Shannon Down Whippets

I've been bad :(

2009-07-03T12:03:00.000-07:00

I'm so bad for neglecting the blog like this!!! I've been working on a monthly newsletter and that has been taking up a lot of the time I would normally use to post to the blog. I am going to try and figure out how to post a PDF to the website so I can attach a link to the blog so you can view what has been going on this past month or so :) I'll make sure to do better with posting from now on!

Krys

Pictures, lots of them!!!!!

2009-05-14T10:40:00.001-07:00

TONS of pictures to share that we have gotten over the last week or two :)

Joker - taken at the 2009 AWC National - so cute!

Star in Rally - taken at the 2009

Caleb, in his racing gear - getting ready to run a puppy race. Caleb left for his new home after this meet - he now lives with Peppi Grecco of Ladyhawk Whippets.

Huey - pictured at 5 months old - just looking so cute!

Litte Miss Widget at agility class and loving it - 5 months old

The bratness herself, Novalee. She is about 5.5 months now and bratty as ever!

Her bro Nathan, picture directly below trying to take out Isaac the babysitter.

Byelobog - at 5 months old, already measuring in at 19.5 inches

Princess Elisa - our very pretty little tomboy girl - 5 months old

Alistair - FINALLY got some stacked photos of him!!!! He's been so bad about stacked photos that we haven't gotten any of him in months - finally here are some decent shots of him. I really love my Ali boy - 8 months old.

Alexa the menace - looking beautiful as ever at 8 months old

Update

2009-05-13T16:36:00.000-07:00

Neglected the blogspot a little bit this month, not much on news as we haven't traveled much lately. The Anna x Rupert puppies are growing up and doing wonderful... Glenda and us have made a decision as to who we are keeping. We will be keeping the cream boy "Gavin" and Glenda will be getting "Hayden", two very nice boys that we are excited about. We got some new pics of the older puppies the other day which I will attach to another post later this evening. Everyone is doing wonderful, we got a new freezer the other day and picked up a bunch of meat rolls and chicken necks/backs for the dogs which they are loving!

We have changed breeding plans for one of the girls this year... instead of breeding GiGi to Bosley we have decided to go ahead and breed her to "Infineon" Elektra's Infineon RCh, ORC, CC, CM We are excited about what this litter will produce!

As more news happens, I will make sure and post and keep up to date. I will post some pictures in another post :)

Krys

Francois pics

2009-04-21T08:45:00.000-07:00

I thought these were really cute and wanted to share them - these are two pictures we got of Francois from his owner Deborah in Holland.

New pictures - Fergie & Cricket

2009-04-20T12:59:00.000-07:00

Didn't get time to do a full update on the National but all the news is on the News page on the website - check it out. But I wanted to post some new photos - I just got some new photos of Fergie (from the Dido x Quincy litter) and I also was going through some old emails and came across some photos of Cricket is from the 3rd litter of Murphy x Daisy - she was a singleton pup and she had a blue eye, so she went to a home in Canada with Blair Shinski where she could still lure course and race :) Enjoy the photos!

Fergie

Cricket

National - photo album link

2009-04-07T19:52:00.000-07:00

Just the start of the photo album - pictures of the costume contest and Widget (Leigh x Hudson) at 4 months old.

http://picasaweb.google.com/SDWhippets/2009National#

We have a couple boys entered tomorrow - Caleb & Liam in 6-9, Spencer in Novice and Quincy in Open. I believe we also have Scarlet entered in Altered bitches tomorrow evening - fingers crossed!

Update - off to the National!

2009-04-05T21:12:00.000-07:00

It's been so busy here that I haven't been good about updating the blog :( There are now 1 and 2 week old photos of the Anna x Rupert puppies on the website, some great news on the 2009 News page, check it out. Lena just moved to California with her new owners Suzanne & Janis Bouzard of Paragon Whippets and is now Izabelle "Shannon Down Simply Irresistible". Porter finished his Championship with 3 majors!!!! Way to go Porter and Debi! Dave ran his very first NOTRA race meet today and finished 13th out of a 30 dog meet, Blaine has earned 2 legs towards his RN title and Bosley is now only needing 0.33 WRCh points to finish!!!! I know I have missed some stuff but it's all on the News page on the website :)

Tomorrow we hit the road for the AWC National and we are excited, we have a van load of dogs going with us - 4 Futurity pups to show and racing this coming weekend. It's going to be tons of fun and I plan to take TONS of photos and put them in an album to share. So come back soon to see news and get the link to the photo album I will be setting up for the National pics. Cecilia & GaGa will be leaving to their new home from the National to live with Elle's owner, Janina. They will eventually travel to Poland later this year or next year. They are going to be so much fun!

