Dakoozi Hounds

01/01/2025

From all of us at Dakoozi Hounds, wishing you and your families all the best in 2025! May this be your best year yet. Thank you for sharing 2024 with us. It has been an incredible year, and we have so much excitement for what the next year will bring for us.

12/15/2024

Not oddly specific or anything.. 🫣

12/11/2024

11/27/2024

competitively compensated

11/27/2024

Pretty Princess Charlotte turned 3 today! She's been such an amazing addition to our program, home and family. 🥰 She's eternally happy, our forever puppy (she has such a young looking face!) and we are so proud of all she has accomplished in these 3 short years. A conformation Champion (halfway to her Grand), a Novice Sprinter Title, 1 run shy of her Chase Ability title, a UKC Coursing Aptitude title, and had a beautiful litter of puppies (that she carried, whelped and raised like a dream). So excited to see what the next year brings for her! ❤️ Happy Birthday beautiful girl!

11/22/2024

vroom vroom

11/05/2024

It's bath day ... wish me luck!! 😫

11/05/2024

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11/02/2024

Well, it's now paper official! Our last pup received her CKC Championship certificate in the mail.

Izzy started out as our shy little lady, but at the Oakville and District Kennel Club show back in September, she showed her heart out and secured those final points. 🥰 We have been so happy to see her flourish in the ring. She is such a sweet-natured girl, so happy to be with everyone, and we really couldn't ask for more!

Izzy will show selectively now, and try her paws in some sport titles next year before hopefully becoming a Mama to her very first litter later in the summer/fall 2025. ❤️

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CH Lake & Shield's All the Chatter
"Isabella/Izzy"
Sire: Cruzin in the Slow Lane
Dam: Michelles Sadie Mae
Breeder: Neb Ahrens

10/30/2024

Sneak peek at some of the leads being added to the Etsy shop later today! 🥰

https://dakoozi.etsy.com

10/30/2024

These are common anatomy terms you will hear at the dog show and what people are referring to.

10/30/2024

Custom resco show lead with kindness pad and weighted handle (table breed) made its way out this week. Its new owner seems very happy with it, and that makes all the work worthwhile! 🥰

10/29/2024

Glancing at the standings for our breed in CKC this morning (something I do a couple of times a week to see how all our friends are doing in other areas of the country) and I realized something incredible:

There are TWENTY-NINE bassets listed in the standings!!!

That means that there are TWENTY-NINE bassets who competed WITH COMPETITION and won Best of Breed in their shows so far this year.

That DOESN'T include all the bassets who also competed with competition and earned points & championship titles this year with Best of Opposite, Winners Dog, Winners Female and Best of Winners (the standings ONLY show dogs with Best of Breed wins).

When I first started showing, I was often the only basset entered. This had been the case for several years, and I committed to my breeder mentors and friends that I would do what I could to engage more people and get the entries up.

I worked on making friends in the breed, encouraging them to come out and have some fun. Others noticed competition available and entered for chances to earn their own dogs points. Our little group banded together with a common goal, and has grown significantly over the last 2 1/2 years. We've worked together to ignite the passion for the breed across the country and get the dogs out there again.

We can't take credit for all the dogs showing now, but it has been so exciting to watch the entries grow show after show. We still get "must be a Basset specialty!" when we all show up to a show together, but there's a bit of pride and excitement to that as well.

It's NOT a specialty, but a renewed spark of passion and joy for a breed that truly deserves it!

I can't wait to see what the next year brings. I know some breeders are sitting on some beautiful pups just waiting to grow up a bit and make their debut. And I'll be right there ringside cheering them all on! 🥰

https://canuckdogs.com/index.php?PageKey=a0112f39-83c3-102c-99fc-08dd3e9e5cf4&cmbTypeOfStanding=2&cmbYear=2024&cmbDisplay=50&Breed=695

10/23/2024

🥰 HAPPY MAIL DAY!! 🥰

Formal and official - my first two Bred By Champions!

Oh my gosh, what a feeling to see it on paper! These 2 pups have exceeded my expectations, especially for a first litter.

Way to go Ace & Pepper! So excited to see what your future in the show ring has in store. 🤩

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MBPIG CH Dakoozi's Ace in the Hole
"Ace"

CH Dakoozi's Blue Ribbon Baby
"Pepper"

Sired by: CAN GCH UKC CH ABIDS GCH Lake & Shield's Wonder Strijder SDN UKC NN AC

Dam: CAN CH ABIDS JR CH Shay's Country Friends in Low Places NS UKC CA

10/20/2024

The big man and I had a lovely morning at The Poodle Farm for the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Southwestern Ontario's Scent Detection trial. It was a foggy drive in, but turned out to be a stunning day, full of sun and the changing leaves of fall.

Dallas qualified in both his Open Containers run and his Open Interior.

Unfortunately, we didn't get the ribbon in the Open Exterior (a component he has always had a bit of trouble with - I blame that hound nose wanting to check out ALL the outside smells! LOL), which means he is now just one element away from finishing his Open Scent Detection title.

We're going to give it a try again in December.

All in all, Dallas performed beautifully and I couldn't be more proud of how he led this rusty, out of practice team to 2 victories today. 🥰

Many thanks to judge Nathan Clarkson for his kind words, encouragement and advice!