Wow, what a busy weekend!

On Saturday we went to a companion show....you have to be six months to enter, and Ria won't be 6 months until next month, but we both really need the ring experience so...*cough* she became 6 months for the day!

Only took the girls - put Ria in Any Variety Puppy & Prettiest Bitch for extra ring exposure and Vale in Best Veteran. Ria had a 3rd in AV Puppy, nothing in the novelty class and nothing for Vale either (very odd way of doing the veteran class - she didn't move them at all, not even together)

I was very pleased with my pup :-D She was FANTASTIC....stood like an absolute rock when being gone over, didn't move a muscle. Judge even commented on how good she was (and that she could only just be 6 months....I said yes, first show! Don't think she believed she was 6 months lol but people don't worry too much at those shows). She has moved better, but then she's never shown on grass before. It was still perfectly respectable! Great practice for her.

Then Sunday was the Kooikerhondje Club of Great Britain's very first show, which they were also holding a fun day in conjunction with. Unfortunately it poured with rain all day which was such a shame as a village fete style fun day just couldn’t be done properly inside. Especially as club shows do tend to go on a bit....despite a small entry (well, large for Kooikers but you know what I mean!) it takes so long to sort out the photos and “stuff”, by the time they’d finished the show a lot of people had gone home. So they had an egg and spoon race with dog over a few jumps and through a tunnel (the dog not the human!) and a sausage race, but that was all that was left of the fun day.

The puppy parade they were meant to be doing before judging started never happened either, which was a shame :-(

Kooikers tend to be not very good with other dogs....I've never had a problem with Ria before, bit nervy and this barking at other dogs as of last week (in a worried way)....but she went for both her sisters whilst we were there. Oops. Though not every time she was near them...she's not done it to another dog before or since so hopefully it won't become a problem.

As far as her size - I wasn't particularly worried before we went after seeing her sister at the caravan, so I was hoping that I wouldn't be more worried after I'd seen her up against her sisters! I'm not :-) in fact I think she may even be a smidgen smaller than one of them. Though you wouldn't really know she was related! I haven't seen pup #4, but her two sisters are so like each other....and then there is Ria! Not that that's a bad thing, Ria is looking nice - and her breeder is "very pleased" with her.

Yesterday evening I took her to obedience, which wasn't very successful...she just wasn't enjoying it or being cooperative at all. I'm hoping she was just tired after a busy weekend, rather than this being the start of problems. Of course it had to be the day she showed me up in front of someone I really don't need to be shown up in front of! Who has never seen Ria in a class before either, so as far as she is concerned this is the norm.

Argh, onwards and upwards!