May Ends

MAY 2008 ENDS

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A busy winning weekend for Thornapples Around The World!!! 
As we celebrate our dog show wins this holiday weekend, we also celebrate Memorial Day, Monday May 26.
On this day, the people of the United States Of America pay tribute to our fallen soldiers who made the
ultimate sacrifice to guarantee our freedom. Because of their valor, we are free in our pursuit of happiness.
Thank you to the men & women of the United States Armed Forces for your dedication, patriotism and sacrifice. 

Happy Memorial Day!
I am attaching a Memorial Day photo from Maggie and Steve White (Ormond Beach, Florida).
"Boomer" (Thornapple Mercury ThundrCloud) is living the high life, swimming in his pool! Ami

    
Jake sends happy Memorial Day wishes to all!  

     

Miss Addie updates us on her holiday weekend!

    
Hi Granny T, Happy Memorial Day!  Remember me?  Thornapple's Bombs Bursting in Air!
 
It has been another week with the Inches and another weekend in Canada.  This is turning into a long trip at the Inch's "Fishshack".
They keep telling people they are on vacation.  This vacation stuff is allot of work for me.  I have to wake them up every morning
at 6:30 AM by squeaking my green sleeping buddy dog until one of them gets up and feeds me.  I am so glad that Diann has kept me
in the soft crate in their bedroom at night.  I feel so close to them.  My squeals wake them as I dream about my farm days at Thornapple.
  I am walking nicely on leash for a puppy (I am told). We walked down to the boat they call Inch X Inch III and I tried it on for size.
I am not impressed by boats at this time.  They are rather confining and when you jump off of the side you crash into this cold wet
stuff they call Lake St. Clair.  Michael scooped me out right away. Diann still had the leash on me so my head and hairdo
did not even get wet.  I did not like it much and probably won't try jumping off again.
  I have to go now.  They just finished putting new mulch in the flower beds and I have to go tear it up and eat it . Love Addie.

 

We went to the Low Country ASCA shows in Georgia over the weekend and are happy to report
a good time was had by all.  Erica had a busy and successful weekend handling Ch. Penn Y Caerau's
Glowing Embers to six Alt-BOB wins along with a BIS win. She also handled Diane Keedy's puppy out of
 Ch. Dreamstreet's Season Ticket to three BOBP wins and another WD for NorAust's Lil Dash-a-Doo Ya.
And of course Erica and Diesel had a great time in the juniors ring for some more end of the year wins.

WEST MICHIGAN APPLE BLOSSOM CLUSTER

HOLLAND MICHIGAN KENNEL CLUB *** Friday, May 23 *** Judge Mrs. Pat Hastings
Thornapple Give Me Chills "Macy" * Winners Bitch *** owner handled by Carolyn Zernick
Stephanie Hentschel * FIRST PLACE Open Intermediate & BEST JUNIOR HANDLER!!!! CONGRATS STEPHANIE!
Qualified for Eukanuba * 6 First Place Wins towards Westminster!

GRAND RAPIDS KENNEL CLUB *** Saturday, May 24 *** Judge Mrs. Barbara Dempsey Alderman
Thornapple Locked N Loaded "Ruger" * Winners Dog * Best Opposite Sex * handled by Amy Garrison
Thornapple Little Sure Shot "Annie"  * Winners Bitch *** Best Of Winners *** Best Bred By Exhibitor *** Bred By Group 4
handled by Amy Garrison
Thornapple Give Me Chills * Reserve Winners Bitch * owner handled by Carolyn Zernick

KALAMAZOO KENNEL CLUB *** Sunday, May 25 *** Judge Mr. George Heitzman
Thornapple Locked N Loaded "Ruger" * Winners Dog * Best Of Winners * Best Of Breed * Best Bred By Exhibitor
Group 4 Bred By Exhibitor * Judge Lester Mapes * handled by Amy Garrison
Thornapple After Eight "Topper" * Reserve Winners Dog * handled by Coleen "Kelly" Zartman
Thornapple Caught Red Handed "Pandora" * Reserve Winners Bitch * owner handled by Tina Reid
Stephanie Hentschel * FIRST PLACE Open Intermediate Junior Handling!  CONGRATS STEPHANIE!
Qualified for Eukanuba * 7 First Place Wins towards Westminster!

