Spons7: October 2011

Happy Birthday to Captain and all of the Tree Litter. 3 years ago a brave momma named Hanna with the help of Megan and Josh brought a beautiful litter of puppies and for some of us like myself we were lucky enough to get get. so here is Captain's story and drama:

I began looking for our second Cardi after our first one Malibu was close to 2 years old. She was born on 11-26-06. Denise and I had always wanted a second set of children 2 years apart so as it got close to Malibu's birthday I started searching. I am a fanatic as it goes to looking things up on the Internet and researching. I went through the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America Breeder's list and tried to stay close to home and found C-Myste in Southern Oregon. Once on the site I was delighted that they had just had a litter now 3 years ago today. I was looking for a Blue Boy and this would become my first Show (Conformation) Dog. I grew up in a Newfoundland Show home but never showed or did junior handling. I started the process through Carolyn and was fortunate enough to get by Blue Boy Captain I have today. Now GCH C-Myste Whomping Willow. The litter theme was Trees in Literature and my son Andrew came up with Whomping Willow from the Harry Potter books. And as everyone knows he was the biggest in the litter and the name fit. He was always to have the call name Captain. The Rums have it ie, Malibu and Captain. The drama you may ask is the fact that we had our hearts set on Duncan as our blue boy but as it was to be a show boy it was up to the ladies, Carolyn, Mandy, and Megan. Just before we went up to pick up our new addition at Carolyn's did we find out our boy would be Colbert now Captain. We are so pleased with Captain and how he has done that it goes to show the TRUE BREEDER knows what they are doing. SO a very BIG THANK YOU to Carolyn, Mandy, and especially Meagan who helped wonderful Momma Hanna give birth to our special Blue Boy. Plus a big thanks to Wally for being a good Dad too. Enjoy some pics

Cappy's First Christmas, the only one who did not quite fit into the wagon

Cappy this year at the NWCF Specialty a few weeks shy of 3

Cappy and his littermates, He is the BIG BOY

Cappy and his Dad Wally at the 2010 at the NWCF Specialty

Captain's Birthday Presents

Cappy with brother Fig and cousin Watson plus Malibu and Duncun having dinner at the Rutheford Grill, they are always a hit there.

So I took Cappy and this year Denise went up to Richland, Wa for the NWCF Specialty and supported show Sept 30, and Oct 1. My goal this with well over 50 entries and many specials was to make a cut in BOB. The other thing we did was let Megan show Cappy. This was the first shows ever that I did not show him myself. I must say Megan did a great job and it was really nice and insightful watching from outside the ring. Sadly Cappy did not make a cut on Friday, but as we all know new day new judge. On Saturday under breeder judge Emily Fish Captain not only made the first cut of boys from 12 to only 5 but then made the second cut once all boys and girls were back in. The NWCF put on a great special and I will return but now they hope to put on more supported shows which I will attend also. So enjoy some pics.