Nash and I headed to Louisville this weekend for a couple days of shows at the CWCCA supported entry up there.  The entry wasn’t quite as large as it has been in years past, but there were still quite a few lovely specials there, and a solid entry of class dogs and bitches to make majors in dogs for all 4 days, and 2 days in girls.  Friday and Saturday also had sweepstakes, which I love taking puppies to!  I only entered Nash on Friday and Sat, just wanting to get some more experience under his belt before the Nationals and not really pushing for points…he still has a lot of growing up to do, but the Louisville site is great for getting puppies acclimated to large, busy shows.

Friday in sweepstakes Nash won his class and was pulled out by the judge (Emily Fish) for another look with the eventual winner, a very nice puppy owned/bred by Vivian Moran.  He was second in his regular class.  On Saturday we had a little better luck…he was the only one in his sweeps class (and didn’t get an award past that), but won his regular class and then went on to Reserve Winners Dog under Mary Belloff.  Thankfully he showed better on Saturday than he did on Friday…he was very excited to be there, had his tail up which he rarely does, and generally had the attention span of a gnat.  By Saturday he had settled down (and worn down) a bit. 

Also, I was thrilled today to get some pictures from Joyce of the Vegas-man!  No stacked shots, just some cute pictures of his handsome self being a dog.  They’re going to dip their toes in the show ring in April!