Julie’s niece…

A few days ago I got an email from Julie, wondering if I remember attending McKenna’s 1st birthday, 13 years ago after the St. Croix Valley Shows. I sure do! It seemed every single gift McKenna received had something to do with the Green Bay Packers!

Julie writes:  She is now in a band, below is one of her songs on You Tube. McKenna is very talented and is attending special tutoring, she also excels at the violin, plays guitar and is learning the piano.  Some of us are given an obvious talent, the rest of us have to make believe we have a talent!


Julie on tv – The Dog Show With Jazz

From The Dog Show With Jazz:

In this episode of The Dog Show, we learn how to train a service dog to asisst humans with many different needs. Our breed in the spotlight is the Lhasa Apso, a small hardy breed with a beautiful cloak of hair that parts down their back from their head to their tail. Dr. Kate An Hunter answers questions from you our viewers and Denise Nord shows us some basic behavior training with our dog for adoption.

The Dog Show #41


Expanding our gene pool…

Sunday Julie gave the presentation I presented last October in Pennsylvania to the American Lhasa Apso Club….which is where I’ve been the past week or so. Not in Minnesota, but trying to make final preparations so Julie could pull if off smoothly, with all the necessary components. As some of you may know, about 2 years ago I was appointed chairman of ALAC’s newly formed Native Stock Committee. The Breeders Education Committee of ALAC invited me to give that presentation, which included updating members on the Gompa dogs. Ergo, the film Ancient Treasure – The Remake.

This presentation will be given around the country in the upcoming months. The next one will be here in the Denver area. Please join us!


Westminster Kennel Club

In the spirit of that famous show…

Hype, Money and Cornstarch…What It Takes to Win at Westminster

These photos were taken in 2006, the year Julie, me and our husbands trekked to NYC. Ch. FFT C’est La Vie on the bench…

The weather was similar…


Majors all the way ’round

FFT Space Cowboy (some people call him Maurice) won his first major yesterday.

FFT Well Said (Ella) did one better, winning Best of Breed under breeder/judge Bobbie Wood, for her second major.

Nate coached the Colorado School of Mines swim team to a 1st place win at the Thanksgiving Invite in St. Louis. Five of his swimmers qualified for NCAA’s!.

While all this competition was going on, I went to a movie and continued photo lessons with Michael.

Shapes occurring naturally…

Angle of attack…