:Fernando’s weekend

Posted: March 23, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: FFT Lhasa Apsos | Tags: | 4 Comments

Just got off the phone with Julie. Fernando won the group under Robert Sturn!! Yesterday he placed Group 4, another nice win.

Way to go Fernando!

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Melissa’s Ella (a Sadie x Damon daughter) was RWB today for the second time in several shows (including a major RWB). Lookin’ forward to seeing that puppy, yes I am.

:Weekend show results

Posted: March 5, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: FFT Lhasa Apsos | Tags: | 1 Comment

I’m hoping Julie or Melissa will jump in here! This past weekend they attended dog shows some 4 hours away from Julie’s home. Not sure where… I know about the 4 hours because Julie drove home through bad weather. Only the last 90 miles of her trip were decent.

Carolyn Herbel judged the first day. The Damon puppies won big! Damon puppies from 3 different litters, 3 different dams, which is particularly exciting as his breeder! Savion (Damon x C’est La Vie) was RWD (Reserve Winners Dog) to a 4-point major. Karen’s young female (Damon x her Ch. Ritz) was WB (Winners Bitch) for a 4-point major. And Melissa’s Ella (Damon x Sadie) was RWB. Congrats to all!

Roger Pritchard judged the second day. All I can remember is Lily picked up a 4-point major… Fernando won Best of Breed both days and placed Group 4 both days.

:Merrick’s wedding

Posted: February 24, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Apso Aficionados | Tags: | Leave a comment

The reason Julie wasn’t here last weekend for the dogs shows was because her son got married.

Julie and Tim..

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The new couple..

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The wedding party.. 

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:Julie sent..Footprints

Posted: February 22, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: FFT Lhasa Apsos | Tags: | Leave a comment

Julie wanted to share this photo, along with this note:

These footprints are from Candice.  You will notice at the bottom of the screen, you can see where her feet are making individual prints. Once she hit her “gait”  it looks like she only has 2 feet! This is a puppy with correct movement.
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Couple of things from Debby…

This is called single tracking and is correct movement for most breeds. It indicates balanced angles, front and rear.

Will post photos of the puppies over the weekend. I’m still on the run and will be all day, again, today. Tango is getting neutered today. I’m going into the shop to groom my own dogs, trying to catch up. Towels need to be washed. I’m going to take them to the laundromat and get them done in one fell swoop, rather than drag out that chore all weekend. This weekend I plan on reading in the recliner, reading in a prone position on the sofa and reading in my bed right before drifting into an afternoon nap!

:Julie on..understanding front assembly

Posted: February 15, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Lotsa Lhasa Info | Tags: | Leave a comment

This weekend is really busy for both Julie and me. Julie’s son is getting married. I’ve got four days of dog shows. Hey! Julie! Why did your son pick this particular weekend – one of the top ten biggest shows in the country – to get married?! 🙂

My monitor started acting wacky yesterday…perhaps in celebration of this upcoming crazy weekend. It pixelates. There’s little moving thingees. Rick said it could be the monitor. Or the computer. Maybe I’ll need a new, fancy monitor! Yippee!!

Here’s Julie…

Debby asked if I would put into words what I, as a judge look for in the “front assembly” of a Lhasa, especially for Faye who is evaluating her puppies.
The front of the Lhasa for me is way easier to understand than the rear.  The Lhasa has normal “dog” structure, which in one word means EQUAL.
Equal length of bone, equal height , equal angulation.  Bone length: the length of the shoulder blade should be the same length as the upper arm (measured from point of withers to point of shoulder & point of shoulder to point of elbow).  The height from point of withers to point of elbow should be  equal to point of elbow to the floor.   Where should the withers lie?  In the perfect dog, it would be about at a 40 degree angle from point of shoulder, but Lhasa’s “layback” is far from perfect!!  I don’t want the withers in the neck!  That may sound funny but many Lhasas withers start in the neck rather than forming the start of the topline.  Now picture this, draw an imaginary line down from the withers, the point of elbow on the Lhasa should fall directly into that line.  If a dog with withers “set high” the upper arm has to be short, so it fall s in line from the point of withers. You will not get correct movement. A dog with a short upper arm will “pound” the floor in movement.  What I see a lot of is “high ” set withers with equal length of all bones, but this places the point of elbow far behind the “line down from the withers”  This also is incorrect dog structure which may give the illusion of good gait in a puppy, but as an adult what you will see is the front legs cannot “reach”.  These are the Lhasas you see in the ring who are straight coming at you but in side gait the front feet have a hard time breaking through the chest hair, no way is it possible  for it reach past the nose which a dog with correct structure should.  This is a simplified explanation,  there is a lot more that goes into making “movement and structure”  So Faye measure-equal bone length, equal height, and equal angles. Also, the width between the shoulder blades ideally should be close, far set shoulder blades end up with what I term “a loaded front” a wide chest usually will accompany this, giving the mature adult Lhasa a bulldoggy muscle bound front.  I don’t want a chest that is much wider than 3 of my fingers.  If you can put the whole palm of your hand between the puppies front legs-it’s chest is to wide. Also make sure you have  depth of chest and nice tight elbow.
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