Well, it's a new year and we've been super busy!! For the New Year's holiday, we took a trip down to Florida to visit Ms. Beth's family farm and lakehouse. It was sooooooo much fun!!! I wish we lived on a lake. I would go swimming everyday!!! It is so much fun to go tromping in the mud and the muck, and then retrieving in the water and splashing around is fun too!!!While we were down there visiting, Ms. Beth also read her Christmas present which was a book on the history and development of the Boykin Spaniel breed. The book also had stories about Boykin Spaniels and Ms. Beth said that I shared a lot of characteristics with those famous Boykins!!!
It's been pretty cold as of late and I love to go play outside, but during the day I've been cuddling up inside with Aunt Madison and Uncle Jackson. Setters are the BEST couch potatoes on cold days, and Ms. Beth is glad that they have convinced me that I too can excel at being a couch potato with a little practice ;) ha, ha.
I was also recently in my second dog show. I was entered in the All Breed Confirmation show hosted by the Clemson Kennel Club last weekend. It was super cold that day, but I was just excited to be there spending time with Ms. Beth!! I had to stand still and let the judge run his hands all over me. I keep all of my feet on the ground but I couldn't help but wiggle the whole time..... I am a Boykin Spaniel after all!!! Because this is was one of the first shows where Boykin Spaniels are eligible for AKC confirmation points, the Judge spent some time talking to Ms. Beth and commenting on my wiggly little personality! Once we started moving around the ring though, I was all business!! Couldn't let Ms. Beth down while everyone was watching us!!
Ms. Beth promises that the next show will be bigger and I will get the chance to see LOTS of other Boykins!! That should be in Greenville, sometime in February, so check back in to see how we do :)
