Well our first weekend of FTs are done. Saturday a disappointing run as Ginny's bracemate in Amateur Walking Derby busted all of the birds. Sunday she had a nice run in Open Puppy but just isn't competitive with the big running dogs, she runs like my husband likes her to for his hunting use- closer and quartering rather than a line drive type dog. We are going to enter one more round at the VCNC's Walking FT's in May and see how it goes. Back to the field next weekend for the second half of her Junior Hunter, hopefully she can finish it up.
Great news though for the family, Ginny's Dad just took 4th out of over 50 dogs in the AKC Pointing Breed Gun Dog Retrieving Championships. He was the only owner handled dog to place! Congrats to Clint and Val and good luck at the Vizsla Club of America's Gun Dog Championships coming soon!

Now the show weekend update! We were entered in 3 of 4 days at Vallejo and were off to a great start on Thursday 3/19. The judge really liked Ginny and we pulled off a 1st in Ginny's first entry in the Open class (I've taken my trainer's advice and gone straight from 9-12 puppy on to Open). Then to my surprise pulled off a 2 point Winners Bitch and an Opposite Sex over a very nice Special. Unfortunately, we didn't get the Best of Winners which would have given us a major. Saturday and Sunday didn't go so well, a third Saturday and no placement Sunday. Good news is that the points were spread around throughout friends with two of Pam Lambros' kids (Duna and Jasper) finishing and Joy Bodanza finishing her girl (Brenna). This is both to my delight for them and dismay for us since numbers drop and now we need the majors. Good news is there are plenty of upcomming shows including the Nor Cal Vizsla specialty. Ginny now heads to the field for two weeks, much to her delight, with a weekend of FT's followed by HT's. We are the first brace on Saturday and this may mean I will be running her, with no idea what I'm doing, as it is opening weekend of turkey season and I think Wade will be out chasing them! Wish us luck!

Ginny turned 1 year old on 3/17! Hard to believe it has gone so fast. We celebrated with our friends at our conformation class in Woodland by taking cupcakes for the people. Pictures of her private celebration at home are below. I also took informal pics of her so we have a record of her development.

Sorry I haven't updated since the HT and Santa Clara but my life has been a bit short on time with work and then a trip with family to Las Vegas this past weekend (lady luck wasn't with us!). So anyway our Hunt Test went great both days. Unfortunately, pictures were hard to come by as the field was just barely within binocular distance and Sunday it poured rain. Regardless Ginny did fabulously as you can see by her scores. Saturday the judges remarked that our brace with Grady was the best of the Jrs! Grady and Ginny were pros and there was even a spectacular honor of Grady by Ginny at over 20 feet! Sunday, scores were down across the board but still an easy pass for Ginny. Monday was followed by a disappointing second to our usual opponent, "Nyajas", in the puppy 9-12 mo and her last run in puppies classes as for her next show she'll be a year old and have to move somewhere else, where I haven't decided. Nyajas won a 4 point major by taking best of winners on Sunday so goes to show how tough our competition is! Of additional note we've joined, or put in our app to join, the Nor Cal Vizsla Club which we've found full of a great group of people. Coming up they have a couple of FT's that we hope to participate in. Check out our schedule of up coming events! Also of note, we're hoping to add to the family come June as Bitteroots Ich Liebe Dich, a full sister to our Belle and an aunt of Ginny, has been bred to a Semper Fi dog and we're hoping for another little Bitteroot girl! No word yet but she should be about 30 days along. Well I hav e a red dog demanding that we go run while the sun shines so I'll update more later.