best of breed Archives - French Bulldogs by Bullmarket

I have a longer post coming about Westminster, and about the stunning pre Westminster Specialty at the Waldorf Astoria, but for now, here are today’s breed results.

A HUGE congratulations to all of the winners!

FRENCH BULLDOG
Judge: Mr. Dennis McCoy
Day: February 14, 2011
Time: 8:00
Ring: 1

Best of Breed

GCH Lebull's New Hope Wooly Bully

35 GCH Lebull’s New Hope Wooly Bully
Breed: French Bulldog
Sex: Dog
AKC: NP 17730902
Date of Birth: August 06, 2007
Breeder: Sylvia Campbell
Sire: Ch LeBull’s Fargo
Dam: Ch Arista Coco Chanel BT
Owner: Alexandra Geremia & Arlie A Alford
Photos: Breed judging

Best of Opposite Sex

GCH Pudgybull Bonbon Bouffant Of Hollywood

22 GCH Pudgybull Bonbon Bouffant Of Hollywood
Breed: French Bulldog
Sex: Bitch
AKC: NP 23325401
Date of Birth: February 27, 2009
Breeder: T & C Bjork & M Burdick & D Kowata & A Weinberg
Sire: Ch Shann’s Goodtime In Hollywood
Dam: Ch Pudgybull’s Hopalong Cassie
Owner: T & C Bjork & M Burdick & D Kowata & A Weinberg
Photos: Breed judging

Awards of Merit

48 GCH Bandog Bayou’s The Warrior
Breed: French Bulldog
Sex: Dog
AKC: NP 20476101
Date of Birth: March 24, 2008
Breeder: Vickie Lang & Patricia Sosa & Luis Sosa
Sire: Bandog’s Feel The Magic
Dam: Ch Bandog Bayou’s Creme Brulee
Owner: Nancy J Shaw

49 Ch Evergreen’s Cause For Applause
Breed: French Bulldog
Sex: Bitch
AKC: NP 21612001
Date of Birth: October 20, 2008
Breeder: Jane & Stanley Flowers
Sire: Ch Evergreen’s Just Jack LeFox
Dam: Katandy’s Harmony Evergreen
Owner: Cheryl Lent & Jane Flowers & Sherry Magera

27 GCH Justus I’m Your Man
Breed: French Bulldog
Sex: Dog
AKC: NP 18404502
Date of Birth: September 20, 2007
Breeder: Suzanne Orban Stagle & Ronald Readmond
Sire: Ch Shady Harbor’s Capo Dei Capi
Dam: Ch Justjackpot Margaux Of Lejardin
Owner: Justus Kennels

40 Ch Japaca’s Tom Foolery
Breed: French Bulldog
Sex: Dog
AKC: NP 23852302
Date of Birth: July 17, 2009
Breeder: Linda Wells & Jacqueline Griffin
Sire: Ch Fancibul’s Matching Excellence
Dam: Japaca’s BCuz Life Takes Visa
Owner: Jacqueline Griffin & Pamela Andrews

19 GCH Messiah’s Robobull Cnd Hot Butta Rum
Breed: French Bulldog
Sex: Dog
AKC: NP 25436601
Date of Birth: October 10, 2009
Breeder: Karin Stephens & James Daulton
Sire: Fabelhaft Robobull Rum Ball
Dam: Messiah’s Fabelhaft Disco Inferno
Owner: Terri Marks DVM

Westminster handler gives owner ultimate gift

It’s Westminster Week (and congrats to Canadian bred dog Ch Robobull Fabelhaft I’m On Fire, who took Best of Breed in French Bulldogs). Westminster week is a big, big deal for dog show people in North America, and we’ve all gotten rather reluctantly used to the spotlight that this inevitably shines on our sport.

Stories about dogs in diamond collars, handlers who fly first class with their ‘clients’ sitting on the seat next to them, and articles about how much money it can cost to make it to the Gardens are rampant, and leave all of us feeling (and usually looking) a little bit silly.

In amongst it all, one story illustrates the real reason why most of do this, weekend after weekend – the friendships we make. If donating a kidney to one of your owners doesn’t illustrate that, I don’t know what does.

From the New York Daily News –

Sandy McCabe would love for dog handler Wade Koistinen to lead her fluffy black-and-white Havanese to victory in Madison Square Garden.

But for McCabe, even a Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club show would pale next to what Koistinen has already given her – one of his kidneys.

“I’m just happy to be alive for this,” McCabe said Friday at the Pennsylvania Hotel, surrounded by borzois, bloodhounds and scores of other dogs and owners, all checking in before the show begins on Monday.

McCabe, 49, who breeds Havanese with her husband, Kevin, in rural Iowa, has diabetes and was facing renal failure last summer before her friend Koistinen told her he would help.

“I could just see her getting sicker and sicker. I had to,” said Koistinen, 51, holding McCabe’s entry in the show, Rumor, an outgoing little 4-year-old whose full name is Ch. Heartland’s Rumor Has It.

“I couldn’t walk more than 10 feet,” said McCabe, who was told that it would be four to six years before she climbed to the top of a national waiting list for kidneys. None of her family members was healthy enough to donate one.

But Koistinen, who lives in Kansas City, volunteered. “He stepped forward and said, ‘I will give my kidney,'” McCabe said.