Champagne Standard Schnauzers

October 7th will mark the puppies first birthday.  Here are a few studies of Louie and Sofie on a beautiful fall afternoon.

Sofie and Louie playing with pumpkins

Looking pleased !

Formal pose for our birthday !

Ms Sofie looking pretty

Louie smiling

 and Louie all business !

3 New Champions !

September was an eventful month for our household !

On the heels of Lia completing her Rally Novice Title, Louie, Sofie and Bruno completed their Canadian Championship Titles.

Here they are celebrating , and posing for their official photos:

Picture of Bruno  CH Champagne Dornfelder Troken

Picture of Louie CH Champagne Rulander Sweet Louie

Picture of Sofie  CH Champagne Gewurtztraminer Sofie

Since the beginning of the summer Lia and Line have been training and practicing in Rally Obedience. Lia trialled at the Bathurst show in July and again at the Kennebecasis Obedience Club Show on August 18th and 19th.

Lia finished her title with three scores of  91, 92 and 96 (/100) making her

GCH Dinsdale Campagne Celebration RN, CGN !!

Here she is posing with Line and judge Michael Calhoun after completing her third leg.

This was also Bruno first outing without his mom and going camping with the girls, Sofie and Lia .  Here he is relaxing after a good play!

They had so much fun during the week end at the show that upon return Bruno and Sofie slept and slept ….zzzzzz.

In July we also celebrated Sammy, Oakley and Finnegan’s first birthday. Happy Birthday guys !!

Here is Sammy sporting her party hat ! She had a lot of fun at her party, once the hat got lost !

It is always fun to start showing the new puppies, specially when the have the moment when they really start enjoying themselves; here is Louie who found his glory in the show ring !

Last week end also marked Lia’s debut as an obedience dog !  She got 2 qualifying scores in Rally Obedience Novice and 2 first place in her class!  Go Lia !

Go Louie Go !

Louie strutting his stuff

Summer has finally arrived !  While Lia and I were practicing for her Rally Obedience trial, we noticed these beautiful flowers in our woods.

There were Lady Slippers everywhere , as they do not last very long I quickly took a few snaps and while chasing them I also found these interesting ones

Lady Slippers

…and looking over the patch of blackberries, it promises to be a busy summer picking fruits!

Blackberries in the making

Here is Louie, the man in motion when the weather is not too hot enjoying his backyard.

The puppies have been busy on the show scene in the last month!

First Bruno cleaned up at his first show taking 3 majors, one under renown judge James Reynolds

Bruno winning a major

Sofie had strutted her stuff the week before and also took a major the same week end as Bruno

Sofie's first show

and finally Louie got his head together  and took both majors last week end !

Louie winning a major