Where in the heck have I been?!!!!!! Who knows?!!

Let's see.  I have five dogs at present, Pip, Zinger, Mai, Jeri and Bard.  Pip is my most OCD Nosework dog and has passed her NoseWork 1 and NoseWork 2 trials with flying colors, per me.  She is a lot of fun.  Zinger is ready for NW2 trialing, but is pregnant, so will most likely wait until the pups are a bit older than in ureto!  She is distractable when pg. 

Mai is a Burlap daughter from Phillip C Klosinski and is two years old.  When I get her health tests all done, she may have a litter.  She is a sweet little girl.

Jeri was born on my brother, Jerry's, birthday, May 16m 2014.  She is Elwha B Stingin' In The Rain.  Her mother is Zinger and her daddy is Burlap.  Her brother, Morse, lives with Betty and Skip.  We traded Morse for Zinger.  Bonny likes Morse a ton and their house is calmer with Morse than with Zinger.  Such is life.  Jeri and Morse both are in puppy class and NoseWork.  Morse is much more obedient than Jeri.  Just shows who is the trainer and who has been in Hawaii and lax.

The last dog is Bard, Elwha To B Or Not To Bee.  He is Zinger's full brother, and his mother is Touille and daddy is BB, from frozen sperm.  Jeri and Mai came from frozen sperm too.  Isn't technology wonderful?!!!!!!

Touille is here part time.  She goes back and forth to Bellingham with my daughter, Kathleen. She is my granddaughter's dog, Kate.  Elli goes back and forth too, so sometimes we have a passel of dogs here!

Burlap, Mai and Jeri's daddy

Tobi Juan Kenobi

Sweet Mai

BB, Bard's daddy

Kathleen's girl, Elli, Elwha's Cinderelli

Hannah Branigan's Harper with Rugby

Hawaii hale, (house), heaven

Last July, a visit to a medical school classmate in Vermont.  Such a great time.  Three of us went there to reunion with #4

Ms. Pip, Elwha's Queen B, hunting scent.  So much fun you ought to try it!!!!!

Zinger flew to Atlanta to become a mother again, and Friday was the first day that she refused her breakfast.  Her tummy feels hotter than normal too, so I think that she is going to have pups about Jan. 18th, Pip's birthday. 

This weekend was exciting.  Bryce, Zinger's puppy from July 2013, went to Eucanuba with Caleb Campbell and together they came in 4th in the Junior Handler contest.  Caleb was only one of 120 of the top junior handlers in the country to be invited to the contest and he beat all but three of the other junior handlers there.  Wonderful odds.  Really all the credit goes to Caleb, not Bryce, because the judges only judge the handler, but lots of people saw Bryce and were very impressed with him too.  Caleb does a great job!  We are very proud of him here in Port Angeles.

4 1/2 weeks old and as cute as they can be

My daughter is here and loving on these puppies to beat the band.  What's not to love?!!!!  They are extraordinarily cute and sweet.  Phil Klosinski, who owned their daddy, keeps telling me that he was as sweet as can be.  I believe it!
But, you don't want written words!  You want puppy pictures!
Francie's babies are gaining weight at a fast clip!  They are going to be sweet also!
 OK.  These will be a bit jumbled.

Zinger's litter's daddy, Burlap

Burlap winning the Best of Breed 2003 National Specialty

Zinger babies

Fat rats!!!

Francie

Can you find them all?

Getting fat fast!

Kathleen says that they look like little rats.

Nice head

Blue boy.

Zinger and the big kids.

'Nuff said.
Signing off.
Old Curmudgeon

Eyes opening today on these Burlap puppies!

Always a milestone, eyes opening.

Zinger is proving once again to be a GOOD mama.  She is protective of the babies if Patch gets anywhere near the puppy pen.  She gets between him or any of the other dogs and the puppies. 

Zinger has started to eat better, as Betty said.  It still tastes MUCH better and is much more palatable if the curmudgeon feeds her by hand, but she will sometimes eat out of the bowl!  She is eating string cheese at the moment, but not cottage cheese.  She is always up for vanilla ice cream though, just in case you wanted to stop by with a bowl of it for her!!!!  Kidding, of course.

Just tried to photograph a couple of open eyes, but I'm not sure you'll be able to appreciate any slits with sparkles of light in them.  Try!

