its good to be golden

Every once and a while everyone has a day that everything goes right well this was Al's weekend

 

on Saturday he started off at 8:30 in the morning with juniors where he and Buzz could do no wrong the judge loved them and rewarded there work with Best Junior Handler.  There were some great kids there so it was a great feeling to see his hard work come together  

Alex and Buzz Best Junior

They then had to wait till 2:00 for breed where Ash had a little bit of a rash but looked good and took 2nd and Buzz was on a roll and owned the ring he looked great and...

 took Best of Breed

 



 He was showing the whole time and Al was working it and it all payed off

 So off to the group ring for the first time

 

 He had lots of support in the group ring and a great cheering squad outside.  The handler that teaches his conformation class was in the ring with the Brittany she handles but she was really excited for Al.  No group placement but what a day

 

So day 2 we had a conflict ion with breed and juniors so Al showed Ash in Breed and got reserve then headed off to juniors hoping he might make it back in time for breed.  No luck with that but it all worked out when Al won his class and then was awarded Best Junior Handler.  The judge said they worked together nicely

 A great hall for 1 weekend

when it was all over they all took naps

 

Congrats to my boys

play time

with a couple weekends off we had time to take the boys to the ball park to run and play

Buzz

Ash

Buzz  

 they run

 they wrestle



they really are best of friends

West Burlington, Iowa

The boys really love to go running at the lake so we have been trying to get there whenever we can they run through the deep grass and trees and then cool of in the lake.

 Ash stopping for a quick photo op.

 Buzz coming out of the lake for a tennis ball he likes to play fetch in the water

 they are together most of the time you would think the grew up together

 West Burlington Iowa had some ups and downs. Ash started limping in the ring on Saturday and was excused ( he was fine before going in and there didn't seem to be any thing wrong with his paw after ) I'm not sure what caused this but he was jumping around playing with Buzz at the hotel later I think he may have stepped on a little rock going into the ring but we will be keeping a close eye on him for a few days.  He did win his class on Sunday so that was nice.

 .  Al also showed a little girl named Carly she is a little timid normally but did a nice job for Al on Saturday but on Sunday she started bunny hopping and wouldn't stop so not as good that day but the goal was to help her with her shyness and he was very effective at that.

WAY TO GO BUZZ

 Buzz got select dog both days with 1 point each day he would have gotten 2 each day but with Ash excused on Sat. and 1 boy not there on Sun. brought it down to 1 point

Al showed Buzz in Juniors both days we didn't want to push Ash in case there is a problem.  On Saturday Al got 3rd and on Sunday he got 2nd so a few more Junior points

Over all a great weekend