This weekend Jolene, Johanna and myself attended the Kennel Club of Riverside Dog Show that took place at the Lake Perris State Recreation Area. This time we visited as a spectator. Our four footed friends stayed home. I went to watch and cheer on the golden retrievers and see some fellow golden enthusiast friends.
Luckily today wasn’t very hot. It was nice to be near the lake as Johanna got to swim a bit with Jolene while I watched the golden retrievers compete. My favorite golden retriever did win best of breed. A well deserved win.
AKC events have a lot more participants than IABCA shows. They are a lot more stringent as well. Unfortunately, many judges don’t like English standard golden retrievers. Often they fault them for their color being too light. A few weeks ago I spoke to a judge, and she said that she personally wouldn’t fault the light goldens. Additionally in previous years AKC didn’t prefer boxy heads that The Kennel Club prefers. However, the standard and preferences are changing. So maybe color won’t be a factor in the future either.
We did visit this week to scout out if any near white goldens were there. Almost 40 goldens competed. None of them were near white, although one did come close. There were a lot of blonde goldens that competed fairly well. We are hoping that if Alice grows a little, and comes out of her awkward stage we will show her in January at the AKC show in Palm Springs. Even more competition will be there. We will be keeping a puppy from our next litter, and a male will be coming our way as well. Both, will hopefully have exceptional toplines, structure, and a great muzzle. Next fall we will be competing in as many shows as possible. Hopefully we will find judges that won’t fault them because of color.
Johanna and Jolene at Lake Perris during the show.
Hi Timothy
We hope you and your family are doing well including Tina and Alice. Just wanted you to know Teddy (Silver) and Bear (Yellow) are doing very well. We will send pics soon. Amazing breed amazing personalities! Teddy remains cuddly and sweet and Bear, feisty and playful. They love their sisters and have been the easiest puppy experience ever. Although they like to eat anything they find on the ground so we are looking after them all the time. We have not registered them yet as our new house has FINALLY finished being built in Palm Desert, CA. We wanted to wait until we knew the address. We had chosen two different homes in the gated community before finally deciding on one that offered the best yard and room for a pool. We are moving on Friday and the girls will have a huge backyard with their own private gated dog run as well. Curios to see how well they enjoy swimming. They love their little plastic pool and splash water all over the place. They also go right after the toilet paper in the bathrooms and paper the entire house. The stairs were a bit of a challenge at first but once they figured their food was down stairs they don’t wait anytime getting down their in the morning. training went very well. they bark to let us know it’s time to go. They are loosing their puppy teeth. Bear spits them out and Teddy prefers to swallow them I think. We freeze wet sports socks and the teethe on them. Our vet says teething can be very painful for them.
Looking forward to seeing you and Alice in Palm Springs at the AKC show and of course keeping in touch with you and your success, would like very much to work with you and your new male to possibly sire n a few years.
Teddy and Bear love everyone, We just finished with the shots a few weeks ago. The vets go crazy when we come in with them. They are regular love bugs and are so attached to each other. You have obviously done a remarkable job breeding!
Forever grateful to you and your family for sharing your puppies with us.
Christoper & Robert
I was just thinking about you all a few minutes ago. I’ve been in touch with Miss Red’s mom today. Reminded me of everyone. I’m sure the teething stage is a challenge. Alice was going through it when Tina had her puppies. She wanted to chew everything. Not sure if you noticed, but she would chew the corners of some walls if we weren’t looking.
I’m glad they are doing well. I know sometimes getting two dogs at once that they can attach to each other more than they will with other dogs. So hopefully, they relate with the rest of the family.
Congrats on the new home. We are already considering a new home with more land. I’m not expecting much from the AKC show in Palm Springs other than just having fun. There will be around 80 or more goldens there. Lots of competition. Plus, Alice will probably be the only one as light in color. We have arranged for a male from two fantastic lines in Europe. Multiple world winners in the line, and great health. Until next time best of luck!