two Excellent and one Very Promising

Last Thursday I took my camera with me to our handling class, to take pictures of the three dogs Valentina and Marijke took to the show in Zwolle. All three were first in their class!
From left to right:

Butterfly (callname Hella, Dutch Shepherd shorthair, 1 Excellent Youth class, the first point to become Dutch Youth Champion!)

Rovamel's Vanity Valiant (callname Poppy, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, 1 Excellent Open class and reserve CAC / CACIB!)

Dango (callname Ari, Pekingese, 1 Very Promising Baby class)The weather was not great for taking pictures, but I tried to take a nice one of each, Hella, Stella's daughter:and PoppyTaking a picture of Ari was a challenge...
He did NOT want his picture taken, did NOT want to stand and did NOT want to walk...
For a few goodies he might do something. But he was still avoiding the camera. Back to Valentina for a goodie and some cuddling! Since the show in Zwolle Valentina is on Ari's list of favorite people too.

Finally I took some reasonable pictures, but Ari shows that he did NOT like itAri was happy to be home again!

ringtraining

as we call it, I think the best translation would be handling class.

Every wednesday we train with our Chows for the show. Together with some others from the neighbourhood, all of them show and breed.
Last Wednesday I finally did NOT forget my camera ;-)

Val owns kennel "Rovamel", she teaches us. Her breed is the Staffordshire Bull Terrier. This week she had Digit and Poppy with her.

Val with Poppy

Gertrud owns kennel "van het Bovenwater", her breed is the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. She was with Talutah.

Gertrud and Talutah

Marijke owns a Dutch Shepherd shorthair Amazing, callname Stella, but usual she is training one of the Staffords from Val.

Stella

And then there are Frank and me with the smooth Chow Chows Chimay and Eoos; kennel "Xin-Feng".

Chimay and Eoos


Normally Chimay sits next to me and we watch the training together. But this time I was taking pictures so Chimay had to watch alone:


They have to learn to stand stil for some time:
Poppy
Talutah
Eoos

And trotting through the showring
Talutah

When the youngsters are done, the older dogs get their time too.
Digit
Stella
And Chimay showing off she knows what to do:
After the handling class Gertrude teached some basics of doggy-dance. That was fun for all.
It was a nice training, we are looking forward to next weeks class!