In September we had a Chapter Gather at the IABCA dog show in Oklahoma City. We had a good turnout for this, with six Shilohs attending--we were the fourth-most-populous breed at the show! Ideally, our Breed Founder, Tina Barber, has said that she would like to see between eight and a dozen Shilohs at every show. With so many great litters coming up from the breeders and breeders-in-training in our club, hopefully we will have a couple of puppy people who get the "show bug!"
Here's the setup for "Camp Shiloh" as we started to call it! We had three pop-ups and a tent. The dogs had crates or x-pens to relax in between shows.
The Riverwind girls, who are very well-behaved, also spent some time relaxing in the bed of their truck under a handy shade-tree!
The great thing about the IABCA is that they put on four shows over the course of a two-day event weekend. We managed to get four adult girls in the ring at this event--enough that the winner of each show would get a three-point Major Win toward her Championship! Katie won Winner's Bitch in the first show, collecting one Major; Kyrie collected one Major (and her first-ever Championship points!), and BJ won Winner's Bitch in TWO shows, collecting the two Major wins she needed for her Championship! CONGRATULATIONS to all the girls!!
Here is Kyrie relaxing in her crate, and then again in the ring with her human mom, Anne:
A head shot of the lovely BJ, and then a shot of BJ attempting to extricate the treats out of one of the chair pockets (we thought this was hilarious, but her mom Deb didn't think so!):
Junebug smiling up at her human mom Deb:
And the beautiful Katie, hanging out and taking it all in!
The lovely Lily didn't show, but she came to provide moral support! Her human mom and "granddogmom" brought tasty cookies to share with everyone. Here are shots of Lily with her family and then a profile shot. Such a pretty dark grey sable girl!
This event wasn't entirely a girls' club, though! Carrying the Shiloh banner in the puppy shows was Zakanne from Oklahoma. Zak's mom was pretty sad that he didn't have more competition; we need to get more puppies out there! Here's Zak relaxing with his human mom Sheryl, and then again attempting to stack nicely for the camera.
Also attending was Leo, the sole adult male. Leo took Best of Breed in all four shows, earning himself a bunch of points toward national titles this year. Congratulations Leo! Here's Leo relaxing in his xpen before a hard day of showing!
Thanks for looking at all our photos; we hope this inspires you to get your own Shiloh companion out to the shows with us next year!
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