Any who - tons to do around here to get ready to leave tomorrow, I will be updating the blog this week from the show so stay tuned!!!

Anna x Rupert Puppy Pictures

2009-03-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

Whelped March 22, 2009!

Puppy #1 - Girl (6.8 oz)

Puppy #2 - Boy (9 oz)

Puppy #3 - Boy (9.8 oz)

Puppy #4 - Boy (9.1 oz)

Puppy #5 - Boy (8.7 oz)

Puppy #6 - Boy (9.1 oz)

Puppy #7 - Boy (9.7 oz)

Puppy #8 - Girl (9.5 oz)

Puppy #9 - Boy (7.5 oz)

Puppy #10 - Girl (7.1 oz)

Puppy #11 - Girl (7.6 oz)

A very eventful weekend!!!!!!

2009-03-23T13:46:00.000-07:00

Okay - so we left Friday to head down to Jacksonville, FL for NOTRA racing. We decided to take Tigger with us for some practice so he did his first practice since his injury Friday afternoon and did SPECTACULAR!!!! He handled it wonderfully - he kept close to the rail, no wandering, kept awesome speed and came off the track barking and wagging his tail. No soreness, lameness, swelling to his leg at all.

So we started our day out racing on Saturday - it ended great with Viva getting 3 ORC points and completing her Oval Race Championship and finished 3rd in the meet of 30 dogs!!! GiGi was 5th, Striker 6th, Bosley 7th, Quincy 8th (huge surprise!), Cuda 9th, Tinsley 12th, Winnie 14th, Charlize 18th and completed her OTR title - her very first title, Delite 22nd, Gali 26th, Helen 27th and Rupert 29th for Best of Opposite Turtle Award!!! Then we decided to practice Tigger again, but with a dog this time, so we picked what we think is our fastest dog right now (Viva) and ran him and her together. He passed her coming out of the box, she caught up to him on the straight a bit and then he blew in front of her on the backstretch. He's nearly the same ole' Tigger!!!! Then we get a phone call from Sharron Lane, Blaine took Winners Dog for a point at the Franklin, TN shows!! Awesome day!!!

Then on Sunday we got a phone call around 7:30am on our way to the track, Anna decided to whelp early and already had 3 puppies. My younger brother Stuart (14 years) and my father were acting midwives this day :) We continued to recieve updates throughout the day and she had 9 puppies before we got home. So now on to racing - we decided to run Tigger in the meet - he placed 3rd in the meet (30 dogs) behind Stoney & Brodie!!!! If he had pulled out the 2nd place, he would have finished his SORC, but we are SOOOO incredibly happy that he ran all 3 programs with no problems whatsoever. He is still doing awesome, hasn't been sore at all and is happy as can be! Striker placed 4th for 4 ORC points and GiGi placed 5th for 2 ORC points - way to go kids!!! Bosley placed 6th, Cuda 7th & Helen 9th to finish her OTR title. I will have to check results again to see how the kids all placed, but they all did awesome! We get another phone call from Sharron on our way home to tell us that Blaine was Winners Dog AGAIN for another point (he's a 1/3 of the way there) and all his points he's been handled to have been by his owner Sharron Lane!!!! Huge Kudos!!!

So we FINALLY get home, Anna's had 9 puppies and we can tell she still has more but is tired and hasn't been contracting hard enough, so we give her an oxytocin shot to help her along. She pushes out #10 (with some help from us) and it's a BIG (well, much bigger than her other puppies) white/brindle girl who is dead. We work on her for a long time, but can't get her going and she is incredibly cold so we had to give up on her - just wasn't meant to be. But she has another 2 puppies after that for a grand total of 12 puppies (7 boys and 5 girls). Our final tally after loosing the one puppy is 11 puppers (7 boys and 4 girls) and they are all doing fabulous. We are VERY surprised to have solid white puppies (most likely will be creams), we have 5 of them and they look very strange among their brindle/white littermates. I will post individual photos in another post but here is a group shot of them all after we all got cleaned up.

And then to top it all off, I get an email from Janina today to tell me that Elle won his Intermediate class at a VERY large International All-Breed show in Katowice, Poland!!!! She was thrilled with this, he has to wait until May until he can get his last CWC for his Polish Championship - but they are still showing him in the mean time and he's doing incredible!!!!