GREATER MUSKEGON KENNEL CLUB *** Monday, May 26 *** Judge Mr. Dan Ericsson
Thornapple After Eight "Topper" * Winners Dog * Best Opposite Sex * handled by Coleen "Kelly" Zartman
Thornapple Tougher Shade Of Red "Ringo" * Reserve Winners Dog * handled by Shayna Garrison
Thornapple Sedona Sunset "Sedona" * Reserve Winners Bitch * handled by Erika Prince
Shayna Garrison * 1st Place Open Intermediate with Thornapple Tougher Shade Of Red!

Visiting Judge Mr. Dan Ericsson of Sweden judged Aussies on Sunday!

Thornapple Give Me Chills *** Winners Bitch *** Judge Mrs. Pat Hastings

Thornapple Little Sure Shot *** Best Bred By Exhibitor *** Bred By Exhibitor Group 4
Judge Mrs. Barbara Dempsey Alderman
    
Thornapple Locked N Loaded "Ruger" *** Winners Dog on Saturday *** Winners Dog * Best Of Winners * Best Of Breed
Best Bred By Exhibitor * Group 4 Bred By Exhibitor on Sunday

Ruger

    
Thornapple After Eight "Topper" --- Winners Dog & Best Opposite Sex on Monday *** 1 point needed to finish!

    
Thornapple Tougher Shade Of Red "Ringo" *** Reserve Winners Dog on Monday *** 1st Place Open Intermediate Junior Handling

    
Thornapple Give Me Chills "Macy" *** Winners Bitch on Friday & Reserve Winners Bitch on Saturday

    
Thornapple Little Sure Shot "Annie" **** Winners Bitch * Best Of Winners * Best Bred By Exhibitor * Group 4 Bred By Exhibitor on Saturday

Annie

Thornapple Caught Red Handed "Pandora" *** Reserve Winners Bitch on Sunday

    
Thornapple Sedona Sunset "Sedona" *** Reserve Winners Bitch on Monday

Thornapple Hey There Delilah "Delilah" *** Congratulations on moving from Novice Junior to Open Intermediate Junior Handling Taylor Crisman!
And GREAT JOB showing Delilah in 12-18 puppy class!  We are very proud of you!

    
It was WONDERFUL to see Fracas AND her owner/handler Jenny Poe in the ring again!  Fracas won the open black bitch class on Monday!
Fracas looks beautiful, Jenny!  We will see Fracas in the rings again in Valpo!   THORNAPPLE CHAOS OF THE HEART

Maria Neff reports in from Pennsylvania!
Thornapple Island Kiss "Kauai" take Best of Winners & Best Opposite Sex for a 4 point major! 
Judge Mr. Kenneth L. Rayner Jr. * The New Castle Kennel Club * May 26
Thornapple Hot Night Crash "Crash" took a Reserve to a Major on Saturday from the puppy class!
Judge Mrs. Dorothy K. Christiansen * Butler County Kennel Club * May 24
GREAT JOB, Maria!!!!!

GOOD NEWS from Northbay Aussies!
Just thought I would let you know that "Bear" Northbay's What Would U Do For Me owned by Kelli DeSoto of Washington State,
sired by LaDew finished his ASCA title last weekend on Saturday and then Sunday picked up his second major, only leaving him 4 singles
to finish. Well I am excited to say that I just received an email from Kelli that yesterday he received his 3rd AKC major to finish his AKC title.
Megan Hof has been handling him for his owner and has garnered 10pts AKC in less than a month as well as one ASCA major.

 Heather Herron *** Northbay Aussies

www.northbayaussies.com
Thank you for the update, Heather!  We look forward to photos!
    

