Were home from ASSA National

Paula, Doreen and I made the trek down to Purina Farms for the American Shetland Sheepdog Assoc Nationals it was a great week, we have seen weather from snow storms, to torrential rains, to hot hot 29 C weather!  We had a blast with old and new friends, the dogs showed awesome, and looked amazing in the ring!

This is the Nature Reserve across from out Hotel, thousands of wild Daffodil's blooming.  Was so gorgeous, wish we'd had time to actually go for a walk in it!

Was acre's and acre's of daffodils and crocus  

This is what we left behind, tree's blooming the smell of flowers.  :(  Was a lovely break from our "spring"  ha ha NOT

We are now back to reality!  PUPPIES!! and lots of them!  They are so cute!

I have to Brag a bit, "Rage" AM GrandCh BISS Kensil's Nutrageous the sire of our "Lyric" babies was Award of Merit this year at ASSA!  for such a young dog! wow, that was an amazing day.  Lyric's brother won the open sable dog, and Rage's half sister Kensils Circus Souvenir won Runner up in Futurity and her 9-12 month puppy class!  It was an amazing week for the Kensil's family of dogs congrats to Sylvia & David Calderwood, and of course Tray Pitman & Paul Flores.

Now for new Puppy Pictures!  Here are the "Rage" Am BISS GrCh Kensil's Nutrageous out of "Lyric" Ch. Kensil's Lyrical World at Cassbar (2am pts)

 Girl

 Girl

Girl

The Bean babies grew so much and changed so much while i was gone, it was amazing!  Their sire was also Award of Merit at the ASSA National, BISS/BIS Bronze Am/Can Ch. Laureate Cold Play has been AOM 3 years in a row!   Dam is "Bean" Ch. Cassbar's Dream a little Dream (Nemo x Alexis)

They will be 4 weeks Friday April 25th

 Blue boy

 Color headed white girl

Tri Girl

More news as i get things off my camera!

Bean's Babies!

Here are Bean's cute little babies, 9 days old.  "Bean" Is Ch. Cassbar's Dream a Little Dream and the Sire is "Player" BIS/BISS Am/Can Ch. Laureate Cold Play.  Bean is a awesome mom, and puppies are fat, growing so quickly.

 Blue boy

 CHW Tri Girl

Tri Girl


Here are some newer pictures of Lyric's babies.  2 weeks old.  Eyes are open and getting busy in their box.

The boys!

The girls 

Spring is hopefully coming!

We are still feeling a bit like stuck in a winter wonderland!  I so cant wait to be able to go for walks and have the dogs free on their 3 acre's fenced! right now its about a foot higher than our 6' fencing.  

You can just about see the top of the fencing, most area's its way above.   April 1st doesn't seem right!

Its been very busy over winter, and trying with keeping the dogs happy using out house mostly as their play area, it was just too cold to play outdoors most the times.   

We have some puppy news, will post more soon.  Here is a picture of our litter sired by "Rage" BISS GrAm Ch Kensil's Nutrageous bred to our girl "Lyric" Can Ch. Kensil's Lyrical World at Cassbar, she had SEVEN puppies and all are doing well, Lyric is such a great mom!  

Happy New Year! Whoops where did the time go!

We have been busy busy here at the house and Cassbar!  We had babies and they are already 6 weeks old!

The Finnish Lapphund litter has been such an experience, Gossip  Ch. Sugarok Hot Topic had two baby boys and wow are they boys!

These two, a black and Tan and a Wolf Sable, are now 6 weeks old and over 7 pounds a piece!  Not playing with Frankies puppies, since her girl is 2 lbs 2oz.  :)
Its been so neat having the different breed, but both boys are going to show homes and we will be able to keep them in the gene pool and show them too.
Our Frankie BPIG Ch. Cassbar's Badda Bing had her litter sired by  BIS/BISS AM Ch. Serenity's Walk in the Park.  They had 4 boys and 1 girl.   3 blue boys (one CHW ) a bi black boy and bi black girl.

Here they are at 2 weeks old

 bi black boy (maybe available)

 This girl is only 2 lbs at 6 weeks old.  She will be awesome for someone as a busy pet or a lovely performance puppy

 This boy is a color headed white 

 Blue merle boy

Blue merle boy

Three of these puppies are spoken for, but we are deciding this weekend at the 7 week measures and temperament test who will be available

NEW Title!! Congrats

Gloria King and her amazing dog Spice got their ATCH last weekend!  Congrats to you both, what a team!!!

Cuteness alert!

The girls are now 4 weeks old and younger one pup boy is 3 weeks.   They have had a meal a day in kibble and are getting really active!  

CASSBAR DAY!!! Sunday Sept 29th

What fun we had!  We try to have a get together every year or couple of years with all our Sheltie family, alot being puppies or retired dogs from our Kennel.  We had a few rescues also that i have adopted out over the years.   It was a great turn out and we had so much fun............ or the dogs did!   Oldest dogs we had were 14.5 years of age, and the youngest in the house was a 2 week old puppy!
We had a potluck, there was enough food to feed a small army!

Great time everyone!!! we will try to do this for sure every year!