[ SHOWGSD-L ] Canadian National - late brags!

From: "Ron Peet & Jenn Somogyi" <foxfels@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <germanshepherds4show@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:04:14 -0400
Between starting a new job and regaining control of the house after being away 
for a week, our brags are a little late...
First - as always - we thank the club members for putting on another great 
event - Bill and Joanne Randall, John and Christine Gibbons, Lisa Haus - anyone 
else we may have forgotten, I'm sorry, but that doesn't make you any less 
valuable!  

Everyone asks me every year - 'Are you looking forward to the Nationals?' and I 
always tell them no.  I know every year what it will involve - driving, usually 
rain, cramming everything we own into the van, grooming, bathing, RUNNING, the 
inevitable disappointments, disillusionment, and disagreements, being crippled 
on Sunday and Monday and this year, going back to work...  However, once we 
arrive and walk into the building for the first time, the excitement starts to 
build - the sod is fresh, the club is bustling around setting up - and while I 
don't look forward to it, I love it once I'm there.  The opportunity to see 
people we get to only once a year, the wonderful old dogs, specials in their 
prime, babies coming up.  There is nothing to me like a dog posed for the crowd 
or gaiting freely on the end of a 12' lead and loving what they are doing.

I have to say that for me it is far more difficult being an owner/breeder than 
a handler, especially in GSD.  You have to reach a certain level to be accepted 
as a good one and once you have your place, you have to uphold it.  Breeders 
are the future of these dogs.  It is their job to maintain the highest 
standards in regards to quality, health and temperament.

And so on that note, we are proud to say that for the second time in the last 
three years, we have been the breeders/owners of the 1st place 12-18 bitch at 
our Canadian national, BPIS Kiefernfels Kultaa Aftica - aka Hemi (Ch. Jewel's 
Dark Vader x Hellwigg's Complete Chaos), who was also the Reserve Winners 
Bitch!  Enormous thanks to Mrs. Sally Hayden for picking out our girl, there 
were a lot of lovely youngsters in the class and ladies in Winners - we had a 
blast!  Congrats to Hemi's co-owners Tim and Lauralee Camilleri - Hemi is their 
first German Shepherd - and what an introduction!  Thanks to George B. for the 
wonderful presentation as always - I think we are just going to book the 12-18 
bitch class for the next 10 years - we seem to be lucky there!!  Breeders - Ron 
Peet, Jenn Somogyi, Leanne Krieger.

Our second brag - Ms Visa - Sel A/C Ch. Kiefernfels If Life Were Like that 
HIC,TT (Sel. Ch. Alfaro's Rambling Man x Sel. Ch. Aramist's Yazmine of Bodega) 
- awarded fourth Select by Mr. Bart Bartley - what a thrill!  For many years  
(like everyone else) we have known Bart, and admired him as a person and 
handler, and when he became a judge, we always planned to show to him, but it 
never came together.  So when his name came up on the slate for this national, 
we thought 'what better opportunity?' and so the story goes...  Thank you, 
thank you - to Leslie D.  It was super to see them together in the big ring.  
Leslie has been a believer in this girl forever and we are happy it all worked 
out in the end.  Thanks to our 'family' for their constant support - you guys 
all know who you are!  Breeders - Ron Peet, Jenn Somogyi. Betty Ashdown, Allan 
Frank.

We also want to say congrats to all of our winners, but a couple of people and 
achievements stand out to me - Abbey Hathaway, Bill and Joanne Randall, Kim and 
Ian McKechnie - how awesome to have the two girls Select 2 and 3??  They were 
lovely and although Am. Bred - is nice to see them in Canada.  To Steve and 
Nancy - Kylie was lovely - huge congratulations on your Winners Bitch - she was 
beautiful a year ago and is spectacular now!


Looking forward to 2011!

Jenn and Ron

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Ron Peet and Jenn Somogyi
Foxhunter and Kiefernfels Kennels
Ontario, Canada
www.foxfels.ca
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