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Our Winter Soldier
One of the best benefits of having a good friend own one of your dogs is that you can switch dogs around if needed. Last week Bucky stayed with us for a few days, and Jen and her husband took our super stink (Loki) for a few days.
For the past several months, Bucky has been learning how to show in conformation. He’s high energy, super smart, and a ton of fun. He reminds me so much of his mother. He’s very athletic and when it comes to play, no just isn’t an answer.
The weather here has still been very much winter. We’ve had lots of snow, and spring is no where in sight. It’s actually the perfect setting for a mini photo shoot with our Winter Soldier!
Bring on the play! Is this a mischievous little face or what? 
Come’on Zo, let’s play! I’m not going to leave you alone until you give in! You can say every nasty word in your vocabulary but I know you are a softie who will eventually give in and play with me. 
FINE I give in, let’s go! You better keep up young fella!
You gotta be faster than that to keep up with this girl
Your turn, you better RUN
Ears and bodies mid flight..zooooom
That old girl definitely put the run on me! Look what all that wind did to my beautiful ears. 
No matter what I do, I can’t convince this one to run…. she’s so pretty though 
Is it time to go inside? My feet are getting cold!
I’m growing up, but my face looks so much like it did when I was a puppy. 
Can you tell that the picture above is me?
Jen and her husband (and Booster)have done an incredible job with this high energy, smart little man. I can’t wait to see what the future has in store for them.
A Champion Princess
We have a new champion in our family. Princess Molly found her elusive last point, and received her Canadian Championship on the weekend by going Best of Breed on both Friday and Saturday (the only days she was entered). She’s officially now known as CH. Mysticmoon’s Danika. Our girl sure knows how to finish with a splash! The icing on the cake was the grand championship points she picked up. We won’t be aiming for her GCH. but those points definitely don’t happen every day!
I did not have an official photo taken at the show. I wasn’t happy with the last show photo I had taken with the company doing the photography, and I wasn’t about to pay another $50.00 for a similiar result. I plan on doing some professional photos with a different photographer. For now.. you’ll have to put up with the ones I took today. Not in a show groom, but still looking gorgeous! (I’m allowed to be biased)
Molly’s the first dog that I have put points on, and I thank her for teaching me that showing can be fun. She thrives on the show scene and even if I don’t particularly enjoy it, she puffs up her chest and prances around like she knows shes incredible. (she is) How can you not enjoy her?
I can’t take all the credit for her Championship. I owe a big thank you to my friend Ivan (Fabina Shelties) for handling her to her last point while I was at work. He did a fantastic job and I’m sure they looked amazing together. Molly definitely thinks he’s wonderful! I also need thank my friend Marianne Creary (Cempa Cavaliers) for showing Molly to her first two points. It seems like it was a long time ago!
Black and tans are a bit of a challenge to show at all breed shows. Blenheim’s dominate the rings, and there just aren’t many wholecolours being bred and shown. They have to be extra special to get any attention at all, and it certainly isn’t uncommon for them to take longer to become pointed.
My biggest thank you goes to her breeder Karen Murray at Mysticmoon Cavaliers for parting with Molly and giving me my foundation. Molly is in every way a credit to her breeder, and without her generosity “Embee Cavaliers” would not exist. Our future generations will be incredibly blessed to have Molly’s name behind them. In my eyes she is the perfect combination of an incredible temperament, beautiful type and structure, and thus far stellar health.
I’m very distracted by someone cooking bacon! 
Our princess is done showing for awhile. We may do a bit later on just because she loves it so much, but for now its time for her to go back to being a scruffy farm dog. She has several months to run the fields, be spoiled rotten by my Mother, and give Rusty (the neighbours dog) you know what for daring to step on her property before hopefully expecting a litter of puppies in the summer.
Me? I get to start all over again with Sadie, Loki and Ebby! Oy.. yes it is a sickness.
These belong to me 
Loki, the former yak?
It’s no secret that Loki has a lot of coat for a cavalier his age. In fact, both of us have been teased about it often! A lot of it fun, some of it not so fun, but at the very least all you could say was that he was very cute.
So we’ve been working on it. I’ve been brushing him out daily, and bathing him a lot (being a stinky boy with bad aim necessitates this anyways), trying to encourage all of his puppy fluff to come out on its own.
I think our hard work is starting to pay off. Imagine my surprise when I bathed and blow dried him on the weekend (nothing else)
Who is this gorgeous little man?!
Still some work to do, but what do you think? Do you recognize him? 😉
A few months ago, looking very yak/ewok like
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