The Peony Story – so far…..

I have been showing the puppy mafia (my very first litter) over the last year, first in Puppy class, then in Junior and now in Intermediate.  After a lot of hemming and hawing and 9 months of showing, I have (pretty much) decided that Peony is my keeper.  Lol.  Of course, I actually have all of them still…but Peony is the one I take most often to shows, as I do find it easier to travel and show only one dog, all three of the girls is a bit too busy and too expensive for me at the moment.

So I have been taking Peony around to shows for the last six months, we go off to our first really “big” show on our own when we travel to the WUT (World Union Teckel) show in Moscow in June by airplane.  But we have already done some shows with just the two of us together – we had a great time in Poland at the Bydgoszcz show with Peony winning BIG2 (day show) and BIG4 (night show) and two Polish CACs — we hope to go back and show there again in the Autumn or Winter to try to finish a Polish Championship for Peony.  We also have enjoyed shows in Belgium with some nice results, including a BIG4 at Genk in January – that was her third Junior point and we are waiting confirmation of her Belgian Junior Championship.  And in Holland we have our first Dutch CAC from the show in Groningen.  And she was club champion in Zagreb last Autumn.  But life is not always a feast of lanterns – she has had Very Goods in  Luxembourg and Holland at shows as well as her Excellents and awards.  But we do have a really good time always no matter the result.  She is a very pleasant and sweet girl to travel with and is learning to be friendly with everyone.

We have a show next weekend at Antwerpen, I am hoping she shows as well as she has been doing the last few shows and we will see how it goes, really all depends on the judge of the day and the other dogs in the ring – and then end of May we have a few shows in Holland and …. then we head off to Moscow!  This has been such wonderful fun, showing a puppy that I have had since the moment dot, that I bred, whose Mum I love dearly.  I hope to have her sisters out again in the summer, and we are all going to the Green Show in the Autumn, one of my favourite shows and it was always lucky for Yestie!  I hope to have a Yestie puppy showing there, fingers crossed.   And my greatest hope – being able to one day mate a Yestie son with Peony —  wouldn’t that be cool!

So our photo of the day, little Mandaladax Antique Peony, KS, with her very best award to date, the Best in Group 2 at Bydgoszcz in February.  I am thrilled, I think she is just tired after two long days showing!