Last Thursday, Kathy and I left Cameron Park for San Diego. Accompanying us were Prairie, Piniella, Halor, and Izzy - all in a rented mini-van. Along the way, we picked up Eileen in Garden Grove. The trip was made just slightly more difficult by the "Summer of 42" atmosphere created by Prairie's 11 month old hormones and Hallie's recent trip to the kennel for a love match. We arrived safely at Lynn's house and were reunited with Naya and Dory. Naya is Piniella's daughter and Dory is Hallie's. On Friday, we packed up the legal dogs and headed for Sea World. In this photo, Izzy is modeling her very pretty and fancy shoes - which she got to wear due to some pad blisters incurred on a hike earlier in the week with Aria and Natoma.
Our gang included Janice and Paula, their pups in training, Calendar and Hennessy, and Eileen's borrowed pup. This photo was taken at the Sea Lion and Otter show.
Hennessy and Izzy got up close and personal with a burro, who was happy to come from across his enclosure to meet up with the kids...
This is Izzy's first exposure to a horse.... of course, it had to be the biggest possible horse - one of the famous Budweiser Clydesdales (so big, I couldn't fit much of him in the photo!).
The Pet's Rule performance might be the best animal show I've ever seen. The trainers have done an incredible job with the dogs, cats, pigs, and ducks - truly amazing to watch. After the show, the gang lined up for this photo. Sea World has a lot of great photo opportunities and these were the first of many photos we tried to take of the pups lined up. Needless to say, someone is missing ~ but we got used to that and made the best of it. We couldn't seem to get them all looking the same direction, either.
Here is our tired bunch after a full day at Sea World. Izzy did a double-take when she saw the big polar bear, but she recovered quickly. As you can see, Hennessy couldn't stay awake for the photo at this point. Hennessy and Izzy were born the same day - October 25, 2007. Hennessy's mom is Auburn, daughter of our Piniella. Just to make sure you can connect the dots... Eileen raised Piniella, Piniella is our first breeder, Eileen, Paula, and I raised pups from Piniella's first litter. Piniella's third litter was with Gibson (aka Sonny), Kathy's breeder, who recently died - but Kathy, Lynn, Eileen, and I raised pups from that litter... since then, Lynn has raised a pup from Piniella's 5th litter (Elsey) and a pup from Halor's first litter (Doreen). It's not just the dogs that are related...
1 comment:
so much fun. next time, i'm going with you to seaworld. That one photo of izzy looks like she's jumping in the air rather than resting on the cement. looks like you have fun.
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