May 24 * ASC of Michigan News from Chris Reedy of Walkate Aussies!
Quick note that Tayshaun - Thornapple Red Georgia Clay - went RWD(3 points) under Sandy Rees today!!!
 He's looking VERY nice:) I thought the am judge (Amy Burnette) liked him quite a lot also. Hope your w/e is going well:)

May 26 * Another great couple of days....Tayshaun went RWD under Kym Base Sunday morning
(both reserves were to majors of course) and today he went Winners Dog for 2 points under
Cheryl Padgett!!!!! Way cool:):) He really likes to show and is a stunning mover.

 Hope you had a successful weekend! Chris  CONGRATULATONS CHRIS!
Tayshaun is co/owned with Kim Cochran of Mythical Aussies *** Handled with love by Chris Reedy *** Thank you Chris!!!!

May 25 * DOG SHOW NEWS FROM HUNGARY!
Sorry for only write now, I just came home from a dog show. We had a great weekend!
Latte - CH Thornapple Iced Latte - got Hungarian Champion Too. With that she is 4.countrys Champion
and on this day she became Best Of Breed and she became 5th in the Best Of Group. We are very proud of her!
Max (Latte son from first litter) finished the Serbian Junior Champion and he became Best Of breed on that day
too. In 2 weeks we are going to Aussie Specialty show in Germany, where there will be an American judge!!!! We are
taking Latte, and six of Latte's children. :-D I'm looking forward to it!!!!
 Hugs, Eszter  CONGRATULATIONS ESZTER!!!

GOOD NEWS FROM AMI * MERCURY AUSSIES!
Jackson (Thornapple Mercury Hotshot) is on a roll with another winning weekend from the 9-12 month class.
 Jackson was handled by Alyssa Janisak (Valor Australian Shepherds) while Todd and Brandy were home
watching their son Nate graduate from High School!  (Jackson is an Iowa dog!)

 Saturday, May 24, 2008 - Winners Dog under Judge Professor Douglas C. Taylor
Key City Kennel Club, Inc. St. Peter, MN
WAY TO GO, JACKSON!
In reply to our inquiry as to Brandy & Todd's safety after tornadoes ripped through Iowa & Minnesota
on Sunday, May 25, killing 8 people, Brandy tells us:

We're okay.  We were driving to Minnesota to pick Jackson up yesterday when all of this was happening.
  As soon as the graduation ceremony was over the wind picked up and it started raining like crazy but it came and went quickly. 
We had sunshine all the way up I-35 but we could see the storm off to the East.  Listened to the news on the radio while we drove
 and they spotted a tornado on the ground less than 10 miles from our house!   Todd's step-grandmother lives in Parkersburg where
 all the damage is but no word from his dad and step-mom on that yet.  I lost my cell phone over the weekend so can't make any
long distance calls until Todd gets home from doing chores. I hate tornado season.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080526/D90T2QS00.html

Jackson moving out as a baby!

BAS & PETRA HAVE GOOD NEWS FROM the NETHERLANDS!
Hello, here great news again,
Today we were on show and SYDOR - Thornapple Shoot The Slapshot - was 1ste again,
so is now official "YOUTH CHAMPION" jippieeee!!!  And he have also his first point for his Dutch
championship, and yes with 11 month's We were on the JOE-KAT SHOW, into Arnhem, Judge
was MR. V/DER WEIJER (NL) He will follow the footsteps of his daddy "CRUZIE" he is really beautiful.
Petra/Bas GREAT JOB!!!!  Congratulations on Sydor's new title!
 

    
DOG SHOW NEWS FROM JAPAN May 24th!
Hello!  It was a dog show debut of Ture and Ruffy today.
A group winning prize excellent as for Ruffy. Ture was the reservation
queen. Because my friend took it, it is not good, but sends the photograph.
If the photograph which a professional took arrives, I send it again.
Ture was settled down so as to be able to hardly think Ruffy to be the
debut. They are very wonderful Aussie. Thank you, Tomomi
http://www.geocities.jp/neouniverse330/dogshow.html

Ture & Ruffy are sired by Ch Thornapple Single Barrel. 
Their dam is Ch Thornapple Dixie Darling who lives with Tomomi!
CONGRATULATIONS Tomomi!  GOOD JOB!
Thank you for sharing photos of a dog show in Japan!

