Happy Holidays!

 I can’t believe how quickly 2024 has passed, only one day left of this year and we will be celebrating the arrival of 2025.  We ended this year with so many new titles, and some wonderful memories, but 2024 also brought sad times with the loss of our sweet Kori.  

For 2024 I brought back a tradition of bringing the collies to a local Nursing Home, to watch a Lassie movie with the residents.  Unfortunately only one other Therapy team were available to join us this year.  One year I was able to get 8 collies, it was so much fun!  But I am so grateful to Finn and his partner, Steve, for making time during the busy holiday season to join us.  Steve just recently had Finn tested to become a therapy collie, his wife had done visits with Finn a few years ago, before COVID.  

Finn is a collie I bred 8 years ago, he is the littermate of my Maizie and Sophie, which makes him Addi’s uncle.  He is also one of Kori’s sons.  It always makes me smile, when I see how he loves and remembers me.  They never forget the person who loved them first.

I’ve written so many posts about Lassie, and how the beloved movies and television series touched so many generations.  So it is the perfect movie to celebrate the holidays with the residents, as the seniors all grew up watching her.  I plan on doing this next Christmas too, and hope I can get at least 4 collies to join us. 

Do you have a holiday tradition with your dogs or cats?  Leave us a comment!

Christmas Card Day!

 So we’ve been out of touch, and didn’t sign up the collies for the Christmas card exchange, and they are not very happy with me.  But since today is the official Christmas card day in the Blogville, we are going to share ours here, for all friends and readers!

Sending warm wishes this Christmas from our pack to yours!

Time for the Holidays….but first, we have news!

And just like that, our 2024 dog show competitions are over!  But what a year it was!  We ended the year with 30 new titles, including two new Champions.  The collies made us very proud, and they had so much fun while doing it!  We are going to spend a couple weeks relaxing and enjoying the holidays, and catching up on our blog.  Then we will be starting 2025 off with two dog shows.

But first, we want to share our news from this past weekend.  

Saturday, under Judge Cindy Meyer, our ZuZu, Creekwood’s Fireheart, BCAT, FDC, FITB, won Winner’s for her 2nd major, then Best of Winners and Best of Variety over the specials! Then she followed it up with an Owner Handler Herding Group 4!  And we discovered it was a 5 point major, the highest a show dog can earn!

Then on Sunday, ZuZu won Winner’s Bitch and Best Op (Best of Opposite Sex to Best of Variety), which gave her 2 more points.  She now needs just one more point to finish her championship! It would have been nice to finish one more champion this year, but it was such an exciting weekend we won’t complain!

Video of ZuZu winning Best of Breed and then her Group 4 in the Owner Handler Group.