freshly bathed and groomed kiddos

With a show upcoming, I figure I'd better clean them up and start working them regularly... wish i could get to a class...













Dem are some clean pooches now... tho Kota is still dropping coat hand over fist... *sigh* At least They're clean :)

a beautiful Spring afternoon

to be inside you know it's spring... you can have the windows open and the ceiling fans on... it's beautiful. But the minute you get outside under the direct sunlight, you remember that it's not just "spring" in the sense of the beautiful flowers blooming and grasses being green... but it's spring in the DESERT. It's beautiful and all, but that SUN will take you down in no time flat.

According to my Yahoo messenger, it says it is 84 out right now... what one would deem as LOVELY weather... but the SUN! Oh my gosh that SUN!

Enjoy the photos :)

I did it....

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I finally finished my first draft of my "kennel" site..

Something I've had in the back of my head for a while, but now as Sedona grows, I realize that what I've got is a very special girl who can (and will) contribute to the betterment of the breed.
I'm VERY excited about her... despite her lack of maturity, compared to other girls her age. I've always been of the mind that I would rather a dog mature slow and hold it's maturity into old age, than to have a dog mature too fast and break down later. I remember this mainly in the classes with Dakota. Everything out there was bigger and more mature than he was, it seemed. But in the end, my dog is WELL put together and is not likely to break down any time soon.
In the illustrated standard, it says that "ideally" dogs should weigh between 30-38 lbs and that bitches "ideally" should weigh between 25-34 lbs. Why then, did I feel like I was constantly competing against the mammoths of the puppy dog classes?? I don't feel that way now, in the puppy bitch classes, but in dogs, I see it getting worse and worse (with one particular dog in mind). Structurally, yes... they're nice dogs, but when it comes to size... YOWZA are some of these guys big.
What are YOUR thoughts on this? Or am I just obsessing because of this one BOHEMITH of a dog in my area...?