We also heard from Janet that Star got her first leg towards her RN and had a great score to boot!!! Not easy with Whippets so we are VERY proud!!!!

AND - Sarah took Dave to a practice straight race and he did awesome - ran through and open box, through a closed box and with a muzzle on - he really enjoyed himself and we look forward to when Sarah starts running him - we think he will do great!!!

What an AWESOME weekend it was!!!!!! And thank you to all our owners and co-owners, we can't do it without you ;)

Lola's at home...

2009-03-17T21:27:00.000-07:00

Lola has apparently settled right into her new home in Canada. Claudine left David to read Cheyenne bedtime stories while she went and tended to the horses and this is what she walked in to - LOL It's too cute and so like Lola :)

Poor Anna!!!

2009-03-17T10:15:00.000-07:00

Here are pictures of her taken the other day - she looks MUCH more pathetic in person. She's not happy with this new condition of hers - her little back legs and feet are swollen and she doesn't even want to get up to go potty. I have to drag her out the door - she can't fit more than a few big bites into her tummy so she has food in front of her all the time. It looks like she may be going for a Shannon Down puppy record! The most one of our girls have had was her momma Pea and her first litter of 10. I hope she doesn't try and beat that!

Lola and Elle

2009-03-15T19:04:00.000-07:00

Got news about Elle today - he showed in Jaroslaw, Poland today and won Best Male/Best of Opposite Sex for another CWC at the National All-Breed Dog Show! He can't finish his Polish Championship until April as the first and last win have to be atleast 6 months apart. But this is awesome news!!! Congrats to his owners Janina and Angelika Wojcik!!!! He has another show (International All-Breed show) next Sunday!!! Fingers crossed, it's suppose to be a BIG show!

And we got Lola's first picture in her new home in Canada at Dreamwindz Whippets....

Saturday news and new homes

2009-03-14T15:13:00.000-07:00

First - Saturday's ASFA Coursing news. Mom went to GA for some ASFA Coursing just for today, on her way home now. Just took a few dogs this time and Viva won the Open Stake and went on to win Best of Breed to finish her ASFA Field Championship!! Cuda won the Field Champion Stake - so it was a good day!

Now - for the new homes...

Shakira got to her new home in Missouri yesterday and is happily in her new home with Mike Broder and doing great. She had a good first night and I just got the first picture of her in her new home.

Landis left today with his new owners from the GA ASFA trial. His new owner is Andy Wiggers and his family and they love him. Hopefully he will get to do some lure coursing but his new two kids love him already and that's all that matter.

My baby girl Lola left today to fly into Montana where her new co-owner Claudine Hamilton (of Dreamwindz Whippets) came down to pick her up and is now on her way back home to Canada. She will be showing Lola up there in Canada and her first shows are next month. She will be bred when she comes in season in a few months.

Krys

New photo of Ripley

2009-03-12T14:18:00.000-07:00

Taken last month at the WRA meet, photo by Lindsey Lobree. Ripley finished his CRX title at this meet!

New pics of ALL the dogs

2009-03-12T08:04:00.000-07:00

Well, after 3 days of photo sessions, we got photos of ALL the Whippets here at Shannon Down, except for Murphy. Here is a link to the photos, including all the puppies. The pictures of Anna and Quincy were actually taken a few weeks ago but since we just got new pictures of them, we didn't take any this time but I included them in the photo album. ENJOY!!!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/SDWhippets/TheDogsMarch2009#

Great weekend!!!

2009-03-08T20:17:00.000-07:00

Ripley finished his CRX title on Saturday!!! Yeah Ripley and congrats to George and Emi on the new title!!!

Today Blaine was awarded Winners Dog & Best of Opposite Sex for another point (has 3 now) and was lead to this win by his owner/handler Sharron Lane!!! Congrats Blaine & Sharron!!! We can't wait to see the new show photo.

At an ASFA trial in Hanover, PA - Mya and Layla (Winnie x Bosley kids) had an awesome weekend. On Saturday in Open (6 dogs), Mya was 2nd and Layla was 3rd! Then on Sunday Mya won the Open Stake (7 dogs) and Layla was 2nd to her. Yippee!!!! Way to go girls and congrats to their owner Steve! Photographer Steve Surfman got some neat shots of them and here is one of each girl ;)

"Mya"

"Layla"

Widget, Huey & Falco pictures

2009-03-06T12:53:00.000-08:00

Widget, Huey & Falco are all in their new homes and we have some new pictures to share! Shakira will be leaving to her new home very soon as well. Enjoy the pictures!

