Tucson Kennel Club Show

[Wicked Whippets]

We arrived at the Pima County Fairgrounds last night in time to find a
space to park. This is our first time out with the Jeep TOAD. It made it here in one piece and will come in handy hauling stuff from our space to the show building. We shoehorned ourselves into a tiny space on the fringe of the
fairgrounds that has 50 amp service (no sewer, though). It's a freshly
bladed dirt lot and within minutes we had tracked about a acre of it into the RV. This is going to be a 3 vacuum bagger to get clean!



With the light of day this morning we realized had we stayed on the
main road and driven to the other side of the show building we could
have parked in a pull-through space, paved road and full-service. Oh
well, a little hiking and dust never killed anyone! Next year we will know better!

There were 45+ whippets entered today and Eddie, co-owned with Julie Konwent
of Elaine-Ward Kennels and shown by Mandy Clevenger from San Bernardino
showed well. He won open dog, but finished reserve winner
overall. We need just 4 more points to finish him and those have been
really hard to earn! We still have tomorrow and Sunday so hopefully we will finish him this weekend.

Back in the RV, we are running the A/C full blast as it's 85 degrees.
The whippet crew (4 of them) are taking it easy until they show again
tomorrow.



Overall, for $40 a night, this is a good deal (compared to what this
would cost in California!). If Eddie is finished the weekend we plan to shift our focus to our two 6-month-old whippet pups for the
show in Yuma on Thanksgiving.

We were really busy today so I didn't have time to find whippet momma or some of the other folks from the forum who are here. I'll probably wander over to the vendor area later and see who I can find.

[Wicked Whippets]

We arrived at the Pima County Fairgrounds last night in time to find a
space to park. This is our first time out with the Jeep TOAD. It made it here in one piece and will come in handy hauling stuff from our space to the show building. We shoehorned ourselves into a tiny space on the fringe of the
fairgrounds that has 50 amp service (no sewer, though). It's a freshly
bladed dirt lot and within minutes we had tracked about a acre of it into the RV. This is going to be a 3 vacuum bagger to get clean!



With the light of day this morning we realized had we stayed on the
main road and driven to the other side of the show building we could
have parked in a pull-through space, paved road and full-service. Oh
well, a little hiking and dust never killed anyone! Next year we will know better!

There were 45+ whippets entered today and Eddie, co-owned with Julie Konwent
of Elaine-Ward Kennels and shown by Mandy Clevenger from San Bernardino
showed well. He won open dog, but finished reserve winner
overall. We need just 4 more points to finish him and those have been
really hard to earn! We still have tomorrow and Sunday so hopefully we will finish him this weekend.

Back in the RV, we are running the A/C full blast as it's 85 degrees.
The whippet crew (4 of them) are taking it easy until they show again
tomorrow.



Overall, for $40 a night, this is a good deal (compared to what this
would cost in California!). If Eddie is finished the weekend we plan to shift our focus to our two 6-month-old whippet pups for the
show in Yuma on Thanksgiving.

We were really busy today so I didn't have time to find whippet momma or some of the other folks from the forum who are here. I'll probably wander over to the vendor area later and see who I can find.

[MonacoMama]

WOO-HOOOOOOOO!!! I am glad you are there and settled in!
I do have a few questions for you though...
<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>The first photo of the Vectra...the dogs in the X-pin...they do not look like Whippets (The legs look to short!!) What are they?<LI>Where is your iRV2 sticker showing so others can find you?<LI>What time do you show tomorrow?<LI>and most important...Sacs would like to know what type of bra it is on TV?[/list]

MM

PS... Good Luck tomorrow!!

[AKBrick]

Hey Wicked Whippets!
We're here on the other side of the dirt parking lot in our Safari Cheetah. We're parked right next to Mom2Mastifs in thier gold and mint green Diplomat and their van. Sorry we didn't run into you yesterday but now we know what to look for.
Our Norwich "Gracie" took BOS but there wasn't any major. There is supposed to be one today and tomorrow, we'll see. Good luck. See Ya.

