It's been a fun week, family here, dinners, parties and lots of shopping. Retta loves to shop so we do quite well at it.
Family leaving in the morning and dogs with owners arriving tomorrow evening for the GJ shows. I'm going to have a house full.
Shows thurs - Sun then off to Doberman Natls in Topeka on Monday for a week. Get home on Sunday then off to Dallas & Austin for the Am Staff Nationals in Austin then to Dallas to pick up a van and 3 dogs to drive home. Before you know it the month of Oct. is half over.
I will be picking up the last dog to campaign when we go to Eukanuba, it will be flying in from over seas if I like it when I go. It's time now to hit the road, finish a group of dogs and be ready for the new year.
I will have 2 litters next year for their owners, dogs from over seas, new puppies ready to show. Who could ask for anything more.
A great time for all.
Can't wait to see the dogs that have already gotten here.
I need to learn to speak another language soon.

It's going to be a really interesting weekend for all.

Great weekend, great training sessions and I got to play with 4 eight week old frenchies. There is nothing cuter.
I'm excited about the doberman nationals in 2 weeks. It will be great to see old friends.
It's now time to go to AKC with the written proof needed to prove the BOD positions are bought and paid for and not member elected.
A puppy mill is a puppy mill no matter what you want to call it. It's nice to have that admission in writing also.
With a lot of help from a lot of people things are coming together nicely.
Thank you everyone for all of your time, effort and letters of proof.

I'm going to go ahead and do the GJKC shows and fly out to Dobe Nationals on Monday. The girls will go with Shauna and I will meet up with them there.
I have friends coming to the GJKC shows and staying here with us. Should be a busy weekend for everyone.
It should be fun for us we didn't schedule any clients since we didn't think we would be here, so I just have the frenchie baby 4 days and Tahiti on Sunday. Adam is showing Tahiti on Saturday so everyone bring your camera's it should be fun.
Hopefully no wind this year.

We are thinking of going from the Doberman Nationals straight to the Am Staff Nationals in Austin.
16 days of dog shows!

Had fun this weekend. It was great t0 see Kathy, Jenny just loves her new boy (Dante). I can't wait to see him in the show ring.
Little Mr. Dodie got WD on Saturday, He's so cute.
The specialty was a lot of fun the dinner was great the working event was fantastic. I love doberman weekends.

Salina, Nationals, Rapid City, Tucson next.

The imports will be here soon, I am excited about that. The owner of 2 of them speaks another language so it's hard to communicate sometimes. Get to preview the dogs before they get here when I go overseas delivering a puppy and looking at dogs for 2 other kennels here. I can't wait for 2011 it's going to be a fun year.

P.S. It's always funny when you here how a mentor is speaking bad and warning people away from their little kennel that learned "everything" from them. As the world turns.

We are leaving for Greeley at about 8 in the morning.
I think I have talked to everyone. Giant's are at 3 tomorrow and dobes are at 4. That's all we have for specialties this week. All 4 girls will be there, it will be the first time for all of them at the same show at once.
It's a quiet weekend we just have giant's, frenchies, dobes and labs.
I haven't had a quiet weekend in a long time and I'm looking forward to one.
Can't wait for doberman nationals at the end of the month. I haven't been able to go for 5 years.
I have 4 great bitches going this year and will have the puppies next year.
Cha-Cha and Tahiti only need their majors and Little Miss Kandi already has 5 pts. I am so proud of them. It's going to be a great year for the dobergang next year.
Little Dodie will start his campaign in full force this weekend and I'm sure he will do great in the coming year.
Next year will be a great year for all of the corsi. I have 3 new dogs coming in the coming weeks from over seas and will be campaigning heavy with all of them next year.
Next year starts off with a big bang for everyone in Palm Springs.
Time to get a bigger van or a motorhome again.

Fame is one of my bitches that stole my heart from day one. She has produced beautiful puppies that will go far.
There have been very few who have stolen my heart or have accomplished what she has. I am very proud of her.

I've been having a great time the last few weeks.
My mom and I went on a road trip across the country and had a great time. I delivered a puppy to his new home, visited family and hit a few shows along the way. It's great to see old friends at shows and get to actually watch and observe since I didn't have any dogs with me.

Little miss Kandi had a great weekend plus got her CGC. Congratulations to Tim and Connie on doing such a great job with her. I can't wait to see how she does at nationals.

Thanks everyone for your private responses to my question. I'm not quite sure why you are afraid to say anything publicly but I'm sure you have your reasons, silly as they may be.
The one thing I am noticing is how the judges who have done the education seminars are being told not to go into your dogs mouth. They are being told to not take the breed standard into consideration, to ignore the light eyes and kinked or too short tails. To ignore the dogs that hit the dirt when they try to examine them.
Does any one wonder why they are being told this?
When a city or a county has troubles with a breed where do you think they go for information? To the breeders? NO. They go to AKC and to the AKC judges whom they consider to be the experts on dogs. So when they want to ban a breed from something whether it be an airline or BSL and they talk to a judge do you think what that judge has to say matters? If that judge is telling them that you can't go into a dogs mouth, you can't touch or examine them, or they have an unstable temperament who's fault is it that these judges are saying these things? It's the Judges Education Reps that are giving the seminars who are to blame.
If you want to save your breed you all better step up NOW and do something about it before it's too late.
You need an entire new BOD. You need to have the ones who are not running impeached, you need to run for office yourself. You need to be writing letters to AKC complaining. You need to be talking to judges and letting them know the truth about the breed. When a judge says they have been told they can't go into your dogs mouth ask them where they heard that and invite them to examine your dog. EDUCATE, EDUCATE, EDUCATE.
DO SOMETHING NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.