Summer 2019 Saber Tails 39
Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen Club of America
Chloé showing great focus in the
Rally ring.
Fannie relaxing at home between hunt trials.
Glee showing her skill at the dumbbell retrieve in the
Obedience ring.
“CHLO
é”
Owned
by
M
arCia
M
C
G
inniS
& S
teve
r
OCHe
GCH CH Crepu Visage Amazona Eue De Fleurs Chloé BN RA NA NAJ CGCA
TKI, is 9-½ years old. Zouk is her father. Chloé came to live with us after several
emails and phone calls with Sandy Bustin and a long drive to Florida to pick her
up. Chloé has been a joy to live with, although, as a PBGV, training has been slow
and steady-ish. Other than puppy and introductory training classes, we delayed
more structured obedience until she was a Grand Champion. Since then she has
been in classes in Agility, Rally, Nose Work, Tracking, and Obedience. Trick Dog
and Canine Good Citizen testing were added along the way because with rewards
(i.e., food) she will do pretty much anything. At the 2019 PBGVCA Regional
Specialty Chloé won High in Trial in Obedience, a highlight and one I may never
experience again. She isn’t the best at formal obedience, to say the least, because
Miss Chloé would rather go on a “sniffari” than actually heel. She is smart and
stubborn, perhaps typical traits of the breed. “Bird” (as we call her because she
chirps for dinner) has an acute sense of humor that at times is frustrating; most of
the time I cannot resist laughing with her. In agility Chloé loves to grandstand on
the A-frame and dog walk, and look at the crowd, awaiting the applause she as-
sumes is her due.
“Fannie”
Owned
by
G
LOria
S
waine
(not pictured in the group photo)
CH Wufwire’s Fannie Mae PCJH PCSH, at 9 years is my couch
potato. Zouk is her father. Fannie is very loving and prefers to be
at home or on the hunt field. She came to live with me at 2 years of
age and decided that this is where she will stay. Over the years, Fan-
nie has learned non-verbal signals and does what I want her to do
around the house.
A new activity with Fannie is Hunt Trials. She has received qualify-
ing scores in most of her trials and has earned her Junior and Senior
Hunt titles. Fannie seems very wise in how she goes about hunting.
She stays with the pack and does some searching but stays among
the other dogs who are searching. She is very quick to see a rabbit “pop” and takes off after it, giving voice. She gen-
erally stays close to my Max because he is good at popping rabbits but until the last hunt, he had no clue what to do
next and would continue searching. In the meantime, Fannie is on the chase.
Fannie has been a very good mother to her newborn pups, very caring and protective. She has had 24 offspring. Most
live in the west and midwest and one lives in the Netherlands.
“G
Lee
”
Owned
by
M
inta
(M
iKe
) w
iLLiqUette
GCH CH Suton Crepu Visage Collage De L’Amour UD BN GN GO
VER RM RAE2 FDC NA NAJ SWA PCMH RATN CGCA CGCU
TKP, is another of Zouk’s daughters, and is now 7 years old. The
journey with Glee started with a two-hour drive to the Atlanta air-
port at 2:00 a.m. to pick up a puppy I had only seen in videos. She
was 11 weeks old and came out of her crate happy and wagging her
whole rear end. I knew she had a great temperament; what I didn’t
know was how she would do in the field or performance rings.
With the help of her mentors Gypsy and Drew, Glee quickly became
a Master Hunter. She has beauty and brains. She finished her Grand
Championship and Rally Excellent titles on the same day. As we
progressed she earned a Utility Obedience title and we are working
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