Oscar's first Dog Show!!

The day is here!  We are all ready to go!  We made it over to the Qwest Center at about 9:00 a.m.  It was a little overwhelming at first.  We've never seen that many dogs in one place...

dogs as far as the eye can see!

hmmm...  I think we are in over our heads!

Just like I had been warned, AKC shows move very quickly so before we knew it, our class was up.  At least we didn't have too much time to pace around and be nervous.   Lucky for me, I met a very nice gal named Jill who decided to give me some pointers.. (thank God!  Someone sent me their good karma when Jill showed up to help me out!)  Jill has a gorgeous 15 month old mastiff named Kruz who we got to show against.  But first our puppy class was up.

The judge was a very nice person and also gave me lots of encouragement.  We ended up with the blue ribbon in the Mastiff puppy class.  Then since Kruz won his class also, we got to be in the next class together.

Jill and Kruz.....  Jeri and Oscar

Kruz won the class, Oscar ended up in second..  Thanks to Mike's help and Jill and Kruz, our first dog show was a success and even more important...  a load of fun.  the judge told us it was so nice to see two such well bred dogs.  I was so proud of Oscar!
We were also fortunate enough to have more friends show up and support Oscar on his first day out.  Aunt Kira, and friends Kent and Tanya were able to come watch us and cheer us on.  It really made it a lot of fun!