puppy cam is up

the puppy cam is up and running.  You can watch them at http://www.marewatchers.com/cam/sunkan.htm

Puppies

Journey presented us with 8 puppies December 28th.  4 blue boys, 3 blue girls and 1 black girl.

Black girl

Black Girl

black/blue girl....

black and blue girl

black and blue girl

black faced girl

black faced girl

saddle back girl

saddle back girl

boy 1



boy 2



boy 3

boy 4

Almost Ready!

Trailer picked up...pocket book much liter.  We will be leaving on Saturday and arriving on Sunday.  Looking forward to the two weeks off of work!

More national perperations

Dropped the trailer off for pre trip adjustments and fix's.
I am hold my breath waiting to hear the total.  Nothing really major just a lot of small things all at once that are probably going to really add up.

Other than that not a whole lot going on....

Getting ready for the National!

Entries closed yesterday and am waiting to see counts.

We are in the getting ready to go phase.  The trailer goes in next week for a checkup and to fix a few minor things.  Crossing fingers that Calypso does not blow coat.  It is all the sudden gotten quite warm here.  Hig of 87 today.  Rocky is growing up nicely and I look forward to showing him in sweeps and puppy class. 

Now if it would just hurry up and get here!!!

Back from the shows.

Back from the 5 days at the Fiesta Cluster.  We had a really good time visiting with Cassie and Barbie and all the other exhibitors.  The two puppies had a great time seeing all the other dogs.  Dottie (now Dixie) went to her new home and is already settling in with her Great Dane companions. lol.   She did really good took one look at Dalton the male took a sniff and said your just really big but that's okay.

We only showed on Saturdy and Sunday as the other two days were hosted by our Club.  Cardigans did not do anything but Dante the Dacshund went WD/BOW both days for 4 more points.  He now  has 9 points with 1 major at 9 months old!

Now time to get ready for the National in April!

And off we go

Getting ready for the big Fiesta Cluster Weekend.  4 days of shows with 1 day of specialties added on.  Friday and Saturday are our shows so will be out and working from Wednesday on.  The we get to relax the last two days.  Hard to believe it is here already!!!!

Match update

Went to the Arrowhead Kennel Club Match today with 6 dogs..lol.

Rocky was BOB Cardigan Puppy and  Herding Group 1,  Bella was BOB Adult and Adult Group 3.

Dante the Dachshund  was BOB Puppy and Hound Puppy Group 1.  All and all a pretty good day.

Dottie and Boo behaved very well for their first time out.  Calypso also had a good time.

Renay, Karen and Shannon.

News of the Day

Just heard that Tommy and Sly's Brother Milo gained the first leg towards  his herding title this weekend!  Go Milo.   Milo is out of Ch. Shadowalk's Pushin the Limit and Coedwig's Kantasia Black Velvet.   We look forward to hearing more of his herding prowess in the near future.

Where to begin

We talked today about starting a blog to chronicle our adventures...or more often missadventures!

The we is me and my husband Jon which is know as Sunspark Cardigans.  The other part is Karen and Shannon from Kantasia Cardigans.  We have all been involved in showing dogs for over 30+ years.  Our orginal breed was Siberian Huskies but now mainly have Cardigan Welsh Corgis.

And to start off our adventure series, I had an one wating when I came home from our club meeting.  Miss Dazzle had a while back started a  hole under the barn which we had blocked off.  Some how tonght Calypso decided that that hole should be reexcavated and in the process being a bit more robust than Dazzle promptly got stuck.  The rest of the pack let us know there was a "problem".  After a bit of digging dirt out around her and manuevering her away from the the metal pipe housing the wiring into the barn I was able to get her unstuck and no worse for wear.

This weekend the hole will be filled with cement...for now cement blocks are hopefully keeping them away from the dreaded hole.