AKBrick

[MonacoMama]

AK..Congrats with Gracie's win!!
Good Luck to all of you today!

OK..so who from the iRV2 family is there?
<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>AKBrick & Cheetah Girl<LI>Mom2Mastiffs<LI>Wicked Whippets[/list]Who else??


MM

[AKBrick]

Well, Gracie won her class today but didn't go any further. CheetahGirl is preparing some stuffed peppers in the crockpot for tonight before we go to see the whippets in ring 11 in about 15 minutes.

So far I don't know anyone else from "irv2"....yet

AKBrick

[Wicked Whippets]

Eddie won his class again today (46 whippets today) and then got beat again for points by a special whippet from California. Those four final single points are sure elusive!

After the event Eddie decided to relax on his sofa in the RV...



Eddie has two speeds 35mph (thus the pink spot on his nose from full speed into a chain link fence a week ago) and 0mph (which is what he does about 20 hours a day. What a life!

We're hoping for points tomorrow or maybe at Yuma!

Congrats to Gracie (thanks for taking time to watch the whippets compete today it was nice meeting you guys) and better luck tomorrow.

- Randy

PS - The funny looking whippets in the photo posted yesterday are min pins who think they are whippets.

[MonacoMama]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Wicked Whippets:
Eddie won his class again today (46 whippets today) and then got beat again for points by a special whippet from California. <span class="ev_code_BLUE">What makes this whippet from Ca. special?</span>
We're hoping for points tomorrow or maybe at Yuma!<span class="ev_code_BLUE">GOOD LUCK!!</span>

Congrats to Gracie (thanks for taking time to watch the whippets compete today it was nice meeting you guys) and better luck tomorrow.<span class="ev_code_BLUE">They are a nice couple -and very supportive of other iRV2 members! </span>
- Randy
PS - The funny looking whippets in the photo posted yesterday are min pins who think they are whippets. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><span class="ev_code_BLUE">We were pretty sure that was the case...Are they yours? Here is why we thought they were pins...</span>


MM

PS..You should post some other photos of all of them here...

[Whippetmom]

If you have any pictures of all the whippets showing, could you please post them? Your little fawn one looks like ours, of course curled up and fast asleep. The brindle is beautiful.

[Wicked Whippets]

Eddie won Best of Winners today for a major! (His third major since August)

Because one of the entries was a no-show he missed 4 points, so now we have 1 point to finish him!

I forgot to take the camera (we had 3 of them in the MH) so didn't get any pix.

Our handler couldn't show him the BOS so Cammi, who last showed about 30 years ago stepped in (that's what we Wicked Whippets do!) and she took the BOW. She was really excited!

It was a great show (okay, a tad windy and dusty) and we met a ton of nifty people and had fun with the dogs.

I'll post some pix of the Wicked Whippets in a couple days. We will be showing one of our puppies at Yuma and both of them at Indio.

[mom2mastiffs]

way to go EDDIE!!!!! hurray. yippee.

We got to meet wicked whippets when they were kind enough to stop by our booth. We were swamped with people who wanted their dogs checked and "adjusted". Jeffrey does canine physical therapy so he can do adjustments and with the agility people there, we were swamped. So we never got a chance to watch the whippets show .

We showed at 8 am every am and ms. Sparkle won the points and Best of winners on Friday but like Ms. Gracie nothing else the rest of the weekend. I took a ton of pictures of Gracie and of course Ms. Sparkle.

The stuffed green peppers were INCREDIBLY delicious! AND vegetarian--thanks Jo!

a wonderful time and lots of winners over the weekend!

Karen, Jeffrey and the mastiffs. Oh and Roscoe kitty came along too to amuse us. a cat at a dog show.

[Wicked Whippets]

We stopped at a rest stop on I-10 heading home today and I decided to shoot a photo of Eddie.

But I forgot, being a Wicked Whippet, he would be impossible to photograph without night vision...



See you guys at Yuma!

[CheetahGirl]

M2M did take some great pictures of Gracie at the show. Here's a couple of them.