After spending all weekend attending the St. Peter dog show, Basil got a couple of days back at home before he was off to the Fargo/Moorhead Kennel Club dog show this weekend with his breeder/handler, Terri. It was like sending our child to summer camp for the first time. Even though he was going to [...]

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Basil now has his first dog show under his belt. He showed at the St. Peter, Minnesota Key City Kennel Club AKC show the weekend of May 26-27, 2007. He showed in the Puppy confirmation class both days. The first day there were no other puppies in his class so he won the blue ribbon. [...]

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Yesterday Kim and I went out to lunch at the Eagan Don Pablo’s restaurant. Shortly after we sat down a young man on prosthetic legs walked by accompanied with two women and was seated at the booth next to us. My first thought was that he was an Iraq war veteran, and this was confirmed [...]

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Our standard poodle puppy, Basil, is about to go to his first dog show. He went to the handler and got groomed yesterday and I took some pictures of him tonight with his puppy show haircut. A couple of more pictures of Basil are here.

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