Presenting....CHAMPION Capriole's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

I can hardly even believe that Famke is a Champion now!! A small group of us traveled to North Dakota a few weeks ago and came back with two Champion Field Spaniels.  My best friend Shannon also finished her boy, Phaser.  It is really hard to find majors for Fields (except at Nationals) so we had to do a little traveling but it worked out perfect!  It was a three day show and a really lovely show site.  It was a fair grounds but the grooming and show buildings were exceptionally clean and air conditioned! It wasn't super crowed with people either.  

On Friday we had THE nicest judge I have every shown too.  He was an older man but still had plenty of pep in his step and had a smile on his face the entire weekend. You could clearly tell he LOVED judging dogs.  On Friday Famke got Winner's Bitch for her 1st major and went on to get Best of Breed.  I was stunned and we had a great time in the group ring.  Famke LOOOVES to show and she honestly thinks that everyone is there to see her and cheer her on.

On Saturday Famke got Winner's Bitch again for her 2nd major and her Championship!!!! She was pointed out before the show and just needed those majors.  The judge told me she was lovely and was happy for us and we got her Championship under her.

I didn't move her up on Sunday because we wanted the major to hold for the girls and for a hopeful crossover major for Phaser.  Famke got Winner's Bitch again and Phaser got the crossover to finish his Championship!!! What a great weekend indeed!

I truly feel blessed to have had Famke as my first conformation dog.  She was a total natural and took to conformation with ease.  We didn't even do that much training and she just seemed to know what to do.  She also LOVES to show.  She truly struts her stuff out there and charms the judges.  And I feel beyond lucky that my first conformation dog is now a Champion being completely handled by me!! 

Now if she could just teach Flirty how to do it. ;)

Here are her win pics.

Wow looong overdue update!!!

I can't believe I haven't updated in almost a month!  Good grief!  

Well in fantastic news it seems that Flirt's palate surgery was a success and and when we had her rechecked 3 weeks after the surgery everything looked great!  (Knocking on wood) she has not had any more nasal infections and no complications from the surgery.  The surgeon would like to sedate her and exam the area one final time when she is done growing to see how things look.  I am just thrilled that she is doing so well now! 

Flirty is growing by leaps and bounds although she is still much lighter than the other girls in her litter.  She is only about an inch shorter but more than 15lbs lighter!! But the other girls are BIG girls too so it's not just that Flirty is small.  

We have been having so much fun in puppy class and working on conformation training.  Wow-wee I was SO lucky to have Famke as my first conformation dog (she seemed to naturally know what to do) because Flirty things this standing still training is silly.  Actually she is doing pretty well with the stacking portion but the gaiting portion is a total riot.  She leaps and spins and twirls and sasses me.  Yeah I have my hands full. LOL

The AKC is now offering a "beginner puppy 4-6 month old class" in conformation now for the babies and Flirt is entered in a show in Michigan July 7th.  Her breeder and her litter sister will be there as well which will be wonderful.  I am excited for the breeder to see her and for the girls to see each other again.  It is an outdoor show, which will be mighty interesting as well. LOL

Here are a few updated pics of our Flirty.