Lisa and I have FUN!

Lisa T. and I have gone to the dog shows together, and today at Sedalia, she and I won Best of Winners for 2 points!  Sadly, the major was broken by the absence of one dog, but that could not be helped.  She had a hurt paw, so she stayed home to mend.  Lisa showed me at the Moberly shows a few weekends ago, and I picked up a point there.  I now have 7 points out of the necessary 15 towards my championship:  I'll be on the hunt for majors soon!  My human says she'd like to have a "CH" at the front of my name, and other fun titles like "RN", "CD", "NA", ect., to the end of my name.  Eddie and could go to classes together- now that's what I call "FUN"!

Slurps,

Miss Stella

Kiana Crosses the Rainbow Bridge

Goodbye, Dear Kiana

An era has ended at our home.  My beautiful friend, Kiana, a gray and white, brown-eyed Siberian beauty, died last night at the age of 15 years, 9 months. She torsioned suddenly last night, and my owner made the decision to end her suffering.  My owner held her head in her arms and told her how much she loved her as she was put to sleep.  

Kiana was Queen, and lived as only a very pampered dog should live.  She was the first AKC champion of our family, and did some very nice winning as a young dog.  One particularly happy day many years ago, she won the Open class and then Best of Breed over two group-winning male specials (champions).  Kiana then topped the day off by winning a Working Group 2.   She was also the first dog to help with the sled dog program my owner does.  When Kiana became ill with mammary cancer and diabetes, she was retired.  Amazingly, she not only recovered from the cancer, but in a year's time, the diabetes she was taking two injections daily for, reversed.  She never had another problem with it again.   Kiana saw my owner through graduate school, the stupid single years, marriage, and  then babies.  She was very attached to my owner, and would stop eating if separated for more than a few days.  Kiana was elegant, regal and very much the dominate dog in the family.  She is irreplaceable.

Rest in peace, Kiana.  I know you are playing with Higgins the Bullmastiff and Clarence the French Bulldog.  Most importantly, you are not in pain anymore.

"Kiana"

Champion Kalea's Boomchaser of Jasminka

June 18, 1993- March 16, 2009

NEW CHAMPION! EDDIE!!

We are thrilled to announce that Eddie,

 AKA "Gold Eye Eddie" is now 

CHAMPION

 D'Azul's On the Dark Side!

Eddie finished on Saturday, December 6 with a 3-point major win (Best of Winners) from the Bred By Exhibitor class!  Congratulations go out to his breeders, Cecile and Lisa Toth of D'Azul Siberians! 

Lisa handled Eddie to every point from the Bred by Exhibitor class, starting from July 2008 to his grand finish December 2008! He finished with three major wins!  

Thank you to all the judges that recognized Eddie for the quality dog he is.

Way to go, Lisa and Eddie! We are so proud of you!

Eddie is home!

Eddie has returned home to rest from his show career for a couple of weeks, and to catch up on digging holes in the backyard, and to touch noses with me a through the fence.  Lisa and Eddie have won 13 points, including both major wins, in a very short amount of time! We are hoping they can complete the championship title with one more show weekend (toes crossed here.) Go to Captain Maverick's blog to see his photos... from beginning to present.  You can tell he started out without much hair (it was in the summer months), and now he is in glorious coat!  Eddie is such an easy-going guy that he's settled into the routine around here without a misstep. Good ol' Eddie. We're glad he's home (and he's a lot quieter than that Arlo dog!)

Slurps,

Miss Stella

Meet Arlo

Meet Arlo, our newest addition to the family.  He showed up at our house several weeks ago, and planted himself on the doorstep, earning the nickname "Porch Dog".  The humans decided to give him a chance and now he lives with us.  He's about a year old, and possibly an Australian Shepherd with an natural tail.  He's a nice guy.  Lucky for him my humans took him in because he had heartworm.  He is now recovering nicely from his 2nd treatment.

Welcome, Arlo!

Good Luck, Eddie!

My buddy, Eddie (D'Azul's On the Dark Side) is going to the big Siberian Husky national specialty show in Pennsylvania in a few days. There are lots of dogs in his class (Bred-by-exhibitor) with an entry of 29!  He has done so well in the shows with his breeder Lisa handling him.  Eddie now has 11 points including both of his major wins!  I'm keeping my paws crossed that those last four single points come before the new year so he can start 2009 as a CHAMPION!  After that, he'll go into fun things like agility, rally and obedience.

Good luck, Eddie, Lisa, Cecile and Penny, at the big  Siberian Husky Show of America National Specialty!

Thank you to all our friends in the Dog Blogging Community for their condolences.  We miss our sweet Timber, or Timmy, as he was sometimes called. You all have kind, good hearts.   We feel fortunate to know you as fellow dog lovers.  A special "Thank You" to Cecile and Lisa Toth of D'Azul Siberians, who had posted about Timber's illness to the Siberian/Alaskan Malamute listserv.

   He is in a better place now.

Thanks again,

Stella, Stormy, Kiana, Bruce, Penny, Eddie, Skye (the dogs)

and Stella's old female human