Falco is owned by Shannon Owen and her family - Falco is pictured with his kids

Widget is in her new home with Janet Phillips and her aunt "Star" - Janet attempted some stacked photos of Widget and didn't do to bad a job!

Huey is in his new home with Sarah New and her family - here her is pictured with his new girl after just arriving to his new family.

Testing

2009-03-01T18:42:00.000-08:00

Testing - want to see if people can see this, please post a comment. I have been told that for some reason certain people can't see the blog posts. Please let me know if you can or not and I will see what I can do to fix this ASAP.

Thanks!

Krys

Black Mail (or White Mail?)

2009-02-26T13:23:00.000-08:00

Ha ha! This is Sterling (another Lyons family member) who fell asleep with Byelobog on the couch. Byelo was quite happy in his little cozy spot!

Anna - CLEARLY pregnant

2009-02-26T13:21:00.001-08:00

WOW - she blew up over night and she has 4 more weeks to go! Looks like we're in trouble :)

Krys

Video #4

2009-02-23T12:40:00.001-08:00

Quincy in #3 - he barks the WHOLE way down the track

Video #3

2009-02-23T12:39:00.002-08:00

Striker in #1 - Tinsley in #2

Video #2

2009-02-23T12:39:00.001-08:00

Video #1

2009-02-23T12:38:00.001-08:00

Lots of weekend news!

2009-02-23T12:10:00.000-08:00

We had an awesome weekend, so much fun and great weather - awesome running dogs and huge meets!

Saturday we started out with 50 dogs! The Shannon Down kids placements...

7th - Raku
11th - Striker
14th - Tinsley
18th - Viva - new OTRM-2
19th - Winnie
23rd - GiGi
24th - Charlize (story for her just below these results)
26th - Rupert
32nd - Gali
33rd - Delite - new OTR
37th - Murphy, still running at 9.5 years old!

Okay - so the story on Charlize is she was my girl that got loose at the Kansas Nationals. We got her back safely but it left her with some emotional damage. I've tried to get her coursing, but she runs about half way and then realizes she is alone and comes back to me. We took her this weekend just because I was going (and she is MY girl) and wanted to see if she would show any interest. We needed to put her in to have a 50 dog meet so I did a practice run with her (hand slipping) and let her run with Rupert and she took off like a bullet chasing the bunny. The loud screeching sound of the rail never bothered her. So for her first run, since she hadn't been in a box, I held her inside the box and let go of her when the front opened. That worked great for her, she took off as soon as it opened. The second run we did the same, the third run we closed her in the box and off she went when the door opened!!!! She gained 10 points towards her OTR title, a dog I thought I would never get a title on. She was also high FTE (first time entered) out of the Top 10!!! She ran 24th out of 50 dogs and I couldn't be happier with her! On Sunday she ran all 3 programs out of a closed box and earned another 10 points towards her OTR (needs 5 more) and she had the time of her life. She was so happy when she finished each run and I was beyond proud of her! My baby "Jelly Bean" who was born a singleton out of my girl Scarlet, on my 18th birthda - she is special to me and I was so happy to see her out there, running and having a blast!

Okay - Sunday placements for the Shannon Down crew
42 dog meet

6th - Viva - earning 3 ORC points, needs ONE more to finish her ORC title!
9th - Striker - earning 0.33 ORC points (1 point split 3 ways with 2 other dogs)
12th - Raku
15th - GiGi
20th - Helen
21st - Rupert
25th - Torin - finishing his OTRM-3 and still running strong at 7 years old!
29th - Quincy - new OTR
30th - Gali
32nd - Charlize

Also, as the WRA trials in Camden, SC - Bosley and Cuda were being run by our friend Wanda Bright and George and Michelle also took Ripley & Trick!

On Saturday (22 dogs)
5th - Bosley - earning 0.5 WRCh points
8th - Cuda
14th - Ripley
18th - Trick

On Sunday (20 dogs)
5th - Bosley - earning another 0.5 WRCh points (needs 0.66 points to finish!!!!!!!)
8th - Cuda
13th - Ripley
15th - Trick - new CR

We also heard from Sharron on Saturday - Blaine was showing at a match, I believe he won the Hound Group with a lot of competition there! I am waiting to get details on it all and will post when I have them :)

What a great weekend, tons of fun and lots of new titles and points towards Championships! We also picked up our little Byelobog on Friday evening. He's been awesome! Was totally clean when he arrived, played all day Sat and Sun with the pups (and had a blast!) and slept in bed with me last night and was perfect! He's adorable!

We also got some videos of the kids which I will put in anothe