  
A hug from Tomomi makes Dixie's dog show day special!

    
Ture & Ruffy show like pros at their very first dog show!

    
Did we do good, Mom????

Thornapple Where's The Fire "Arson" ** It's pretty tricky finding sheep to count in Singapore!!

    
Thornapple Little Black Dress "Audrey" & Arson give it their best shot!
We will look for herding work tomorrow ... We promise!

Arson says .... It's a tough job but someone has to do it!
Hey Arson --- Check it out --- Jayne has sheep to count!  You can count Jayne's English Sheep!

DOG SHOW NEWS FROM CHILE!
May 24th -- Yesterday we had our first day of dog show...........this are the results:

Dreamy - Thornapple Talkin Smack - won Best Of Breed Junior Class, Best Of Breed Adult Class, Group 1 (Junior Class) and Group 2
 (Adult Class)!!! Under the judge Dr. Thomas Jakkel (Hungria). They were a few Adult Australian Shepherds......But, Dreamy did a GREAT job......
she had eyes just for me. With the other judge Mr. Mario Duarte (Brasil) Dreamy won Best Opposite Sex (Junior Class).

Icon - Thornapple I Call The Shots  - won Best Opposite Sex (Junior Class and Adult Class)!!!!! under the judge Dr. Thomas Jakkel (Hungria)
.......he won Best Of Breed Junior Class and Best Opposite Sex (Adult Class)!!! under the judge Mr. Mario Duarte (Brasil). Icon is looking great,
he walks so elegant and he is amazing.....he is growing gorgeous hair.

Patriot won Best Of Bred and Group 3 under the judge Dr. Thomas Jakkel.........it was his first time on the ring and he was SO SCARED,
 he did not want to walk. But, with the second judge....Mr. Mario Duarte he walk PERFECTLY!!!! and he won Best Of Bred and GROUP 1!!!!

They were all amazed with Patriot.......people, handlers, breeders, they all told me: "What a GORGEUS puppie he is!!!!!!!!!!!!!",
"This puppie it is AMAZING, but he will be WOW when he grows up!!!!", "Where did you buy him???" "This is the best!". Patriot was
the king.......Of course......My Hummer - Thornapple Unstoppable -  it is the "King Of Kings" and everybody did ask for him......he was in
 home sleeping.  Everybody told me: "Were it is that gorgeous red male you have???" I did show Dreamy and Gaspar was the handler of Icon and
Patriot......Gaspar did a great job with both, he shows them perfectly.

Today it is the final........Dreamy and Patriot :)  they are gorgeous puppies for the final. But, I'm more then happy with our results from yesterday.......

We did not take to much photos and the one that we take look terrible :( We were both (Gaspar and Me) a little busy...........i will try to take some today
and i will try to review the camera to see if there is some good pictures to send you. I hope your dog show it going great .... Take Care, Ale
CONGRATULATIONS ALE & GASPAR!

Dreamy wins the herding group!

Evan says goodbye to Patriot!

Patriot relaxes at Sergio's house in Miami on the first leg of his journey to Chile!
Thank you Sergio for picking up the Aussies at the airport and letting them rest with you
until Favio arrives from Argentina to transport them on the final leg of their journey.

    
Patriot arrives safely in Chile!  It's love at first sight for Alejandra & Patriot.  A tired puppy catches 40 winks upon arrival!

Thornapple Uncle Sam Wants You "Patriot" sired by Ch Thornapple Single Barrel.
Patriot's dam is Ch Thornapple Russian ToA Party.  Patriot is a litter brother to
famous blogger, Miss Addie & her brother Cash, both featured in the May News.
Watch for Patriot's new International Page!  Congratulations on your gorgeous boy, Ale!

The view from Patriot's deck!  BEAUTIFUL
!
Dreamy approves of Patriot!
    
Patriot pictured at 10 weeks old.

   

Jayne's beautiful sheep photos have been moved to make room for an overwhelming # of Memorial Weekend wins!
 Check them out on May Winds Down!  Click here to enjoy!