Edwardsville Kennel Club, December 1, 2012

This is the last hold out to the move to Purina Farms Event Center for all dog shows in the area.  "This show site sucks!" Is pretty much the consensus.  On Thursday when we were setting up, everyone was talking about trying to take up a petition or something to express to the club how inferior this site is.  Not enough grooming space (even with the low entry), no bathing facilities, inadequate electric, and the show chair told people that they could go out to the pole barns on Thursday night.  These were not lit, have dirt and Lord knows what else on the floor, and it was cold and windy.  We let 2 or 3 people with single dogs move in with us (because we are so sweet)...I could go on.  OK, one more thing:  The bathrooms!  The bathrooms have what I am sure is at least a 10 year accumulation of dirt, dead bugs, and cobwebs around the baseboards (does anyone even use that word any more?).  It will take some industrial scraper to remove what has built up on the floor around the metal stall supports.  If the specialties that are held on Friday would just move to Purina, maybe Edwardsville Kennel Club would follow, after all, a majority of the all-breed show entries are due to the specialties.  According to members of the Edwardsville club, the main reason for not moving over to Purina Farms is Ring Stewards.  The club won't spend the money to hire a stewards club, and the club members (many of whom are older than dirt) don't want to drive back and forth to Purina to steward.  This show site is going to be the demise of this club.  If the entries keep getting lower, they won't have the money to hire judges.

That's it for now, so on to some not so exciting show results for us today:
Bichons:
Movado - 3rd in his class
Gracie - 1st / Winners Bitch / Best of Winners / Best of Opposite - MAJOR - NEW CHAMPION
Thank You Judge Bill Cunningham

Havanese:
Boo - Judge Change - Entry Withdrawn - Not Shown
Chocobeast - Judge Change - Entry Withdrawn - Not Shown
Zeus - Select Dog
Selena - Select Bitch 
I guess we should have pulled all of our dogs. 
Judge Susan St. John-Brown