June 6 WCEC Specialty, Erie Shores shows, ON. Dustyn son Jetstream Cast A Spell (“Merlin”) was a nice Reserve Winners Dog, along with Best Canadian Bred in Specialty!

May 23 Auld Lang Syne Dog Show, Chilliwack. Westhams N McCartney’s Woman Like Me aka Ally or Alice Best Baby Puppy in Group

May 16 Kirsher finished his Advanced Sprinter AS with 1000 points on the dot. Thank you Sharon Prus for helping wrangle and to the Western Gazehound Club for hosting the event. There was plenty of gleefully shredded bags, a nice turnout of whippets, and it was a nice visit with all the enthusiasts.

May 9 Zora (Aurifer Galadriel) European Winner 2026! V1, CAC, BOB for European Champion. A big Show in middle Germany with large entries and the high quality European Whippets. Zora won working Class and was rewarded the title against the Champion Class winner, which also finished her German Kennel Club Champion.

May 3
Amadeus earned his RATCHX3 and CZ8P2, with 2 HIC. He’s the 4th whippet to earn RATCHX3 and the 2nd whippet to earn CZ8P2

Apr 26 Happy 15 Tristan

We got back today from another road trip to Williams Lake to judge and play Happy Ratters and NASDA with Freelife Canine, where they went all out and made his day a special one with gifts and treats. Many thanks to Alycia and attendees for making it a fun day. One of his highlights was barking at a rat he found that particularly needed a barking to. He also cracked his 281st title on his big day, and found all the ratties in the games he played, even managed a HIC

Apr 18 Dustyn finished Lost Item 3 LI-III in NASDA – one of our biggest challenges ever.. But we did it! Some hilarious moments, so brilliant moments and many Dang It moments. We almost gave up a couple of times but pushed through and am super happy with our latest searches and even managed 4 high in classes. He is a great sport and I’m so glad he is my partner through this game, with his full time waggy tail during his searches. Lost item has target human scented items that range from credit cards, small pieces of jewelry, wallets, a single key etc, in addition to stranger items that can be of similar nature. If a dog alerts on a stranger item, the game is over. They can be buried, hidden, or exposed to add another challenge element. Environments range from urban to outdoorsy with tempting grasses and trees.
Thank you to the clubs that offered it and the fantastic judges who set such memorable searches.  So fortunate to have such creative minds to come up with these games.
Dustyn passed 2 of 3 last weekend at Westcoast Sport Dogs and finished at the Freelife Canine trial this past weekend, needing just one Q. Many treats were had!

Apr 17 Hellcat finished her Advanced exterior, containers, buried, SWA Scentwork title last weekend. She got 3 Qs at the AWC National AND 2 Qs the all breed trial in Kenwick.

April 13-16 So much fun at the National! It went by so fast! I wish I could have been in two places at once this month for the whole event but had some wonderful assignments both weekends.

As the American Whippet Club National was within driving distance (yay), I took only Tristan on a road trip to his last National.

He had a slip on the floor when he tried jumping onto the hotel bed the first day even when we were on alert mode. Thank you Vicky Lovejoy for the expert massage/laser tune up after!

Tristan was the oldest dog entered at the Specialty at just shy of 15 years and while he is certainly not in his prime, had an absolute blast trotting around the ring in Veteran sweeps with his tail wagging all the way around as he realized the clapping and cheers were for his behalf. We used the special lead his breeder Lisa made for him. Thank you all, it was a very special retirement lap that will never be forgotten.

