Ch Aragon Full Moon Rising JC

Riser is  now 2 years old and a new Champion and has his JC. But he is definitely still a PUPPY. His  two main pastimes are sleeping and running through the backyard corn and through the peach tree branches.  Of course, Bryn is right behind him!!!!

Bryn and Riser ran a fun lure course of about 200 yds at the Ferndale show and I am still hearing about the greyhounds that ran that night. People with other breeds don’t get the opportunity to see them run as nature intended.

He gets a lot of attention at the shows due to his red brindle coloring and very glossy coat and, of course, his height. He is quite tall and so his other name is “legs”.

As for the sleeping, he waits patiently until I am in bed and then proceeds to bring his night time toy to bed and lays his head on my shoulder and goes to sleep. Fortunately, when he gets hot, he  moves to the foot of the bed.  What a relief !!

He is the most loving greyhound of all my greys.  He seems to think it is his job to keep everyone in shape. That certainly includes me.

We love him and thank Helen and Whisper and Brego for the opportunity to enjoy him

Tom and Marie

Breeze's Agility Debut

Last weekend was a bittersweet weekend. Sad because it was to be Whisper return to agility but health issues dictated otherwise and she is retired. When I am able I will post about it. Happy because Breeze had so much fun and did so well.

She runs much like her mother responsive, fast, furious and incredibly fun to watch. In this photo of the weavepoles taken by Costa Colbert she has no feet on the ground. She charges through weavepoles although gettting entrances is dicey at this point. Once in she powers through them.
Her first run ever in competition was the Novice Jumpers. She was fast and even with the weavepole entrance mistake was still 15 seconds under course time.



Her second run of the day was Novice Standard. Although  she didn't qualify as she knocked a bar, I was so proud of her. Her contacts were all I could ask, she held them until released. Holding contacts was always a problem with Whisper and when we NQed it would frequently be on missed contacts. Breeze was very very responsive to anything I asked of her.



The next day she qualified in both Jumpers and Standard. In fact I think the last run of the weekend, the standard was the fastest(30 seconds under course time)  and most fun as she was starting to get her confidence up.






All in all a great way to start an agility career!

Mother and Daughter

Breeze and Whisper patiently wait at work for the day to be done. They are two peas in a pod!

Woofstock June 2013

Recently I attended the Woofstock shows a couple of weeks ago. I have never managed to show before as I was always off to conferences or agility trials. Boy did I miss a lot. The theme of the show is the 60s. We all grew up in that era-tie dye shirts....

   Mood lamps, colorful everything

Peace not war signs and posters everywhere




Vendors, exhibitors and judges alike all dressed up in hippie outfits. They seemed so normal then...

 Rings were huge and showed the dogs gait well, no mincing around small rings

Most of the exhibitor sets up  were decked out in decorations too

Vendors got into the spirit as well

Loud speakers were placed by every ring playing 60s music. Remember Knights in White Satin by the Moody Blues? Or Jimi Hendrix or the Doors? All and more were playing through the weekend.
At the end of Saturday was the costume competition, BBQ and dance.
It was an event, a walk down memory lane not just a dog show.
Would I go back again-YOU BET.

Two New Champions

Two weekends ago we had the Woofstock cluster dog shows. This a particularly fun show in that it is in the 60s theme-music, vendors and exhibitors all dress from the 60s. Remember mood lamps? Tie dye chothes? More on the show in the next post.
We had a huge greyhound entry-14 greys on Saturday and 17 greys(including 6 specials) on Sunday. This was one of the biggest gathering of greyhounds shown outside a specialty I have ever seen. Several greyhound kennels were represented including Suntiger, Fleetfield, Pioneer, Santana, Huzzah Cuchulain, coursing kennels( Summerwind breeding) as well as of course Aragon. Many different types of greyhounds on exhibit.
I am proud to say both Goose and Emma finished their breed championship on Sunday!

                                             Ch Aragon Golden Canyon aka "Goose"

                                             Ch Aragon Emerald Hills aka "Emma"


As they mature Costa and Janet are deciding what they want to do next-Lure coursing? Agility? Obedience? Fly Ball? Or all of them?

Maybe it will be lure coursing!