several weekends in a row of family events and dog show commitments, my husband, Marvin, and I were both at home at the same time. For us, yes indeed, this is a very special event. What better way to celebrate than to have Chinese take-out? There was just one issue to be resolved, where to order the food.
Thank you to Chrystal Murray for helping us share this sweet keepsake with our readers today – a photo of Siba as a young puppy! Siba is the 2020 Westminster Kennel Club Best in Show and was one of America’s Top Dogs of All Breeds in 2019. Siba is GCHP Stonerun Afternoon Tea. She is [...]
By Amy Fernandez Strange times we are living in right now. Even in our fringy realm this lifestyle is a whole new learning curve. Obviously, it’s hard to schedule life with …no schedule. So, downtime is all the time. I don’t know about you, but I’m totally caught up with beer drinking and binge watching [...]
In order to provide the sport greater flexibility during this time of uncertainty, the AKC Board approved staff recommendations to modify the following standard procedures/policies. These modifications will be in effect for 2020, unless specific dates are noted.
Celebrating birthdays this week are: Leslie Smith, Ken Murray, Ron Scott, Susie Olivera, Will Alexander, Jen Milani, Pat Luce, Carla Sanchez, BJ Whitlow, Kathy Guerra, Roxanne Chumbley, Gwen DeMilta, Johann Emedi, Robin Stansell, Melinda Lyon, Jodi Geerlings, Pam Peat, Doug Johnson, Ken Wall, Kayla Bruner, Aaron Wilkerson and Beth Sweigart. May you all have a happy, healthy and safe birthday!
We have another fun #ThrowbackThursday photo to share with our readers on this Thursday. Can you name the great dog folks that are pictured in this week’s Throwback? Guess Who? Check back on Monday for the correct answer! Don’t forget! Do you have a fun photo that you would like to share for #ThrowbackThursday? Email [...]
The latest installment of Canine Health Bites – a webinar series sponsored by the AKC Canine Health Foundation and presented by VetVine will be on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 8:00 PM. The topic is Time to Get Tough and “Ruff”: Protecting Dogs from Infectious Diseases. The guest speaker is Jason Stull, VMD, MPVM, PhD, [...]