Loved meeting up with our extended dog family and had some precious photos taken.
Amadeus eligible for the Parade of Honors (CH, RATCH, RATCHX2 All’aria Symphony No. 1 VHMP, POA, NTD, ITD, ATD, DDB, DDBE, DDS, DDSE, DDG, DDGE, DDP, DDPE, DDU, DDUE, DN, DJ, DS, DM, AJ, AS, AM, HDM, HDMA, FDC, BR3K-23, BCAT, RAT, HRAT, XRAT, HRSH, HRRH1, HRDN, HRDP, RATI, RATN, RATO, RATS, RATM, CZ8B, CZ8S, CZ8G, CZ8P, CZ8PB, CZ8PS, CZ8PG, RN, RI, CFD, AFD, ChFD, XVA, XV30, XVNX, FD, FDX, FDCh, FDCh-S, MBD, MBDX, MBDCh, PR, TRP, DPC, WPA, XV50, XVA5, XVE, XVM, CGC)
Rikki’s 2025 #1 AKC agility whippet plaque (CH, MACH6 Domino Radical Red Ricochet MXC 2, MJC2, MJB3, MFB, TQX, MFPB, T2B2, T2BP, RE, JC, TKP, CGC). What an incredible team Susan and Ricochet make!

Hoby The very first time ever entered in scentwork, they qualified in all runs: buried (1st place), exterior (4th place), interior and containers. Fantastic! He was also 2nd place in Beginner Novice Obedience to title. He qualified with 4th place in Rally Intermediate to title. He also earned his CGC, CGCA, CGCU, TKN,TKI and TKA titles, for a grand total of 8 titles at the National. Wonderful job Karen!
Hoby (BISS, CH DelCrown Hamrya Sam Catchem BN, RI, CGC, CGCA, CGCU, TKA)

Hoby and his kids for a Multi-generation family get together (Bravado’s Suddenly Sunday, Bravado’s Ready Set Zoom, and littermate not pictured Bravado’s Take My Breath Away – 4th in Open female)

Chilly having a visit with papa
(GCH Surcie Aperture 10 Chilly Vegas Nights SC DCAT CGC FITB)

Crossfyre family. Hellcat was plated as she finished her Advanced exterior, containers, buried, for the SWA scentwork title. She qualified with 3 Qs at the National and 2 Qs at the all breed trial in Kennewick.
Joker was plated with 3rd in his rally class. Fantastic work teams!
Buddy (GCH, NOHSB Crossfyre Where Eagles Dare DCAT, BCAT, FCAT)
Hellcat (GR CH, UKC CH Crossfyre Goblin Valley SC, SIN, SEN, SBN, FTN, RATI, BCAT, SWN, SCN, SIA, SEA, SCA, SBA, SWA)
Ursula (CH Crossfyre Sorceress of the Sea RATI, BCAT)
Joker (Crossfyre The Joker’s Wild RN, BCAT, CGC, RA)

We also participated in the heart study with Dr. Stern as they are also interested in older dogs with a history of good heart health. They are looking to find markers on genetic mitral valve disease and were collecting blood samples for the study.

Many thanks for all the hands that brought the National out this way – us westerners were very happy! And it was so nice to see some of the dogs from the east in person. Kudos to the committees and volunteers, performance and show judges, health clinic workers and congratulations to all the beautiful whippets well represented that we were able to watch. Thanks Rhonda for being a great roomie and for all the laughs.

Then it was off for a fun nasda judging assignment in Aldergrove the tail end of the weekend with Westcoast Sport Dogs – many thanks for having us play! Tristan got to play in some games and the good boy qualified in his UCG game 2.

Apr 12 NJ coursing. Zoe won the open stake, BOB, and BIF for a 5 point major! Zoe is now the 4th from the Tristan x Kitty litter to earn a BIF

Apr 11 NJ coursing. Zoe won the open stake and BOB.

Apr 11 Tristan had a great weekend attending the local Smashing Ratters Happy Ratters trial, running in the highest regular class of Extraordinaire (1 – 5 rats, unknown to the handler) and finished his third run in a row with full bonus points (being under a certain time limit and calling rat find correctly) and also finished the REX with a First place! WOW Good boy! I think he may be the first whippet to do so. We also tried out the Rat Trap game and qualified in both runs. Thank you Smashing Ratters club, Jules and Michelle and volunteers for senior fun – some seniors running ranged from 13 – 17 and were so fun to watch 

Apr 8 Scentwork, Australia. Celeste and breeder/owner/handler Shari stepped up to Advanced level for the first time scored 6 Qs. Nice work!

