March 11- March 01 2005

March 11 * Logansport Kennel Club * Auburn, Indiana
Dr. Richard Greathouse

Reserve Winners Dog Thornapple Duramax
 

Zippo

Best Of Breed & Group 4 Ch Thornapple Hot Temptation

Zippo

Zippo in the Group Ring with Dr. Greathouse. 

Best Opposite Sex CH Thornapple Cafe Mocha

2nd Place Novice Junior Handling * Shayna Garrison
March 12 * Logansport Kennel Club * Auburn, Indiana
Mrs. Dorothy Welsh

Reserve Winners Dog Thornapple Duramax

Winners Bitch and Best Of Winners (from the puppy class) Thornapple Kiddie Cocktail

Best Of Breed CH Thornapple Jose Cuervo

Best Opposite Sex CH Thornapple Cafe Mocha

1st PLACE * NOVICE JUNIOR HANDLING!  Shayna Garrison!
Way to go, Shayna!  1 more win and Shayna's moves up to Open Junior!

Steve Seeler & Zak had an agility trial this weekend...
Zak had a pretty good weekend. Although not that great by his standard as  of
late. He q'd 6 out of 8 runs and with 2 first, 4 thirds and a 1 fourth.  That
was his first ever fourth place finish. Although less than a half second 
separated the first from fourth. And it was manual timing. We had some tough 
competition. We sacrificed some placements for training. We held all of our 
contacts all weekend. Only one other team was holding contacts and they are one
of the top teams in this area. 

Susanne Mueller reports from Germany!
Hello from a still very cold Germany.
This weekend we went to a big International VDH/FCI Show in Offenburg
Germany to show our Aussies.  Well, we had quite a big entry (46 Aussies
were entered) with very big competition.
Our Tucker - Thornapple Grinding Gears(CH. Te Amo's Top Gun Wild Child
x Elite's Black Jewel) made male youth winner.
Best male out of the regular classes and RWD was our "Frankie" Bayshore
Red White and Blue. Winner's Bitch was my bitch Trulyawesome Every Boys Dream
(Fin. CH. Aladdins Gallant Hussar x Once Upon a Time).
I'm very proud. Susanne

Ami Boxer has news from the Florida shows!
Hi all, Riot has some show news! He picked up another two points
today, taking WD/BOS! He showed great we are very happy... now back
to the show grounds for groups, my good friend who is staying with us
this weekend won BOB with her Smooth Collie bitch! Our fingers are
crossed for Lilly =)..... Ami

Riot takes Winners Dog at the Florida show.

Marcia has great news from Brazil!
Hi folks. Kahlua IS PREGNANT . 33 to 35 days! More than two puppies. Too soon yet
to figure it  how many. I will do a X=ray 5 days prior to the delivery so we will know.
She is eating Eukanuba puppy WITH cooked rice and cooked hamburger . Sometimes with
 ricotta cheese, sometimes with chicken hot dog... I will buy tomorrow yogurt natural for her!!!!!
Beijos Nad kisses CONGRATS TO SHAMBA AND KAHLUA. (Ch  Thornapple Kahlua N Cream
is bred to Ch Thornapple King Of Diamonds

Jayne writes from England...
Hi All! We are finally home VERY tired from a LONG LONG day ... we started at 5 am 
this morning and its now 9 pm .... Lorenzo won Reserve Best Dog ...
Groucho his son co-owned with Amy &  Ellen won second and 3 other Applethorns won
 or placed in their classes , some  of them Lorenzo kids others Bubba kids ....
so all in all a good day for us  ... Enya looked beautiful !!! Lorenzo was awesome !!!
Groucho was funny !  LOL  We had a great day with friends , Frank & chris ( Bayshore),
Karen  Ritter  (Snowcrest) , Jeff Margeson ( Stonehaven) , then all our European friends ,
Anna Lena , Nick , Helene, Luc Goosen... Paul & Colette from  Germany who went
Best dog ... So we all had cameras pictures will be posted soon
We are off to bed as Helene leaves for Sweden early tomorrow morning with 
Lorenzo .. Hugs Jayne

And Lorenzo travels to Sweden where he will be shown until December!
Hi all! Just to let you know Lorenzo has arrived safely in his new home in Sweden 
... he flew with Helene this morning .. the first thing he noticed after 
arriving in Sweden was the HUGE amount of snow something he hasn't seen since he was
a little puppy back in Michigan  !!!! Wishing Helene lots of luck with my beautiful boy
... can't wait til he  comes home at Christmas !!! Looking forward to hearing all about
 his adventures. Hugs Jayne

Lorenzo loves the snow in Sweden!

