Ari at the dogshow in Zwolle

It has been a while since I wrote here.
The past weeks I have been busy redoing the website, new lay-out... patience, it is nearly finished...

And Ari keeps me on my toes, the Chow Chows are stubborn, but Ari... is even more stubborn AND he is smart!
Keeping up with his coat takes some time too, but our cooperation gets better each time I brush him.

Last Saturday, October 9th, Ari went with Marijke and Valentina to the dogshow in Zwolle. Marijke handled Ari too at the FlevoDogMatch. Because Frank and I can't do it, a day at the show is too tiring for Frank and too stressing for me, it is nice someone else wants to take Ari to the show. So Ari was put in his bench and on his way to Zwolle he went!
Leaving behind a flabbergasted Eoos, what was going to happen with Ari? She just recently started to play with him and now he was leaving??

The other people with Pekingese dogs at the show were very nice and attentive, here one of them is brushing Ari, so he will look his best when entering the ring.

Valentina and Marijke with Ari on her lap, at the ring side.

Ari at the table in the ring, it was a pity that the German judge Jungblut was very short about Ari: 4,5 MON. ALTE BABY ANSPRECHENDE KORPER GUTER KOPF, qualification Very Promising

Ari with is bowl for Best Baby of the Breed!

Ari en Marijke in the spotlight for Best Baby in Show

Early in the evening Ari returned with his first bowl :-)
Eoos was VERY happy her friend came back! Ari was happy to be home and exhausted after a day from home.


Thanks to Marco & Jolanda Draijer, owners of Ari's sister Sacha (photo left), for taking and sharing their photos.

Many thanks to Marijke and Valentina for taking Ari to the show and Valentina for the spotlight photo.

D-litter 3 years!

Happy birthday Demi, Desna, Bobbie, Dante, Dao and Demi!

      

FlevoDogMatch 2010

Last Sunday we went to the FlevoDogMatch here in Lelystad. We entered all our dogs.

Judge for both the Chow Chow and the Pekinese was Mrs. P.C. Zwaartman-Pinster.

The Chow Chows were first to be judged, so Endo (Xin-Feng's Endo), entered in the Young Dogs class for dogs between 15 and 24 months, went first into the ring. Guido and Endo did very well and the judge gave Endo an Excellent! That made him Best Dog.

Then Eoos (Xin-Feng's Eoos) went into the ring, entered in the Young Bitch class for bitches between 15 and 24 months. Frank showed Eoos very well. The showtraining classes payed off ;-)
Eoos got an Excellent too.

Then the Open class bitches: Frank with Chimay (Xin-Feng's Chimayra) and Ilone with Demi (Xin-Feng's Demeter). The judge was surprised when she felt Chimay, she is very musculair ;-)
But she did not move well enough in the rear, so she got Very Good. Demi got an Excellent and won the Open class.

Then Eoos and Demi competed for Best Bitch, Demi won and went on against Endo for Best Of Breed. Demi won again, so she went on for Best of Group at the end of the day.



Marijke showed Ari for us, thanks very much Marijke!
Ari was entered in the Baby class, for dogs between 3 and 6 months. To our surprise the judge liked him and awarded him with Very Promising. So Ari went on for Best Baby of the show at the end of the day.

Ari with his medal for 4th place in the Best Baby competition It was a very tiring day with excellent results for all.

Ari has fun with some tennisballs

Yes, Ari again.
The Chow Chow ladies are still on photo strike, refusing to be near any camera.
Ari is growing so fast and likes the camera... so here is Ari:

more about Ari

Ari came over a week ago and has blended in well.
The Chow ladies are getting used to him, Eoos and Ari are nearly playing, I think that will happen within a week.
Chimay is happy, he is not pushy and very polite.

Today I took some photos, Ari does not dislike the camera:After 15 years only Chows, it is a bit strange a pink tongue:Here you can see a bit of his legs, he really is mostly hair!And one more photo:

here is Ari!

Hi everyone this is Ari:Ari is a three months old Pekingese and he arrived yesterday.
Here you see him at our bed next to Frank, I left him there when I had to walk Chimay and Eoos, and he behaved perfectly.Ari and Frank on the bed with Eoos this morningWe missed having a male dog in the house, but did not want a third big dog.
We doubted between a Pug or a Pekingese, a Pug has a shorter easier coat, but the Peke is more like the Chow in character. Well we decided in favour of the Peke.
Ari's official name on his pedigree is Dango and he was born in Oss (the Netherlands).

According to Wikipedia
Ari means "to be" in Japanese
Ari means "lion" in Hebrew
Ari means "brave" in Armenian
Ari means "gorgeous" in Kurdish
That all together gives: to be, lion, brave and gorgeous and we thought that fits the little dog ;-)
Pekinese were bred in China to look like little lions, more information about the Pekingese breed.