Lioscarrig Alaskan Malamutes Blog

WOW what a week for Lioscarrig. We travelled to the UK to visit Ziva's Breeder Izzy & to attend Birmingham National Dog Show, and boy are we glad we made the trip!!!!! Liv & Ziva on a road trip normally means trouble LOL :D. This time we also had Cardigan Welsh Corgi "Mac" who was travelling from his Breeder's Home (Jazenta) to his new home in Norway, via the UK.

We left for Rosslare at 3.30pm on tuesday afternoon, took the 9.15 pm ferry to Fishguard and drove to Farnham in Surrey to stay with Izzy, we arrived about 9.30am on wednesday. We spent most of wednesday having a grooming lesson from Izzy, while getting Ziva & her sister Blanca ready for the show the following day.

Mac Was a huge hit with Blanca, who spent her time talking & wooing to him,  while all the time being careful not to flatten him with her paws

Next day was an early start to travel to the show, the sun came up and oh did it shine on Lioscarrig & Monikoona Kennels. Open Bitch was a huge class of 23 entries, Ziva thrilled us by placing first, earning her Stud book Number & qualifing for CRUFTS for Life !!!:lol:

Then came the challenge for the CC, My knees were shaking !! but Ziva took it in her stride next thing i knew Judge Mary Deats was handing me a Rosette & Card that made my day, IR CH MONIKOONA CHASING RAINBOWS OVER LIOSCARRIG IR JR CH, CJW'10, CW'10 had won her first CC torward her GB Championship. I didn't believe it and asked the Judge "are you sure, me??" I think I'm still in shock, then i think i jumped up & down and danced about a bit LOL

 Ziva winning the CC was not only a huge achievement for me but also for her Breeder Izzy from Monikoona as this was the 2nd year running a Monikoona bred bitch took the CC @ Birmingham National, with Monikoona Behind Brown Eyes having won CC in 2010

On saturday Ziva stayed with Izzy while I took Baby Mac to Heathrow Airport to begin his flight to his new home, and due to a mix up by BMI ended up not being back until Sunday, when I pick up Ziva and headed to Banger on Dee in North Wales to stay with my Brother Tony, His partner Katie & Little Charlie, (who would charm sweeties from scrouge),we headed back for the ferry home on Monday evening and arrived back at Lioscarrig Kennel at 5 am on Tuesday Morning. We drove 1227 miles over the week, but for that pice of paper & Rosette, it was SO WORTH IT.  I have to give a special mention to my little fiat punto, which for a small car, it fit 1 malamute, 1 person, 1 dog rig, grooming kit, luggage, and all the other show stuff. and still made it home, the boot scraping of the road when we went over a bump was just a minor detail LOL

Thank you Izzy & John from Monikoona for looking after me & Ziva for the week, and also Tony, Katie & Charlie for picking up & minding the rig (even if Tony didn't think we would fit it in the car on the way home, Katie & I showed him how wrong he was, even if we had to take the wheels off to fit it in) thanks Liz for minding Grace and the troublemaking mal puppies, and Chris for making sure Diesel behaved himself and the house didn't burn down LOL