What an Amazing Weekend!

 We had an amazing weekend, and we have so much to share!

This weekend was our collie specialty shows.  Saturday was warm and sunny, and we went home with new ribbons, a new title, and sunburns!  Sunday was windy, rainy and cold, but the collies still came with new ribbons!

We are excited to share the news that Nolan won Winner’s Dog for a 5 point major, and he is now a champion! 

And on Saturday during the AM show our ZuZu was Select Bitch, and in the PM show she was awarded Best of Opposite Sex.  These wins gave her more points towards her Grand Championship.

I had entered our sweet senior, Maizie, in the AM show on Sunday in the Veterans class. (CH Marchello’s Littlest Angel, FDC, THDN, CGC, TKN) I entered her just for fun, so she could go to the show with us and get back into the ring, and something wonderful and unexpected happened!

Maizie captured the heart of the judge, and she awarded Maizie Best of Variety over the much younger smooth champions!  Maizie looked beautiful and even though she is a senior, Grandma Maizie gracefully ran around the ring, until she started jumping with joy!  Watching her happiness, especially when everyone cheered for her, brought tears to my eyes!

On Sunday afternoon we entered the puppies in the 4 - 6 month puppy class.  It was their first show, and they were unsure and hesitant at first.  Slowly they figured it out, but they definitely need a lot more practice! 

Shannon getting some love from the judge!

Sam and Shannon

Sam

Dean

After evaluating the puppies the judge chose little Sam as Best Puppy!

It was a fun, exciting weekend for our collies, and we came with lots of pretty ribbons!  And though she didn’t win, our Rosie looked so beautiful!  Her day is coming…

Officially beautiful!

 Our official show pictures came from the National, and they are beautiful!

Nolan (center) with his siblings and Sire, Noah (far left)

(Fellow bloggers….these pictures are high quality images, but they don’t upload that way.  Any idea how to fix this? You can see the high resolution images on our Instagram, Winterberry.Collies)

Love Is…

 A quiet walk on the beach together…

Sam posed for some pictures for me.  He looks so handsome, just like his big brother Nolan!

I can’t wait to see how much he looks like Nolan when he grows up!

Update from the National!

Rosie

The Collie National is over until next year.  While we didn’t come home with new titles, our collies made us so proud!  With over 650 collies entered, any wins at the National are a huge honor, and our collies didn’t disappoint!

Nolan’s class was early on Wednesday morning.  Our 18 month old puppy stepped into the ring with my daughter and looked like a seasoned show dog.  He moved gracefully around the ring, and didn’t set a paw wrong.  Nolan won 1st place in his class, and we could not be more proud of our boy.  We received so many compliments on him, people came up to our grooming area asking to meet him.

Wednesday afternoon was our puppy Morgan’s turn to shine.  She was entered in the very competitive 9 - 12 month rough sable puppy class.  With 14 beautiful puppies entered, it was a quality packed class!  Morgan did not get awarded a ribbon, but she looked beautiful and handled her first National with confidence and lots of sass!  Her sass is courtesy of her Mom, Peyton. (In the video below you can see Morgan and Rosie)

On Thursday our beautiful Rosie stepped into the ring.  She has this sweet, soft expression and moves so well, it wasn’t a surprise when the judge awarded her 2nd place in her class.  Rosie and Morgan share the same Sire and they are very similar.  Rosie is 3 years old, so she has a beautiful adult coat.  

Nolan got to go back into the ring with his Sire, Noah, for the rough stud dog class.  This is a fun class to watch, along with the Brood Bitch class, as the collies are judged by the offspring  they produce.  As it’s a family affair, they are shown with 2 or more of their “get.”  We love Noah so much, and are so proud of his son, Nolan, that we bred our ZuZu to him.  Noah is the sire of the puppies from our recent litter.

It was a fun and exciting week, and we can’t wait to see how our collies do in the upcoming Spring shows.  Hopefully we will have some more exciting announcements soon!