Merry Christmas!

Several years ago The Kansas City Star published a 12 Dogs of Christmas.  Two of our dogs were selected.  Bichon Trina, CH Victoire Diamond Rio Citrine, (Bred and Co-owned by Vickie Halstead ) was photographed in a tu-tu with ballet slippers for the "9 Ladies Dancing".  Havanese Zelda, CH That's the Ocarina of Time 2 Eh, (owned and bred by Darlene & David Scheiris, was photographed with 2 turtles for the "2 Turtle Doves."  My Bichon AnnaRose was also photographed, just for kicks.  The photos were incorporated into a poster that was widely distributed.  What a lot of fun it was to walk through the newspaper office rolling crates with 10 dogs, and watching the photographer try to photograph 9 Bichons at once!  It would have been OK if he hadn't kept telling his assistants to try to get the dogs' attention.  

Needless to say he went back to just one at a time. 
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!

"Anna Rose"
Int. CH Chilley Kings Lady Anna Rose
1995 - 2010

"Trina"
CH Victoire Diamon Rio Citrine

"Zelda"
CH That's The Ocarina of Time 2 Eh

Side note to Zelda's photo:  The office people were all worried about the dogs peeing on something.  As soon as they put the turtles on the table, they peed!  
It was hard to believe that turtles could pee that much, but I guess that's why I had to clean the turtle aquarium so often when I was a kid.  We all had to laugh because the turtle guy didn't have anything to clean up with and all of the dog people who were there had brought cleaning supplies, just in case!  So of course we all handed him stuff to start cleaning.