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.