Gratuitous terrier blogging and all that Jazz!
By Gina Spadafori
June 1, 2008
I’m so happy I decided to visit with friends at dog show/agility trial this morning in Pasadena before driving home from the publishing industry convention. It got me back in my “happy place,” where I don’t have to dress up, care about make-up, deal with crowds or have to “sell” myself. I could just be plain ol’ invisible me!
Best of all, I got to see a whole lot of really cool dogs and visit with my friends Teresa and Debbie. Teresa’s girl Sprint (who is my McKenzie’s sister), got her first championship point. Not that Sprint cares. She’d rather run agility (she’s already a MACH — an agility champion) and she IS her registered name, Windfall’s Made to Run. She ran clean twice in addition to the show-ring ribbons, which made it a pretty nice day all around.
Teresa’s other dog, Jazz, I’ve written about before. She was given a few weeks to live more than a year ago, and look at her go! Look at the picture I took this morning: Does this look like a dog with cancer? Not at all! She just keeps living her life the way she loves it.
Jazz is one special, special dog. (By the way, we put the story of Jazz in the new book.)
Hard to pull myself away, but with a six-hour drive ahead of me, I had to. That was a 825-mile roundtrip “weekend getaway.” Zounds, that’s a lot of driving! But I loved the Jetta SportWagen, so I’ll be writing a good review for DogCars.com. Nimble, comfortable and economical. Pretty darn cute, too.
Speaking of pretty darn cute, what about this quartet of Smooth Fox Terriers?
Beautiful smooth fox terriers. If you were going to put a gun to my head and make me get a terrier, that’s what it would be.
Comment by Kim Campbell Thornton — June 1, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
Jazz seems to be a very special girl .. and so beautiful. Will look forward to reading her story in the book. BTW when will the books be out?
Comment by Nadine L. — June 1, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
Yeah Jazz….you go girl! I hate cancer…just lost my Harry from it….but you keep fighting it Jazz—-and I can’t wait to read more about you! Keep marveling those vets!
Comment by Carol V — June 2, 2008 @ 5:21 am
4 of anything=pretty cute!
4 similarly marked anything=BONUS!
Comment by slt — June 2, 2008 @ 5:43 am
The books will be out in late August, early September.
Comment by Gina Spadafori — June 2, 2008 @ 6:18 am
Thanks for the update! Sounds like quite a weekend- I wish I could have made the trip out.
PS- great photos!
Comment by Sarah K Andrew — June 2, 2008 @ 10:22 am
Thanks!
Comment by Gina Spadafori — June 2, 2008 @ 10:44 am