Paignton Champ Show

We all had a mini break (well us girls anyway!) at Paington Champs Show arriving last Thursday and getting back home on Wednesday.  Conditions were a lot better than last year, and the sun managed to make an appearance on most days, some showers on others and one night of thunder and lightening.  We didn't need to be towed off this year thank goodness!

Gundog day was on the Saturday, so Friday was a nice quiet day to organise ourselves and have a trip out to the river to give the dogs a run and swim.
 The dogs enjoying the river Exe.



Saturday dawned bright and early for us, as we had one agility run in the morning before Junior Handling for the girls.  Munsters were to be judged before the Tollers, but it still took an age to get in the ring!  Jess had brought Rookie along, and Carol had brought Libby along for the puppy class.  It was great to catch up with Jess and Carol and to see how these two gorgeous dogs are developing.  Libby has never been shown before and so it was a crash course on how to behave in the ring, Carol had been putting some practice, and Libby was very happy with the judge approaching her!

Libby (Seahaven Olympic Vindicat) 1st LM puppy bitch
Trio (Seahaven Borrowed Heaven) 2nd Post Grad bitch
Maddie (Paddockridge Madelaine at Seahaven) Res Limit bitch
Rookie (Seahaven Celtic Commander) 2nd  Post Grad dog

Tollers were in the ring quite late and by this time Eve was looking rather flat!  This is the first time that she has been away from home with us in the caravan, and I don't think she'd had much sleep with the excitement!  She stacked really well for Eleanor but still looked flat on the move, bit more practice for WKC I think.  Tilly as usual was her reliable good self, what a lovely dog this girlie is.

Eve (Seahaven Parish Bell) Res Puppy bitch & 2nd in Junior bitch
Tilly (Dinaskarrek's Red Vixen at Seahaven) 2nd Open bitch

The Seahaven LMs
L-R Rookie, Maddie, Trio & Libby

Trio in the agility

The girls with their Paignton collection

The following three days were agility, so were pretty much action packed.  We did however manage to get to the arena to watch the group judging and then BIS on Sunday afternoon.

We managed between to come away with several unplaced clear round rosettes and Maddie won the Agility on the Monday, and was second in the agility on the Tuesday.  So she now moves up a grade!