Eukanuba Invitees!

Wow, we were so excited when we got our invites to the AKC/Eukanuba Invitational Show
We had CH Glacier Creek's Catch The Beat, Thumper,
Glacier Creek's Pge Grande Adventure, Titan
Grand CH Mattiaci High Voltage At Glacier Creek, Tezla
CH Glacier Creek's Wind In The Willows, Giselle
GCH CH Glacier Creek's Pge Zuiderzee Adventure, Nonami
and Ch. Furrondie's Rain N Shine "Mokany" all qualify!

Bridger wins a Major!

I neglected to report Bridger, Glacier Creek's Mountain Man, won his first major in Ventura by going Best of Winners over the girls. Judge was Karen McFarlane.

Tezla wins the group in Texas!

Just when you are resigned to the fact she may be the "Cut Queen" on a circuit (she made the cut under Alvin Krause on Friday, but a Group 3 at the Texas Working Group show under Jan Sigler on Wednesday) she pulls off a GROUP 1! Charles Trotter awarded her the Group 1, at one of the biggest, most political shows of the year. (400 working dogs entered). Great job, Monica and Tezla!

New champions to report

Down in Ventura, Giselle, Glacier Creek's Wind in the Willows, achieved her championship from the bred-by class. What makes this especially noteworthy is that Giselle was in the hospital with parvo less than a year ago, not expected to make it. She has turned into a very sweet, elegant young girl. Nonami acheived her Grand Championship and she also had parvo a year ago. Her brother didn't make it so again this achievement is so heart warming. After all the scares and the warnings about vaccines, I was trying a more holistic approach with fewer puppy shots. I won't do that again! I must have picked up parvo on the tires of my van or coyotes brought it across my property since the pups hadn't been anywhere. Four came down with it, three lived. Who knows what Titan could have achieved? I am just happy I saved the ones I did and they are healthy, happy and seem to have no lasting effects. This is one tough breed!

Introducing Farrah, a party of one

If it's possible, Farrah has more mischeviousness and more energy than Tezla. You can see the pensive tilt to her head. So much time, so many problems to cause...Farrah is out of Ch. Glacier Creek's Whispering Wind, "Brenda" and Ch. Cezar Harcos Von De Viersenhoeve. Farrah was a single pup, so because we are so impressed with her type, soundness and attitude, we are going to try Cezar again with Brenda's little sister, Katrina, Ch. Glacier Creek's Catch the Spirit. Both Cezar and Katrina are pra-normal and Katrina has Excellent rated hips.

What a weekend!

Final tally for Tezla and Monica at the Grove, Oklahoma shows Group 2, Group 3 and Group 4, nearly one of each color! Tezla was the only working dog besides the rottweiler to place 3 or more times this weekend (and she beat HIM twice!)

Yet another group placement

Group 3 for Tezla from Barbara Alderman in Grove Oklahoma!

Tezla #1 Through March!

Tezla, #1 All Breed through March! Chinosh #4 We do this all ourselves, no backers, no ads, no long lists of names owning the dogs. Chinosh was junior handled to her Group 2, highest by a Junior.
1CH Mattiaci High Voltage At Glacier Creek 924 D Blank
2CH Szumeria's Wildwood Silver Six Pence 864L Brady/C Townsend/C Muir
3CH Szep Tars Heart's Cry RN 153 M Ginther/T Ginther/C Ferrall
4Fur Rondies Full Of Spirit 85 J Volkheimer

Another Group 4, this time under Mary B. White, who judged the breed for the first time ever!

Another Group Placement for Tezla!

Tezla won another Group 2, this time under Charles Trotter in Grove, Oklahoma.
Way to go girls!

Tutti's prize

You know those indestructible little muffins they serve for continental breakfasts?
The hermetically sealed ones? I dropped one on the floor when I was cleaning out my travel bag, and Tutti grabbed it and carried it around like it was one of her babies. She never punctured the plastic but it ended up as flat as a pancake. I looked at her over in the semi dark corner and thought, wow, are her lips all swollen? and realized she had that muffin in her mouth. She kept nodding off and
would jerk up and give the other dogs the eye when they tried to sneak up on her. Pretty soon she was sound asleep. Then it was time to go outside for the last walk, she ran over to the door, stopped, then ran back to pick up that flattened muffin.

There's a New # 1 in Town

There's a new #1 and her name is Tezla! She won a Group 2 today under John Studebaker in Fort Worth, nearly beating the BIS winning boxer.

The fun continues

Judge Alvin Krause awarded Tezla a Group 3 in Ft Worth today! Mr. Krause also gave Sonia BOB at one of the first Eukanuba Invitationals down in Florida, and Tezla's aunt Aloo BOB at Westminster. He seems to be a great judge of type.

American International Ch. Mattiaci High Voltage at Glacier Creek

Here's our Tezla. Last year she was #1 All Breed female, this year also.
She is quite the character and loves to show. Pluto is her dad.

Welcome to My Blog

Welcome to my blog. The dogs have taken over my life, so why not a blog?

We are enjoying warmer weather, blue skies and not having to carry buckets of water in the morning. They no longer freeze overnight.

Can it be that 20 years have passed since the day Shiner came and lit up our lives with his wagging tail and twinkling eyes?