Pip earned her Nosework 1 title on Saturday up in Bellingham.  It was fun and would have been much more fun if I hadn't been so nervous!  I made a big error since I was nervous, but she passed anyway and many people said that she was FUN to watch hunt for scent.  She is a hoot!

Bryce did well at the National Specialty.  He took second in the nine to twelve month old class in both Sweepstakes and the regular classes.  Neither time did the dog who beat him even place in the other, so I am thinking he is at least consistent!!!  Sweet boy and people outside the ring loved him and a few are ready to breed to him when he grows up and passes all of his health tests!  He is a pretty nice boy and reminded a bunch of people of Norman, his uncle.  I was pleased and had a ton of fun at the Specialty.

Tate did well at the National Specialty too.  He took first in his class, Open.  Nice boy.  He is Touille's son by Walker.  Nice breeding and it shows.  Star, of course and as usual, showed him to perfection. 

This is a newborn picture of Seven.  He is the biggest boy.

This is Glory, deciding to go get a drink of milk.

Glory.  Can you see the slit of her opening eyes?!!!

Glory is the light colored one behind Morse.  The other two are the big ones, Bat Girl and Seven.  They may be bigger as they are never far from those nipples!!!

Zinger is a GOOD mother.  Takes great care of them.

Fancy is due in two weeks.  Maybe four puppies.  Shaggy girl!

Bye for now. 

The Curmudgeon

Eight more days, but who's counting?!!!!!

Zinger bred to Burlap puppies due in eight days.  Exciting and scary.  Always scary before they deliver.  I am very much hoping that all goes as before, like a dream.  No, I don't know how many are in there, but I'm sure she is pregnant!  She is acting like a princess again, according to her mama!  Maybe I'll see her today at Nosework, maybe not if she has the vapors!  You know!

Zinger sideways BEFORE puppies.

Her boy, Bryce has been VERY successful, knock on wood, in the show ring.  He has twice now beaten specials.  He is about 9.5 months old.  Sweet as the day is long.

Burlap, winning the National Specialty in 2003.

Burlap X Zinger puppies should be beautiful, knock on wood!!!!!

Happy half year birthday to Rugby and his siblings.  He is owned by Hannah Branigan, kind of.  Harper Branigan may be the real owner!!! 

Another Harper.  This Harper lives in Colorado, not North Carolina and is a funny girl.  She just took breed over specials from the classes and the picture of that win will NOT come up in my downloads and this totally incompetent commuter person (NOT) can't figure out how to get it up on this lineup!!!  Oh well, this one can at least bring a smile to MY face, if not yours!  Isn't she just CUTE?!!!!!!

Fiddle head of a tree fern from Volcano Hawaii.

Traveling Branigan.

Zinger's sister, Dansa, in her lion costume for Freestyle dance.  This girl and her brother, Harta, have lists of titles that would make any breeder proud.  Heather is one heck of a trainer and has tons of fun with her BTs.

Harper and Rugby Branigan.  Cute or what?!!!

Thank goodness the snow is behind us.  Harper and her puppy, a while ago.....

Can't you see Harper in there?  Me either!  Rugby has a hard life!  HA!!!

Zinger pregnant and doing Nosework, last week.

Training session for Rugby.

Dreams of Hawaii.

More dreams of Hawaii.

Watch Hannah and Rugby in the youtube videos below!  Hannah is a Karen Pryor Academy ambassador/lecturer.  Rugby is her newest demo dog.  She has had Belgian Tervurens up until now and an old hound mix.  Think she made the right choice getting a BT?!!!!!  BTs rule!!!!

Recalls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtpu_K4zNw

Shaping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6InJyNsMSiY

Sit platform:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8QJIJyyCN4

OK.  So more blogging soon.
Signed,
The Curmudgeon

Bryce-first points last Sunday

My first pineapple setting on!  Mmmmmm!

Gorgeous!!!!

The weeds I was pulling while there.  Overwhelming!  Hidden in the philodendron are the avocados falling off the tree!

Frank, my son, at the beach.  Recuperating from the flu!

Into the house from the lanai.

New lanai. 

Bird of Paradise

Big Island bird

Hibiscus.

Jade plant, my fence cover in Hawaii

Grandson, one of the two there.  Super swimmers!This is Sean, or at least part of Sean.

Just a quick picture of Bryce.

What do you think?  Nice boy, yes?!!!  Sweet as the day is long, busy and smart.