Diva's babies have Arrived! Happy Easter

There was so much going on this week, i had it all planned out that i would drive Gossip (Our Finnish Lapphund) to Fargo ND, put her on a plane to Chicago to meet Gloria, and be shown at their "National".   Well i'd been taking Diva's temperature all week, and before i left for work Thursday am, it was REAL low! like lower than i had seen before in any pregnant ready girl.  Sigh............... a few phone calls to find other plans for Gossip and off she went with my Mom & Dad who wanted a quick trip to Fargo anyway s.    Diva was going to be pretty early, since her first due date was Sunday, and in my head her REAL due date was Tuesday.
She started her labour in the middle of the night.   At 5:40 her water broke & first puppy 40 mins later.  We were done by 9 am!  7 Babies in total!
"Diva" is a great mom, and is just the most tentative, we actually carry her out to potty so she will leave them a minute.  Proud Dad is "Rush"

 These are the 4 girls, one girl was very small but has gained huge since she was born, can barely tell

Here are the boys, there is also a small boy but he's managed awesome and is gaining along with his bigger brothers.
HAPPY EASTER everyone!

Jackson's First baby

"Skye" Cassbar's Fire & Ice had a one puppy litter, thinking she had missed, this little girl was hidden away without her owner Claudia of Amaley Shelties knowing!

This is the boy's  "Jackson's" first kid.  Can you tell?

We love this girls look!  Beautiful head and finish.   Big expectations!  Bred by Amaley Shelties.  Good luck with her!

COUNT DOWN!

We are back from the Brandon Shows Feb 17-20th.   Now the race is on to get ready for ASSA 2012!
Jackson picked up a couple more group placements, (2 - Group 3rds) thank you to Judges John Rowton & Breeder Judge Denise Cornelssen,  now he's home and can be "just a dog" for a bit before we leave for Florida.  Thank you Trina Neil for taking him in the ring for me, i had too much on my plate to show him too.
The BEST part of my weekend, was i finished each day PAIN FREE!  Still not sure if that is the cortisone shot, but wow, to be on concrete all weekend with no pain is so amazing!  :)
 
I was going to leave Jackson home, but was pep talked into bringing him after all to Florida.   We are getting so excited to be back in my favorite place ever!
Between Disney, Universal, the many parks and ASSA week, its going to be a blast.

We are hoping to have "expecting" news just before we leave, we will find out just before we fly out, if Diva is preggers.   Another one of our girls will be off to her new "guy" in the next few days, so fingers crossed on her too!

The next 10 days will be crazy, making sure house, dogs and yard is ready for us to go!   Our house sitters are gods! and move right in for us to go on this trip!

I heard over the weekend there was some new Titles on some of our Shelties.  I saw Patty R out there with her boy Juno in the novice class, taking a HIC at Brandon Shows.  Not sure if there is a new title or not.   Bev B with Sneak was out in Minneapolis area, playing USDAA and titled MAD for sure, will get more updates this week.
Nice weekend, the weather was awesome!  


 

Happy B Day to the Miley & Robin Babies!

Time fly's doesn't it.   We had this picture come from Robin & Craig who celebrated Bella's Birthday with a few special things for the B Day girl.  ;)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not spoiled at all.

Happy Birthday to Harley, Bella, Quick, Rylee & Ziva!

We have a few Huge Birthdays coming up in Feb & March!

Ok So i said this was the most updated. WHOOPS

Its a few hours before the new year starts.  HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone

So the year is just about over, i guess i should do my last 2011 update  :)

We had a great start to the year, with our baby "Jackson" Ch. Cassbar's Man in the Mirror winning 4 Best puppy in Shows, 12 Puppy groups, Multi Group winning, and just as he hit a year old, a Best In Specialty Show!   

He Managed to keep the Top Puppy In Canada spot right into June, but had aged out in March.

We brought him out a few weekends to keep him in training, and working his show training for the year.   He managed to end the year as the #5 Sheltie in Canada! (canuck stats)

Our Horrible moments was that our puppy boy "Kane" had gotten lost in the end of March.   He was so young and it was so cold out there, it was a race to find him before the cold got to him, or the wildlife. By Miracles i found him lying out in a snow bank in the sun, in the middle of nowhere, after 36 hrs out there in the cold.  Finding him IS my highlight of the year.    Thanks to all who came and helped, you know how much that means to us.

Same weekend, our friends and handlers took the dogs entered in the show that weekend and showed them for me.  "Miley" finished her Championship that weekend, so she became Ch. Cassbar's Roadside Attraction.  

From there, her kids also finished this year.   "Harley" owned by Summer Armitt finished becoming Ch. Cassbar's High Performance.   His sister, owned by Renee Hughes also finished, up in one weekend, she is now Ch. Cassbar's Agile Quick Step.   

Our baby Kane was 6 months the weekend of Kenora shows, so was entered a couple days, attaining a BPIG and 5 points, finishing his Championship the next weekend with Multi BPIG's under breeder Judges!.  He is now Multi BPIG Ch. Amanchara Prototype

Also finishing this year is our lovely "Lyric" from Kensil's Shelties. Lyric finished her Ch at 10 months old she is now Ch. Kensil's Lyrical World at Cassbar


Also our "LexixNemo" Litter, Rafiki co owned by Claudia Proctor, showed this little baby to his Championship quickly finishing before he was 9 months of age.  He is now Ch. Cassbar's Circle of Life
  

"Dart" and his Pilot Jeff Mortensen had a wonderful year, there is so many new titles i would have a problem typing them all.  All i know is this team is amazing to watch, and their achievements are huge!

