The Westminster Dog Show is the \”ultimate canine event\” that is held at the Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on February 15-16, 2010. The reason why I mention this is because my Aunt Dorothy Dalton is a judge at this show! This coming year she will be judging the non-sporting group! Ten years ago when she judged at the show, she judged Martha Stewart\’s Chows! This was around 1999, Martha\’s Chows made the cut! Aunt Dorothy was also on the Martha Stewart talk show talking about the Westminster with Martha! OK, I don\’t know Martha, but as you know, I am a big Martha fan, my daughter would tell you that I pretend that Martha is my friend, and then my lovely daughter reminds me that I shouldn\’t care about Martha because she doesn\’t care about me! To get back to my Aunt Dorothy; she is a multiple Westminster Dog Show Judge. This means, she has judged for them several times. Now with this coming up, she is not allowed to judge any other dog show, until this one, so she doesn\’t have any favorites! As for a non-sporting group, these dogs would include: Poodles, American Eskimo Dog, Bichon Frise, Boston Terrier, Bulldog, Chinese Shar-Pei, Chow Chow, Dalmatian, Finnish Spitz, French Bulldog, Keeshound, Lhasa Apso, Lowchen, Schipperke, Shiba Inu, Tibetan Spaniel, Tibetan Terrier. I hope I didn\’t leave any breeds out!

I asked my Aunt Dorothy what makes a winner, she said it all depends on how the dog is feeling on that particular day, sometimes, the dog you think who is going to win, doesn\’t because he is just having an off day, just like people! But I\’m sure she looks at a lot of different aspects on the dog for that particular breed.

My mother taught obedience school for at least 30 years and even taught in schools for this! All my dogs a drop outs, they don\’t even have there GED\’s!. It takes a lot of work and training to get out of obedience school, never mind Westminster!

I checked the Martha Stewart pet blog again today, Winston now has 86 views and Ariel has 60 views. Meanwhile, I have no idea what this means. I figure that 86 viewers opened the site to look at Winston napping! I\’m not sure. I\’m also not sure how they pick the winner. It must be Martha\’s assistant doing the picking!! Maybe she has a team of people of looking at all the cute pets sleeping. It\’s fun anyways, looking at all the creative photos and how funny the pets sleep.

I thought my cat Lilly was very unique the way she sleeps in the sink, but apparently a lot of cats sleep this way! See, here I thought she was original!!

Happy Labor Day Weekend. I hope you all are doing something fun!

I am very excited to announce that my new blog is up and running! http://pawsandpray.blogspot.com/

This is a place where you can go and submit your prayers for your four legged friends, the ones who fly and the ones who swim! I haven\’t seen too much of this out in the blog world, so I thought it would be nice to start a place where people can go and leave there prayers and have other people pray for their pets also. If you have a blessing, we would love for you to post that too!

If you would like me to put your picture of your pet on my Paws and Pray site, please send it to me at dgm1930@gmail.com and I would be happy to post it.

Thank you and I hope to see you at my new site!

I don\’t\’ know if any of you remember me saying that my 14 year old started school last week and he loved it! The week was over and things were going fine! NOT, he started his newer school today! Things didn\’t work out as I hoped at the Christian School, so being a good MOM, I said you can switch, but if you want to go back to the Christian School, that is OK too! I was a little leery about sending him to the public school, I don\’t know why, I\’m not a snob, my daughter went there and graduated, she is perfect (in my eyes)! So today is a new start for my son and I pray he will be fine in his new journey in life!