Dogshow

I have been showing dogs in Sweden for a couple of years but that does not make me good at it. It takes years and years of training to be a good handler.  You maybe think that it wouldn’t be any difference showing a dog in Europe vs in US but it actually is! The biggest difference is that in Sweden you get a written paper of what the judge think of your dog, something you don’t get here so you have no clue what to improve. You don’t get any feedback in your breeding either. Here you just know that the judged liked the other dogs better than yours… But I can also see that if the judge should write comments about every dog it would take way too much time. It is more dogs attending at the shows here…

Today was mine and Shannons debute in the showring here in the US. And once again the topic of this blog really suits… A Swede lost in Texas. Sometimes I felt a bit lost today!

We left 7:30 am and headed towards Longview, TX. A bit nervous but not too bad! Could be worse. Shannon was in a great mood! She was also excited when we got there!

Mom and Shannon at the parkinglot

This was concidered a small show. ~ 950 dogs entered today.

Shannon got excited when she came in. She is like a magnet. I don’t know how many people has taken her photo today and she really likes it too! This man came back twice to get the perfect picture of her…

Shannon was entered in the Puppyclass bitches 6-9 months. She was the only one in that class.  I didn’t reall care of how she was standing. Since this was her first show I wanted to give her a good first impression and that she thought it was fun!

But it went well anyway. We got a first place and his ribbon:

Then it was time for Best Puppy… Shannon was standing really good but it didn’t matter! She came 4th out of 4.

But I really don’t care, she was great in there, she was the youngest one and we have a long way ahead of us!!!

She was really tired on the way home

But happy to be home…

And then fell a sleep at the favourite couch

The whole family is happy to be home, we are tired but are already looking forward to the next show, Canton in October

Dogshow in Dallas

We just went to the dogshow in Dallas to see all the beautiful dogs. We will do our first show 31st of July in Longview, TX. I entered Shannon to that show yesterday. Nervous – yes but so happy to be back around the ring! It was so much fun to meet new people today, both dalmatian and great dane lovers! I am not that saticefied with the pictures I took but here are some at least. More pictures can be seen on my facebookpage http://www.facebook.com/daimilus

I Can’t upload more pictures for some reason But go on Facebook and look at my album and you will see more pictres!