Last show weekend of 2015.

Mid-December 2015. Weather is nice and warm, day time temperature is in 60s.

With the group of friends -owners and breeders, we spend 3 days

showing our beautiful dogs in Allentown PA. Good friends, great times,

but this time - no points on our account.

I care less, Lusha was flawless. I'm proud of her.

We ended up this season with picking up 6 singles and

 when spring comes will go back in the ring for those majors.

During the winter we will play with Obedience

and Rally practice and some agility exercises...

And also I'm going to paint more... I had my painting program on hold,

because of all dog-related events,

but now I'll have more time for my other love - Thee ART.

Here is some of still shots and short video from todays show.

Our baby-girl is all grown up now and knows her stuff.

On another note we expect few interesting litters during this winter and hopefully

will end up with some new show prospects to keep...

But time will tell... Mean while we are done with this show season.

It was marvelous!

3 more titles!

 This Friday we attended one more Rally trial. 

This time it was at Bella Vista training center.

Our first time at that facility and we LOVED it!

Result - 3 more qualification scores and 3 more finished titles.

Lusha and Roy got their Rally Advance titles,

while Chant finished his Rally-Novice.

 Here they all are together with Irina, who handled 2 out of 3.

 

 Roy (on the left) and Lusha (right)

with their daily bounty - green qualification ribbons,

purple rosettes for new AKC title and placement rosettes.

Roy got second high score in the class( Red Rosette)

and Lusha scored on the third place (Yellow Rosette).

 

Of course now Lusha has it all, as a queen she is!

After we finished with both advanced class dogs, 

Irina took out Enchanter and I took out my camera,

so now we have this video of them two performing...

Beautiful job, Irina-Chant team!

... and this was our last performance trial for the year...

Now we can practice and wait what the spring will bring to us!...

Boys agility training.

Had wonderful full of fun session with our boys in the club.

We are about half-way trough with our training program

before we can think of first trials... Maybe at spring!

Boy did wonderful, unfortunately during the time

 when Chant was working, our "cheer-leading team" (Sammy)

got that vocal and supportive to his performance that

I had to delete sound track.... Dogs!

Never dull moment with them!

Vet visit with Sammy's and Ziva's litters.

Visited our vet office today, had great time.

Yes, vet visits can be real fun even for dogs 

(when You got Yourself a cool vet anyway!)

More shows and trials!

Some more professional (and not so professional) pictures

from last show weekends to share with friends 

and our extended schnauzer family.

Above: Blloomsburg Rally Trial:

two days, 3 dogs, 6 green ribbons!

Together with Rally Judge Karen Schroeder.

Left to right: Roy, Chant and Lusha.

Lusha ended up taking second place in her class on a day 2.

Below: Lusha @ Fall Mountain Classic, Cumberland, MD

10/15/15 Thursday 1/Winner Bitch/ Best Of Breed/ Best Of Winners

10/18/15 Sunday 1/Winer Bitch/ Best of Winners

Sammy's litter, 7 weeks old!

 When You have a lot to do, time just flies by...

What is always true in our house.

Hard to believe, but Sammy;s babies are already 7 weeks old.

Tomorrow we going to see our dearest vet Lisa Wallen .

But today they got their groom and we finally managed 

to do their photoshoot...

Only takes 3 to 4 hours to have it done with set-up , editing etc...

So enjoy! Doubtfully I'll have more time to repeat it any soon.

Above and below - two of our "young ladies".

Each has her own personality and I love them both, but...

... the #3 has stolen our hearts!

Her name is "Pippa" and she is our girl.

I think she knows it too.

 Pippa's two brothers (above and below)

reminding me some cartoon characters...

very cute, very animated...

And no wander, those two are half-brothers to our

precious Enchanter.

It was hard to let them go, but...

we will have Pippa to raise and this will be plenty.

Fun with Rally!

 Dogs are finally out of coats to do conformation shows, but

beauty about performance events - nobody gives You any points

for excessive grooming...

So this weekend our "out of coats" dogs are having fun

with another Rally-O event at Bloomsburg, PA.

Our "seasoned veterans" - Roy and Lusha

for the first time went to Advanced class.

General difference between what they did before

and what they will have to do now- all work is done off leash.

Plus there are some more complicated elements and jumps...

All went well with them two on their day one

and both got another qualified scores and green ribbons!

As for our wonderful Chant, it was his debut at Rally Novice.

he performed very well and scored very well. 96 out of 100!

Great job Irina- Chant Team!

Jim did all the driving today and naturally You can not see me, as 

I'm the camera person...naturally.

Jim took some more stills and videos with his phone,

but I have no time to do anything with it as for now.

Tomorrow is another day, let see how it will go.