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| Josie and the CBC booth. Josie is Northrock's Black Seal from the Chmurnik x Sophie litter. |
I am back home again after spending the weekend in London, Ontario attending the 2014 Purina National™ dog show which was hosted by the Elgin County Kennel Club. Club Barbet Canada (The National Club for the Barbet) had a breed booth in the Breeders’ Village all weekend long and that’s where I was stationed. The Purina National is a large, prestigious dog show that attracts many exhibitors and offers over $40,000.00 in prize money. This show took place in conjunction with the 2nd Annual London Pet Show and attracted a lot of visitors.
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| Josie with Brian and JoAnne who stopped by to visit the booth on Saturday and help meet with the public and hand out brochures. |
I like to keep my dogs at home when one of them is pregnant or if there are puppies on the ground. With Sophie’s puppies due at the beginning of November, Brian and JoAnne were kind enough to let me borrow their Barbet Josie for the weekend. I had a great time hanging out with “Josie the Wonder-Dog” as her family affectionately calls her. Josie is such a sweet Barbet and she did a great job all weekend long meeting and greeting with the public. She was a wonderful ambassador for the breed.
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| Derek Duguay who travelled all the way from Quebec with his family and his two Barbets, Pearl and Winston as well as Myself and Josie. |
Throughout the entire weekend a large number of visitors who had never heard of the Barbet before stopped by to say hello and to get to know the breed. Myself along with the other club members who volunteered in the booth handed out close to 150 brochures during the weekend long event. It was a great weekend of breed promotion and education and I look forward to doing it again in the future.
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