Pembs County Show Cont. And WKC

It's almost a week since PCS finished last Thursday, but we went straight to WKC on Thursday evening, so not giving me much time to update the blog.

Tuesday, was the open show and then we had two days of agility.  Maddie and Trio again were fab, even if Trio was pretty shattered on the Thursday and was struggling to complete the rounds in time.  Maddie came away with a 4th and 11th in agility and they both came away with a handful of Clear Round rosettes from both days.  Eleanor had borrrowed my parents dog Kizzy for the junior class on Thursday, which they won! 

We left the show on Thursday afternoon, not waiting for the results (Thanks to Carolyn for bringing our rosettes to WKC!!) hitched up the caravan and headed for Builth Wells.

Thankfully we arrived in good time and managed to get set up before the rain started, the YKC team braved the rain to put on the BBQ where we introduced ourselves before heading to bed.  Thankfully we had managed to pitch right by the YKC rings so didn't have far to travel.

After a night of heavy rain the sun appeared for the 9.00 am start of the activity weekend and stayed all day.  The children had 4 training sessions spread out throughout the day, and were able to nip back to the caravan to refresh themselves and change dogs.  They kept a list each day of who was having who, and for what activity this also helped that I didn't wander off with a dog that was needed!

WKC activities

The fab four

At the end of the day the YKC team organised some team activities in the ring, a bit of football and rounders and others.  This was great fun to watch and all of the children had lots of fun, this gave the parents to mix as well.  The obedience trainer asked if I knew Jess and Rookie, being as we had munsters and was delighted to inform her that we had Rookies family.  She had judged Jess with Teak a few weeks ago at Bath (and she won!!).  We also chatted to another trainer who helped with the agility who is interested in munsters for search and rescue, they must have made a good impression - or it could have been Maddie scenting me when I went to spy on Eleanor doing agility with her!

Saturday was another day of training, but with a few competitions as well.  Both girls had entered the handling competition with Eleanor being placed and Tasha being shortlisted in huge classes.

Sunday is always Gundog day at WKC and again looked like the weather would hold out for us.  It was an early start as the girls were taking part in the obedience comp, and the stays were at 9.00am.  I took the munsters over the agility for 8.30 and managed to get them into their classe before heading back to the breed rings.  Trio had a clear round but was just out of time, Maddie was eliminated due to poor handling on my part!

The girls both managed to get their stays completed early both being clear, sadly Tasha was marked down as she had forgotten to take the treats out of her pocket.  Eleanor then had a good round with Eve finishing 6th, not bad for a 10 year old with a 8 month puppy!  Tasha didn't manage to make her round as it clashed with the breed judging.

I got Trio ready for the breed class whilst Tasha changed ready to show her (thank goodness for having the caravan so close!) and then straight into breed.  She was entered in PGB the biggest class of the day for the breed and came 2nd. So very pleased for them both as they have worked so hard getting Trio to enjoy being in the ring.

Milly

Bron

Eve

Cooper

And a tumble of tollers!

The girls then took the munsters back over to the agility and I headed to the NSDTR ring with Eve.  We had quite a crowd of Seahaven's with us and it was great to sit around the ring and catch up with everyone.  The time flew by and it was great to relax and watch for a change.  Eve had a 3rd in puppy bitch class -  and has now qualified for Crufts 2014!  She was also entered in Junior, a class I forgot and nearly missed going in.  She was placed 2nd in this, a result I was thrilled with and didn't expect.
As we had 4 dogs entered that we had bred, we were able to put a team together for the KC breeders competition.  We won the breed class and would have to stay until the 4 O'Clock for the final. 

We took all of the dogs back to the caravan to have a mini celebration (final results at the botttom of the page) and allow the dogs to have a good run and play in the enclosed ring which the YKC had now vacated. 

Sadly the judge was late for the Breeders final and the dogs (and handlers) were pretty tired, but they did pull it off to win and have their photo taken for the Ours Dogs newspaper. 

Thankfully we didn't have to pack the caravan up as we were booked to stay until the following day so we got to enjoy a nice walks along the river with the dogs on the Monday before packing up and heading home after a fab week.

Large Munsterlanders

 2nd Post Grad Bitch - Seahaven Borrowed Heaven (Trio)

NSDTR

3rd Post Grad Dog - Seahaven Galatic Storm (Cooper)
1st Post Grad Bitch - Seahaven Red Andromeda (Milly)
2nd Limit Bitch - Seahaven Red Andromeda (Milly)
3rd Puppy Bitch - Seahaven Parish Bell (Eve)
Res Puppy Bitch - Seahaven Gloriana (Bron)
2nd Junior Bitch - Seahaven Parish Bell (Eve)

It's going to be quite a party at Crufts next year!