This past weekend the Sand Spring Gang and the Crawfish Gang competed at the UKC Dodge County Canine Club dog show. Crawdaddy Tom wanted to enter the brace competition that was being offered during this show so I said “why the heck not” we’re always up for a good time and laugh. We entered the brace competition earlier in the year and it was a circus act to put it mildly but it left many smiles and laughs so in the end it was a hit, plus it made us some new dog friends as the crazy chessie people flock together so we wanted to entertain the public again.

Brace is offered at the Dodge County Canine Club UKC shows. It is a class where you have 2 like animals showing together. They need to be on the same side of the handler, when the handler shows them they should move together so it looks like one dog is moving. The judge will examine each dog and have you gait like you would if you were showing one dog in the ring. Doing this can take some expertise and grace. It shouldn’t be done when your intact male dog is living near intact females that are in heat at the time of the show unless you want some excitement at the dog show which is what we wanted this day.

All was going good until Tom decided to jog with Riggs and Josey, somehow his feet got messed up and he tripped, not sure if it was him or the dogs that tripped him up but he was going down.

Tom’s foot hit the wall not his head so no one was harmed during this event. Even know we all hurd a big thug we didn’t know what all was going on.

When we come to a dog show it is a family oriented place so to speak a G rated show, during the brace class it was rated R! Riggs took advantage of the girls being in heat, himself being horny and Crawdaddy on the floor so Crawdaddy looses and takes one for the team with a head romp! Poor Josey had no idea what the hell that bastard was doing or why!

The president of the club came out a running, the bystanders (me and Lynne) videoed and took pictures as we weren’t letting this awesome moment go unrecorded! We were really hoping Crawdaddy Tom was ok as we were laughing secretly at him, ok it wasn’t so secret if you listen to the video.

Tom learned that the trick to not falling down is to walk with the team not run.

At the dog show there are two shows, the tuck and roll happened in show one so what would show two bring?

Show two wasn’t as eventful, we were sad we didn’t get to laugh again. We thank Crawdaddy Tom for being such a good sport and for the dogs to continue on with their mission without missing a beat. The brace class will never be the same and it will be happening again. 

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