AFFENPINSCHERS IN YELLOWSTONE!
by PAM PEAT photos by Randy Bailey, Jude Daley & Vickie Ehrlekrona
I t is the Year of the Monkey and Affens took over Billings, Mon- tana for the Affenpinscher Club of America National Specialty on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 and the Sup- ported Entry on Tuesday, June 21st held in conjunction with the Yellowstone Valley KC shows. Jo Acton, the ACA President, did a fantastic job as show chairman and the weather was perfect, scenery spectacular and hospitality and show grounds fantastic. There were Affen fanciers from 13 states and Can- ada for two days of monkeying around! At the Supported Entry show, Dr. Mhairi Brown from England, a breeder- judge, did the honors with an entry of 34 (5-18-4-7) awarding winners to the BBE dog, Lunars Summer Soltice, owned by Alice Linnell of Massachusetts. Reserve also was from BBE, Ryzann’s Lestat Legacy of Ferlin, owned by Lee-Ann Shank-Brooks from Canada and Linda Ferris from Texas. Of the 13 bitches, a belge girl owned by Sheila and Monte Wymore and her breeder Lisa Carpen- ter was WB, Pramada’s Naughty Smidge of Saffron from Arizona. Reserve went to Cobbler’s Mary Jane at Ferlin owned
by Linda Ferris. The WB, “Spice”, went on to an Owner-Handled Group 4. From the beautiful line up of spe- cials, Dr. brown selected another belge bitch, GCH Yarrow Hi-Tech Drills N Skills, “Fiona”, owned by Dr. and Mrs. Truesdale and Milan Lint and bred by Mrs. Truesdale, Beth Sweigart and Letisha Wubbel. BOW was the bitch Spice. BOS was GCH Seamonkey’s Bazinga, owned and bred by Debra and Danielle Nelson from California and owned by his handler Tiffany Skinner from Washington. Selects were GCH Afpint Homme Singe at Ruzka, owners, D. Hichborn, T. Graham and K. Broder- ick from Florida and GCH Airescot Sun- set, owner Linda Baker, breeder Nenne Runsted of Sweden. As Dr. Brown is from the UK where only black Affens may be exhibited it was fun to see some dogs of varying color take home awards under her. Fiona and Ernesto Lara, her handler, went on to a Group First under Charles Trotter and BIS with Suzanne Dillon. The crowd was excited and loud to lead Fiona to victory. After a very long day we were treat- ed to wine and cheese by the Pacific
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