One more show video

I have one more video of Andrew running Moriah around the ring. She didn't put her head down to sniff once. Mrs. Berrios, the judge told Andrew that he ran her around perfectly!

This video starts right after Moriah backed away from the judge when she reached for her head. But she asked Drew for a treat and you see Moriah going to her to get the reward.

IABCA 2009 Purina Farms Summer Sieger - Day Two

Day 2 - still hot but worth the effort - Moriah is now an IABCA International Puppy Champion!! I just need to fill out the orange sheets and send them in.

Moriah was still not happy with the judges touching her head. In the 4th show, the judge, Mrs. Berrios asked if Moriah was teething? Then a light bulb went off - no wonder she was was not letting folks near her head! While I was cropping the picture below, I noticed bloody gums around that back molar. Poor baby!

Waiting for the show 4 critique.

Happy girl!!

Notice in these next 2 pictures that we have stopped even holding on to her lease. Tons of dogs and people walking by the vendor right next to her and she laid next to us watching everything and then sleeping. I just can't believe how calm and bonded to us she is. She has no desire to wander or run away.

Waiting for the ring - you know Drew is serious when he wears church pants in the heat to show Moriah. Now I just have to work on getting him to tuck in his shirt! :-)

Andrew practicing hand stacking Moriah. He was also working on free stacking. She has learned down and sit (voice and hand signals) waiting for her dinner to be served, now we are going to add stand to the meal time rotation.

IABCA 2009 Purina Farms Summer Sieger - Day One

Hot, hot, hot! Summer has arrived in St.Louis! Moriah earned two sg1 ratings so she is 2/3 done with her IABCA puppy Championship and 1/2 way to her International puppy Championship! One more day (and 2 more shows) to go!

Show 1 -Drew taking Moriah around the ring. Notice that the rings go aways under the shelter. This judge didn't go out in the sun once. But I don't blame him at all!!

This is the male that beat Moriah.

Best of Breed for Show 1.

Waiting for the second show.



Here is Drew trying to get Moriah to stack after refusing to let this judge touch her. Yes,this is something we are working on - I'm going to hunt down this judge tomorrow and see if I can get him to pet her.



They let the handlers sit for a few minutes as the judge's opinion was being written.