First Day at the ARBA Convention

It was a fun but exhausting trip to and from the ARBA convention. Three of our NCAG members made the trip from California to Indianapolis.

Upon arrival at the showroom and after working for several hours at getting the coops ready, we settled our rabbits in their coops and decided not to touch them. The rabbits were in the small carriers in the kennels for over 14 hours, it was a lot of stress.

On Sunday, we went to the grooming area and set up our equipment. Margaret, the NARBC president and a member of NCAG, was very kind to have brought us chairs and a big blower. We used our carrier and kennel to make a grooming table. At the top photo, NCAG president and our MA member Chris are grooming a white and a tort English Angora. Behind Charlie is Carol, a top American Fuzzy Lop breeder from CA. In the middle photo, Betty stood next to the make-shift grooming table with a white senior doe. In the bottom photo, Tracy is working on her colored French doe.

It was fun to see the old friends from all over the country. Grooming area is noisy and dirty with wool and dust flying, but we consider it our retreat. It's an area for chatting and exchanging ideas, renewing old friendship and making new ones.