Apr 5/6 NJ coursing. Zoe (Gibbous Hayters Gonna Hate) won the open stake both days.

2025 AWC Annual While our copies of the beautiful, colorful Annual is still making its way to Canada, I imagine Tristan checking out the cover dog before realizing it is him in his prime. Kind of like us looking at our yearbooks 

What made this even more special was that some of the kids and their wonderful breeders and owners were featured as well. Eternally grateful for the friendships made and it has been a great pleasure to witness the escapades and legacy of our whippet families.

Some of the kids’ featured 2025 accomplishments, with many thanks to the Dams that inspired: 

AKC Grand Champion DCs (Gibbous Centaur of Attention) (Gibbous Talk Derby to Me)

AKC NOHSB, and IABCA BIS/Grand Sieger winner (Surcie Aperture 10 Chilly Vegas Nights)

AKC 2xBBPIS (Aiukli’s Sweet Fern on Agamenticus)

AKC ROM (Hamrya’s Desert Jewel)

AWC National Specialty Owner Handler class winner (All’aria Stormhold Mountain Air)

AWC National Specialty Race Dog class winner for the second year in a row (Domino Shambala Boomerang)

AWC Champion Award of Versatility Excellent (Domino Shambala Boomerang)

AWC National Versatility Top 4 – 11 the past 3 years, and therapy dog (Hamrya’s Desert Heat)

2025 #5 Female Whippet in Finland (Besties Musca Australis)

2025 #1 AKC Whippet, #1 Whippet AKC Invitational Whippet, MACH5 (now 6) (Domino Radical Red Ricochet)

2025 #1 Barn Hunt Whippet Senior level and #2 Master (All’aria Symphony No. 1) #4 Master (Aberle Anything Goes)

2025 #1 Whippet AKC Updog Challenge (All’aria Symphony No. 1) 

2025 Skyhoundz Xtreme Distance World Champion in Disc (All’aria Symphony No. 1)

2025 #4 Dock Whippet in HD and #10 AR (All’aria Symphony No. 1)

2025 #4 Conformation and Top 10 High Combined in CWA racing

2025 NASDA #5 all breeds Invitation (Whiparoo Storm in Heaven) Showcase Invitation (Besties Moonscape at Stormhold)

And highly decorated Scentwork whippets (Domino Wintergreen Dream) (Lotty Majesticanis) (Jetstream Marsanne Veraison)

We are so grateful to his breeder Lisa Winder for sharing her gift of breeding.Tristan is treasured and we wish to always have a part of him in our household.

It’s fantastic to see so many beautiful and talented whippets throughout the book – congrats to all the breeders and owners and thank you to the hard working Annual committee!

 Mar 29 Zippy and Cathy went 1st in Exterior, 2nd in Interiors and 1st place overall, earning his DS3-JR.

 Mar 22 Lyra (Besties Alpha Lyrae) BB4, CAC to finish her Finnish and Estonian FI CH and EE CH Championships! Congratulations to owner/handler Heli and breeder Mari!

Mar 14 NASDA Unpredictable weather kept us on our toes, with wind, rain, sun, snow and slush. The Qs were up and down as well in Lost Item, but Dustyn ended up finishing 3 LI Games titles LC1-I, LC3-I, with 3 High in Trials, which also completed the Games overall title LIC-I. Such cute ribbons he scored! Many thanks to Westcoast Sport Dogs Club for all the fun last weekend, and 4 Points Club today for clever and challenging hides. We are so fortunate to have such great judges and hosts and places to play. The wagging tails say it is worth it all.

Feb 1 Amadeus Q’d 5/6 master B runs, earning his 9th REMX leg on Friday and his final REMX leg today, making him the 2nd Whippet to earn the REMX and with a HIC! He also earned Crazy 8 Platinum Silver CZ8PS title Jan 30.