Last Samurai Kennel

03/01/2025

Post of the day for me as a person who runs a homestead. Yes we do have free range on open pasture, organic-fed “rainbow” eggs (from different chicken breeds that produce a colourful variety of eggs) for 6$ per dozen. We only sell the extra eggs we cannot eat ourselves and not for profit. And if you truly believe you can produce anything for less than then you should have your own flock of birds.

02/01/2025

So close to my heart. And my great respect goes to all the judges willing to participate in junior ring. Its not an easy job!

Judging And Making Mistakes In The Juniors’ Ring

Written By William Given

The young people competing in the sport of Junior Showmanship are vitally important to the future of our sport. And, because of that, there are many of us who judge Junior Showmanship that feel it is the most important assignment a judge can have at any show, large or small.

There are also many of us who believe judging Junior Showmanship is the most difficult assignment we can have at a show. Why, you might ask. Well, depending on who you ask, the answers could be many and varied, but there is one very inescapable answer. The judging in Junior Showmanship is subjective and that means the judging is based on or (at least) influenced by personal feelings, tastes or opinions.

Judges hope to see young people with gentle hands and plenty of patience that are demonstrating the technical expertise necessary to be successful in the ring. The one thing I think juniors can count on is the first-place winner in each class is the young person that we would most want on the other end of the leash with our dog should we be in a situation where we were unable to be showing it.

Read the entire article here: http://caninechronicle.com/?p=315405

02/01/2025

Behold of the Sammie puppy cuteness! They are getting so fluffy that even I can't see their coloured collars. But hey I can tell them apart by their characters and their super cute puppy faces. Do you see the difference? 🤗😉

02/01/2025

Take two for kids and pups 🤗 it's the girls turn today to cuddle

02/01/2025

Wonderful news from Marie Ann LeVasseur 🥳 our kennel graduate Last Samurai Takeko at Lil’Rascals (Lisa x Hiro) got her Canadian CKC Champion title 🤗 Thank you to Sameen Zhangi for the amazing photo! 🤗❤️

01/01/2025

What you see here is the beauty of living on a homestead and dealing with all that water left after 3+ feet of snow melted and 30+ mm of rain fell over the partially frozen ground. 😩🤪 losing my muck rainboot to swampy mud in a pig pan and walking barefoot trying to save at least my sock 😅 and then chasing piglets to get my boot back because they declared it at the best toy of the day 🤣🙃 it all looked like a winter version of muddy rodeo with a mix of mid wrestling.

01/01/2025

Oh my what a surprise!! I honestly accidentally discovered that Zoe is #1 Samoyed puppy in Ontario and #9 in Canada and Cirilla is #19 Samoyed in Ontario for December 2024!! Wow just wow 🤩

01/01/2025

Did you say puppy therapy? I say yes we got that covered! Boys and pups are getting their quality time together today 🤗❤️

01/01/2025

My new desk work helper Luna, a kind Malamute girl who loves her human company. Luna was very happy to keep me company for my hotel bookings and scheduling choirs last night.

29/12/2024

My final post for today would be about our new CANADIAN CKC CHAMPION (pending CKC approval) Shakem Up Peppa of Last Samurai (Lisa x Hiro) 🥂🥳😎🤗who got her last point today under judge Barbara Arndt handled by Rayna White.

29/12/2024

Our little Shiba monster Soyka had so much fun this weekend learning the ring routine and desensitizing to the dog show environment that we decided to keep her in training with our amazing handler Rayna White for a month of January and to register her for the first grown-up show in Woodstock at the end of January. So keep an eye out for this little toasted coconut.

29/12/2024

To wrap up our weekend at Elora George it was great fun for kids and pups! On the last day, Max and Lisa got another Reserve Winner and they both had bonded tremendously over the weekend 🤗❤️ So now Max said he will be in charge of whelping and tearing Lisa’s puppies that we are expecting in a month's time (we still accepting waiting list applications Lisa x Hiro)

29/12/2024

So proud of my little man Max and our pocket hotdog dog Lisa for making it all the way to the Elora George Select Invitation Junior Handling competition 😎😍 and taking second place in the Intermediate Novice class and third in overall junior handling completion today in his class. Way to go! Mom is so proud.

29/12/2024

My two lovely cleaning crew helpers Alliston and Gwen. It's never a dull moment here on our hotel side with these two around.

29/12/2024

We also have a very special guest for this year winter holidays staying with us at our boarding hotel. Hiro a sweet and gentle giant born to our girl Mink and Marshal ❤️🤗

29/12/2024

How is your Sunday morning is going? Mane starts with a hello howling 🤭🤪 from Gwen our hotel guest Sammie

29/12/2024

And because it has been a very long day and I have no time to sort through 500 photos that our personal ringside photographer Max had taken today I will do a short report and a few of my fav pics. Max took Lisa aka Pocket Hotdog to the big ringing reserve female in an unbelievably tough lineup of dogs 🤗 way to go Max 😎🥳 Peppa got two points towards her champion title winning first in class and Best Female in Breed. And our little Soyka got a baby puppy and was simply having fun in the ring being the silliest little puppy 🤪

29/12/2024

Let me start my today’s dog show report with the cutest post! And the one that I'm proud the most 🤗❤️
Day two at the junior handling competition today and girls had joined Max in his venture of learning the dog sports and handling. Great results for all three! And the most importantly they all had a great amount of fun out on the ring. Huge thanks to the Elora George Club show organizers, junior judges and ring secretary who went far and beyond attending to every kid (and there were more than 20!) with valuable inside on their handling and practice.