Re: home and tired

["Bill & Patti Oftedal" <boftedal@alaska.net>]

Welcome  back!!
and, AMEN!!! about those trouble maker of the PETA groups.
Reading your letter makes me so excited about this Show.

Have a good night.
Love, Patti and her golden kids. :o)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>
To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu <brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu>
Date: Monday, October 30, 2000 8:38 PM
Subject: home and tired


>To my Special Loved Ones,
>
>We are home but officially not really...  Have got to run all over Oregon
>tomorrow picking up the rest of the crew.  Sprite, Scarlette, Meg, Gidget,
>Seiko are all at camp Renee Ivy in Dallas OR.  reports from Renee are that
>when she wins the lotto she is only going to board my dogs ever!  The girls
>were and I quote: Angels.  Renee' husband Archie was so taken with our
>girls he asked Renee what is it that we do with our dogs that they are so
>good?  He doesn't know our dogs are not "kennel" dogs. :-)  He assumes they
>are since he knows we have 12 dogs.  Haus is with Judy and is learning to
>not jump on those who are only 5 foot 2...
>
>The trip was great, the weather was very accommodating.  It only rained at
>night two of the 5 nights was warm sunny and just all around a
>pleasure.  Deb McFail was looking for shorts!
>
>The high light of the trip was meeting Deb and having some (not enough
>though) time with her hearing about Boomer, Rosie and Sophie and oh yes
>POB.  Got to see a video of  Deb's home and her kids and of course like all
>Alaskans she showed me Moose shots.  IIene NO we did not look at your
>tape.  The darned thing was to big to fit into Deb's cam
>corder!  Drats!   How ever I did leave a copy with the Canadian Comedy
Channel.
>
>   Deb also introduced us to Deb Roth also from Alaska who also showed me
>pictures of Moose btw.  Deb Roth is an obedience trainer in Anchorage ex
>AKC licensed Obedience Judge.  Deb Roth will be joining the BP list in a
>couple of weeks after she gets caught back up from her trip and will be
>available to lend more support for those ill tempered dogs you all have
>from us. <smile>  Deb is very much into positive reenforcement and up
>positive training.  She worked with Twister for a few minutes and was wowed
>by her ability.  Twister and George start class on Wed. btw but not in
>Anchorage too many Moose up there.
>
>TRiX had a good time, which was the goal.  She did get sick (travel stress)
>it's a lot for a puppy to go away for 6 days and be in a upstairs motel
>room and a loud crowded show grounds, relegated to a crate more than
>normal.  Bathed, groomed, blowed, puffed up, run around on a string in a
>circle, clapped for, handled by lots of passers by, all the surfing at all
>the vendor tables.  It's really hard on them.  We usually only do local
>stuff with pup's and ya know now I know why.  She was a trooper though and
>never acted a bit off though her rear end told us she was not feeling up to
>par.  We showed her on Thursday in the Sporting Dog Specialty and she got a
>third in her class.  On Friday we didn't make the ribbons there were 7
>puppies in her class including the puppy who went RWB at the
>National.  This was the day she started to get sick.  By show time on
>Saturday I just could not ask her to preform.  She had a blow out in her
>crate with out warning and I just wanted to rest her.  It's important with
>puppies to not ask more of them than you know they are capable of.  It
>takes balance to build a show dog any dog for that matter.  So instead of a
>run around the ring we packed it in early and took her back tot he room let
>her play ball in the yard at the motel and just babied her.
>
>SeaJay met with huge competition!  Flashier dogs than he will ever be.  But
>he held his own in the ribbons each day.  Large classes, and many finished
>Champions (dogs we call Specials).  His day was Saturday going Winners for
>3 points under an American Judge Marian Hoddison from Tucson AZ.  Marian
>judges in the PNW a lot so we will be showing him to her in the US too.
>:-)  We had a picture taken and I will get it up when we get it in about 3
>weeks.  We are sitting on 7 points needing 3 more to finish in Canada.  So
>next spring watch out Canada. :-)   We started out on Thursday with a third
>at the Specialty, Friday a second, and Saturday our day in the sun and
>Sunday we plummeted down the mountain to forth.    So we bring home a
>ribbon of each color. <LOL>
>
>To have a piece of this week of shows was an honor and we are very happy
>with the performance.  More of an honor was the Guide Dog's of BC's
>interest in SeaJay and the possibility of him siring working guides.  Will
>keep you all posted there as well.  We were also approached by several
>Canadians looking for puppies who adored all of our 4 we had along.
>
>Kaycee truly enjoyed her trip.  She was the golden ambassador of age and
>gave Deb a grooming lesson in ears ever so patiently.  Kaycee will be 11 in
>just a few days.  We are so happy she enjoyed this trip and look forward to
>many more with her in tow.  She loves to travel and is just the best
>traveler!   She knew it was a dog show and she didn't forget for one minute
>what that meant.  Kaycee truly enjoys being a show dog even if it's now
>from the side lines.  Older, spayed but still very much the show gal!  Did
>her hat trick for anyone who would watch greeted the young and the old both
>with respect and allowed many to fondle her and of course feed her!
>
>The down side to the trip was that George didn't get to see SeaJay win.
>:-(  As we were ready to start goldens an announcement came over the PA
>that there were Animal Rights Activists in the building letting dogs out of
>crates.  George ran to the set up to guard the dogs left in the set
>up.  It's such a sad sad thing that there are those radicals out
>there...  PETA is the largest and if your accidentally making donations to
>them thinking that they are an animal welfare organization please do some
>research into their agenda.  They are not for the ethical treatment of
>animals.  They are militant rebels that believe that there should be no
>pure bred dogs and that all dogs should be set free to forge and run a
muck.
>
>Well on that note I will put my keyboard to bed.
>
>Gina :-)
>