Lorenzo's hostess with the mostess, Helene, in Sweden ...
Hi All, Yesterday the beautiful, fun, loving, stunning awesome Mr Lorenzo entered
 my house! I was SO happy and also SO sad. Jayne at the airport crying, me crying
for her and I guess we both wondered what we were doing. Jayne for letting Lorenzo go
and me for taking him from her. I know the feeling since I let my Norfolk male
go to friends in England two years ago. But Jayne, time runs so quick
and he'll be back celebrating Christmas with you in the end of the year!
...And he is a very good reason for Jayne to finally come and visit
Sweden!!! Mr Lorenzo and his crew would love it! He has settled in so well I can't
 believe it! Today we were out running in the snowy woods and he loved every minute of it!
In the morning it was cold...-18 C. He did look at me and I bet he was thinking
"Thought I was in Sweden, not the North Pole"... We picked up the Norfolks today and
they get on very well. Even if Harry doesn't really appreciate that
Lorenzo believes he is a bitch in season... Cracker told Lorenzo off but
Harry stands there with tail on top, not wanting to quarrel but not
wanting to run away either, so I guess Lorenzo takes it as an
invitation... The way he has settled we are now definitely sure we will
attend Mr Lorenzo's first show in Sweden this weekend, he is SO beautiful
and no matter what happens at his shows in Sweden he is King of Europe!
(Is that ok with you, Shamba?) THANKS JAYNE!!!! -and of course Ellen and Amy for
 breeding the cuddly bear I have the honor and pleasure to love and take care of
  during 2005. Heléne

Zak Nash takes his 3rd Novice Intermediate Junior Handling win with Goose
 to move up to Open Intermediate Junior Handling!  Congratulations Zak! 

And from Zak's mom in NEW JERSEY (we love visiting Kath in New Jersey! 
Peter Kontos cooks the best Filet Mignon ever on Kathryn's grill!!) .... Kathryn tells us ...
News from this week end. Mav took the bred by class in ASCA- a nice win-
Goose took his puppy Class- another nice win and Uncle Excaliber went BOB
over 44 dogs in total- A huge and happy day for us in NJ!!!!!!!!!! Kathryn
Congratulations Kathryn!  Ex is Mav's full litter brother.  Mav is Goose's sire!

From Virginia, Karen Wilson has news too!
Hi All, First I want to congratulate all the Thornapple winners this past
weekend way to go. We had our own bit of success in the show ring this weekend.
River Wind's Rock-n-Roll Hoochi Coo ( Morgan ). Sire CH. Bayshore's Ready
to Rock X Thornapple's Gitchi Gitchi Yaya was WB on Saturday in
South Carolina. This was Morgan, shown by our good friend Missy
Springer's first win. Missy has only been showing for less than a
year. We are so proud of her and Morgan. On Sunday in Ohio my boy Dobby,
 Heatherhill's Rush-n-Revolution was WD for his second major ( 3 points )
He now has 9 points with both majors. Our herding lessons continue to go well.
Zsa Zsa's son Bedford, River Wind's Sgt. Rock will hopefully be ready for his
first herding test at the shows in June. Mother T, I loved the family jewels page.
 Will there be jewelry for sale @ National's? Karen 

From Anna-Lena & Niklas in Sweden...
Hi all!! Now we're finally home... We are so so tired after this busy weekend.
We travelled by car and it takes two days to drive to England (inclouding two ferries...).
We also have a great time at Crufts!!! Lorenzo was the best dog!!!! No one should have beat
 him!!! He's still looking fantastic. We took the res cc and res best dog with our Norfolk
Terrier on the thursday. And we we're delighted to see that there were a Norfolk who became
 BIS. Probably many of you already have seen her in USA... She's fantastic!!! Enya did
also very well. She showed her self off (as allways). And the funny thing was when the open
 bitches was placed it was a man who asked if he could sit on the chair next to me and I said
 it was okey. After that he said that the fourth bitch was the best... LOL!!! And I just
 answered -How nice to hear she's mine. And he was a breeder (not Aussies) from Greece.
I will look at my photos tomorrow (very tired right now), but I know that many of them
 isn't any good. Love Anna-Lena


March 6, 2005

Photo of the week   Sibling Love!

Thank you Carolyn Zernick of Autumn Wind Aussies for sharing!
 Shakespeare and Hope living up to daddy's name!  After all, they are "Rowdy" kids!

Thornapple Wingman Of TeAmo & Ch TeAmo's Top Gun Wild Child
Goose & daddy, Maverick, owned by Kathryn Ross-Nash, Te Amos Aussies.

Goose * Reserve Winners Dog!

From Ana Herrera in Spain, Epi-Thornapple Hot Topic got yesterday at
Sevilla's International Dog Show Best of Breed and Best in Group, not bad at all ;-).
More details later. Hugs. Ana & Epi

We wish to congratulate Anna-Lena & Niklas Munkvall
on their purchase of Ch Thornapple Oh Brother "Damon."
Damon will be staying in Sweden with his best buds, Enya & Sarah.