The Mythos litter has a brand new Rarities Champion! Talisman's Ursa Major, Teddy, co owned by Terri Campbell and I, got his Rarities Int Ch at under a year! He's gone multiple Best of Winners in some pretty nice competition. His brother Helios is saving a cookie for him , for when he gets to see him. Teddy's partner in crime, sister Phoenix, also has two five point majors towards her Championship. This litter was Sheba's last one, so I am thrilled this litter of pups are doing as well as her last litter in the show ring and in their homes.

You know, this litter really surprised me in alot of ways, they really weren't what we were expecting in terms of type, with the parent combo, we were expecting much more heavily built pups, but with just a couple of exceptions, it's actually quite a fine-boned litter. They managed to largely get their Mom Sheba's bat ears, save for the one Alison and I co own, Garibaldi, Talisman's Star of Taranis, who has these pretty rose ears. Helios, here at home tells me his ears are better for locating and hunting bugs.

They are all a year old next month! Boy that year went fast!

Also, AB1634 got thrown out on it's ear by the senate, not only citing it's inability to actually address the sources and causes of pet relinquishment to shelters, but also pointing out that the bill itself seemed rushed and poorly written. For example, it was pointed out that one passage called for " spaying and neutering low-income people". The senate chair pointed this out and asked Levine if this was in fact the intent of the bill, to which Levine answered no.

The hounds at home are all busy blowing their coats on the furniture. This has been encouraged by the higher ambient temperatures of the new digs. In San Francisco, it was usually 65 ish all summer, here it's around 90 ish. While this makes hanging out outside at night, when it cools off, MUCH nicer, mid day is toasty. The hounds agree , so we are existing in an intermittant wafting wave of hound hair. There are Pomeranian sized fur drifts in the corners of the house I plan on evicting today with the use of our happy go lucky Dyson vac, that has somehow managed to hold up under a seasonal workload that would make most vacume cleaners clatter and groan to a halt and beg to be shot.

I haven't been blogging for a bit. While the hoarde of hounds were at home with my pal Jeanie and her dog Sophie , who is BFF with Helios, We were at Comic Con International , to participating in the geek madness that is the largest convention in America. This started out as a Comic Book Convention, but rapidly evolved into a HUGE multimedia convention. Where anyone who has anything to do with any sort of geek anything shows up.

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/

We had fun, hung out with a ton of pals, and had a very exhausting weekend. I also got to meet Lucy Lawless! ( Xena ) Thanks to our pal, writer/producer/director Dave Mandel, who knows I worked on the comic book, and knew I was a fan, so , since he was walking around with her that day, took the opp to stick her right in front of me, so when I looked up from sketching, there be Xena! She was FUN!