He is a Triple Champion in Conformation & Agility with titles like this, im in awe

Ch. AtchC Adch Cassbar's Blue Hill True Flyte  Bronze AOM, VBA, MSCDC, EXST- Bronze, EXJ- Bronze, (USDAA) SACH-Silver, SCH-Silver, JCH-Silver, TM-Bronze, RCH-Bronze, GCH,  (Nafa) Onyx

We love the updates you all send.  "Zoom" Ch. Cassbar's Glamoor Midnight Express CDX, RAE, Ag.J has achieved a very rare title in Canada (ckc)  Zoom & Jade were awarded their Herding Championship Arena Title this fall.  He is now a Dual Champion.  

"Levi" Ch. Cassbar's Classic Jeans has earned his OTCH title with Multi High In Trails, Levi end s the year #  6 obedience Sheltie in Canada Owned by my Mom Terry Lambert

"Hope" is now Atch Cassbar's Made me do it is now a agility trial Champion finishing in November this year.   She is piloted by her owner Jo-anne Coulombe

Suzanne Boltd & Token have taken off their first year trialing, and went MADc (Master agility Dog) He also has done some winning in the Breed Ring, now at 4 points. Cassbar's Flyin High again MAD, he has also certified as a working dog & service dog working in seniors homes.


Also have "Presley" sitting at 8 points, and "Bean" sitting on 5 points, will be no time they will be finished too.   

We had tons of titles, firsts, and amazing puppies, teams and homes.

There is a few oldies out there strutting their stuff, Rory the amazing wonder dog has still been out at some trials, and he is 12+ years of age

Some of our young pups are having first of their own, Jovi, weaving 12 poles in consistent manners at such a young age.   Bella who was just to be a active family pet is taking leaps and bounds in Agility classes, these dogs get such confidence from all these different sports.

All these dogs are beloved pets first, and thats the best part of any of the titles or placings.   

Rescue has also been fairly busy, we had 4 Shelties come threw rescue this year.  We had 2 obese shelties, its unfortunate that we lost one, the other is doing well and loosing weight still after 6 months, it may take years.

The other 2 were signed over to me by the WHS & Province, i assume the girls were in a bad situation, probably living in something like a crack house.  :(  Both are re-homed (together) and doing awesome, they have re grown coat and are learning to just be "dogs" the way they should have.  Thank you to those who have adopted our Shelties threw rescue, you do so much for them the time effort and funds that it takes to get these kids back in shape.  THANK YOU!

Im sure i have forgotten something

So We've had one HECK of a year, thank you to all who are part of the fun, friends,  family and all!

Alexis New Babies

Our baby's are here from "Artic"  Am Ch. Wistwin Primo Artic, Alexis had 4 beautiful babies,2 blue girls, 1 blue boy and one tri boy.
They were born on October 4th.  

 This is the 2 girls, they are so cute!

And the boys!  

Where did the summer go!

We have had a great fall.  The weather has been gorgeous with only a few days dipping below zero overnight.   Cant complain about that!  No bugs and no cold!

The dog scene is finally slowing down, shows are over with just the Brandon show left for the year local.
Alexis has new babies on the ground, they are 9 days old today!  Eyes should be open soon.  We have 2 Blue girls! 1 Blue boy and a Tri boy.   Everyone is healthy and happy!  Cant ask for anything more.

We've had a ton of things happening threw the past few weeks.   Have to first off congratulate Jeff Mortenson on him & Dart's accomplishments in Agility in Canada & the US!

Ch. ATChC ADCH Cassbar’s Blue Hill True Flyte     (AAC) Bronze Award of Merit, VBA, MSCDC, ExSt – Bronze, EXJ – Bronze, EXS – Bronze, (USDAA) SACH – Silver, SCH – Silver, JCH – Silver, TM – Bronze,  RCH-Bronze, GCH, (NAFA) Onyx
Thats how his titles go now. WOW and HUGE Congrats on such achievements.   
We have tons of New updates and titles im sure, but will get to those soon!

We have a few oldies still out there competing in Agility.  Carla & Rory are still playing!  He would be almost 13 i think?  WOW.  Carla's says that he is fine to run agility but cannot do a course in the late afternoon, that can coincide with this NAP TIME!  ;)  Love it

Plese do update me with Titles & Photo's.

We've had a Few new Champions in the last few weeks also!   "Lyric" My RED RED sable girl from Kensil Shelties is now a new CH!  She finished up her title from the 9-12 puppy class!  New Ch. Kensil's Lyrical World at Cassbar


Also from BC, Renee Hughes and her "Quick"  (Miley x Robin) went out to do some work in Conformation, thinking she was a bit naked, but why not get some experience, cleaned up and finished Quick's Championship with one Winners female and 2 Best of Winners!  What a weekend the two of them have had!  Onto bigger and better stuff right Renee!  New Ch. Cassbar's Agile Quick Step

Here in Manitoba, Claudia Proctor was working with her Alexis Baby "Rafiki" he was at 6 points already from the Junior puppy class going into the Thanksgiving weekend, Fort Garry Shows.   Well the team did awesome, taking Winners Dog x 2 to finish up his Ch!  Congrats you two you looked awesome!  New Ch. Cassbar's Circle of Life.

I had entered a couple days also, with Bean & Jackson.   My little Bean thought she  deserved some of the spotlight also (Rafi's sister) and she went Reserve the first day and Best of Winners the second day of shows to put her at 5 points!  Half way there!

These 2 babies are from Alexis & Nemo's litter, just 7months old, Rafiki is now the first Can Ch. for Nemo!
heres a shot of them both winning at MCA shows in August

"Jackson" Got to come out and play a bit, and on Monday took a Group 4th in a lovely line up, just being a baby, we are very thrilled with how he's maturing!