On Friday night we hosted a party for Blazingstar, and the guests of honour, Pipit and Tinbie had a great time mingling and greeting all of their friends.
As you can see Tinbie thinks partying is the best thing ever, he was more than happy to wear his party hat and show it off to everyone!
More Party Pics on FLICKR!!
Breast Cancer affects many families, mine included.
My closest cousin who is only 26 is beginning treatment next week. She is strong, brave and positive through this. Her diagnosis is really positive, but it will be a long road ahead.
Today, I bought all the dogs the PINK collars in support of her, including Kaleb.
He is man enough to wear pink.
Kaleb in his element ...
Kalebs new 'thing' is to have his head sticking out of the crate in the new vehicle (we got the Honda Elelment!!), he gets to ride right behind us in his soft crate, usually his whole head is out, but this is equally cute!!!
Today was a great day, we headed to the Crowsnest Pass, the dogs got to see snow again (I forgot the higher elevations STILL have snow) but the temperature was +19 celcius, (65F?)
The nicest day of year so far, it was just what I needed to recharge.
We saw lots of wildlife: Moose, Elk, Deer, Elk, Grouse (which Kaleb found for us) and lots of Hawks, Geese and many other birds!!
We saw fish too - but they stayed in the water today :) ... much to Jane and Pete's dismay! There is only 7km open to fish on the Crowsnest right now, and it is only catch and release.
more photos to come ....
Liz and the Blazingstar dogs had an amazing specialty in Oregon
Pipit took it all home, I am still in shock, this is just the best thing to happen ever!!!! I am pretty sure there were over 300 dogs entered.
2008 FCRSA National Specialty:
Winners Bitch
Best of Winners
Best of Breed
:: Ch Blazingstar Pipit WC ::
Tinbie, took Winners Dog!! from the Bred by Exhibitor Class!!!!
Begbie won his Novice dog class!!!
Amazing, I am sooooooooo proud of them!!!
YAHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
chillin' out at the Agility Field, OK so maybe Jane and Gyp were chillin', Kaleb was still rarin' to go, he is now FREE to RUN again - with his bootie on though, I hope in another week it can come off and he'll be able to get back to agility AND swimming - its been three weeks off so far!
Her name is Gyp, not Stacey.
A friend of mine came across this profile on Dogster (facebook for dogs), she clicked on it, thinking, "that dog looks like Gyp", so as she scrolled down the page, she realized it didn't look like Gyp, it was Gyp, well atleast all of the photos were of Gyp, and Kaleb and even one of Wicca.
I almost fell off my chair when I saw this, my friend and I both emailed dogster and the page is now down. It is rather humorous.
How do I prevent this from happening again, are there more security features I can use. I really don't mind everyone seeing my photos, I've even seem some on a site that has a breed explanation, and that is fine, it is not being used to make $$ or steal my dogs identity.
I realize Gyp is a rather cute dog :), but please who ever you are taking her photos, please stop.
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*No flat-coats were harmed in the making of this photo.
The flat-coats of Blazingstar were enjoying the last bit of snow left from a long winter. Pipit, Tally and Begbie just couldn't get enough of it. Can you see the family resemblance ...
They were welcoming to their non-flat-coat friend Gyp who spent a couple hours with them yesterday, swimming, running and rounding up all of the toys they could.
I also helped Liz video and took some photos, she is get the dogs ready for the US Specialty next week, it was a fun afternoon.
K couldn't go because of his foot, it just wasn't the same without him, and Jane didn't come, that is not her idea of fun. 5 flat-coats, mud and a cold river are not her idea of fun!!!
